Nobel laureates take on new look The Nobel Prize winners stood before the camera, held on to the cardboard placard and put on a funny or mischievous face. These famous prize-winners can now be seen in a series of photographic images taken by German photographer Volker Steger in the Sketches of Science exhibition,…
‘City of Light’ shines with food, arts festival A college press corps covering the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism poses with a smile on their faces on October 17 as the Gwangjang Festival is underway at the May 18 Democracy Square to mark the “Month of Culture” in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do. Gwangju, Jeollanam-do…
National Museum of Korea unveils new acquisitions The drapes of Buddha’s robes are expressed beautifully and delicately. Though partly rusty, the aura is carved with vine leaves and the edge is shaped into a flame pattern. Accessorized with jewels, the gilt-bronze Buddha has all three requisite elements: the full body of the figure,…
Park Seong-heon, master of paper craft Flat paper can be turned into all kinds of three dimensional shapes when cut, folded and pasted. Sometimes, an animal comes around, while robots, airplanes and more diverse shapes are created, too. It’s a world created through paper craft. Park Seong-hyun and his paper-made ‘friends.’…
Three islands brighten up Hangang River Some Sevit, the name for the three man-made islands floating on the Hangang River, opens on October 15. A complex of three man-made floating buildings, “Some Sevit,” nestling at the southern end of the Banpo Bridge in Seoul, opened its doors on October 15. The complex’s Korean…
Halloween festival takes root in Korea When it comes to the last day of October, the streets of many Western countries are decorated with orange pumpkin lights and are crowded with children dressed in colorful spooky costumes. It’s the yearly celebration of Halloween. Halloween has been influenced by Celtic yearly rituals performed as…
A sculpture of an elephant inlaid with silver, a lifelike replica of a Portuguese trade ship that is about to head out to sea, a gold sculpture from Nepal and a jar decorated with traditional Algerian patterns. This is not simply a collection of craftworks of the world. These are gifts received overseas during diplomatic…
Campus life in Korea Arriving here as an instructor, my first impression of Soongsil University was of a densely populated complex of towering buildings, wide brick staircases and throngs of young students hurrying to class, relaxing on benches together or just hanging out. It’s been a few years since I was in the…
Chinese vacationers fly to Korea for shopping spree Many Chinese tourists flew to Korea to go on a shopping spree during mainland China’s golden-week of national holidays from October 1 to 7. Where on earth did the Chinese shoppers — commonly known in Korean as youkers— go to do their shopping? What, exactly,…
Korean drama celebrated in Jinju Jinju, a historic city in southwest Korea, has been bustling with the fever of Hallyu, or the “Korean Wave.” This has been due to the Korea Drama Festival 2014, the largest celebration of television dramas in the country, which just dropped its closing curtain. During the festival, held…
