The 19th Yongjae Award was given to Dr. Ahn Hui-joon, Chairman of the Board at the Korea Cultural Heritage Redemption Foundation, and Seoul National University Professor Emeritus, Kim Gwang-eok. The award ceremony was held on March 8th at Yonsei’s Luce Chapel. Dr. Ahn is a renowned scholar who has dedicated his career to promoting and developing the field of Korean art history. After graduating from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in archeology and anthropology, he obtained his master’s degree and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Having taught for many years at Hongik University and SNU, he is currently Chairman of the Board for the Korea Cultural Heritage Redemption Foundation. Thanks to Dr. Ahn’s efforts to establish Korean art history as a recognized field of study, an untold number of Koreans and non-Koreans have discovered the marvels of Korean art and its place in the cultural history of East Asia. Kim Gwang-eok, Professor Emeritus at SNU, is a globally-recognized South Korean anthropologist. He graduated from SNU in 1973 and pursued his graduate studies at the University of Oxford. In 1980, he accepted a professorship at SNU, where he taught until his retirement from the school in 2012. He is currently a visiting professor at Shandong University and an emeritus professor at Yuunan Nationalities University in China. As a scholar, Dr. Kim proposed a uniquely East Asian paradigm for understanding similar social and cultural phenomena in Korea and China, believing that Western theories were insufficient to explain the complex nexuses of civilization and history, modernity and tradition in East Asia.