Yang O-bong, right, president of Jeonbuk National University, poses with Kim Jeong-ok, chairperson of the Kim Hee-kyung Scholarship Foundation for European Humanities, pose during a reopening ceremony for the Geon Ji Art Hall, a small theater at the Samsung Art Center on the university's campus in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, Friday. Courtesy of Jeonbuk National University
Jeonbuk National University has reopened an art hall following extensive renovation work, transforming it into a safer and more comfortable space for culture and the arts, the school said Tuesday.
Yang O-bong, president of the university, held a reopening ceremony in the lobby of the Geon Ji Art Hall, a small theater at Jeonbuk National University's Samsung Art Center in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, on Friday.
The university said the renovation project was made possible through an 8 billion won donation from Kim Jeong-ok, chairperson of the Kim Hee-kyung Scholarship Foundation for European Humanities.
The school noted that 6 billion won was invested in renovating the art hall as well as the Youngsan Hall, the main theater of the Samsung Art Center.
