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The Korean Art Market: Boom or Bubble?

  • Asset Management Review
  • Abbr : AMR
  • 2022, 10(2), pp.18~36
  • DOI : 10.23007/amr.2022.10.2.18
  • Publisher : Institute of Management Research, SungKyunKwan University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Business Management > Finance
  • Received : August 31, 2022
  • Accepted : October 5, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Jiye Ryu 1 KiHoon Hong 1 Jinhee Kim 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research examines whether the Korean art market experiences a boom or a bubble. Since 2020, the Korean art market has marked record prices, and in turn, there is an argumentwhether the Korean art market is going through the bubble or the speculative bubbles. Usingthe auction data from Seoul Auction and K Auction during 1998-2021, this paper investigatesthe existence of speculative bubbles using the SADF test. We implement the SADF tests on thewhole market and the five different genres and find no evidence of speculative bubbles. Theseresults indicate that the current expansion of the Korean art market is not an outcome of explosivebehaviors. It is rather a consequence of increased liquidity with a widening of the customerbase.

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