SAMADHI + ART = SAGYEONG, Korean Traditional Illuminated Sutra Exhibition 

It's Korean. This art is traceable back to a time when educated people all over East Asia wrote in Chinese. Just like in medieval Europe, when scholars wrote in Latin, no matter their native language.

Hi! The artist in this video is Kyeong-ho Kim. Actually, he is my father. :-) My family live in Seoul, South Korea. If you want to know more about his works, you can visit his web site blog.naver.com/eksrnswkths (p.s. He doesn't know English at all.)

It seems like some people are confused that the words are written in Chinese characters, yet it is Korean traditional artwork. In ancient time, Korea used to use Chinese characters to write and read but spoke in Korean, which caused confusion and difficulty that led to low literacy rate. Hence, King Sea-jong invented the Korean characters so that the people can just write like how they pronounce. As s proof that the artist is Korean, if you look at 5:41, you can see that he wrote the date and his name 외길 김경호 두손모음, at the corner below where he is drawing clouds.

진심 보면서도 숨이 멎는데 그리는 본인은 어떨까... 대단하신 분이다 진짜

Correct if I'm wrong, but the reason why Chinese Characters appear in this work is that Korea (along with China, Japan, and Vietnam) historically used Classical Chinese (NOOOT modern Mandarin Chinese) as the language of formal writing and scholarship. This is analogous to how Latin was used in Europe (e.g. Sir Isacc Newton published his influential work on math and physics in Latin). In the case of Buddhist scriptures and mantras, the ancient Chinese used Chinese characters to approximate the sounds of the Sanskrit language when Buddhism spread into the East (Sanskrit is another influential classical language in which Buddhism was recorded in before entering China). This means the characters themselves don't actually form coherent sentences but do carry the approximated pronunciation of Buddhist mantras. Korea, Japan, and Vietnam initially applied this concept as well to record their own native languages [e.g. Japan's historic use of (万葉仮名)]. However, each country developed its own system for recording its native language instead of using purely Chinese characters to do the task. Classical Chinese was still used for formal writing and the convention of using Chinese characters for sound approximation for Sanskrit still remained for Buddhist mantras I think.

oh my god what if you sneeze

I have never been more captivated by a video with no audio...

This is absolutely incredible and beautiful! The artist is a true master of his craft. Thank you for sharing.

😱 OMG! I’ve never seen anything this fine in painting form! What?! Incredible

한국에서 구경 왔습니다 지리고 갑니다 ㅋㅋ

This looks gorgeous and the brush is so pretty and sparkly... but what amazes me the most is patience

Thats insane. The skill/craftmanship involved; must have taken decades to reach that level where you can just freehand it like that.

Absolutely stunning

Just relax by watching this clip. Thank you!

와~.........

Thank you for upholding the art of Qin Script. Chinese script is only simplified.

캬 정말 아름답습니다 붓끝 하나하나에 정성이 느껴지네요

It's so beautiful dude

stunning!

amazing 😱

와..

what is this brush with the gold paint??

숨도 못 쉴 집중력이다...

just wondering, wouldn't the paint on the brush dry very quickly?

Me quedo loco

Amazing. What is the tool used called?

Is this all done on paper or textile?

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Was this exhibition in South Korea?

저게 다 수작업이라니

!!!.......

What is this technique called?

令人窒息的手艺 👍

에. ㅇ..ㅇ 그냥 빈종이에 저게 가능하다고? 띠옹...

At 4:19 i thought the video wasnt working LOL

Korean?! srsly??

Employ 3d printer and u will work 100times faster lol

words look like Chinese