The Busan performances run until June 18 at the Dream Theatre, a venue dedicated to musicals. After 104 performances in Busan, "The Phantom of the Opera” is to travel to Seoul, where it will run at the Charlotte Theater from July 14 to Nov. 17. Musical actor Choi Jae-rim will join the cast as the Phantom in Seoul, bringing the number of actors who take turns performing the role to four. In 2020...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Thursday announced that it has launched a special investigation team that will look into a complaint filed about the contract for the comic and cartoon series “Black Rubber Shoes.” On Wednesday, the Korean Cartoonists Association filed a petition with the ministry to investigate the contract between the original creators of “Black Rubber Shoes” and ...

Woo-jin, the younger brother, said, “In 2007, we meet the people who we thought would help to grow Gi-young and Gi-chul (the two main characters of ‘Black Rubber Shoes') but the deal turned out to be a malicious one that took away my brother’s soul.” As the two brothers were embroiled in a series of lawsuits and were excluded from the creation of secondary works, they were effectively forced to ...

South Korean tenor Ha Man-teak will embark on a recital tour for the first time in 11 years. Starting from Jeonju, North Jeolla Province on Wednesday, the singer-turned-businessman will bring his recital to Daejeon on Thursday and to Seoul on Saturday before bringing the tour to a close at Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday. Under the title “Se Ti Manca,” an Italian phrase meaning “Do you m...

South Korean pianist Cho Seong-Jin’s latest album, The Handel Project, has topped Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums weekly chart this week, according to the US magazine’s chart. The Handel Project, released on February 3, is a collection of three suites from Handel's first collection of Suites de pièces pour le clavecin, which are some of Cho's favorite pieces of music. The album also fea...

Some 30 years ago, the Korea National University of Arts, known as K-Arts, was established with a goal to provide top quality education so that Korean students would not have to go abroad to study the arts. It was a goal in which not many believed back them. After the opening of the music school in 1993, the theater, film, dance, art and traditional arts schools were introduced one after another...

Endless knitting possibilities While it's true that machines can create items more quickly and efficiently, knitting offers a unique and rewarding experience that appeals to all generations. The act of interlacing loops of yarn to create something beautiful and useful is both calming and fulfilling, and the results are always one-of-a-kind. For individuals who find comfort in the repetitive act...

Just three days after the news of the death of the cartoonist of the original "Black Rubber Shoes" broke, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced a series of measures to prevent similar tragedies. On Wednesday, the ministry announced that it plans to include specific provisions concerning secondary works in the standard contract for the comics field. Secondary works are creative wo...