In today's contemporary art practices from Korea, Japan and China, we often witness the emergence of the art works incorporating traditional materials or subject matters. One of the most prominent styles of such cases is with kitschy quality while it raises question whether it is just result from the trend driven by the art market principle.  Such phenomenon in Korea's case, in particular, was mainly either interpreted or intended as act of embracing our own aesthetical heritage.
Proposed research is to create discourses on the meaning of Asian tradition in contemporary arts through comparative analysis of materials in the development in incorporating both Western and traditional aesthetics from Korea, China and Japan. This can be meaningful not only for Korea but also Japan in the sense that the study will reestablish the position of countries' tradition as well as to redefine where contemporary Asian art practices is located in the globalized art fields. The activities in this research mostly comprises of finding materials of traditional values and ideologies recreated in contemporary art in the three countries.