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Reinventing Taekwondo

2013-02-05

This place looks like a circus, with a DJ excitedly working the crowd and music blaring. But this is a taekwondo performance called Show Taekwon, ...

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Pansori Master Kim Yeon-su

2013-01-30

Pansori was music for the common people. In the old days storytellers would read books for illiterate people, acting many characters to make the ...

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Dieting; The battle of the bulges

2013-01-29

This man, apparently an eager new member of the gym, tries to follow a trainer’s instruction. He succeeds for the first few repetitions, but ...

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Geomungo master Lee Se-hwan

2013-01-23

Geomungo piece “Chulgang” is beloved by geomungo music lovers for its vigorous and emotion-evoking features so typical of the Korean traditional ...

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Multiculturalism in movies and musicals

2013-01-22

Musical “Wandeuk” is a story about a high school boy named Wandeuk, born of a Korean father and a Filipino mother. The song sung by Wandeuk’s mother ...

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Saenghwang player Shon Bum-ju

2013-01-16

Yeowa was a goddess in Chinese mythology, with the face of a beautiful woman and the body of a snake. She created people out of clay, cared about the ...

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Return to the Nostalgic 1990s

2013-01-15

The musical “My Love by My Side” is a jukebox production composed of K-pop hits from the 1990s, inserted throughout the play to tell the love stories ...

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National Museum of Korean Contemporary History

2013-01-08

A grandfather visiting the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History remembers the harsh days under the Japanese colonial regime. ...

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Master of Pansori Park Dong-jin

2012-12-26

Pansori, or traditional narrative singing, is a genre of traditional Korean performing arts. The unique art form combining storytelling and music ...

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Talent Donation

2012-12-25

Lyrical songs of Russian origin filled Gallery Inter Alia in southern Seoul on December 8. The beautiful music was not the only reason people’s ...

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