SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A time-themed exhibition can’t be opening at a better place than at Culture Station Seoul 284, a former railway station built in 1929. Before it was transformed into a cultural space in August 2011, the modern architecture was seen as a symbol that lived through the country’s dynamic economic [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular Korean authors will get to meet readers and translators in overseas literature events, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea said Tuesday. Novelists Hwang Sok-yong will attend the Turin International Book Fair in Italy from May 18-22. His book, including “Mr. Han’s Chronicle” and “Princess Bari,” have been translated [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics will exhibit its lifestyle TV “The Frame” at the 57th Venice Biennale opening this weekend in Italy, the tech firm said Wednesday. “The Frame” copies art with a bezel that looks like picture frames, a design concept targeting European consumers who work television sets into home decor. [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition dedicated to the Korean alphabet, hangeul, will open in Los Angeles to mark the 620th anniversary of its creator King Sejong’s birth, the National Hangeul Museum said Tuesday. “Sounds x Hangeul, Variation of the Korean Alphabet” will run from May 10-June 2 at the Korean Cultural [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — For a young Todd Selby, the most important and coolest kid in school was not some sports guy or cheerleader: It was this guy who would sit at recess and draw Garfield the cat over and over again. Selby’s cheerful celebration of an outsider, a creator or an artist [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese Cultural Center in Seoul opened an exhibition Monday to shed light on ancient cultural exchanges through the Silk Road and sophisticated Buddhist art that flourished along the trade route linking Asia and Europe. “The Silk Road: Reflection of Mutual Learning — Dunhuang Art Archive Exhibit” showcased some [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean folk painting “Minhwa” has never been given due attention. That there is no proper market for the traditional genre and few paintings are publicly traded in an increasingly popular and active art auction speaks volumes. Despite a generally cold reception in the country’s high art scene, a rising [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, said Friday it unveiled four modified cars at an annual U.S. auto show, including a self-driving Sorento equipped with tracks. The annual trade fair, hosted by the Specialty Equipment Market Association this week in Las Vegas, showcased aftermarket modified cars from automakers [...]
LONDON, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — British movie theaters will launch a special event of screening dozens of South Korean films on Thursday (local time), on the sidelines of the Europe’s largest Korean film fest. Set to run from Thursday to Nov. 27, the Korean film screening event will play a total of 61 Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean sculptor couple, who created the symbolic statue of Japanese wartime sexual enslavement victims, said on Sunday that their next project is a statue representing Korean laborers who were forced to work for Japan under its 1910-45 colonial rule. Kim Seo-kyung and her husband Kim Woon-sung said [...]