Most people arrive in Cheorwon at the Wasu-ri Bus Terminal. Cheorwon County is a county in Gangwon Province (South Korea), right next to the border with North Korea. Its Saemtong Migratory Bird’s Sanctuary, a 5,000-square-meter natural pond that never freezes, is a haven for migratory birds from November through March. Hantangang River (the Grand Canyon of Korea), give you a rafting course is 15 km long. Under this sky was born famous photographr Kim Jung-man.
Demonstrating unique sensibilities and style, in the last forty years, he has taken 800,000 photographs of a wide range of subjects. In 2006, leaving his career as a commercial photographer, he stopped photographing Korea’s celebrities, turning his lens to his countryside. Born in Cheorwon into a October day, 1954, in the aftermath of the Korean War in 1954, Kim Jungman http://youlhwadang.co.kr/en/kim-jung-man/?ckattempt=1 become one of the most estimated artists in Korea’s fine art world.
In Nice (France), attending École Nationale Supérieure d’Art Kim Jungman https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2016/10/135_15702.html discovered his passion for photography. He won a prestigious photographer award in Arles, and was named one of Today’s 80 Photographers in France. When moved back to Korea, in the 1980’s and 90’s his creative way become commercial and fashion photography. His book http://youlhwadang.co.kr/en/kim-jung-man/?ckattempt=1 includes 91 carefully selected photographs, ranging from his earliest to his most recent work.
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