Pak Su-gun

(b Yangku, Kangwon Province, 1914; d Seoul, 1965). Korean painter. At the age of 13 he saw Evening Bell by John Everett Millais and decided to become a painter; however, his family was so poor that after leaving primary school he studied drawing on his own. In 1932 his watercolour Spring Comes was selected for the 11th Korean Art Exhibition. From 1936 to 1944 he continued to exhibit. Until his thirties he lived in the northern part of Kangwon Province (now in North Korea), but in 1952 he crossed to the south during the Korean War. In Seoul he submitted his work to the National Art Exhibition. He died in 1965 after suffering poverty and illness.

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