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Exterior of MMCA Seoul, the flagship branch of Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Sogyeok-dong, Jongno-gu

MMCA SeoulSogyeok-dong, Jongno-gu

Crinkle, Crinkle, Whisper, Whisper

Ended15 August 2026 – 25 October 2026Ticketed, see website

This exhibition has ended.

Sound-inspired works created by artist Kim Joon together with ten families from Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, part of MMCA's inclusive-museum programme.

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In the first session, the teenagers lay on the floor of a dark room and listened to rain, wind and thunder recorded in the Gangwon mountains. Over the next seven weeks, ten families from Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, whose children have developmental disabilities, took recorders around the Jeongdok Library garden, its fountain and the museum's galleries with sound artist Kim Joon.

There are two works. In the Education Center courtyard, Frequencies of Empathy hides speakers among the trees, playing water and wind alongside what the children recorded, and you're meant to sit down and stay a while. Along the corridor, one image book per family turns those sounds into drawings and collages, so you walk from one family's way of hearing to the next.

The curator says this is a record of seven weeks, not a results showcase. It's free, on the Education Center's second floor, until 25 October.

Look for

  • Frequencies of Empathy

    Look up into the courtyard trees: speakers set among the branches play water, wind and the sounds the children recorded in and around the museum.

  • Listening to the Shape of the Heart

    Along the Education Center corridor, each family's image book holds the drawings and collages its child made from sounds heard on the walks, with sound modules built in.

Good for

  • An Hour Or Less
  • Cheap Culture
  • Going Solo
  • Locals Who've Seen It All

Skip if

You want finished gallery art: the curator presents it as the record of a workshop, not a results showcase.

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