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3 unusual facts about Young Yang Chung


Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum

The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, founded by Dr. Young Yang Chung is an exhibition, educational, and research facility dedicated to advancing the knowledge and appreciation of embroidery and textile arts.

Young Yang Chung

Chung was the curator of The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum's inaugural exhibition, which traces the origins of silk embroidery in China and its dissemination throughout East Asia, and she will remain at the Museum as a director and curator, in addition to being a professor of graduate school of arts and designs.

Her legacy includes a body of groundbreaking publications such as The Art of Oriental Embroidery (1979) and Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam (2005), as well as the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum (C.E.M.), an exhibition, educational, and research facility she inaugurated in May 2004 at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, South Korea.



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