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One of the dozens of acts coming from overseas for this year's Zandari Festa is Japan Guitar Shop, a band that comes not from nearby Japan but from Southeast Asia's Cambodia. The band, which mixes rock, blues, soul and hip-hop, will be here for the festival which takes place Oct. 3 to 5 at various venues around western Seoul's Hongik University area.
Ahead of Oct. 3, which marks National Foundation Day, David A. Mason will give a lecture for the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea on Korea's legendary founding king, Dangun Wanggeom. Dangun was the founder of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom, in 2333 BCE. Said to be the "Son of Heaven," he according to legend, was birthed by a bear who had been transformed into a woman.
This is the sixth part in a series intended to raise awareness of Korea's elusive live music scene and help more people find it.
The Daejeon Arts Collective (DJAC) will present its fall 2024 exhibition at Yun Gallery in Daejeon from Sept. 19 to 25. The DJAC is a loose association of artists from around the world who live in Daejeon and want a place where they can showcase their artwork.
Jamie Finn, the main organizer of Seoul's Block Party festival, swore that last year's edition would be the last one, but here we are, facing another impending Block Party this year.
Dutch influencer Bart van Genugten, who runs the YouTube channel iGoBart, decided to end his ongoing exhibition early, Sunday, after discovering that visitors had defaced his giant map of Seoul.
Years ago, Seoul would become a ghost town over the major holidays (Chuseok in the fall and Lunar New Year in winter). The streets were empty of cars, businesses shut down and it was hard to find a restaurant that would be open.
If there's a band in Korea playing anything to do with math, emo, goth or post-punk, and it has foreign members, there's a good chance one of them is Ali, a British Iranian 14-year resident of Korea who lives in Busan.
Seoul is set to join an exclusive group of just four cities that have hosted a Summer Olympics, a FIFA World Cup and a Homeless World Cup.