Imjingak on Lunar New Year

The piece portrays South Korean citizens who were born in the North holding a sacrificial rite for their deceased ancestors, whose tombs are in the North, at Mangbaedan, Imjingak near the DMZ during the Lunar New Year in 1995. Part of Geumgangsan Mountain is portrayed in the top right of the painting, while the artist himself is portrayed on its extreme right. The work is intended to represent young people’s earnest desire for the reunification of the Korean peninsula.