Jeon Hyeongpil was a Korean educationist and an art collector who gathered hundreds of Korean cultural assets and had the pen name of Gansong. He is famous for his great achievement to collect 12 national treasures, 10 treasures and 4 cultural assets...

Gansong Art Museum is the first modern private museum of Korea and was founded by Jeon Hyeongpil in 1938. The museum was named after the pen name of the founder, Gansong. The aim of the foundation was to prevent Japanese removal of Korean cultural...