Mullae Arts Village in Seoul is a place where steel factories and art studios coexist side by side. The area used to be busy with many steel material workshops until 1990s, when the industry began declining, and many shops closing. Then, some artists found inexpensive studios in these deserted works
Seoul Art Space Sindang is housed in an underground shopping arcade in Sindang-dong, an old neighborhood in Seoul. Unused or abandoned shops in the arcade, which had once thrived with bed clothing and traditional dress shops, were remodelled into workshops for young artists of design and craft, as a
NPR (National Public Radio) has a network of over 1,000 radio stations across the United States, and is well known for its high-quality cultural programming. Among these programs are their Tiny Desk Concerts featuring artists across all sorts of genres and cultures. Recently, they were joined by Kor
With 3.75 million Youtube subscribers, and another 12 million followers over various other social media networks, Park Hye-min, better known for her channel name PONY, is easily the most famous and influential makeup artist in South Korea. In one of her most viral videos, she imitates the makeup sty
On April 6th 1971, the American Table Tennis team received an invitation to visit the People’s Republic of China, a country with which their nation refused to have any diplomatic or economic. This invitation marked the beginning of a thaw in China-America relations that eventually led to the visit o
In recent years, the webtoon industry has been booming in Korea, with many popular webtoons being adapted into films or television dramas. The KT Economic Management Research Institute has recorded that the Korean webtoon market grew from 420 billion won in 2015, to 880 billion won in 2018, and pred
As relations between North and South Korea continue to improve following the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the South is planning to send a group of over 150 musical artists to perform in concerts in the Northern capital of Pyeongyang between March 31st and April 3rd. These artists already include
“My name is Kim Ha-on, I’m a traveller searching for the truth to create my own art. My hobby is meditation; I use it to empty my mind. We receive a lot of stimuli during our daily lives… through our eyes, our ears… If you let these things accumulate within you, you lose your intuition, and your edg
In a world where stress and competition are the norm, Buff Studios, founded in 2014 by Park Geun-ho, seeks to provide healing and comfort through their mobile game, ‘My Oasis’. Park explained in a press interview that many people already use film, music, and travel to heal their souls and relieve st
[[Image : Eun-ji HA's Facebook (Link)]] When 23-year old Eun-ji Ha was in her first year of high school, she wrote her parents a ten-page letter explaining how she intended to drop out and pursue her dreams. Receiving their blessing, she dedicated her free time to teaching herself piano and comp
On January 10th IU won the best song award at the Golden Disc Awards with “Through the Night”. The life of the song began in early 2017 from an unfinished demo by Je-Hwi Kim, a junior singer that IU used to know from three years ago. After listening to the demo, IU fell in love with the warm, soft m
BTS is a Korean idol group known worldwide. One of the reasons they have garnered so many fans is their perfectly coordinated and choreographed group dance (Kalgunmu). Kalgunmu is a newly coined Korean word, made from Kal meaning knife and gunmu meaning group dance, which means to dance perfectly in
