Korea Times Copyediting Reporter
Jon Dunbar is a copy editor at The Korea Times, as well as editor of the Foreign Community page and curator of the Korea Times Archive. If you have suggestions for possible articles, or wish to contribute articles yourself, contact jdunbar@koreatimes.co.kr.
Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea, the world's oldest Korean studies organization, officially closed down late last year, but a younger generation has stepped up to carry on its scholarly mission and spirit.
The Hechyeomoyeo (HCMY) is back in Seoul after a trip down south over the last half-year that took it to Busan, as well as Thailand and Indonesia.
A mysterious black metal project is being resurrected for one show only this weekend. Pyha was started as a solo project in 2001 by Jang Sung-gun, who was at the time only 14 years old.
"Elbows up." The phrase conjures images of hockey violence, gloves dropped, teeth knocked out.
A hopeful new installation appeared outside The Hangry Plate restaurant in central Seoul's multicultural Haebangchon neighborhood following a ceremony on March 9.
It's that time of the year again when Sindorim Station on Seoul Metro lines 1 and 2 briefly goes from one of the most frustrating transfer stations in the capital to its most popular destination.
With only weeks left before their tour in Korea, the Swiss/Lebanese music duo Praed discovered that one half of the group couldn’t get a visa in time.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of The Korea Times. But there's a smaller anniversary, too: the newspaper's Foreign Community page is 20 years old. First printed on March 7, 2005, the Foreign Community section has provided a platform for diverse voices nearly every week since then.
When Yang Yu-Chiao was studying at National Taiwan University, he was exposed to a recording of the Korean pansori play "Simcheongga," which has a passage in which the main character's blind father opens his eyes. "The dramatic performance and intense vocal tension deeply captivated me, and from that moment, I became very interested in traditional Korean music and performance art," Yang told The Korea Times. The inspiration he felt put him on a collision course with Korea, which he visited in 2023 to share his "Blackboard Scribophone" performance. He's coming back this weekend to do three performances in Busan and Seoul. But what can we expect out of this Taiwanese professional oral tradition and folktale narrator, interdisciplinary narrative artist and sound artist? If you view a video of one of his past performances, you'll probably see him babbling incoherently while making marks on a chalkboard. This may be daunting for the uninitiated. Yang combines sound poetry, traditional folk storytelling, writing and vocal free improvisation. "The theme of this tour focuses on locally created sou