The event is being held by Stackhouse, a company that has been organizing diverse sneaker-related offline events in Korea since 2017. GQ Korea Sneakers columnist Kim Eun-soo also took part in the event as the curator. Admission is free.

Paju Ice Fishing The annual Paju Trout Festival kicked off Jan. 8 and runs through Feb. 13 at Gangtan Leisure Town in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, though the event has reduced its size to focus only on the ice fishing event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While various programs, including trout catching with bare hands, smelt fishing for children and more, are canceled, visitors can catch a maximum o...

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JW Marriott Hotel Seoul launches ‘Yut-Nori With Black Tiger’ promotion JW Marriott Hotel Seoul marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year with a package promotion curated for families celebrating the new year together. The stay package features yut sticks, a yut board and yut tokens handcrafted by the hotel’s pastry team for a joyful family game experience. Two glasses of Black Tiger Guinness w...

“We hope Korea can be widely introduced to foreigners as a ‘shopping tourism destination’ through this event, and play the role of raising expectations for future travels after the pandemic,” a Culture Ministry‘s official said. Hosted by the Culture Ministry and the Visit Korea Committee, the Korea Grand Sale has made its first open in 2011, to attract foreign tourists in winter, known to be the...

“Instagrammable F&B products such as afternoon tea with visually-unique desserts served on a traditionally-patterned tray, or exotic room interiors that include views across downtown Gangnam are unique content that invite selfies.” Each piece of content that clients leave through posts on social media during or after their visit becomes an important asset for the hotel to shape their business. T...

“As more television dramas become available in various local and global streaming platforms, the number of new drama fans continues to increase, leading to the rise in demand of popular series-related contents, including the script,” a Yes24 official said in a press release on Wednesday. “With more drama fans showing their love and support by purchasing the scripts, reading the original script i...

NIKL plans to carry out major revamp of dictionary

The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage analyzed each element in detail to identify the type of folding screen frame, the pigment used and the material of the wallpaper, and applied each to the preservation treatment. During the process, the existing folding screen frame was found to be impossible to reuse due to damage from insects and natural degradation. A new frame was produced b...

Nearly 400 empty school buildings, chiefly in rural areas, are sitting idle after closing their doors due to lack of students, government data showed Tuesday. The Ministry of Education has a thorny task of giving new life to abandoned classrooms. As of May last year, a total of 3,855 schools have closed across South Korea in nearly 40 years since 1982, according to data compiled by the Ministry...

The work sold some 300,000 copies in 10 different languages over five years

"Russian avant-garde art was politically shunned at the time but was reborn as minimal art after 50 years. The art avant-garde movement also influenced Korean abstract art, such as the ‘dansaekhwa movement,’” said Kim Young-ho, a professor at Chungang University who directed the exhibition. The exhibition starts with “Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisations,” showing Kandinsky’s works from the improv...

Kim shared a plan to finish research on feasibility for the new museum by the first half of the year and come up with details by the end of the year. The symposium was hosted by France Museums, an international museum consultancy in France where Sandra Lagumina, Deputy CEO of Meridiam and Michel Miraillet, director-general for global affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended. Ki...

An online website that explores kimchi making recipes and Korea’s unique kimjang culture, will be open to global viewers until the end of March, the Korean Cultural Center Canada announced Sunday. Titled as “Kimjang: The Aesthetics of Sharing,” the website explains in detail the history of how kimjang culture has been treasured by Koreans for generations, and thus came to be acknowledged in 2013...

‘Light: Works From the Tate Collection’ shows 110 works by 43 artists