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Chagall’s 'Bouquet de Fleurs' sells for record 9.4 billion won at Seoul Auction

Marc Chagall’s 1937 oil painting “Bouquet de Fleurs” sold for 9.4 billion won ($6.38 million) at a Seoul Auction sale on Monday. Including fees, the final price came to 10.4 billion won, the highest ever recorded at a domestic auction.

2025-11-25

G-Dragon's artwork pulled from auction by owner

The anonymous owner of G-Dragon's "Youth is Flower" artwork pulled it from the auction at the last minute, according to Seoul Auction.

2024-03-29

G-Dragon's 'Youth is Flower' artwork heads to auction starting at $23,000

Need a painting for your wall? G-Dragon’s marker and spray paint art piece “Youth is Flower” could be yours for an auction price starting at 30 million won ($22,540).

2024-03-08

Calligraphy by independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun fetches 1.3 billion won

The auctioned work, found in Japan and flown to Korea for the sale, was bought by Hanmi Semiconductor.

2024-02-28

Korean moon jar shatters auction house record, selling for $2.5M

A Korean moon jar broke the record once again at Seoul Auction. The nation's biggest auction house in announced Wednesday that an 18th-century moon jar sold for 3.4 billion won ($2.5 million) during its auction a day earlier.

2023-10-25

Yayoi Kusama’s iconic 'A-Pumpkin (Otrssa)' garners record-breaking bid at Seoul Auction

Yayoi Kusama’s iconic large green ″A-Pumpkin (Otrssa)″ painting was auctioned off on Nov. 29 at Seoul Auction for some 7.6 billion won ($5.7 million), the highest bid made for any item traded by auction houses in Korea this year. It also broke ...

2022-11-30

Whanki's NFTs

Three nonfungible token (NFT) editions of a digital version of the iconic painting "05-IV-71 #200 (Universe)" by Korean modern art master Kim Whanki (1913-1974) were sold for a combined 730 million won ($596,000), according to Seoul Auction Blue...

2022-03-27

All eyes are on Seoul Auction's first major sale of 2022

Seoul Auction, the nation’s biggest auction house, will hold its first major sale on Tuesday. The sale is attracting the attention of the market observers who are curious about whether Korea’s art market boom will continue in spite of the recent...

2022-02-21

Krafton invests in Seoul Auction digital businesses

Game publisher Krafton has invested 8 billion won ($6.7 million) in two digital art subsidiaries of Seoul Auction to jointly develop avatars that can be owned and sold in the online world, the game company said Monday. Of the 8 billion won ...

2022-02-07

NFTs are the key building blocks for the metaverse

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the key to forming and sustaining the digital economy in the virtual metaverse space, according participants at the Upbit Developer Conference (UDC) 2021 held online on Wednesday.

2021-09-01