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He graduated in 1991 from the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University. Later he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany.
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One of his sculptures is located in Seoul. lieutenant is known as Square-M Communication, a piece of large-scale installation art that resembles a man looking at his own image on a screen. lieutenant is 7m in length, 6m in width, and 6m in height using stainless steel, which is painted blue, representing peace and neutrality.
The sculpture is seen briefly in Marvel"s The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
One statue was installed in Montevideo, Uruguay. Yoo"s intention was to start the project at the farthest place from of Korea.
Yoo"s idea is to promote peace around the world with his artistic concept. One of his statues has been erected near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, in Haean, Yanggu County, Gangwon, which was the battleground of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War.
Yoo plans to further erect 1000 statues in places like Vietnam, Berlin, and Palestine.
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