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USK DAEGU
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WELCOME URBAN SKETCHERS DAEGU
DA: When was your group started and who was involved?
USk Daegu: We’ve been sketching together since December, 2018. In-kwon Kim was very interested in urban sketching so he linked with Dong-sik Jung from Gyungju and Jin-hwa Park from Busan. The now main administrator Eun-yoon Bae, who was one of the co-administrators at that time, wanted to found the group on the original global Urbansketchers’ manifesto because she believed it would be easier to communicate to the other sketchers.
DA: Please tell us about your members.
USk Daegu: There are around 50 sketchers in this group with ages ranging from people in their 30s to 60s. They come from many different careers, such as doctors, teachers, architects and so on. There 50/50 experienced and beginner sketchers, and we have some full-time painters in the group.
DA: What are some interesting things about your home city – what do you most enjoy sketching and where would you take an urban sketcher who was visiting from overseas?
USk Daegu: Daegu is a city which has diverse buildings dating from the Joseon Dynasty era to modern times. And it also has a plentiful of places to see and eat. Junggu, a district in the middle of Daegu, is the most interesting area. It has famous places like Cheongna (Cheongra) hill which was made by missionaries in 1910, and the first Catholic church in Daegu – Kyesan – which is designed by a foreigner, and the traditional market of Seomun , which was built in 1770.
DA: how many sketching sessions do you have each month?
USk Daegu: There is a regular meet-up every third Sunday. Sometimes we have an impromptu meet-up as well. And each city has different meet-up days so we can also participate in the others’.
DA: How has you group been affected by the Covid pandemic and have you created new activities or ways of sketching because of this?
USk Daegu: We have suffered greatly due to Covid-19 in February last year. We couldn’t have meet-ups at all for around four months. After it was getting better in Daegu, we started to have regular meet-ups in line with government policy from July of last year. We’ve been trying to sketch outdoors, then socially distanced indoors. We used to take a picture of the group after sketching together, but now we just take a picture of the sketches we did.
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