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Son Yeol-eum to helm Great Mountains Music Festival

Pianist Son Yeol-eum has been appointed Great Mountains Music Festival & School’s new artistic director. Son is the fourth artistic director of the music festival, following founder and first artist...

March 20, 2018
Music
‘Music has power to connect us’

He may be a classical star on his own but for violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill, his latest album “Duo” shows the power two musicians can create. “If I am a soloist on a stage, it’s like I am an actor...

March 19, 2018
Music
Brothers dance in two competing ‘Giselle’ productions

Korea’s two leading ballet companies, the Korean National Ballet and the Universal Ballet Company will stage one of the most romantic classic ballet works later this month and in April, respectively....

March 18, 2018
Culture
Pianist Kim Sun-wook, cellist Jian Wang to woo audience with romance

Internationally acclaimed Korean pianist Kim Sun-wook will perform a recital with cellist Jian Wang in Korea next month, featuring works by Romantic composers, including Chopin, Schubert and Rachmani...

March 15, 2018
Music
Professor BG Muhn’s publication sheds lights on North Korean art

‘When people ask whether I am liberal or conservative, I tell them that I am an artist,’ said Muhn Baum-gong, also known as BG Muhn, an artist and professor at Georgetown University, during a press c...

March 14, 2018
Book Review
Art Sonje holds exhibition to highlight its gallery space

Art Sonje Center is holding an exhibition with the aim of shedding light on the exhibition space itself, under the title of “Point Counter Point.” “Point Counter Point,” which opened on March 3, com...

March 12, 2018
Arts&Design
Newly opened exhibition venue spaceD9 brings arts into resonance

Newly opened gallery spaceD9 has brought together works of distinctive artists from Korea and abroad for its inaugural exhibition, “Resonant.” “The gallery decided to name the exhibition ‘Resonant,’...

March 11, 2018
Arts&Design
Actor Lee Min-ho to start army basic training

Actor Lee Min-ho on Thursday will start his four-week basic training at Korea Army Training Center in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. The actor‘s agency MYM Entertainment on Sunday confirmed Lee...

March 11, 2018
Television
Herald Philharmonic holds spring concert

The Herald Philharmonic Orchestra on Thursday held its fifth annual concert at Seoul Arts Center, with music ranging from movie scores to orchestral choral works. “I hope the visitors to concert to ...

March 8, 2018
Music
Achim Freyer to bring his ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ to Korea

Acclaimed German artist Achim Freyer will stage “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” one of Wagner’s “Gesamtkunstwerk,” -- a term coined by the composer, meaning a work of art making use of various art forms -...

March 8, 2018
Theater
Artist Lee Jung-jin pushes boundaries of photography

“I am not interested in mere representation of landscapes. Instead, I have been driven to capture the state of landscape where my personal emotions are projected. It still applies to the works I am c...

March 8, 2018
Arts&Design
Ian Bostridge to hold first concert as artist-in-residence of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

“I am always struck by the incredible nature of (the) audience here, the enthusiasm you feel not just after you perform the concert but even when you arrive on the stage. It’s wonderful to come here,...

March 5, 2018
Music
[Newsmaker] Poet Choi Young-mi reaffirms sexual harassment allegations denied by Ko Un

Poet Choi Young-mi, who revealed her experience of being groped by an unnamed senior poet through her poem, on Monday reaffirmed sexual harassment allegations made against renowned poet Ko Un, who re...

March 5, 2018
Book Review
Hwang Jung-eum mulling over new TV drama role

Korean actress Hwang Jung-eum is reportedly considering taking part in a new TV drama to be produced by SBS. According to Hwang‘s agency company C-Jes Entertainment on Friday, the actress is “positi...

March 2, 2018
Television
Singer Heo Young-ji confirms relationship with Guckkasten’s Ha Hyun-woo

Heo Young-ji of the defunct girl group Kara has been in a relationship with Ha Hyun-woo of the indie-rock band Guckkasten for around six months, Heo’s agency said Thursday. The two began their relat...

March 1, 2018
Music

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