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Friday, July 26, 2024

K-CULTURE

Frozen fun

Thousands of tourists enjoy ice fishing on a frozen river in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, on Saturday. The Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival kicked...

Disney-Pixar’s latest animation roars into 1st place

Disney-Pixar’s 16th feature, “The Good Dinosaur,” came in first place at the Korean box office on its opening weekend, while local human drama “The...

Skating in Seoul

Places in Seoul turned into skating/sledding places. These places let you enjoy the winter in Seoul with inexpensive admission fees. Seoul Plaza For the winter, Seoul...

Four Korean traditional teas to warm your body

Coldness may cause further symptoms such as chills and dyspepsia. Korean traditional teas using cinnamon, dong quai, or licorice may prevent and ease such...

Step into a fairy tale in all-white woods

What looks like white marble pillars springs up from the white ground covered in snow. The scene gives visitors the sense of witnessing some...

New York chef brings Korean food to the fine dining scene

Star Korean-American chef Hooni Kim certainly knows a thing or two about cooking Korean food. As owner-chef of the New York-based Korean restaurant Danji and...

A year of superior shows

This year major art exhibitions will highlight Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the Korea-born pioneer of video art, some first-generation Korean modern painters and the...

Murakami exhibit addresses Fukushima nuclear disaster

TOKYO - In the gentrified kitsch landscape Takashi Murakami depicts, 500 grotesque priests parade along dazzlingly colorful giant panels. The artist’s zany ukiyoe-turned-manga world takes...

Korea’s Jindo dogs are facing a crisis at home

Twenty stray dogs, which looked to be Jindo dogs, were confined in a chicken farm for about a year in a rusted cage and...

Start the new year off fresh, and squeaky clean

At the end of one year and the beginning of another, there are a few rituals that come to mind for many Koreans. One...