SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - There was a time when Chinese character calligraphers criticised Hangeul calligraphy for being "too unsophisticated." Luckily, a few calligraphers ignored ...

THANK YOU to ALL Participants! We’re so grateful for the amazing participants from across the country. 4th Place(2 winners): Baiyina Richardson (New York) & Darae Kang (Maryland) 5th Place(2 winners): ...

Sixty-five-year-old Narayana Bhattithiri is gentle and very soft spoken. But there is nothing gentle about his love for calligraphy. For him, that is an all-consuming passion. A Jikji Prize winner for ...

Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

In the spring of 2019, upon his departure to Shaoxing in East China's Zhejiang province, Italian Sinologist Pietro De Laurentis explained to his mother that he was about to attend a Chinese ...