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Samsung family gave news yesterday (28th) that they donated more than 20,000 cultural assets and artworks held by Chairman Lee Kun-hee to society. President Moon Jae-in also instructed to consider the installation of a separate exhibition room or special pavilion, but if you look at the list of donated artworks released yesterday, there are some famous works that were known as the so-called'Lee Kun-hee Collection', but were not included this time.



Reporter Lee Joo-sang covered the reason.



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Liechtenstein's'Happy Tears', which became famous in 2007 by the exposure of lawyer Kim Yong-cheol.



At the time, Samsung said that it had never purchased this painting, and Songwon Hong, CEO of Seomi Gallery, even revealed that he had purchased and kept it.



Of course, it could not be included in the donation of this collection of Lee Kun-hee.



Some of the masterpieces that the art world expected to be donated were also missing from yesterday's presentation.



Alberto Giacometi's <The Giant Woman III>, which is estimated to be worth more than 100 billion won, <Untitled> by Marc Rosco, an American contemporary art master famous for being loved by Steve Jobs, and Gerhard Richter, one of the best painters in existence, crossing the boundaries of photography and painting. <Two Candles> etc.



All of these works are from the Samsung Cultural Foundation, not from the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee, and were not originally subject to inheritance.



However, among the private collections of Chairman Lee Kun-hee, most of the Western contemporary art works that have recently attracted great interest from the world art world have been excluded from donations.



[Art related person: Problem works, that is, when we say modern art, we are talking about works from the 1960s. The works of that era are the works of issue.] In



fact, the 1,600 pieces that have been donated to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art are all Korean artists, except for the works of eight modern and contemporary Western artists.



Some of the Lee Kun-hee collections that are missing from the donated items are likely to go to the Samsung Cultural Foundation or be inherited by the bereaved, but they point out that it is desirable to disclose how large they are and how to deal with them.



(Video coverage: Park Dae-young, Video editing: Park Ji-in)