Kang’s moon series is part of the solo exhibition of the artist’s works at Gallery Hyundai, titled “The Moon is Rising.” It is his first solo show in 12 years. It is the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, Kang noted. “Twelve years form a single cycle,” Kang said, referring to the 12 zodiac signs that represent each year. As for the title, it came from a dream he had of a huge yellow ...

The concert hall remained eerily quiet as the conductor took his place at the podium. Then, all at once, the solemn sound of “Nimrod” from Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” filled the air. The evocative melody proved cathartic for the audience that had gathered less than a week after a crowd surge in Itaewon left 157 people dead. I saw people silently sobbing, wiping away tears. When the music ended, ...

“Look at the Western powers. Academic development and moral progress, they are getting stronger day by day. Their culture seeks freedom and has a high regard for the spirit of adventure instead of forcing the people to surrender under an autocracy. Let’s embrace a new culture as well as putting Joseon’s best foot forward and lead the world in the preservation of unique cultural strengths,” Yi urg...

When a Jeungdoga book printed with movable metal type surfaced in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, in 1988, it did not generate as much interest or national attention as Jikji, the 1377 book printed with movable metal type that is now located in France. In June 2001 the late Park Dong-seup of Andong, looked up the Ven. Won-jin in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, to trade his Jeungdoga book ...

Lim Yun-chan and Choi Hwa-young were “two real shocks of my life really in one week,” said Loreau. "They found a new way. We feel the music through their body, eyes.” Is it sustainable, or is Korea just having a moment in classical music? “I think it will continue. Because I think it is completely unique in all history of music that a country suddenly in 10, 15 years becomes the best in the wor...

Kim, who studied architecture at Seoul National University for a year, graduated from Williams College in the US, where he majored in mathematics and art, and earned a master of science degree in visual studies at MIT. A recipient of the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Kim has shown works at major art institutions around the world, including the solo exhibition “Sung H...

The couple’s extensive overseas travels, often to remote and exotic places, even while he was working in the cut-throat beauty industry, has served him well. Their influences are scattered throughout the resort, down to the colorful elongated sculptures of men in hats he brought back from a trip to Africa that stand near a window at the cafe. Most of the sculptures face the window, appearing to l...

Her band performed in Seoul for the first time in 2017, and she stayed on in the city for six weeks from December 2017 to January 2018. It was during this time that she began writing the first six chapters of her book. “The first chapter was ‘Crying in H-Mart,’” she said. When the New Yorker magazine said they were interested in publishing some of her writings, she edited the first chapter and ...

Front row from left: Didier Beltoise, president of Cs ; Hye-kyung Kim, vice-president of Enzychem Lifesciences ; Kim Young-jin, CEO of Tchai Kim ; Sripriya Ranganathan, Indian Ambassador to Korea; Choi Jung-wha, president of Corea Image Communication Institute CICI; Mukund Santhanam, RE 100 Strategic advisor; Mozes Csoma, Hungarian Ambassador to Korea and Nam Sun-mi, spouse of the Hungarian Ambas...

Han Kyung-rock of Crying Nut poses before an interview with The Korea Herald at Jebi Dabang in Seoul, Jan 24. Park Hyun-koo/The Korea Herald How many people can claim to have an entire festival dedicated to their birthday, and while they are still living to boot? Since 2005, rocker Han Kyung-rock, the bassist of iconic punk band Crying Nut, who is also known as Captain Rock, has been celebratin...

The snow made me do it. After much vacillation over whether to visit the US side of my family over Christmas or to stay in Seoul, I had finally resigned myself to spending the holidays at home. I had booked my flights months in advance, in hopes that the pandemic situation would improve with time. After all, vaccines that can protect against the virus that causes COVID-19, or at least lessen th...

That Kim is a photographer to celebrities is a well-known fact, but that he has, of late, been taking portrait photographs of ordinary Koreans is perhaps less well known. It began with a six-month project commissioned by Baedal Minjok, a delivery app company, to photograph workers in Euljiro area, once a vibrant neighborhood of small metal workshops and such. The area has seen its better days an...