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- “Piano poet” Kun-woo Paik enchants in Mexico
- Oct 30, 2012
- Mexico's largest daily newspaper El Universal proclaimed the creative brilliance of Korean pianist Kun-woo Paik on October 20 in an article entitled “Paik’s genius leaves audience awestruck at the Festival Internacional Cervantino.” Paik, who turned 66 earlier this year, performe...
- Marathon season fuels the runner
- Oct 30, 2012
- Marathon season has arrived. When sizzling summer days or chilling winter days give way to brisk autumn days, diverse marathon events unveil all across the country. Korea’s marathon history seems to have started in Incheon where the first official marathon, the Gyeongin Railway S...
- "Gangnam Style" hits China too
- Oct 29, 2012
- Korean rapper Psy's popularity is no exception in China, though it has been a bit slow to pick up in the world's most populous nation. The hit song "Gangnam Style" has been reported by many media outlets, its dance has been imitated, and numerous parodies of his music video have ...
- Mark Harris takes vivid images of two Koreas
- Oct 25, 2012
- It is amazing how much the two Koreas evolved in different directions over the last 60 years, said Mark Edward Harris, a renowned American freelance photographer. Harris recently came to Korea for a photography project to produce a book on South Korea as a companion for his North...
- Son Kee Chung Memorial Hall now open
- Oct 25, 2012
- “The young can now run in an independent country. They needn’t worry about anything. They can run and run. Who would stop them?”---Son Kee-chungAugust 9, 1936 was the closing day of the Berlin Summer Olympics. Son Kee-chung, a great Korean marathoner, was the first across the fin...
- Korean language arrives in Latin America
- Oct 22, 2012
- For the first time in Latin America, the Sejong Institute has established its first Korean language education center at the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) in Mexico. The university, now in the process of establishing a Korean Studies Department, held an opening for the Se...
- Foreign young talents flock to K-pop auditions
- Oct 22, 2012
- In global auditions in Canada and the United States last summer, Korean talent scouts were awed by the number of non-Korean participants. They expected ethnic Koreans but there were many different ethnic groups and races including Caucasians, African-Americans, Hispanics, and Sou...
- LOVE: Reinventing Romantic Love
- Oct 22, 2012
- Romantic love was a new freedom that emerged with modernism. An affirmation of individual freedom, along with romantic love, was more widely recognized, and a new order was built on the freedom of sentiments. People started to yearn for purely romantic relationships based on emot...
- Anti-hero becomes a legend: Psy
- Oct 19, 2012
- Korean rapper Psy enthralled Australia with his unique charm that most people would have overlooked if it were not for "Gangnam Style." Psy flew to Australia on October 15 for a promotional tour and instantly caused a sensation. He appeared on "X Factor," a popular star search pr...
- Family: the decline of the patriarch, the rise of the m...
- Oct 19, 2012
- I think it is no coincidence that the most notable Korean novels on the theme of family have the mother narrative at their core. A mother’s worldview and the values she instills in her children play a defining role in a child’s life. What is the image that comes to mind when we t...
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