01. Carter at Dokdo, Son Jang-seob, watercolor, 2002 02. Greeting the Stars at Dokdo, Min Joung-ki, oil, 2002 03. Dokdo, Park Dae-sung, ink, 2002

Efforts are now under way to promote a cultural understanding of Dokdo from a contemporary point of view. As part of the Dokdo Cultural Awareness Campaign, the Seoul National University Museum has held two special modern art exhibitions on Dokdo since 2001: "History, Understanding and Dokdo" in 2001, and "History, Understanding and the Scenery of Dokdo" in 2002. The painters and photographers invited to these exhibitions expressed the essence of Dokdo in a variety of ways.

The artists captured Korean cultural sensibilities as well as traditional aesthetics and values in ink drawings, while also creating realistic landscape paintings reflecting the beauty and mystery of Dokdo. One eye-catching work fantastically captures the constellation of the Dokdo Islands in blue-green imagery. The exhibited works show that Dokdo is no longer a lonely island group located on the outer edge of the Korean peninsula, but has been reborn as a fertile ground that can inspire the creativity of artists. Dokdo is now taking on a cultural and artistic prominence in addition to its historic significance.

	Dokdo Museum

In 1997, the Dokdo Museum was established on Ulleungdo, nearby Dokdo. Lee Jong-hak, the first director of the museum, displays a diversity of materials related to Dokdo gathered at home and abroad over a period of some 30 years, as well as the personal effects of the late Hong Sun-chil, chief of the Dokdo Volunteer Garrison, and materials donated by the Dokdo Volunteer Garrison Fellowship and the Society for a Green Dokdo. The Dokdo Museum regularly unearths and collects materials related to Dokdo. It also engages in exhibitions, education, and publicity based on the results of this research, striving to promote Dokdo as an important historical and cultural landmark of Korea.