First Lady Kim Geon-hee Supports Gwangju Biennale... Visits Site to Encourage

Second Regional Visit as Honorary Chairman of the Korea Visit Year Committee

First Lady Kim Geon-hee visited the site of the 'Gwangju Biennale' on the 13th to encourage the officials involved.

According to the Presidential Office, on that afternoon, First Lady Kim visited the exhibition site of the '14th Gwangju Biennale' currently being held in Gwangju Metropolitan City. This visit marks her second regional trip since being appointed as the Honorary Chairperson of the Korea Visit Year Committee. She is paying close attention to revitalizing tourism through regional cultural events.

First Lady Kim Keon-hee is visiting the 14th Gwangju Biennale, currently being held at the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall in Buk-gu, Gwangju, on the 13th, and is viewing "A Tongue Like Cloth" by artist Yuma Taru.
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First Lady Kim hopes that interest in Korean culture and arts will lead to more visitors to Korea, and she visited the site to support the Gwangju Biennale, the largest cultural event in the Gwangju region, so that it can be recognized as a representative K-Culture tourist destination of Korea. In March, Gwangju Mayor Kang Gi-jung personally invited her to the Gwangju Biennale.

On the day, First Lady Kim toured works at the Gwangju Biennale exhibition hall, including "Elephant Without a Nose" by artist Eom Jeong-sun and "Tongue Like Cloth" by artist Yuma Taru. She also met individually with event officials who are contributing to raising Korea’s national prestige and the development of culture and arts through the Gwangju Biennale, encouraging them.

Meanwhile, the 14th Gwangju Biennale, themed "Soft and Tender Like Water," is being held for 94 days from April 7 to July 9 at five exhibition venues including the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, the National Gwangju Museum of Art, and House of Art Space.

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