SOUTH KOREA: Streetart Jeonju - Omokdae - Jaman Mural Village - Urban Art Open Air Gallery

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Kung Fu Panda – 2008 animation movie

Taotao – 1983 animation series

Adventuer Time – 2018 animation series

Leon – The Professional – 1994 action movie

Kisses

The Frogs

Mountain Quilt

„Cats and Freedom“ – HAN YE EUN

The artist HAN YE EUN does besides wall paintings as well leatherworks and resin art. She is also the owner of the workshop LA STELLA CRAFT. The artist about the artwork: „Imagination is free, I romanticize cats. What do you think of when you hear the word ‚cat‘? For me, it’s the word freedom. Their freedom is the life they live. When I look at cats, I see our lives. Fighting in the food chain, abused by people, sick, abandoned. Isn’t it the same for us? We work to live, we compete to climb higher. And when we get older and abandoned. It’s just like our lives. We’re smiling on the outside, but underneath, that no one knows about, right? It’s really important to take time to reflect on yourself. Take time to love and cherish yourself. Imagination is freedom, and what you think is what you get, so enjoy it while it lasts.“ – HAN YE EUN

Artist: HAN YE EUN – LA STELLA CRAFT

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Totoro – 1988 animation movie

Pan Tau – 1979 children comedy series

Hair Roots

Tribute to ROY LICHTENSTEIN

„Lady Madame“ – JIYANG

Artist: JIYANG

Baby Café

Iconic Musicians Wall – Marlyn Monroe, Michael Jackson & John Lennon

Flamingo Wall

Spiderman & Roses – Comic Superhero since 1962

The Wizard of Oz – 1939 classic fantasy movie

„Childlike“ – PARK YOUNG HYUN

The artist PARK YOUNG HYUN about the artwork: „The mural depicts a rainbow and a soap bubble, symbols of childlike, and shows the joy of color and the good memories of childhood that we usually forget. When I first came to Jaman Mural Village four years ago I thought, ‚Why is everyone so nice to me? The residents were so sincere with me. When it was hot, they would bring me cool water so that the coldness of the towel would not disappear, and in the winter, they would take great care to make sure I wouldn’t get cold. These sincere actions of the residents touched me deeply, and I think they are reflected in the murals in Jaman Village. With each stroke of my brush, I hope that many of my big and small emotions are put into one big mural. The positive energy and passion I feel right now, I hope to convey them to the public through my murals. I want to contribute to making Jeonju’s Jaman Mural Village a world-class attraction and I hope that my mural work will be recognized worldwide.“ – PARK YOUNG HYUN

Artist: PARK YOUNG HYUN

„Rubber shoes, walking through flowers“ – KANG YEON SUK

The artist KANG YEON SUK lives the life of an artist thanks to her high school teacher who once asked her, „What is your dream?“ She enjoys wearing hanbok and rubber shoes and reinterprets old things by adding colors and stories to them. This wall is a combination of hydrangea flower paintings and object rubber shoes using folk art techniques to wish for happiness and to walk only on the flower path. The meaning is to wish for long life and good fortune and to become what you dream of.

KANG YEON SUK is part of the Institute of Decorative Arts, member of the Family Welfare Foundation Ambassador and director of the Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Center, also she is member of the Jeonbuk Craftsmen Cooperative. She participated in the Artigiano in Fiera fair in Milan Italy, at the Gudara Festival Hirakata in Osaka, Japan, as well in many solo and group exhibitions, lectures, and broadcast appearances.

Artist: KANG YEON SUK

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Anecdotes from Chang-am Lee Samman – NOPAKU JIYOUNG CHOI

The story about Chang-am: A folding fan merchant was out of business and napping, Chang-am wrote on the fans, and they were all sold. Chang-am Lee Samman was a calligrapher who lived a life of writing and water. „Calligraphy comes from nature, from yin and yang. and the three elements of form and energy are carried in the brush. softness and roughness, beauty and grotesqueness.“ Chang-am once said. He studied hard by gathering and selling herbs, but actually he was a descendant of a fallen nobleman. He had no brushes and paper, so he used ground bamboo and arrowroot.

„Now beneath this creek bed you are standing on you will never let go of your commitment to writing“, he wrote. It is said that even when he was sick, he would not sleep unless he wrote a puncture a day. Because of his obsession with writing, he was late to learn, late to make friends, and late to marry, so he was named Samman. At a time when the four cardinal directions were regarded as the truth of life in China, still Chang-am’s calligraphy, penmanship, and deeds are said to be ethnic and indigenous. Chang-am’s writing was a new handwriting with a leisurely way outside of things.

The artist NOPAKU JIYOUNG CHOI was inspired by the story: „From a life of freedom as a nurse the mural opened me up from my confinement. I’m just out of the egg. I love this place and want to tell it, so I wanted to paint its story. The Silgae stream is flowing. At the foot of Mount Bali, a place where the descendants will be happy. May the village of Zaman be filled with the smell of people again. In the folding screen of Zaman Valley is shown with the calligrapher of the people, Chang-am Lee Samman. The best calligrapher of this era who sublimated Hangul into art with a message of happiness filled with humanitarian love the path that Chang-am walked.“ – NOPAKU JIYOUNG CHOI

Artist: NOPAKU JIYOUNG CHOI

„Designer Park“ – Group Work – PARK YOUNGHYUN, YEO TAE-MYUNG & Visitors

Muralist PARK YOUNGHYUN: „For me, a mural is like a loved one. Just like sharing various emotions with a loved one. Painting a mural makes me feel various emotions such as happiness and sadness. The mural I paint is not just a picture, but it contains my emotions at the time. Therefore, I want people who see my work can feel my emotions as well.“ – PARK YOUNGHYUN

PARK YOUNGHYUN is a representative of the Northeast Asia’s Hangeul Gil and together with professor YEO TAE-MYUNG, they fused the inclusiveness and efficiency of Hangeul with the most Korean city, Jeonju, in the Jaman Mural Village. Tourists participated in the work, and each symbol connected with a person’s name conveys a message of harmony and communication between people from all over the country, just like the bibimbap in Jeonju. Professor YEO TAE-MYUNG is an artist who lives in harmony with the world without regard to social status or age, she is a true artist of this era who demonstrates the essence of communication in the practice of art.