Opera festival hits Seoul in May May will be an exciting month for opera fans this year. The fifth Korea Opera Festival will take place at the Seoul Arts Center (SAC) in southern Seoul. This year’s festival focuses on heroines who fall in love, their passion leading them onward to happiness or destruction.…
The Musical BONNIE & CLYDE Overview In 2014, the most impressive and stylish musical, with 185 shots of gunfire, their story as remembered by the world! Everything began from the moment when they first came across! Synopsis For wandering youth in the world of uncertainty, there is no future for them. In the…
European musicals hit Seoul stages Magnificent stage settings, great music, hundreds of costumes and compelling storylines are what draw people to major European musicals. A series of European musicals will be staged across Seoul this year, beginning with “Le Roi Soleil” (“The Sun King”), which is already running, and moving on to “Mozart!”…
Yeouido Spring Flower Festival 2014 Every year when spring comes with its warmer weather, there are cascades of colorful flowers, with the Hangang River in the background, along the boulevards of Yeouido in western Seoul. There are 1,641 cherry blossom trees originally from Jeju Island, as well as azalea, forsythia, royal azalea and…
Ancient Civilization in Vietnam, the Early Morning in Red River This exhibition highlights the Bronze age of Vietnam, offering a chance to glimpse through the origins of ancient Vietnam culture. Valued artefacts from the Vietnam National Museum of History will lead us to taste a hint of Dong Son and Sa Huynh…
New Acquisitions of Asian Art The National Museum of Korea’s first special exhibition this year is the “New Acquisition of Asian Art” show. The “New Acquisition of Asian Art” exhibit presents for the first time many East Asian heritage items. LocationThematic Exhibition Gallery in the Medieval and Early Modern History Section, 1F Date…
The Bard at 450: new wave of Shakespeare hits Korea in 2014 “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” It is a line from “Macbeth,” a tragedy by literary giant William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The play is full of conflict and struggle between contradictory values, such as good and evil and fair and foul. As society…
The Seoul Museum of Art is holding an exhibition on film director Tim Burton. This exhibition will feature 862 of his works including drawings, paintings, short films, sculptures, music, and costumes that have been used in the making of his feature-length movies…
100 modern masterpieces on display at Deoksugung ~2014. 3. 30 One hundred masterpieces of modern Korean art are on display at the gallery in Deoksugung Palace, a branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). The exhibit is showing 100 paintings: 70 ink and color and 30 oil paintings.…
October, Month of Culture: full of arts cultural events Cultural enrichment” has been proclaimed as one of the four policy priority areas of Park Geun-hye’s administration. The cultural enrichment initiative aims to raise the level of happiness of individual citizens by offering them the chance to become a producer and a consumer of…
