Forgery scandal surrounding Lee Ufan’s work grows in Korea with three arrests

Three people, a pair of married art dealers and a painter, were arrested by the metropolitan police in Seoul, South Korea last week, for their suspected involvement in a counterfeiting ring, the Korea Time reports. They are accused of having produced and sold 40 fakes from two series by the artist Lee Ufan, From Point and From Line, between November 2012 and 2014. The two gallerists allegedly paid the painter 240,600 to forge the works, then sold them to a dealer for around 2.3m.An investigatio