Different types of Korean traditional music to be staged for families, tourists A variety of gugak performances will be staged this month, offering families and tourists a chance to appreciate different types of Korean traditional music, mostly in Seoul. To celebrate the 615th anniversary of King Sejong’s birth year, the National Gugak Center presents three large-scale performances from May 5-1...

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art issued a tough dress code for visitors in the past few days: birthday suit only, shoes optional. The museum announced a tour on April 27 to 29 during which participants have to be completely naked, according to BBC and other news reports. The tour is a performance led by Melbourne artist Stuart Ringholt, aiming to address “themes of fear and embarrassment” of...

Sheraton Grande Walkerhill presents a pricy but health-conscious package “HUE Retreat: Premium Stay & Checkup Package” until June 30, specially designed for parents in their 40s to 60s. It offers a luxurious night at the club family suite, a healthy-meal room service or dinner at Korean restaurant Ondal and a medical checkup at hospital Chaum. Or, guests can stay for two nights and get a whole b...

Theater “On an Azure Day”: Director Go Seon-woong’s award-sweeping play about the 1980 Gwangju democratization movement is back for a second run ― just in time for the 32nd anniversary of the historical event on May 18. The show premiered last year and won the grand prize and best play at last year’s National Theater Awards. It tells a story of middle-aged Buddhist monk Yeosan, who participated ...

NEW YORK (AP) ― The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other. The rare crime scene photograph from Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time. The city Department of Records off...

Chung Hyun-sik, one of the participating artists, for example, only began to learn art in 2008, a year before he retired from his former job as an economics professor at Sungkyunkwan University. His talents shone soon after he fully devoted himself to the new field. He won the special prize at Korea Painting Grand Competition in 2011, and has been holding many exhibitions in Korea. From May 9 to...

Exhibitions “Nine Dwarves”: Kukje Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Paul McCarthy, a U.S. multimedia artist who garnered critical attention for his stunningly diverse variety of materials and a radically experimental approach to art. This exhibition is comprised of nine sculptures and one aluminum sculpture, including pieces from the artist’s famous White Snow series which reveal his social ...

Chongdong Theater dreams of stage in Las Vegas Chongdong Theater launched on Wednesday the latest version of “Miso,” the theater’s Korean traditional musical with modern twists. The new version, “Miso 3,” follows the 2011 version “Miso 2: Silla, the Land of Gods” and the 2009 original “Miso: Love Songs from Chunhyang.” The musical started off in 1997 under the title, “Traditional Art Stage” and...

His father, veteran actor Kim Yong-geon, sat by him during the ceremony. Ha said that he started to paint one day, about 10 years ago, when he abruptly went out and bought a sketchbook and a 4B pencil. Living an irregular life as an actor ― which he referred to as a “non-permanent employment status” ― he wanted to rely on something, he said. “Now it is a part of my life. I have no TV in my livi...