Something Korean

On a nice day this week my Mum and I made a visit to Yangpyeong Art Museum. Towering over us was a rather large mass of dark red and grey. When we were inside, there were 4 exhibitions going on at once, two solo on the ground floor and two group. Going up the stairs we directly faced the whitewashed rooms of scattered artworks authored by women artists and likewise, based in Yangpyeong, mostly s..

In June 2022, we visited the Choonwondang Museum on the way from Jongno-3 Ga subway station. Opposite the Choonwondang clinic was its museum where upstairs the biggest medicine heaters was encased. As a young woman gave us explanations and permissions (she was very kind and gave out details about the many medicine sacks set on the shelves beyond the transparent partitions) we got to the conclusi..

오후 3시였다. 고양이 몇 마리가 연무동 퉁소바위공원에 있는 수풀 아래 퍼질러 앉아 있었다. 한 마리가 몸을 일으켜 길 가 주차장에 주차된 차 사이를 누비고 다니기 시작했다. 한 남자가 공원 옆을 지나가다 차들 뒤로 자신을 슬슬 따라오는 고양이를 보았다. 얼른 보기에 갈색과 베이지색이 섞인 얼룩 고양이였다. 남자는 웃으며 말했다. “이리 와, 이리 와” 얼룩 고양이는 차 사이를 기어 나와서 남자를 정면으로 보았다. 남자는 아주 고양이를 안아들었고, 고양이는 낑낑거렸다. 남자가 고양이 얼굴에 몸을 비비며 말했다. “얼룩아! 나랑 얼룩이 하자.” 다른 친구 고양이들이 안 보이는 데서 모여들고 있음을 감지한 고양이는 당황하고 있었다. 그렇지만 남자를 뿌리치지는 않았고, 남자의 손에 들린 고양이는 그대로 편의점..

In Yellow, Coldplay turned out shooting mysterious instrumental crosses onto the upright, musicological screen. One instrument jumps, gets on top and then another. Vocal is decidedly heterosexual, obviously and ostentiously from a boy. The rhythm is slow, shining and slightly fading throughout.

This year's Suwon Theatre Festival has its venues shared by Gyeonggi SangSang Campus and leisurely Suwon Tapdong Citizen's Farm in late May, its potential audience having missed the last year's gigs due to Coronavirus. A variety of circus-ish acts is going to happen in all sorts of arenas, and in the weekend dated from 20 to 22 May, younger and older performers will sharply and with bold demeano..

Of Mice and Men, a 107-page piece by John Steinbeck, has in stock in the beginning dynamic, steady beat of the descriptions of natural happenings; lots of verbs. Lennie and George are travel-mates, wandering around before arriving to farm work in California. The impatient George is apparently a bit tired from both the job and Lennie, a big, strong child of a man apt to get into trouble. George c..

Led Zeppelin's works are as marvellous and fantastic as Gandalf's little smoke rings. In high school I avidly listened to, and was entranced by, their albums 1 to 4 plus Physical Graffiti, but the moving, viking-reminding Immigrant Song is left as the best track in my heart. (Did the real vikings come to Britain singing to something like this tune!) Now famous inspirational guitar and voice asid..

This book is an awesome archive-cum-well-formed-essays on more impressive landscapes of speeches and languages, as many linguists-students would accept. In this book Koh Johng-Seok, a journalist since 1986 and the writer of this book, sends his mother tongue many cheerful greetings in various facets. As he skids through the wintry grasses of Korean language spectrum, indeed his activity draws up..

In the new Songeun Building for art exhibition designed by Herzog & de Meuron, an inside ramp connects the parking space and walking space. The partly plywood board facade to the Dosan Daero is very tall, with steep angled triangular shape, and two narrow vertical (strict and ornamental at the same time) windows facing the street are totally open to the sunlight. Its difference is not to be in c..

On the internet, years ago, I had the chance to witness the photograph of many youth in Bristol tying up Bristol's supposedly slave-dealer's statue and throwing it into the water by Bristol. In the process of visiting the Bristol-grown graffiti artist's exhibition, The Art of Banksy "WITHOUT LIMITS", Touring the exhibits, I was reminded of this kind of youthful action. I realized why they had to..