Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Jeon Hyeongpil (in Hangul:전형필, in Hanja:全鎣弼, July 29, 1906 ~ January 26, 1962 Seoul) was a Korean educationist and an art collector who gathered hundreds of Korean cultural assets and had the pen name of Gansong. He is famous for his great achievement to collect 12 national treasures, 10 treasures and 4 cultural assets designated by Seoul metropolitan government. He strove to bring back Korean cultural assets and heritage from Japan since a great deal of Korean antiquities were taken by Japanese collectors during colonial rule of Japan in the early 20th century. The first private art museum was built in 1938 named Bohwagak(in Hangul:보화각) and later took care of most of valuable Korean antiquities during Korean War. After his death in 1962, the name Bohwagak was changed into Gansong Art Museum which only opens twice in a year since 1971. The museum cherishes a great deal of the rarest cultural artifacts of Korean art."@en }
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- Jeon_Hyeongpil abstract "Jeon Hyeongpil (in Hangul:전형필, in Hanja:全鎣弼, July 29, 1906 ~ January 26, 1962 Seoul) was a Korean educationist and an art collector who gathered hundreds of Korean cultural assets and had the pen name of Gansong. He is famous for his great achievement to collect 12 national treasures, 10 treasures and 4 cultural assets designated by Seoul metropolitan government. He strove to bring back Korean cultural assets and heritage from Japan since a great deal of Korean antiquities were taken by Japanese collectors during colonial rule of Japan in the early 20th century. The first private art museum was built in 1938 named Bohwagak(in Hangul:보화각) and later took care of most of valuable Korean antiquities during Korean War. After his death in 1962, the name Bohwagak was changed into Gansong Art Museum which only opens twice in a year since 1971. The museum cherishes a great deal of the rarest cultural artifacts of Korean art.".