The Art History Association of Korea was established with the five scholars in the Coterie of Antiquarians, which had been founded in 1960. The year of 2018 marks the centennial of the birth of two of the five scholars, Chin Hong-sup and Hwang Su-young. To celebrate the centennial anniversary, the Art History Association of Korea organized a conference, which has a special meaning in the field of Korean art history. Both of the two scholars were born in Gaeseong in the same year, and studied business administration in Japan. The reason why they became scholars in art history, which was unrelated to their major, was because of the director of the Gaeseong Museum, Uhyeon Ko Yu-seop’s inf luence on them. The two scholars devoted their entire life to the study of Korean art history to establish the foundation of scholarship in the field and founded the Art History Association of Korea. Of the two scholars, Soomuk Chin Hong-sup succeeded Uhyeon Ko Yu-seop as the director of the Gaeseong Museum. After the Korean War, Chin was appointed the director of the Gyeongju Museum and then the chief official in the Office of Culture Properties. Shortly after the appointment he was hired as a professor at the Ewha Womans University, with which he held the position of the director of the Ewha Womans University Museum concurrently for twenty years.