With the ongoing problems facing migrants who cross the Mediterranean and increasingly hostile attitudes to migrants in Europe and the US, times are bleak for the world’s migrants. And for the organizers of the Migrant World Film Festival this weekend, there is much less optimism than when they started out 10 years ago. “Our first festival had the slogan of ‘A World Without Borders, Imagination...

Kids joined national hockey coach Jim Paek and Team Korea Ball Hockey players on a beautiful, sunshine filled afternoon for the second annual “Hockey Day Korea!” at the Jamsil Sports Complex inline rink in Seoul on Oct. 14. HDK aims to promote awareness of hockey in Korea and most importantly, to raise money for charity, this year’s cause being Make-A-Wish Korea, which works to give special expe...

Camarata is inviting guests to join it for a networking night accompanied by food, wine and performances from its chamber singers for its autumn fundraiser on Friday. As well as performances and a standing buffet, the “Fall into Music” event will run a raffle with prizes including return trips to the US and holiday getaways in Vietnam and Korea. Camarata is a registered nonprofit organization s...

With food, performances and activities to get stuck into, GIC Day is returning to Gwangju on Sunday. On the main stage performances from traditional Korean music to Irish folk, belly dancing and a joint Zumba workout. Finger food from 15 countries, from Rwanda and Indonesia to China and Canada, will be available at booths in the main area. Alongside them, culture booths will share traditional g...

The HBC Fest’s fall edition will open on Oct. 20 and run through Oct. 21 for a showcase of local live acts. The festival sees bars and cafes in the Haebangchon area of Seoul near Itaewon open their doors and rig up stages for a two-night collection of free concerts. Four venues will open up on Oct. 20 from 9 p.m. – Thunderhorse Tavern, Phillies, Genie Pub and the Hidden Cellar. Another seven st...

Seoul Shakespeare Company returns to the stage with a claustrophobic contemporary tale of grudges and recriminations.

Daejeon Arts Collective is holding a weeklong exhibition at the Daejeon Gallery from Thursday. The exhibition, “Twelfth Night,” is a group show by the DJAC, a group of expat and Korean artists. Work displayed at the show includes print work, painting, photography and sculpture from 14 artists, with a performance at the show’s reception on Saturday. “Twelfth Night” was chosen as a catchy title ...

Two day event in central Seoul to include parade, food, craft beer and music

'The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher' author, award-winning poet to read and discuss his work

With Zandari Festa around the corner, several expat groups are gearing up to show their stuff at Korea’s biggest indie music showcase. Zandari, a three-day showcase festival across 10 venues in the Hongdae area of Seoul, will host 120 acts from across Korea and overseas this year. Among them is Koncept, a US rapper relatively new to the local scene. With three albums under his belt, he was inv...

Hussaina Abdullahi, 19, arrived in Korea two years ago from Nigeria after being introduced to the culture through the Korean Culture Center while she was in school. The information she received there coupled with an interest in K-dramas was enough to make her decide to come to Korea for university. “It still doesn’t feel real,” she said. “Coming here was crazy, one of the biggest things I wishe...

Seoul City Improv, the city’s first and only English-speaking improvised comedy troupe, will be marking 10 years in the funny business with an anniversary show-slash-party Saturday. The troupe started out performing the kind of short-form improv made famous by “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?” but later branched out into other forms, such as long-form improv and musical improv comedy, and SCI will try...

The owner of Itaewon cocktail joint Southside Parlor will launch a fundraising campaign Monday to raise money to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. Robbie Nguyen hails from Houston, which was directly hit by the storm, and his family was among those forced to evacuate. The funds raised will go to help his family and support organizations helping deal with the hurricane’s fallout. The campaign wi...

When Juan David Mateo Salazar Castro arrived in Korea two years ago from Colombia, he was overwhelmed with culture shock. Unable to find information on life here geared toward Latin Americans, the 25-year-old set out to fill the void. “I came in the summer and everything was so crazy for me at the beginning. People’s outfits, how they behave, the food. It was really difficult,” he said. After d...