When I visited Seoul a while back, a friend told me about Ron Mueck’s exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art during the time I was visiting. I’ve never heard of him until then, but a quick search tells me I shouldn’t miss it. For those who’re not familiar with him, Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor known for his incredibly lifelike and emotionally evocative sculptures of the human figure. What makes Mueck’s sculptures stand out is their astonishing realism combined with dramatic shifts in scale—his figures are either much larger or much smaller than life-size.…