Daelim Museum

This guide to Daelim Museum in Seoul starts with its stained-glass facade, designed by French architect Vincent Cornu after the crackled glaze on old Korean pottery rather than the Mondrian grid it resembles. It follows Daelim, one of Korea's biggest construction firms, as it opens the country's first photography museum in a converted house near Gyeongbokgung Palace, hosting names like Ryan McGinley and Karl Lagerfeld. For years it stayed a quiet, hushed institution before its crowds began to change.