Pioneering South Korean Artist Park Seo-Bo Dead at 91

Park Seo-Bo, the pioneering South Korean artist known as one of the key members of the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement, has passed away at the age of 91. According to South China Morning Post, the seminal figure died on Saturday, October 14, due to complications with lung cancer. Born in 1931, during Japan's occupation of Korea, Park would go on to study Western and Eastern painting at Seoul's Hongik University until his term was interrupted by the Korean War. In the years to follow, he would use...