Visit to the Land of Morning Calm. Dr Dezső Bozóky’s Korean Photographs

Joint exhibition organised in cooperation with Kolta Gallery, as part of a series of exhibitions aiming at presenting to the wider public archival photos taken by naval physician Dezső Bozóky in the early 20th century.

The few Hungarians who visited the Korean Peninsula at the dawn of the 20th century could observe it during a short-lived transitory period. Korea was still formally an independent state, while the encroachments of the Empire of Japan already foreshadowed the impending loss of statehood. It was during this time of transition that Dr Dezső Bozóky (1871–1957), a physician of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, visited Korea aboard SMS Kaiser Franz Josef I, and took a number of photographs that bear evidence to the last days of the Korean Empire.

Further exhibition venues outside Hungary:

3 July 202 - 28 June 2021
Busan Modern History Museum; Busan, Korea