Pianist Kim Su Yeon, the first Asian winner of the Concours Musical International de Montréal, told reporters Tuesday she hopes to broaden her repertoire as Kumho Art Hall’s artist-in-residence for 2023 and meet Korean audiences. Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, the operator of the venue, selects a classical musician under the age of 30 in the early stages of their career as its artist-in-resid...

Naver's translation app Papago has added a service to help tourists understand Korean menus, in partnership with the Culture Ministry and the Korea Tourism Organization. The service is uses the app's image translate function. Users can take a picture of a Korean menu to translate it as normal, but tapping "select all" at the bottom brings up a "Food info" tab, with translations that have been ta...

Mushroom stirred in truffle oil or seasonal ingredients like cockle top off the stone pot rice dish. When mixed well with fresh water celery and Kim’s special soy sauce, people can taste the winter season inside their mouth, Kim said. Before Daon Bansang, Kim opened his first fine dining restaurant, Hue135, in Hannam-dong, Seoul, in 2018 and casual dining place Cesta in the same neighborhood in ...

“I started to work with bleached denim, partly due to the idea of its relationship to Western globalism, specifically America. I heard the saying that the first minute you paint on canvas you enter a Western history, and I am always aware that being a contemporary artist, everywhere in the world, we, as a non-Westerner, engage in something that is other than us, and then it becomes us,” he said. ...

Growing up with a hairdresser father, the fashion designer created the work “Vanitas” by transplanting natural hair one by one onto silicone spheres coated with artificial skin, seemingly illustrating the cycle of human life from childhood to elderly age through hair color. The faces are concealed. The show moves on to a different country after the Seoul run through March 26, according to the mu...

The stone constellation chart is displayed in a separate room along with newly created immersive digital content, to make it easier to view. "The remodeled exhibition is designed to allow visitors to use their senses for exploring and understanding the artifacts," exhibition researcher Kim Jae-eun said. "Standing in front of the rain gauge pedestal, you can hear the sound of rain drops, while th...

The winner of the grand prize, to be announced in January, will be awarded 20 million won ($15,600) and granted a solo exhibition at a newly built gallery building run by the Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Two works by the grand prize winner will become part of the collections at the Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation and the Seoul Museum of Art. Founded in 1989 by th...

Abandoned theater turned into a retro-themed cafe draws young hipsters to traditional marketplace

“Everyone can become a kkondae regardless of age,” Lim Myung-ho, professor of psychology at Dankook University in Seoul said. “It stems from an inferiority complex that humans have as a member of society,” he added. Young kkondaes have become such a big social phenomenon that the issue appeared on an episode of SBS TV’s Circle House, a talk show led by star psychiatrist and university professor...

With Korean food's potential economic value reaching over 100 trillion won ($78 billion), experts emphasize the need for the industrialization of Korean food more than globalization. At an academic conference titled "K-food's Industrialization" co-organized by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Korea Academic Society for the Food Service Industry Policy on Friday in Seoul, partic...

St. Nick's world-famous sled, led by Rudolph, has dashed across most of the world and is currently covering the Americas on a daring 24-hour marathon to deliver gifts to children across the world. At least that's what the official NORAD Santa Tracking website, run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, says. The military agency responsible for monitor and defense of the skies above No...

Christmas decorations and lights fill every corner of city

Amid increasing global attention on the South Korean art market, where trade volume surpassed the trillion won ($784 million) mark this year for the first time, a recent report showed that the art boom in South Korea peaked in the third quarter of last year with a slowed-down phase ahead. Seoul National University recently published its first English-language report on the country’s art market, ...

Park Hyatt Busan presents festive promotions Dining Room, the Steak & Seafood Grill restaurant, located on the 32nd floor of Park Hyatt Busan, offers a “Festive Lunch,” featuring an appetizer buffet with a variety of fresh seafood items such as sashimi, king prawns, crabs, oysters, abalone, and classic Mediterranean appetizers, followed by scrambled eggs with caviar, grilled lobster tail, Austra...

Declaring that temple food is not just cooking, Ven. Gyeho says, “Cooking describes the process of transforming food from nature to culture, and diverse techniques are applied to make it more beautiful and tasteful. On the other hand, nature is alive in mountain temple food. The food monastics eat daily becomes their medicine. Our body is part of nature, so we should eat seasonal food from the ea...