Actress, professor set up video box at U.S. gallery

Actress Song Hye-kyo and Seo Kyung-duk, a visiting professor at Sungshin Women’s University and an expert on promoting Korea, launched a video box promoting Korea at the newly renovated Arts of Korea Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

By showing the process of making traditional pottery in a video presentation, the two expect to give museum visitors a better understanding of Korean culture as well as raise the public’s interest. 

The gallery, scheduled to open on Nov. 16, will feature the collection’s strengths in decorative arts in 11th- to 13th-century celadons from the Hoyt collection, as well as spectacular pieces of lacquer and metalwork. Other works to be displayed in the gallery include a 12th-century gilt silver ewer and basin and a 14th-century gilt silver Buddhist reliquary, as well as a superb 18th-century trompe l’oeil bookshelf screen, on loan from a private U.S. collection. In addition, the gallery, renovated with the support of the Korea Foundation, includes paintings, both Buddhist and secular, and newly acquired contemporary ceramics.

The fund needed to launch the video box was provided entirely by Song.

Since January, the 30-year-old actress and Seo have been providing Korean-language guidebooks to the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Yun Bong-gil Memorial Hall in Shanghai.

By Lee Hyun-jae, Intern reporter
(lhj137@heraldcorp.com)