The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage

His eponymous Seoul gallery has opened Urs Fischer's first solo show in South Korea

From hidden taxes to auction house competition, here are some of the unique facets of South Korea's art scene

From Do Ho Suh's child-friendly clay wonderland to Korakrit Arunanondchai's films on grief and love

The South Korean capital cements its position as a key art centre as Frieze opens its inaugural edition alongside local player Kiaf, together hosting more than 300 galleries

According to Korean media, the group is close to finalising a contract to spend around $173m to acquire a majority share in the country’s largest auction house

With the inaugural Frieze Seoul opening in September, more international gallerists are staking a claim in the city's rapidly expanding scene

Plus, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize winner: a basket made with horsehair

The global fair brand will bring an international flavour to the Korean capital when it debuts this September, but exact terms of its partnership with the Kiaf fair remain unclear

At least four Russian institutions are thought to have loaned the works, including the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum and the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

Against a backdrop of misogynistic rhetoric, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol promises to create half a million jobs in the Korean cultural industry

A museum in Yekaterinburg sent 63 pieces to a show on the Russian avant-garde at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul—and now wants them back

Two bronze Buddha statues are likely to make records for cultural artefacts at auction in Korea

Currently the executive director of Hyundai gallery, Lee says there is a “long history of collecting culture” in the South Korean capital

With Frieze preparing a new Seoul fair, and a growing roster of galleries, the city could steal Hong Kong’s crown

Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall

The biennial will highlight the conflicting narratives of the deadly uprising that paved the way for democracy

Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace

The Bangtan Boys musician was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September

Some art institutions foresee a rolling series of partial lockdowns in future

Museums in South Korea and Hong Kong have also started reopening after coronavirus lockdowns

Although the country’s museums have been closed since February, its commercial galleries were allowed to remain open—and sales have continued at a steady pace

Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains

Curators at French museum plan to launch video game centred on contemporary art while its Shanghai satellite reopens to the public

Shanghai's Power Station of Art and Shanghai Museum welcomed visitors today after China's tough measures helped curb the spread of the disease

The curator of the global public art collaboration Connect, BTS suggests that new definitions of art are required to democratise it

Free of the high taxes and stringent customs of mainland China, the fair adds to a burgeoning art scene in South Korea's second largest city

The theme of Imagined Borders addresses the fraught relationship with the North as well as global tensions surrounding migration and identity

Artwork in the demilitarised zone remains unfinished and could be destroyed after the countries pledged an end to the war