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- Two year-end movies to warm your heart
- Dec 19, 2014
- The year end is just around the corner. Two recently released heart-wrenching movies are being recommended for the season. The two movies share one thing in common. They are both documentaries based on the daily lives of real people. The first is "My Love, Don't Cross That River,...
- Joseon royal food returns to Seoul
- Dec 18, 2014
- Royal Joseon cuisine. as seen in the hit soap opera "Jewel in the Palace," has now made a comeback in Seoul. An event to bring back the original form of Korean cuisine and cooking as enjoyed in the royal Joseon palaces, and aimed at developing various new menu items based on the ...
- Three ballet theaters welcome X-mas with ‘Nutcracker’
- Dec 17, 2014
- Three versions of “The Nutcracker” are coming soon to the stage. Each ballet production has, at first glance, some similarities, but upon closer inspection are subtly different. With Christmas just around the corner, three ballet companies -- the Korean National Ballet, Universal...
- Korean film via stamps -- 'The Seaside Village'
- Dec 17, 2014
- First printed in 2008, the second series of Korean film stamps produced by Korea Post contains films from after liberation, from 1945 through to the 1960s. Representative films include "Mother and the Guest," "The Seaside Village," "The Coachman" and "The Wedding Day." Continuing...
- Korean history comes together in Chungju
- Dec 17, 2014
- The city of Chungju is located in Chungcheongbuk-do (North Chungcheong Province), in the heart of the Korean Peninsula. It's a city with a population of just over 200,000 and a long history, sitting in the heart of the Jungwon region. With the Hangang River and its southern tribu...
- Singer Lee Jin-ah keeps dream alive
- Dec 16, 2014
- As soon as it's released, her new songs will top most domestic music charts. We're not talking about another idol band, pre-programmed to be famous with a wide fan base. This is the story of Lee Jin-ah, a competitor in season four of the television talent show competition "K-Pop ...
- Korean Peninsula was ‘a land of leopards’
- Dec 16, 2014
- One may think of tigers as the fiercest animal that ever lived on the Korean Peninsula. There was, however, another species of large cat that was just as fierce as tigers, and even outnumbered them. They were leopards. In Joseon times (1392-1910), the number of leopards was large...
- Korean voices left behind in Berlin from World War I
- Dec 16, 2014
- “Why am I here?... How did I end up being here, here that I would want to go back, crying?” A mournful voice rang out across the Goethe-Institut in Seoul on December 13. The owner of the voice turned out to be an ethnic Korean prisoner of war, Kang Gawriel, who fought on the Russ...
- The Snail-Shell Bride: bad things come to those who can...
- Dec 15, 2014
- Long ago, on a farm far away, there lived a poor farmer who worked hard every day, digging, planting, plowing, harvesting and herding. Because he was poor, no woman wanted to marry him, and thus he continued living alone, working from sunrise to sunset. As the days wore on, his m...
- ASEAN first ladies find Asian kinship in artwork
- Dec 15, 2014
- The first ladies of the 10 ASEAN countries, on a visit to Korea with their spouses to attend the ASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan on December 11 and 12, visited two cultural centers in the port city on December 12. The first ladies from ASEAN, escorted by Cho Yoonsu...
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