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Bob Dylan to Throw Concert in Seoul Next Month

SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — American pop icon and Nobel laureate for literature Bob Dylan will throw a concert in Seoul next month, the organizer said Tuesday. The 77-year-old singer-songwriter’s concert, the first in South Korea in eight years, is set for July 27 at the Gymnastics Area of Olympic Park in southern Seoul, [...]

Dylan’s Nobel Prize Win Spurs Nostalgia-Driven Consumption

SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Rock and Blues legend Bob Dylan has shown that music is also worthy of literature’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize, and it is now attracting Korea’s nostalgic consumers, largely in their 40s and 50s, for a trip down memory lane. According to online bookstore Yes24, 294 copies of Dylan’s [...]