By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young

The Organizing Committee of the World Peace Art Exhibition (Chairman Lee Jon-young) held a ceremony for donation of artworks to Daegu Prison in the presence of Daegu Correctional Service Commissioner Kim Dong-hyun, Daegu Prison Warden Han Tae-hwan, Prof. Lee Mi-hyoung of the Department of Cultural Content, the Institute for Adult & Continuing Education of Myongji University, and KS Gallery representative Kang Seok-won on April 19.

The donation ceremony was held to commemorate the opening of the relocated Daegu Prison, where Lee Jon-young, chairman of the World Peace Art Exhibition Organizing Committee, donated folk paintings and other artworks for the correctional education of inmates to Kim Dong-hyun, head of the Daegu Regional Correctional Service.

Chairman Lee said, “The donation ceremony was held in the hope that the exhibition of artworks in Daegu Prison will help the inmates' emotional purification.” 

In response, Han Tae-hwan, the warden of Daegu Prison, delivered a letter of appreciation to the artists who donated the works and asked them to "continue to pay much attention to the correctional rehabilitation of prisoners."

In order to promote Korean folk paintings, Professor Lee Mi-hyoung completed an exhibition in Carson City, the U.S. in March and donated folk paintings to the Ambassador of the Philippines to Korea and the Ambassador of Belarus to Korea. She is widely known to be actively promoting K-folk paintings, while serving as the chairperson of the K-folk painting section of the 27th World Peace Art Exhibition.