Unlike in 2017, Lip J will dance to live music with violinist Cho and other musicians at a classical music venue. “I have danced at many different places but it’s actually the first time that I’m on a stage with classical musicians and at a classical music hall,” she said. “All movements of the piece will be performed. Some will be choreographed; some will be freestyle. Auditory and visual sync...

Four foreign literary works that have not made the jump to Korean due to difficulty in translation or lack of commercial interest have been selected for the 2022 Translation of World Classics. The Daesan Foundation announced Monday four novels to be translated and introduced for the first time in the country. The selected novels were: “Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life” (1848) by Elizabeth...

The leading characters are different as well. The heroine in the UBC production is Clara, whereas it’s Marie in the KNB production. Also, the UBC uses a real wooden nutcracker, while KNB has a child dancer 7 to 9 years old from an affiliated ballet academy playing the role. It’s a sight to see the heroine’s godfather easily lift the young dancer up high. The KNB will stage "The Nutcracker" at t...

Emmy-winning actor Lee Jung-jae from Netflix’s global phenomenon “Squid Game” will be honored by the Corea Image Communication Institute for his contribution to building a positive image of Korea at home and overseas. Lee will be presented with the Korea Image Stepping Stone Award at CICI’s annual award ceremony which will take place at the InterContinental Seoul Coex on Jan. 11, marking the ins...

Another winner of the grand prize is Ilngliana Tan for her translation of Jeong You-jeong’s “Seven Years of Darkness” into Indonesian. The book was also made into a film in 2018 starring Ryu Seung-ryong and Jang Dong-gun. As a freelance translator working primarily with Gramedia Pustaka Utama, a publishing house in Indonesia, Tan said she was often not satisfied with the subtitles when she was f...

Explore Almaty at museum It doesn't take much effort to explore a neighboring country's history through websites, but seeing the relics through one's own eyes is an experience that may leave lasting impressions. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan-Korea diplomatic relations, an exhibition on Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, is running at the lobby of the Seoul Museum of Histo...

Lee Dae-won also introduced his yet-to-be released song “For All of Us” composed by Jami Soul. Lee wrote the lyrics for the song. Guitarist Choi Woo-jun from SAZA Band showed off his vigorous playing style. Park Raon sang “I Need to Send a Refrigerator to the Polar Bear” that was inspired by the poem of the same title by Kim Yi-yul. The song is about a polar bear writing a letter to the narrator...

The novel series “Uncanny Convenience Store” by Kim Ho-yeon has topped this year’s bestsellers lists in Korea. The two-volume series ranked number one on the 2022 bestseller charts for Kyobo Book Center, the biggest bookstore chain in Korea, and Yes24, Korea's largest online book retailer. In November, the two-volume series sold a combined 1 million copies, according to publisher Namu Bench. It...

At the press conference, awardees shared their views on how international readers are responding to Korean literature. “In America, there has also been a similar boom of Korean literature translation. Initially because of ‘Vegetarian’ by Han Kang. And Choi Don-mee has done a lot for poems,” said Cancia-Bello. “And then, of course, the explosion of K-dramas, BTS, movies like ‘Parasite’ coming ov...

JW Marriott Hotel Seoul presents Sweet Memories Afternoon Tea Set The Lounge at JW Marriott Hotel Seoul celebrates the arrival of seasonal winter strawberries with the Sweet Memories Afternoon Tea Set, available from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28. This season’s tea set features a variety of unique JW Marriott Hotel Seoul desserts crafted by the hotel’s pastry team from strawberries, plus a selection of sav...

Meanwhile, Thai contemporary artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, represented by Kukje Gallery since April 2021, has joined the list for the first time, ranking at 88. Arunanondchai's first solo exhibition with Kukje Gallery, titled “Image, Symbol, Prayer,” will open Dec. 15. Meanwhile Korea-born Swiss-German philosopher and academic Han Byung-chul came in at 48th place. He continues his tenure as a p...

Poet Kim Hye-soon has been named an “International Writer” by the Royal Society of Literature, based in London. An influential figure in the contemporary poetry scene in South Korea, Kim was included in the 12-author list announced Wednesday (local time) on RSL’s official website. The other authors on the list are Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Canadian poet Anne Carson, French novelist Maryse Co...

The lights change every 10 minutes to create daytime and nighttime views of the country -- pink for sunrise, blue for sundown and everything turns black at night. The pavilion is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday with last admission at 6 p.m. The admission fee costs 2,000 won for adults and 1,000 won for children, with a 50 percent discount for Nowon residents. The exhibition hall ...

The film is directed by Kim Sung-soo, the director behind season 1 of the thriller series “Save Me” (2017) and the action thriller film “Running Wild” (2006). “When I first read the story, I thought about people who are marginalized and unprotected in our society, like Il-woo and Wol-woo. Il-woo has a face of overflowing uncontrollable anger, and (Wol-woo) has that smile of someone who doesn’t w...

The lineups for Faces of Relationship and Life by Art, Art by Life present four and three films, respectively. The selection for Faces of Relationship includes the coming-of-age drama “Close,” directed by Lukas Dhont; Ursula Meier’s mother-daughter drama “The Line”; Russian-Belarusian war drama “Persian Lessons,” directed by Vadim Perelman; and American period drama “Call Jane” starring Elizabet...