CLEVELAND, Ohio — What happens after you die? In medieval Korean Buddhist tradition, the answer involved a series of judgments by 10 kings who examined the souls of the deceased before their next ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it is returning a Buddhist painting, titled The Tenth King of Hell (1798), to the Sinheungsa Temple in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, Korea. The work is ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an 18th-century painting to a Korean temple that once housed a vast depiction of hell. The painting, titled The Tenth King of Hell, dates to 1798 and was ...

Akin to a fine cup of tea, the fresh leaves of China were steeped in the hot water of Korean culture and the brew poured into the dainty cups of Japan. Geographically poised between China and Japan, ...

The Met will return the 1798 Buddhist scroll, The Tenth King of Hell to Korea, decades after it was taken during the Korean War. Repatriation called for coordination across cultural, governmental, and ...

Seokguram’s heritage is being presented in Paris next month in an immersive exhibition marking 140 years of diplomatic ties between Korea and France. Titled Seokguram: The Millennium of Mystery of ...

Outside of a trip to Seoul, the best opportunity right now to experience a canonical version of Korean art’s greatest hits is the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition “Korean National Treasures: ...

Between 1995 and 2025, the Republic of Korea inscribed 17 sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List — 15 cultural and two natural. Together they span the arc of the Korean story: prehistoric rock art ...

LONDON.- A new exhibition at the British Museum explores over two millennia of Korean art and culture, offering a fresh perspective on the peninsula's rich creative history. Drawi ...