This study examined the effect of art therapy using the work of Lee Jung Seop on vulnerable children's
emotional intelligence. Many of Lee's work includes cows, chickens, and families, and his topics and
figurative format are friendly for children and good for children's emotional engagement and art therapy
programs. This study understood Lee's world of art and encouraged the subjects to observe and express
it to affect their emotional intelligence and behavioral change. This study performed one session of art
therapy program a week on two vulnerable children from October 2012 through December 2012 for a
total of 12 sessions. Each session lasted 40 minutes. Preliminary and post examinations were performed
to evaluate their emotional intelligence and the art therapy program was implemented to observe and
record their behavioral change each session. The following summarizes the results of this study: Art
therapy using Lee Jung Seop's work had a positive influence on vulnerable children's emotional intelligence.
It also had a positive influence on their behavioral change as the scores for four sub-categories increased.
By engaging in an art therapy program that uses Lee Jung Seop's work, the children could learn to
express themselves through the medium of drawing and felt the various emotions expressed in the
artworks. They also applied themselves to the characters in the artworks to feel the content and other
positive emotions and learn the meaning of sharing together.