South Korean art museum director (born 1961)
Roh Soh-yeong
is a South Korean
art museum
director. She is the founder and director of
Art Center Nabi
.
Biography
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Roh Soh-yeong was born in
Daegu
,
South Korea
, on March 31, 1961. Her father,
Roh Tae-woo
is a former South Korean politician and
ROK Army
general who served as the 6th
President of South Korea
from 1988 to 1993.
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She has a younger brother, Jaehun Ro, who is a lawyer in the United States.
In 1988, Roh married the chairman of the South Korean group
SK Corporation
,
Chey Tae-won
, and has two daughters and a son. In December 2015, Soh and Chey divorced.
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She attended
Sudo Girl's High School
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ko
]
in
Seoul
, South Korea, and then went to the United States for further education, attending the
College of William & Mary
in
Virginia
as an undergraduate and doing graduate work in economics at the
University of Chicago
.
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Then, she gained her master's degree in education from
Stanford University
in
California
before returning to South Korea for graduate study in Media Communication at
Yonsei University
in Seoul.
Verbal abuse controversy
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In 2018, South Korean media published an interview with two victims who said Roh
verbally abused
her personal drivers.
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Two anonymous individuals who had worked as personal chauffeurs since 2007 stated that they experienced verbal abuse and violent behaviour such as throwing objects inside the vehicle.
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Further revelations from a gym staff and her former secretary followed.
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Roh later said, "How can someone who throws things and uses foul language live like this... You can understand what I mean if you think about it."
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AsiaN
claimed that the media will 'listen' to Roh's opinion, since a false implication could pose a serious risk of human rights violations and defamation against her. The article states that the controversy surrounding Director Roh has been extensively covered by most media outlets, following the lead of the Hankyoreh newspaper. Park Young-sik, a lawyer representing Director Roh also stated the following. "Everything is not true. It is highly subjective, so it is inappropriate to respond to each claim."
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Career
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Art Center Nabi
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In 2000 Roh founded
Art Center Nabi
.
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It has a predecessor of Walkerhill
art museum
which was a private contemporary art museum in Seoul. She transformed the art museum into a
new media
art museum.
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Under her supervision,
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Art Center Nabi has been organizing various exhibitions and projects, such as Why Future Still needs Us- AI and Humanity(2016),
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Nabi
Artist Residency
2016,
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Robot Theatre(2016),
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Robot Party (2015),
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Makeable City (2015),
Nam June Paik
SPECIAL EXHIBITION: HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL (2014), Butterfly series (2014, 2015),
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Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (2010), Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell! (2009),
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p.Art.y (2007) and so forth.
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- Why Future Still needs Us-
AI
and Humanity
(2016): The exhibition was held from November 2016 to January 2017. This was one of the AI projects including a variety of events related to AI, such as AI conference, AI Hackathon.
- Nabi Artist Residency 2016
(2016): Nabi Artist Residency 2016 was an international residency program to cooperate with media artists who studied HCI and AI area and Art Center Nabi's E.I.Lab creators for developing artworks.
- Robot Theatre
(2016): This exhibition introduced a trend of modern art using robots in various areas, such as music, performance, media art.
- Robot Party
(2015): The exhibition Robot Party was held from December 2015 to January 2016. The Robot Party conveyed the interaction between humans and robots. Artists, DIY makers, and Startups participated in the exhibitions.
- Butterfly 2015
(2015): The exhibition Butterfly 2015:
wearable technology
Art was the series Butterfly of 2015 and demonstrated the wearable technology art, which employed the wearable computing technology as a tool for new expression and communication. Butterfly 2015 was produced by artists such as Bang&Lee, HongBum Kim, Sanghwa Hong, Hyuns Hong, Chungyo Ha, MinHye Lee, Eunmi Jung, JaePil Choi, JiYe Kim and JiHyun Yun.
- Makeable City
(2015): The exhibition Makeable City was held together with the Global Summit 2015
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-
Creative Commons
in Seoul in October 2015. The Makeable City is organized to convey the picture of the city as a new community created by makers, such as TeSoc Hah, NamHo Cho, DongHoon Park, YoungBae Suh, Hyun Park, and Dizi Riu.
- Nam June Paik
SPECIAL EXHIBITION: HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL
(2014):
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The exhibition Nam June Paik SPECIAL EXHIBITION was held in
Busan
, South Korea, from October 2014 to November 2014. This special exhibition, Homage to
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
was a telematic project to demonstrate how the spirit of Paik's work was continued, and recreated 30 years after the first international satellite performance was broadcast live.
- Butterflies 2014
(2014): The exhibition Butterflies 2014 was held from March 2014 to June 2014. The exhibition highlighted artistic activities that were moving toward the convergence beyond the boundaries of different genres, art, architecture, design, media art, science and so on.
In 2010, she organized the
Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010
(
INDAF 2010
) in Incheon, South Korea. The exhibition INDAF 2010 was held from September 1, 2010, to September 30, 2010, and she gave a speech about how she got Mobile Vision in the Keynote Conversation 1.
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- "One connected world, eternal time and space, diversity blossoming from it, free navigation and mobility of the human being... 'Nothing to fear in my joy,' declared
Nam June Paik
early on. I want to share such joy with as many people as possible through Nabi's activities."
- Speech at the INDAF Conference 2010, Incheon, South Korea, (2010)
Also, she directed the
SK Telecom Pavilion
at
Expo 2012
held in Yeosu, South Korea, from May 12, 2012, to August 12, 2012.
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SK Telecom
Pavilion reflected the belief that rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICT) could play a significant role in increasing happiness in everyday life.
Bibliography
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In 2014 Roh released her book, Digital Art, published by Jaeum&Moeum.
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Presentation
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- My Fair Robot
(September 18, 2016):
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As an invited speaker, Soh yeong Roh delivered a presentation ‘My Fair Robot’ in
Future Fest
which is an event from
Nesta
. In this presentation, she showed what Art Center Nabi has been doing for the past two years making 30 social robots and shared what she's learned by talking to and playing with these robots. She also demonstrated how engaging in such activities revealed more about us humans than about the machines.
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'佛敎信者' 노태우 前 大統領, 基督敎인 됐다… 노소영氏가 밝히는 아버지의 信仰"
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'甲질 論難' 노소영 館長, 婚外子 알리며 離婚 意思 밝힌 崔泰源 會長과 離婚 訴訟中"
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"노소영, 車輛走行中 祕書에 "내려"…채용 10分만에 解雇도"
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'甲질 疑惑' 노소영, 心境 밝혀 ˝뭘 던지고 暴言하는 人間이 이렇게 살까..˝"
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'甲질 論難' 노소영氏 "뭘 던지고 暴言하는 人間이 이렇게 살까요"
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'나비 女人' 노소영 館長...아트센터와 '打作마당' 통해 테크놀로지와 아트의 融合, 21世紀型 人材 養成 活動". ChosunBiz.
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