Editing Nam June Paik (section)

==Early life and education==
Paik was born in [[Keijō]] ([[Seoul]]), [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea, Empire of Japan]] in 1932. He was the youngest of three brothers and two sisters. His {{ill|Paik Naksŭng|ko|백낙승 (1886년)|lt=father}}, who in 2002 was revealed to be a [[Korean collaborators with Imperial Japan|Korean who collaborated with the Japanese]] during the latter's occupation of Korea, owned a major textile manufacturing firm. As he was growing up, he was trained as a [[classical pianist]]. By virtue of his affluent background, Paik received an elite education in modern (largely Western) music through his tutors.<ref name="Hanhardt-2012">{{Cite book |last=Hanhardt |first=John G. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830201733 |title=Nam June Paik : global visionary |date=2012 |others=Ken Hakuta, Smithsonian American Art Museum |isbn=978-1-907804-20-5 |location=Washington, DC |oclc=830201733}}</ref>{{Rp|page=43}}

In 1950, during the [[Korean War]], Paik and his family fled from their home in [[Korea]], first fleeing to [[Hong Kong]], but later moved to [[Japa]]n. Paik graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in aesthetics from the [[University of Tokyo]] in 1956, where he wrote a thesis on the composer [[Arnold Schoenberg]].<ref>[https://www.theartstory.org/artist/paik-nam-june/ The Art Story]</ref>

Paik then moved to [[West Germany]] in 1957 to study music history with composer [[Thrasybulos Georgiades]] at [[Munich University]].<ref name="Hanhardt-2012" />{{Rp|page=19}}<ref name="Nam June Paik">{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/422|title=Nam June Paik|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311093600/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/422|archive-date=March 11, 2014|website=[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York}}</ref> While studying in Germany, Paik met the composers [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] and [[John Cage]] and the [[conceptual art]]ists [[Sharon Grace]], [[George Maciunas]], [[Joseph Beuys]], and [[Wolf Vostell]].
[[File:Paik Nam June (cropped).jpg|thumb|Paik Nam June in [[Darmstadt]] in 1959]]