Calls Grow to Preserve 32 Original Artworks Created for the 1988 Seoul Olympics as National Sports Museum Prepares to Open

With the museum set to open on October 15, attention turns to original paintings by Lee Young-soo that appeared in a state-published commemorative pictorial book, and to whether they should enter the public collection.

UNJournal Lee Sung Jun | SEOUL — With the National Sports Museum scheduled to open on October 15, attention is turning to a set of 32 original artworks created to commemorate the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and to whether they should be preserved and made available to the public. The works were created by Lee Young-soo, then a professor at Dankook University, and were reproduced in a commemorative pictorial book published by the Ministry of Communications, the predecessor of today’s Korea Post. The publication compiled commemorative stamps and illustrations of various sporting events. According