Korean Comics:
A Society Through Small Frames

Korean Comics: A Society Through Small Frames examines the changing social realities of Korean society from the 1950s through the 1990s by reading its comic books. Featuring the works of seventeen of the best—known artists, the exhibition provides a running commentary that reflects the lives of ordinary people—at once joyful, satirical and penetrating. What shines most prominently through these works is an engaged and vigorous civil society in Korea, continuously challenging and energizing the status quo in whimsical and provocative ways. By so doing, they play an important role in characterizing and distinguishing the culture, sensibility and sentiment of modern Korea.