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- K-Pop World Festival: a first look
- Oct 10, 2012
- At the end of this month, K-pop fans around the world can tune in to watch the exciting final round of the second annual K-Pop World Festival. Held for the first time in 2011, the K-Pop World Festival is a K-pop cover song and dance competition that invites talented performers to...
- “Korea Style Event” -- share our video of PSY’s concert...
- Oct 09, 2012
- The video of PSY’s concert at Seoul City Hall on October 4 has been viewed through YouTube by more than 8,890,000 people in 241 countries around the world. This is very unusual because it was uploaded by the government. The video produced by Korean Culture and Information Service...
- Korean poems translated into Arabic
- Oct 08, 2012
- “I believe that there is no one home for a piece of art. Every great poet is a poet for all mankind, not just for his nation.” For Mahmoud Abdul Ghaffar, a scholar from Egypt who recently became the first person to translate Korean poetry into his native Arabic, the past several ...
- October full of cultural events and festivities
- Oct 08, 2012
- Fall in Korea is characterized by pleasant weather with clear skies and abundant foods from a bountiful harvest. There is even an old saying that autumn is the season when the sky is high and horses get fat. On top of that, numerous cultural events and festivities make this seaso...
- K-Literature: unique but universal
- Oct 05, 2012
- The turbulent history of the last century and the rapid road to modernization sculpted the unique characteristics of modern Korean literature which is depicted by three distinct themes: ‘history and memory’, ‘family’, and ‘love’. These themes are universal in other literary tradi...
- PSY catches the eye of Swiss media
- Oct 04, 2012
- If there is a prize to win for ‘bewitching’ the world, Korea will likely be a frontrunner for 2012.It is because of a 35-year-old chubby Korean man, whose song overturned stereotypes and skyrocketed to fame in the global music industry. That is the story of PSY’s “Gangnam Style,”...
- Tracing the historic roots of Hangeul
- Oct 04, 2012
- The 2011 smash-hit drama Deep-Rooted Tree tells the fictional story of mysterious serial murders that take place in Gyeongbokgung Palace a week before Hunminjeongeum, or the official Korean phonetic system, is introduced by King Sejong. Actor Jang Hyuk was cast as ...
- 17th Busan International Film Festival
- Oct 04, 2012
- Asia’s largest film festival has returned to Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan. From October 4 to 13, the 17th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF 2012) will welcome directors, actors, film critics, and film enthusiasts from all over the world to discover some of the ne...
- Psy’s ‘Heung’ is intangible but powerful
- Oct 04, 2012
- Psy, Park Jae-sang, is Korean, but what parts of his cultural DNA are fascinating the masses around the world? Psy’s “Heung,” or an intrinsic sense of joy, has been awakening people’s desire to be happy beyond borders. Folha de S. Paulo, a Brazilian daily newspaper release...
- Psy’s Gangnam Style arrives in Sweden
- Oct 03, 2012
- For the last few decades, ABBA has been an icon for Sweden. Thousands of young people were fascinated with ABBA and their songs are still easily found and loved today.Surprisingly enough, K-pop’s heat is spreading in Sweden. On September 24, Sweden’s leading liberal morning newsp...
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