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Poem-based songs

2021-01-27

Bright sunshine is a welcoming gift on freezing winter days such as now. There is an old poem that describes how one would like to take this sunshine ...

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"Out of Focus" by Kim Hye-jin

2021-01-26

Not long after Ju-ho’s mother was given a pink slip.Interview by literary critic Jeon So-yeongThe story’s title is “Out of ...

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Gayageum virtuoso Hwang Byung-ki

2021-01-20

Gayageum is estimated to have been created at least before the sixth century, giving it a history of more than 1,500 years. Originally, the instrument ...

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"A Woman Left with Only Memories" by Kim Shin-woo

2021-01-19

Cho-ah offers to buy Yi-gyeong’s memory of her first love for her son’s school admission. She wants a memory transplant, a hotly debated ...

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Korean songs based on Chinese tales

2021-01-13

The term ‘gagok가곡’ refers to a poem put to a melody. The Chinses poem titled “Ilsobaekmisaeng일소백미생,” which means one ...

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#Books on Demand

"A Woman Left with Only Memories" by Kim Shin-woo

2021-01-12

During the COVID-19 pandemic, online schools’ curriculums and lesson quality were touted as superior to those of real schools. But as time ...

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Art-inspired music pieces

2021-01-06

Year 2021 has arrived and everyone around the world is ready to make a fresh start. We all hope that the pandemic would end in 2021 and that our lives ...

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"Fuel" by Yun Heung-gil

2021-01-05

One winter day, the furnace pipe got clogged, turning the rooms cold and water icy. The boy’s mother nagged her husband to get some pine branches.Interview ...

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Instruments of Unified Silla

2020-12-30

Music is said to influence human emotions. Good music makes you feel good and a horror movie without its eerie music does not scare anyone. In the old ...

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#Sounds of Korea

Winter solstice and Christmas

2020-12-23

Last Monday was Dongji동지, the winter solstice, the day with the longest night of the year. It also means that daytime will grow longer thereafter. ...

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