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Master Singer Oh Jeong-suk

2012-05-16

In the past, people who aspired to attain knowledge or skills from a master had to watch, listen and learn directly from the teacher. So, there is a ...

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Saenghwang Player Kim Hyo-yeong

2012-05-09

Among Chinese myths, there is a tale of a goddess called “Yeowa.” Once upon a time, as the legend says, the earth was flooded because the pillars that ...

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Cartoons Enter the Realm of Art

2012-05-08

Just three or four decades ago cartoons and comic books were considered a bad influence to hard-working students for distracting them from ...

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Master Musician Won Jang-hyeon

2012-05-02

A collection of the nation’s early historical accounts entitled “Samguk Yusa(삼국유사),” or “Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms” includes a legend ...

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The season of Korean professional baseball

2012-05-01

The 2012 professional baseball season began on April 7th. The new baseball season was celebrated in four major baseball stadiums around the ...

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Master Singer Lee Hui-wan

2012-04-25

“To be or not to be. That is the question.” The famous line in Hamlet by Shakespeare describes the deep agony of the protagonist. Although it is, needless ...

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Art on stage, Korea’s Original Drawing Show

2012-04-24

Laughter spills out from Welcome Theater located in Jangchung-dong in central Seoul. This is the venue for an art performance called the Original ...

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Master Musician Yun Yun-seok

2012-04-18

There are two kinds of traditional string instruments in Korea. One type of the classical string instruments includes the geomungo or the gayageum ...

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Red ginseng, Korea’s iconic health booster

2012-04-17

At a duty free shop in downtown Seoul, Japanese tourist are looking around a red ginseng store. - I’ve been taking concentrated ginseng ...

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Gugak Group Geomungo Factory

2012-04-11

Although two Korean zithers, geomungo and gayageum, look alike at a first glance, each traditional string instrument has different timbre. Geomungo ...

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