K Auction has set October 28 for its monthly sale in Seoul, offering 85 lots with a combined value of roughly ₩11.2 billion (about $7.8 million) at its headquarters in the Sinsa neighborhood of Gangnam District. The lineup leans on modern Korean masters, a pattern that has underpinned the domestic auction market's recent selective recovery.

The top lot by estimate is Park Soo-keun's 1964 painting "Homeward," a depiction of a woman returning home built from the artist's characteristically simplified forms and even surface texture, carrying an estimate of ₩680 million to ₩1.8 billion. The sale also includes three works by Yayoi Kusama, led by her 1981 "Butterfly," in which the butterfly form emerges from a field of blue dots, estimated at ₩650 million to ₩1.4 billion.

The wider offering features major names in Korean abstraction and monochrome painting — Chung Sang-hwa, Park Seo-bo and Yun Hyong-keun — a group the house has also promoted through its connection to RM of BTS, who is known to collect several of them. The mix reflects a deliberate tilt toward high-value consignments that domestic houses have been testing this autumn, as mid-market consignments have proved harder to move.

The announcement came the same weekend that Seoul Auction publicized its first Busan sale in four years, scheduled for October 23 with 107 lots valued at ₩6.1 billion, including a Nam June Paik robot sculpture offered at a Korean auction for the first time. Together the two sales show the Korean houses concentrating their efforts on prestige lots rather than volume as the year-end approaches.

Both events sit inside a Korean autumn season in which the houses have leaned on star names and blue-chip masters to steady the market. Seoul Auction's September sale in Gangnam drew KRW 4.81 billion with a 61 percent sell-through rate, its first monthly total above KRW 4 billion in five months — a benchmark the October outings will be measured against.