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- ↑ "Cho Young-Ja". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
- ↑ "NMWA | Private Collection | Portfolio - Young-Ja Cho". www.nmwa.org. Archived from the original on 2003-05-08.
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