Hailed as one of Korea's greatest abstract masters, Kim Whanki (1913-74) forged his legacy when he birthed a series of pointillist paintings during his final years spent in New York (1963-74). While the painter's earlier focus in Korea lay in depicting classical East Asian motifs like moon jars, apricot flowers, cranes and deer, his so-called "New York period" ushered in a new creative era ― best characterized by a seemingly infinite constellation of dots dominating the canvas, awash with blue, red, yellow and black.

  

Fabric drawing may not necessarily be limited to drawing pictures on fabric. Jeong Daun, 35, is an artist who does the opposite ? she draws pictures using fabric. With Jeong’s fabric drawings, her hands become the brush, the fabric becomes the paint and her workplace becomes the canvas. The artist has established her own spot in both the local and international art world with her newfound distinctive art form.

  

SEOUL ? On a recent morning, Hyeryung Ahn sat in the top-floor office of her Leeahn Gallery in the art-filled Seochon neighborhood of Seoul, discussing how she balanced her dual roles as a collector and a dealer in the Korean art world. “I don’t necessarily need to manage my time,” Mrs. Ahn said playfully. “Most of the great things I have collected have been impulse purchases. I can’t help it.”

  

BUSAN ? Hyungkoo Lee is a scientist under the guise of an artist. The 53-year-old centers his delicately detailed artwork on the concept of the human body. Lee has previously displayed his works at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Samsung’s Leeum Museum of Art and the Korean Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2007.

  

BUSAN ? Art Busan, the second largest art fair in South Korea, hit yet another record-breaking sales figure this year, attracting established collectors and younger generations of collectors. South Korea’s thriving art market turned its focus to the southwestern port city over the past few days, as Art Busan 2022 kicked off Thursday with a VIP opening session and ran through Sunday.

  

To many South Koreans, Ulsan is known as the city of the Hyundai Group: during the 1970s, the industrial conglomerate turned a quiet fishing port in the southeast of the country into a gigantic company town. Despite its 1.2mn residents and high wages, though, Ulsan never developed much of a cultural scene ? in fact, didn’t even have a municipal art museum.