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675 jewelry pieces from Korea and Austria on display at SeMoCA's sprawling 'Beyond Adornment'

“Beyond Adornment" at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art showcases Korean and Austrian art, shedding light on the artistic differences and similarities between the two countries.

2024-05-29

Crafts and sustainability come together for 'KZ Project' exhibit with SeMoCA

Craft Prize-winner Korea Zinc partners with the Seoul Museum of Craft Art for its "KZ Project" exhibition, showcasing sustainable metalwork and recycled materials in jewelry by previous Metalwork and Jewelry Award winners.

2024-01-11

Hanbok Culture Week to promote traditional dress nationwide through Sunday

Hanbok Culture Week 2023, an event that promotes hanbok, or traditional Korean dress, in our daily lives, kicked off Monday. It runs through Sunday nationwide, including Jongno District, central Seoul.

2023-10-16

SeMoCA highlights Korean trailblazers in fashion in latest exhibition

Designer Choi Kyung-ja (1911-2010) was nicknamed the “godmother” of the Korean fashion industry for pioneering fashion education in the country, as well as opening a boutique for women in 1937. During this time, it was rare to find a store that...

2023-02-08

'Yoo Lizzy: A Philosophic Metalsmith' gives Korean crafts their time to shine

For anyone interested in Korean art, it’s relatively easy to name a number of Korean modern art masters, but for crafts, it may be a different story. To turn that around, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art (SeMoCA) in Jongno District, central Seoul, is...

2022-09-28

Korean crafts prove their worth in horsehairs

Korea’s crafts prove their aesthetic value day by day as they continue to be recognized on the global stage. Dahye Jeong, a 33-year-old artisan who specializes in using horsehair to weave baskets, is the winner of the 2022 Loewe Foundation...

2022-07-04

Grand opening

On the day of the opening ceremony of the Seoul Museum of Craft Art today, visitors are shown taking a look around the exhibitions. The Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul’s first-ever municipal museum exclusively for crafts, is set to officially...

2021-11-29

Newly-opened craft museum showcases rare embroidered works

After three years of delay, Seoul’s first-ever municipal museum exclusively for crafts finally opened its doors to the public two weeks ago. The Seoul Museum of Craft Art, well located between the Samcheong-dong street of art galleries and the...

2021-08-02

Craft museum blurs the line between furniture and fine art

The Seoul Museum of Craft Art in Jongno District, central Seoul, Korea's first museum specialized in expert handicraft, originally planned to open its doors in September of 2018, but was hit by a series of delays. Its opening date has now been ...

2021-06-21