A Kim Whan-ki painting has become the most expensive Korean artwork to be sold at auction after reaching $4 million in Hong Kong, a South Korean auction house said Tuesday.The oil painting known only as "19-VII-71 #209" went for HK$31 million at a Hong Kong auction Monday, Seoul Auction said. A pointillism masterpiece, the artwork breaks the previous record set by Park Su-geun's "Washing Place," which sold for 4.52 billion won ($3.89 million) in 2007."We expect more foreigners to take interest i

South Korea is considering organizing a "Korea Week" featuring various cultural events in New York next year to help promote Korean entertainment and cuisine, the country's consul general said Monday.The idea comes after the formation last month of "K-Culture Supporters," a group of New Yorkers interested in promoting Korean culture. South Korean President Park Geun-hye held a meeting with members of the group when she visited New York last month."It's still at a conceptual stage," Consul Genera

South Korea's largest annual book fair, set to open in Seoul next week, will feature a diverse experience-based program for readers, its organizers said Friday.   Some 200 publishers, including 48 from 16 countries, plan to participate in the Seoul International Book Fair 2015 set to kick off Wednesday for a five-day run at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, according to the Korean Publishers' Association and the SIBF committee.  Under the theme of "Publication reads 70 years of libe

The YEOL Society for Korean Cultural Heritage will host a talk on Korean Buddhist sculpture in Seoul on Monday.The talk will be given by Kim Lena, a professor emerita of Hongik University specializing in Buddhist imagery.Making comparisons to Buddhist depictions from India, China and Japan, Kim will talk about how Korean sculpture was influenced by Tang China and later Liao and Sung China, before Tibetan influences made their mark in the late Goryeo period.She will then talk about how, after the