Oriental Painting vs. Korean Painting — What’s the Difference?
A Korean painter explains one of her most-asked questions: are 'Oriental painting' (dongyanghwa) and 'Korean painting' (hankukhwa) the same, or different? A clear look at hanji, ink and why the Korean tradition got its own name.
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Art talk from a Korean painter 🎨
One of the questions I get asked most: is 'Oriental painting' the same as 'Korean painting,' or are they different? Today I'll clear it up 🔍
In Korea, traditional painting made with a brush, ink (meok, 먹) and water-based pigments on hanji — handmade paper from mulberry bark — was long called dongyanghwa (동양화), literally "Oriental painting." The term appeared in the early 20th century to set East Asian art apart from Western painting. But because it lumps Korea together with China and Japan, artists began using hankukhwa (한국화), "Korean painting," to name the distinctly Korean tradition.
📍00:31 What is 'dongyanghwa' (Oriental painting)?
📍00:56 What should we call Korea's own traditional painting?
📍01:54 Why we started saying 'hankukhwa' (Korean painting)
📍02:34 What makes a painting truly 'Korean painting'
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Korean painter Kim Hyun-jung
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