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Samsung billionaire Lee Kun-hee’s vast art collection
CNN ^ | 11/16/2025 | Christy Choi

Posted on 12/18/2025 8:06:28 PM PST by Brian Griffin

For more than seven decades, the family behind electronics giant Samsung amassed one of Asia’s largest private art collections....The Lee Kun-hee collection, which was started by its namesake’s father, Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, is unprecedented in its scope and scale. Almost all the 23,000 donated items went to the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art...."Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” is showing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC through February 1, 2026.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: art; asia; asianart; collection; korea; samsumg

1 posted on 12/18/2025 8:06:28 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

If I was a boomer I would try to hide that flaw here. BTW I am aware of the age demographic here I know it. Keep Gen X conservative, than everything after should be gravy.


2 posted on 12/18/2025 8:16:23 PM PST by medical conservative
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