DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards
This award was established in 2010 to honor the intend and philosophy of DOOSAN’s Founder Park Toopyung, who devoted himself to cultivating talent. This award recognizes the contribution of outstanding young artists under the age of 40 in the field of performing arts and visual arts.

A new work by Hongdo Lee, the recipient of the 13th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards. His works include The New York Times’ Overly Short Article on a Pregnant Asian Woman Who Jumped Off the Balcony of a Columbia University Dormitory and the Asian Man Who Fled the Scene, American Theater/Seoul Chorus, Autobiography of Hongdo Lee(My Life in Art), and 2032 Angels in America. As a human being and a writer standing on the boundaries set by the world, Lee bases his writing on personal experiences and perceptions of his identity and subjectivity. Furthermore, he raises multilayered questions about gender, race, and all other socially constructed boundaries to create narratives through patterns of intersection and conflict, assembly and disassembly, and reconstruction. Presenting plays as incomplete texts that must be woven together, Lee uses open-ended questions to encourage audiences to find their own answers rather than confining themselves to explanations or assertions.