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Gansong Museum of Art released two Buddha statues from the Silla period, which were designated as treasures. It's because of the accumulated financial difficulties and money to pay the inheritance tax, and it is the remains of the teacher, Song Song, who is known as the guardian of our cultural property, and the culture community has taken it as a shock.

This is reporter Lee Joo-sang.

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1963, it was designated as Treasure No. 284.

It is 38cm in height and is rarely a large size for a bronze statue at a similar time.

It has a distinct hair expression and a subtle smile at the mouth.

Treasure No. 285, the statue of Geumdong Bodhisattva is 19 cm in size, and is also a Buddhist statue of Silla from the 6th to 7th centuries.

The appearance of holding the orb with both hands and the hem like a bird's wing are also important as a material to estimate the process of Baekje's culture spreading to Japan.

They are all collections from the Gansong Art Museum, but they have been put up for auction next week.

The starting price of the auction is 1.5 billion won each.

[Son I-Cheon / K Auction Chief Auctioneer: Even if it is a cultural property designated by the country, it can be traded in case of private property. However, overseas exports are prohibited.] The

Gansong Art and Culture Foundation stated that the sale of cultural properties was inevitable due to the financial difficulties accumulated in the process of expanding the exhibition and the inheritance tax caused by the eldest son of Gansong two years ago.

In addition to the cultural assets offered at this auction, two more Buddha statues are expected to be sold for the stable operation of the museum.

The Gansong Museum of Art has a collection of 10,000 artifacts collected by Gansong Jeon Hyung-pil, who was called an independence activist, as a cultural property independence during the Japanese colonial period.