Seated under tall windows and wearing simple clothing, North Korean painters are hard at work in China. The nine artists are putting canvases on picture frames and copying landscape images from computers. One artist listens to an electronic device as he paints a group of running horses onto his canvas. The artists, all of them men, have come to the Chinese border town of Dandong from Mansudae Art Studio. That art studio is North Korea's largest producer of art. Other North Korean artists work in similar businesses along the border. Chinese have begun collecting art, and North Korean art is much easier and cheaper for them to obtain, said Park Young-jeong. He is with the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, a group based in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

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Chinese have begun collecting art.
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