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Better Days

by Seunggu Kim
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783969001714
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Kehrer Verlag
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 112
  • Original Price: GBP 42.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 948 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles, and Photoessays & Documentaries

All work, no play? Leisure culture in South Korea
Over the past forty years, South Korea's economy has developed rapidly, with various consequences. As well as long working hours, many Koreans only take half of their vacation, and due to lack of travel time they mostly spend them at home. At the same time, the South Korean population is aging, the society is characterized by a hierarchy determined by age and social status. Seunggu Kim shows us the special South Korean vacation culture of urban leisure facilities in his balanced image compositions, but also focuses on how people deal with the challenges in a country full of contrasts. His photographs visualize people's fast-paced lifestyle and community-based trust, and he shows South Koreans adapting to their situation and enjoying themselves. The series Better Days received the Ilwoo Photography Award 2023.

Bainbridge, Simon: - Simon Bainbridge is an editor, writer, and lecturer who specializes in contemporary photography. He served as the principal editor of British Journal of Photography for 17 years, from 2003 to 2020. Since 2022, he works at Magnum Photos as Head of Content. Bainbridge is based in South London, UK.

Kim, Heejung: - HeeJung Kim is a curator, photographer, and art director, who has curated the DongGang International Photo Festival, one of the biggest annual international photo festivals in South Korea with a long tradition. Today she is actively involved in international projects. Kim represents Photobookclub Seoul, a platform that introduces photobooks of Korean photographers both locally and globally. She is also an art director at DaDeeDaDa, a company that engages in multi-disciplinary projects in the fields of design, interior design, architecture, and whimsical products.

Kim, Seunggu: - Seunggu Kim lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his BFA in photography from Sangmyung University, and MFA in visual art from Korea National University of Arts. His works have been introduced at international biennales, photo festivals and museum/gallery exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Center for Creative Photography, Arizona (2023); MoPS, Seoul (2023); Belfast Photo Festival (2022); Fotografiska, New York (2020); FotoFest, Houston (2020); Aperture Gallery, New York (2019). In addition, he has won several prizes, among them the 13th Ilwoo Photo Award (2023), and Open Submission Exhibition Winner, Aperture, New York (2020). Kim's works are included in significant collections worldwide, such as the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Hanmi Museum of Photography in Seoul, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea and the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in Ansan.

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