Um Tai-Jung (Korean: 엄태정, born December 28, 1938, Mungyeong City, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province) is a representative first-generation abstract sculptor in the Republic of Korea.
He graduated from the Department of Sculpture in College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University, studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, and held positions as a research professor at Berlin Fine Arts University and professor in the Department of Sculpture in College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University.
[citation needed] In 2019, he was selected as the only artist in Korea to participate in the Frieze London Sculpture[1] held in the UK.
He became emeritus Professor at the Seoul National University in 2004 and a member of the National Academy of Arts of The Republic of Korea in 2013.
Santo tirso Porto, Portugal; and the German Chancellor's Office (Berlin) possess his works.