Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other members of the Samsung family will attend a Lee Kun-hee Collection gala in Washington on the 28th local time.
According to the business community on the 16th, Samsung will hold a gala on the 28th in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first overseas exhibition of the "Lee Kun-hee Collection," which the late former chairman Lee Kun-hee and his family donated to the state.
Attending the event will be Chairman Lee, Hong Ra-hee, honorary director of the Leeum Museum of Art, Lee Boo-jin, president of Hotel Shilla, and Lee Seo-hyun, president of Samsung C&T, bringing together the entire Samsung owner family. Presidents of major Samsung Group affiliates and prominent figures from U.S. politics and business are also expected to attend in large numbers.
The gala is being organized to celebrate the opening of the largest exhibition of Korean classical art in North America in about 40 years and to highlight the late chairman's "cultural patriotism" (文化報國) spirit.
The Lee Kun-hee Collection, on view at the National Museum of Asian Art under the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., opened in Nov. last year and is set to close on Feb. 1.
On display are 330 cultural artifacts and artworks, including seven National Treasures and 15 Treasures, such as "After Rain at Inwang Mountain" (仁王霽色圖), a masterpiece by late Joseon painter Gyeomjae Jeong Seon (1676–1759).
The Lee Kun-hee Collection will continue at the Art Institute of Chicago (Mar. 7–July 5, 2026) and the British Museum (Sept. 10, 2026–Jan. 10, 2027).