photographylot: Magnum Korea

The Hankyoreh, a newspaper and media company in Korea, commissioned Magnum to produce a series of photographs to commemorate South Korea’s 60th anniversary and the company’s own 20th anniversary. The Resulting project is apparantly the largest single undertaking by the Magnum agency, who sent 20 of it’s photographers to South Korea between the end of 2006 and the start of 2008 with each spending between 10 and 60 days in the country.

Check it out here.