SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s market for the performing arts grew 1.2 percent last year from a year earlier, registering the second annual growth in a row, data showed Monday. Total sales of the performing arts came to 823.2 billion won (US$710 million) in 2018, up 1.2 percent from 2017, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — “The Vegetarian,” a Man Booker International-winning novel by South Korean author Han Kang, will make a theatrical debut in the writer’s home country next year. The National Theater Company of Korea plans to premier the theater version of “The Vegetarian” from May to June next year at its Theater [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean theaters have launched a series of reinterpreted Shakespearean plays for the fall-winter season of 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the globally revered British poet and playwright. The theaters have introduced classical Shakespearean plays with a variety of witty tweaks from different angles, [...]
ASAN, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A story of college students majoring in theater donating proceeds from one of their plays to contribute to the production of the movie “Spirits’ Homecoming” was recently revealed to the public. According to Hoseo University and a project team called Dandi, students majoring in theater staged the play ‘Homecoming’, [...]