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Beginner’s guide to Korea skates across the surface
Choi Jung-hwa and Lim Hyang-ok have set a lofty goal for themselves in their new book, “This is Korea.” Sandwiched in between those words in fine print is an even loftier aspiration: The subtitle is “All You Ever Wanted to Know About Korea.” That’s a big job for a 198-page volume, and in fact it’s a primer for people who still wonder whether K…
Jan 27,2007
Korean literature reaches out to far away places
The Korean Literature and Arts Committee has launched a project to spread Korean literature more widely, especially to people who are otherwise isolated from the mainstream of society. It has created the “Spread Korean Literature” committee with a grant of government financial support. The project will encourage more people to read Korean literat…
Jan 27,2007
[Book in brief] Tigers and bears, and more
Tigers and bears From Lee O-young, the man who has led Korea’s cultural and social debate for the past 50 years, comes a new book compiling his life’s best work on interpreting and confuting the ideas of eastern philosophy based on Samguk Yusa classics. In “Lee O-young’s Samguk Yusa Stories” (Lyricism and Poetics publishing), Mr. Lee unfold…
Jan 27,2007
A year passes and Paik’s art continues its run in Seoul
An exhibition commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of Paik Nam-june, a Korean-American video artist and performer, titled “Paik Nam-june and Fluxus Friends” will be held at Gallery SSAMZiE from Jan. 29 to March 18. Throughout his artistic life, Mr. Paik explored the relationship between media, culture and art. Born in Seoul,…
Jan 26,2007
Dance clubs host ministers of sound
This weekend, Gangnam’s two hot spots will be swept up in a British wave of dance music. The belated arrival of the world renowned institution, the Ministry of Sound, will bring its two most celebrated DJs to Seoul: Jazzy M and Damien Saint. Founded in 1991, the Ministry of Sound has become one of the leading clubs in the world of electronic…
Jan 26,2007
Flair meets beauty when age shares a stage with youth
Conductor Zubin Mehta once called a performance by Mischa Maisky “sensible and thought through” without being artificial. Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich praised Maisky’s harmony of lyrical emotion, his intense passion and his blinding technique. Three years after his sold-out concert here, Maisky is going to perform in Korea a…
Jan 26,2007
[Movie Review]‘Click’ if you want, but hold your nose
Adam Sandler’s comedy is silly, immature, vengeful, chauvanistic, scatological and unsophisticated. Say what you want about him. It’s all true. And it all holds steady in his latest effort, “Click.” There are fart jokes, lame one-liners (and lame running gags), an excess of giant-breasted women, fat suits and mean, violent jokes on a little kid…
Jan 26,2007
[GAME REVIEW]
Gamers, get ready to marvel at your access to the largest roster of comic book super heroes ever found in a single video game. “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance” offers gamers the chance to choose from a pool of more than 20 characters from Marvel comic books including Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, Human Torch, Thing, Elektra and Storm. …
Jan 24,2007
Radio star reincarnated by empathy
Anyone who’s been to the town of Yeongwol (or as the city calls itself “young world”) in Gangwon Province will know that the director Lee Jun-ik ―the same man who created “Royal Jester” ― has done an astonishing job with his film “Radio Star.” The county, where the film mostly takes place, is known to Koreans as a small whitewater rafting town th…
Jan 24,2007
Games to keep fingers warm when the weather gets cold
Bears may be sleeping in their caves, but for human bears, cooped up in their rooms playing games, winter is full of action. Riding Star, a new online snowboarding game available on NHN’s game portal, Hangame, begins open test services today. Players race each other down snow-covered hills, and are able to do 20 types of tricks in the air while…
Jan 24,2007
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