Save Han Yeol, 1987
woodcut print
16.5 × 10.5 cm
Migratory Birds, 1987
woodcut print
24 × 69 cm
Bachelor, 1987
woodcut print
29 × 23 cm
To My Dearest, 1988
woodcut print
70 × 80 cm
Private collection
Byung-soo Choi (b. 1960, Korea) created the woodcut leaflets Save Han Yeol (1987), which triggered the June Democracy Movement in 1987. He produced the large-scale banner paintings used in the protests, too. Throughout the 1990s, he presented the environment-themed artwork Penguins Are Melting (Kyoto, 1997) in New Zealand, Johannesburg, Paris, and other cities. Recently, his work focuses on the beauty of Korean characters Hangeul as shown in Praying Poles with Consonants and Vowels (Sejong Center for the Performing Art, Seoul, 2013). He presented Portrait of Han Yeol Lee (2010) at the 8th Gwangju Biennale in 2010.