The local government has poured money into the biennial enterprise -- a reported $8 million in 2004 -- in hopes of catapulting Gwangju to a new status as an Asian arts capital. At this years opening ...

Han Kang, the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Korean author to win, makes a powerful return ...

The West Gallery features Namkung’s portraits of iconic classical musicians produced in the 1970’s, when the musicians were ...

Step into New York in Seoul Yes, it's deja vu. Step inside a New York City subway-themed cafe in Seoul's Seocho-gu for a cup ...

Festival of wind instruments will host audition project with Berlin Philharmonic Karajan Academy Gonjiam International Music ...

In addition to painting and printmaking, she collaborated with composer Yuji Takahashi to create multimedia slideshows, ...

The Action Plan for 2025 of Arts Council Malta has been launched, the Ministry for National Heritage, the Arts, and Local Government stated. The plan was announced during an event commemorating ...

The tidal flat of Dongmak Beach in Ganghwa County, Incheon, is frozen in cold weather on February 4 when a cold wave warning was issued in most parts of Korea. The cold wave will continue until ...

South Korean author Han Kang’s latest novel, “ We Do Not Part ,” begins with a woman named Kyungha describing a dream in which a snowy landscape dotted with thousands of burial mounds and black tree ...

In books this week, we bring you an interview with Paul Lynch, winner of the Booker Prize in 2023, who was one of the ...

How to make art about such an atrocity? Human Acts affectingly chronicled the legacies of Gwangju by providing us with multiple views on the event and its aftermath. Yet this approach no longer ...