Where in Korea have you been to? <Seoul Photo Festival - Flows Like Thousand Miles of Rivers>

Where in Korea have you been to?

<Seoul Photo Festival - Flows Like Thousands Miles of Rivers>

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The Seoul Photo Festival is held in several areas in Seoul!

From Nov 1st to Nov 30th,

Buk Seoul Museum of Art Exhibition Hall, Cite Invisible, Seoul Metropolitan Library Project, 9 Areas in Mullae Arts Village, Seoul Innovation Park SeMA Exhibition Hall, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul Citizens Hall A,B and Buk Seoul Museum of Art Community Gallery and so on!

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Arirang is the most representative songs of Koreans’ emotions

which was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

of Humanity program by UNESCO in 2012.

‘Like Thousand Miles of Rivers’ symbolizes the modern diaspora

following the globalization of Seoul (Korea) like Arirang

which enables communication between generations and spreads throughout the world;

‘thousand miles’ is a metaphorical expression of the physical distance

that goes beyond regions and national borders,

and ‘rivers’ is a metaphorical expression of the time period from the past to the present.

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Since 2010, Seoul Photo Festival selected a variety of themes about Seoul and hosted festivals in which everyone can communicate and relate to each other through photographs every year. The theme of this year’s photo festival is “globalization” and “diaspora”, and we seek to view the multi-cultural aspects and landscapes of Seoul brought on by economic development and globalization.

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Part Ⅰ of <Seoul New 新 Arirang – Like Thousand Miles of Rivers>

attempted at organizing the context and the composition of exhibition in a more productive manner

based on photographs and video works about the abstruse theme of the exhibition

which has keywords ‘diaspora’ and ‘globalization’,

which are being used in a wider and contemporary meaning all over the world.

Moreover, the exhibition wishes to serve as an opportunity to reflect on the current life ‘here-now’ in Seoul while contemplating upon the historical importance and value of Arirang,

the song sang by those who yearned for home,

and issues such as the large-scale migration born of tragic history,

the so-called ‘Korean diaspora'