SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for entering a poem praising the North Korean regime in a competition organized by a North Korean propaganda website. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail term to the 68-year-old on charges of violating the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has put a call out for “citizen poets” to help provide subway users with poetry to read as they wait for their trains. The city announced on Wednesday that it was inviting the public to submit their own creations as well as their favorite poetry. [...]
Seoul, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Soon-young, a 10-year-old girl who is courting controversy due to a piece of writing that has been dubbed’brutal children’s poem’, wished that her mother would only focus on her. Soon-young appeared with her mother, poet Kim Bada, on ‘Seeking for Prodigies’, a show aired on SBS TV. The [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city is operating 30 intra-urban buses decorated with poems, according to a city statement on May 17. About 60 poems are printed on the inner walls of lines no. 270, 470, 601 and 710. The city government printed the poems in calligraphic style-fonts, in collaboration with the Korean [...]