E2024-G156
Gwangju’s Representative Goryeoin Artist: Painter Viktor Moon
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Viktor Moon (1951-) is a Goryeoin artist from Kazakhstan known for his works depicting the forced migration of ethnic Koreans in 1937, which involved the relocation of 172,000 ethnic Koreans from the Russian Far East to Central Asia under Stalin’s orders. His significant works include “The Forced Migration Train of 1937”, “Our Father, Ussuriysk”, and “Portrait of Olga Ten”.
Moon moved to Gwangju’s Goryeoin Village in 2024 where he has been living since. In 2023, the Viktor Moon Art Museum was established in Gwangju’s Goryeoin Village to serve as a permanent exhibition for his works. Moon also designed the village’s logo. Before moving to Korea, Moon was the chief artist of the Korean Theater of Kazakhstan, the first national Korean theater outside the Korean Peninsula, for some 20 years.
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