SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A live performance album by South Korean pianist Lim Yunchan has been included on The New York Times’ Best Classical Music Albums of 2023 list. “Yoonchan Lim-Liszt: Transcendental Etudes” was one of the top 25 albums of the year announced by the U.S. daily Thursday (U.S. time). Released in [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop giant BTS’ first official book, “Beyond the Story: 10-year Record of BTS,” has topped New York Times bestseller lists. According to the lists released by the U.S. newspaper Wednesday (U.S. time), the English version of the book shot to the top of this week’s bestseller lists for “hardcover [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,” the debut novel of Cho Nam-Joo, a former TV scriptwriter, has been chosen as one of “100 Notable Books of 2020″, a list selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. The novel was also chosen as one of “The 100 Must-Read [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa said regarding author Han Kang’s New York Times essay titled ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ that “as a writer she is entitled to her own opinion, but her understanding of history and the way she described it is [...]
“We are strongly protesting that (the newspaper) looked into only about 150 salons, which is an extremely small part of a total of some 6,000 shops, and carried a biased report that only highlighted extremely bad parts about them.” “Most Korean-run businesses are not engaged in such nonsense things as racial discrimination and ethnic caste [...]