Something Korean

If you are a fan of Korean old-fashioned furniture and would like to take it back home to your country, we recommend these 11 items Historically, figuring in the inside of a Korean traditional house, aka a hanok, is a range of furniture which used to be in the rooms where Koreans insisted on sitting and lying down on the floor, inhabited by an (ordinary or affluent) man, his wife, their relative..

Sung Si Kyung is a versatile vocalist with uniqueness that's ever getting ready to spring into not only the future, but also the now and the past music world. He won a singing contest around 23 years ago while studying to enter college, and that was the beginning of his now much advanced vocal career. Since then he has sung several, no, even more than several crooning songs that makes his fellow..

BoA has been working in entertainment in, to a large extent, Japan and on lesser turns, in her original home South Korea. Her Korean surname is Kwon which against the name BoA sounds young and refreshing, her having been born in the yet fruity year of 1986. Coming from South Korea’s SM Entertainment she started her career by singing No. 1 in 2002 and Atlantis Girl in 2003 for fans in South Korea..

New Museum in New York by SANAA was the first hurdle in my two-year race of assistance for one editorial team of a major Korean architectural medium. To my untrained eye, this seemed to be just several white angular twisted boxes interlocking up and down along the height - but oddly enough it seemed to be entertaining both its client and on-lookers. SANAA received a Pritzker prize later, so my l..

A compact structure just off the grid of Bukcheon in Gahoe-dong, Seoul, houses a library on design. Stocking the two-level space, we found, are a generous assortment of archive in architecture, interior, landscape, product etc design, chiefly in English language. The institute endowing readers with great help and inspiration, one finds an abundant number of tables and chairs to utilize while one..

Here’s an irony about hanok, Korean traditional house. Some Hanok may ask for timely renovation in 70-80 years, while others are just not so ready, with the outside timber firmly standing upon concave cubic rock bases. Hanok of yesterday: The modern rectangular site, since developed, were divided into multiple lots, each for an urban style hanok. One of our mission: retrieve some old-time elegan..

An impressive number of waterfront developments in Europe are half riverside. The by-the-water beaches are full of people enjoying warmth and sunshine from their deck chairs. The rest work as commercial, industrial and sustainable sea port and pathways. Here we present some of the most successful European examples of waterfront developments from a fine Korean language book titled “Essays on Land..

Every year in August including this year(2023)’s, Saemangeum is holding a festival of K-pop. More info is available on its homepage. Both for professional architects and other involved parties, it’s good to realize more than ever that this kind of initiative is necessary for big waterfront spaces such as this. It was a long time coming though. According to South Korea’s architecture medium Space..

Cross the dignity of wearing black horsehair fresh from the Korean pastures with the sophistication of Western top hats, and you get this brimful of Eastern elegance. Going back in time around 3000 BC the first official records of hats are made, but in 3250 BC already a Bronze Age man’s body with his bearskin cap was found in a mountain in Europe. Jumping to the late Joseon times in Korean penin..

In between Yongin's Wonhee Castle Plaza buildings a and b you will find a "Waffle University" serving a wide array of tasty toppings upon filling, soft waffles. Best examples would be available in early hours.