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Kang Kuk-jin (Korean: 강국진; 1939–1992) was an avant-garde Korean artist and founder of the Nonkkol Art Group. He made avant garde work primarily from the mid-60s to the early 70s and is known as the first happening and technology artist. Throughout his involvement in the Nonkkol Coterie, and other group activities ranging from The Union Exhibition of Korean Young Artists and New Exhibition (Shinjeon Group), he was a prolific experimentalist within a range of media and genres: happenings, object sculpture, multiples, neon, printmaking, and installations. During these group activities he was also involved in producing writing, lectures, and seminars about new forms of art. He participated in almost all of the first happenings in Korea between 1967 and 1968. After the mid-70s he focused on experimental printmaking and paintings, but always kept his focus on depicting the process of art making within his works. Kang was dedicated to capturing his own reality within his work and was not beholden to a certain lineage of style, medium, or subject matter. He saw his own life, the artist's life, as the main inspiration for and expression of art.