North Korean Refugee Used this Material from DMZ Soldiers for a Celebrated Art Installation in the South…
…”Growing up in the Communist North, however, (Seung-taek) Lee had learned to make large-scale sculptures (of Kim Il-sung and Joseph Stalin), and after the Korean War, he fulfilled commissions in the South for very different subjects, including Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He also made portraits for soldiers, and in 1967 found himself on a military base…