Tag: Korean modern art

  • Because of these words, I will be buried by Joseon society

    Because of these words, I will be buried by Joseon society

    Yet I choose to speak and die, rather than rot away in silence. In 1934, during the Japanese colonial period,a short essay was published in the magazine Samcheolli.Its title was A Confession of Divorce.The author was Na Hye-seok. She was known as Korea’s first female Western-style painter and a “New Woman.”After her divorce, she wrote…