The Frieze art fair returned to South Korea for a second year on Wednesday ... Art buyers flocked to Seoul’s COEX convention center to see cutting-edge works by emerging artists, antiquity ...

Moving from political upheaval in the decades after the war to economic prosperity, South Korea has become a major player in the splashy business of global art. And Seoul, by many people’s ...

It was low-hanging fruit. An art installation that featured a ripe banana taped to a wall at a Seoul art museum was devoured by a college student, who defended himself by saying he was “hungry ...

With its thriving local gallery scene and a growing class of affluent collectors, South Korea has ... Association of Korea’s longstanding local fair, Kiaf Art Seoul, which has been running ...

Gambling is illegal in South Korea ... and South Korea’s cultural and artistic scene, the complex has, since Frieze Seoul’s inaugural edition, hosted a mega party, Paradise Art Night, which ...

The expansion is a wholistic one, he said, with the growth of sales driven by a new generation of art collectors ... and galleries in South Korea, and 100 of them are in Seoul.

Seoul will be one of only two cities in which Perrotin has opened two separate venues, the other being Paris. He credits South Korea’s “long history of art collecting”, for example the late ...