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A thorough look at a unique Korean art form

Aug 27, 2020

The book, written in collaboration with the late Edward W. Wagner (1924-2001), a professor and founder of the Korean studies program at Harvard University, provides significant information about chae...
Kim Bong-gon returns Young Writer Award following controversy over use of private messages

Jul 22, 2020

Author Kim Bong-gon tweeted on Tuesday that he would return publisher Munhak Dongne’s Young Writer Award and apologized for the trouble he has caused. Kim, who gained popularity for his autofiction ...
[Newsmaker] Publishers suspend sales of autofiction author Kim Bong-gon’s works containing private messages used without consent

Jul 19, 2020

The new victim introduced himself as Young-woo from Kim’s debut work of fiction, “Summer, Speed.’ “I am Young-woo from author Kim Bong-gon’s debut title piece ‘Summer, Speed.’ I am a real person,” t...
Ex- Homeplus executive shares leadership knowhow

Jul 18, 2020

“I thought that executives should know all the employees,” Ahn said. “So, at the end of the year, I wrote letters to all of my employees. Everyone received different letters. I started preparing this...
Koreana explores K-pop before BTS

Jun 27, 2020

“The last feature is about different media and how the way that people consume musical content has changed,” Lee said. “As an editor, it was interesting to find out about auditions and how foreigners...
Korea National University of Cultural Heritage releases book on Korean embroidery

Jun 25, 2020

Korea National University of Cultural Heritage’s traditional arts and crafts professor Sim Yeon-ok has published a book, titled “2,000 Years of Korean Embroidery,” which offers historical analyses on...
Interpark Songin’s filing for court receivership alarms publishers, offline bookstores

Jun 10, 2020

Concerns of the publishing industry and local offline bookstore owners are rising, as Interpark Songin, a retailer to small and medium-sized bookstores, announced Tuesday that it has filed for court ...
Hwang Sok-yong hopes to revive discontinued Lotus Prize rather than win Nobel liberature prize

Jun 2, 2020

Hwang Sok-yong, one of South Korea‘s best known writers, said he would rather bring back the Lotus Prize for Literature than win a Nobel prize, during a press conference held Tuesday for the release ...
‘If I Had Your Face’ depicts Korean women as more than cliched heroines

May 17, 2020

New York-based Frances Cha is a former travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the US, Hong Kong and Korea. By Song Seung-hyun ( ssh@heraldcorp.com )
Book review: Modern, contemporary Korean art for foreign readers

May 4, 2020

First English book offering comprehensive understanding of Korea’s modern and contemporary art published globally
[Herald Review] ‘City of Han’ tests Seoul’s literary potential

Apr 27, 2020

Volume of short stories explores expat perspectives of Korean capital.
Aesthetics of modern, contemporary artworks in Korea

Mar 8, 2020

Afterward, abstract painting styles came into fashion in Korea. Chu Kyung’s “Hardship” in 1923 is the first abstract painting. It, however, was from the 1930s to the late 1940s, when abstract paintin...
Expats find performance community in Wordsmiths

Feb 21, 2020

On the surface, Wordsmiths is like any other open mic event, providing a space for writers to share their poetry, prose and music. But a swift dig beneath the surface reveals a community of warmth, ...
Yonsei professor gets 1st Korean Studies Writing Award

Feb 12, 2020

The Academy of Korean Studies conferred the first Korean Studies Writing Award on Wednesday, honoring a Yonsei University scholar for his nine-volume collection of works on the history of Korean agri...
Super collectors: Forces that drive the art market

Jan 30, 2020

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