critics took issue with the show's lack of comprehensiveness, women artists, and new frameworks to understand minjung art. North Korea In 1989, North Korean artists reproduced The History of the Liberation Movement, a set of eleven paintings created over three months by more than 200 South Korean artists, and then subsequently destroyed several months later by the police. The reproduction was shown in North Korea for an exhibition dedicated to Korean reunification. Japan In 1986, the Japan, Afro-Asian, Latin American Artists' Association (JAALA) invited Kim Jungheun and a number of other Reality and Utterance artists including Min Jeongki, Song Changsup, and Lim Oksang to participate in a group show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. A 2005 traveling exhibition titled "Art Toward the Society: Realism in Korean Art 1945-2005" showed at five museums in Japan. Canada and the US In 1987, artist Um Hyuk and Sung Wan Kyung curated the first show of minjung art in North America titled "Min Joong Art: New Movement of Political Art from Korea" (A Space, Toronto; Minor Injury, Brooklyn). While the initial iterations of the show included only four artists (O Yun, Park Buldong, Jung Boksu, and Sung Neung-kyung), Um and Sung worked with artist Bahc Yiso to organize a larger show at Artists Space in New York. The 1988 Artists Space show featured work by Choi Byung Soo, Dureong, Jung Boksoo, Kim Yongtai, Gwangju Visual Art Research Institute, Lee Jonggu, Lim Oksang, Min Jeongki, Oh Yoon, Park Buldong, The Photo Collective for Social Movement, People's Art School, and Song Chang. Sohl Lee curated the exhibition "Being Political Popular: South Korean Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy, 1980-2010," in 2012 at the University Art Gallery (UAG), University of California, Irvine (UCI), which included minjung artists, and reconsidered the relationship between minjung art and art that emerged in later decades, or as Lee frames it, between popular culture and democratic participation. Germany Beck Jee-sook curated "Battle of Visions" for the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2005, pairing minjung art with work by younger artists drawing on the historical movement. Beck also organized the show "Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action" in 2007 in New Zealand. Notable Artists Kim Bongjun (b. 1954), who led the Dureong Group Kim Jeong-heon (b. 1946) Im Ok-sang (b. 1950) O Yun (1946–1986) Hong Song-dam (b. 1955) Choi Byung Soo (b. 1960) Shin Hak-chul Joo Jae-hwan Kim Jeong-heun