National museum chief offers to resign over misattributed work from private collection

Outlet: The Korea Herald · The Korea Herald · Published 21/10/2026 02:01 UTC

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You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, offered to resign Wednesday amid a controversy over the museum's display of a misattributed calligraphic work from his private collection. He came under fire after the piece was wrongly introduced as the work of a Korean independence activist before later being found to have been written by a prominent pro-Japanese collaborator during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea. The museum removed the item from its ongoing special exhibition fo

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Source: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10909766
Published: 21/10/2026 02:01 UTC
Captured: 21/10/2026 02:07 UTC
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