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Celebs build safety net in cafe, restaurant business

Cao Lu,of popular K-pop girl group Fiestar, recently said in a TV show that she hopes to one day open her own store as a side business, confessing even celebrities suffer from financial difficulties ...

Sept 14, 2017
Culture
Bongeunsa to offer Korean culture program for Chuseok

Bongeunsa Temple plans to hold a tea ceremony celebrating the Chuseok holiday, offering separate sessions for children and adults. The ceremony will take place on Sept. 28, Oct. 5, 6, 12 and 19 for ...

Sept 14, 2017
Culture
Celebrity muzzling in Korea dates back to Lee Myung-bak administration

In light of revelations that two previous administrations had blacklisted “leftist” cultural figures since 2009, investigators are expected to expand their probe to target the Lee Myung-bak administr...

Sept 12, 2017
Culture
[Photo News] ‘Beolcho’: Weeding of ancestral tombs

The annual Weeding around ancestral tombs is ongoing ahead of the Chuseok holidays at Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province. “Beolcho” is an effort by descendants to maintain their ancestors’ burial spots i...

Sept 12, 2017
Culture
Ever-expanding universe of ramen

Barley, maize noodles and self-cookers lead Korean ramen trend

Sept 11, 2017
Culture
UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Award goes to Concordia University, Jordan’s Rana Dajani

The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Award this year went to the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University in Canada and Rana Dajani from Jordan. The annual award honors ou...

Sept 7, 2017
Culture
Controversial novelist found dead

Controversial novelist and literary scholar Ma Kwang-soo was found dead at his home Tuesday, in what appears to be a suicide. The writer‘s family members found Ma’s body around 12:51 p.m. at his hom...

Sept 5, 2017
Culture
Translators uplift Korean literature to global heights

Every time Goksel Turkozu browsed through a bookstore in Turkey, he felt there could be more books of Korean literature in translation in his country where the passion for everything Korean runs high...

Sept 5, 2017
Culture
[Eye Plus] Chinatown in Incheon, still at the heart of Korea-China ties, history

A gold-embellished, red-lacquered pailou, or Chinese arch, looms over a street on the shore of South Korea’s port city of Incheon. The blue-colored board attached to the 11-meter high structure read...

Sept 1, 2017
Culture
New cultural heritage chief vows ‘attitude overhaul’

Kim Jong-jin, the recently-named head of Cultural Heritage Administration, emphasized the importance of preserving cultural heritage and vowed changes in the CHA employees‘ attitude in achieving the ...

Aug 31, 2017
Culture
[Herald Interview] BBC journalist Francine Stock talks about Korean films’ richness, complexity and honesty

Francine Stock, a broadcaster for BBC Television and Radio and formerly a movie critic, has been enthralled by the richness and delicacy of Korean films, ever since they began to make waves in her co...

Aug 30, 2017
Culture
2017 CCF forum discusses image of Korea through eyes of the world

A cultural exchange event discussing Korea’s image, seen through the eyes of the global community, took place in Seoul on Monday and Tuesday. The eighth annual Culture Communication Forum 2017 broug...

Aug 29, 2017
Culture
[Seoul saunter] Overrated, but charming ‘town of selfies’

Seoul is a vibrant megalopolis with modern high-rises crowding the city’s major arteries. Nestled among the gleaming buildings are labyrinthine alleys that appear to have escaped the passage of time....

Aug 28, 2017
Culture
[Herald interview] Adidas Women’s Wannabe Linda styles her life beyond body

Before earning the name Wannabe Linda, the body stylist, and being tapped by Adidas Women as its ambassador last year, Linda Shin was a typical office worker whose life was swamped with work and dail...

Aug 27, 2017
Culture
‘Fake royal seal’ controversy mars special exhibition

What was supposed to have been a ceremonious occasion marking the return of long-lost Joseon-era royal seals has turned into a dogfight between the state-run Cultural Heritage Administration and civi...

Aug 24, 2017
Culture

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