The late Jong-Hwi Kim, born in 1928, had moved northern part of Korea when childhood. Mostly he spent a time on the mountain and it affected on his works later. He followed a composition of traditional Oriental painting but interestingly used Western materials. Also as painting his home town, his painting shows his affection for the place. That is the reason why most of his works have the same name 'reminiscence'. 
Art pieces done in 1980 to 90s, when he worked energetically, will be exhibited this time. Mostly those are based on olive green, prussian blue, and umber colours with indigenous themes. 

National Museum of Contemporary Art described their collection of his work in 1990 as below:
'A scene filling with a big motion reveals a characteristic of Oriental painting, drawing with one stroke of a brush. It give a feeling of touch in ink painting and knock of painting. Also, Kim created own color sense based on light brown the nature has. Clean and rich local color delivers touching smell of hometown. Using kepi, oil painting without materiality accordance with Asian inner space. Memories for lost hometown of Korean are located in all his works.'