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A small storefront in eastern Seoul's Seongsu-dong area has been converted into an eviction zone for an ongoing art exhibition. Titled "Matrix of Things," the exhibition by Australian researcher and artist Luisa Cools offers an immersive journey through Korea's urban landscape at Domansa, an architecture space, until Aug. 18.
A small burger joint in central Seoul's Gyeongnidan neighborhood issues a pretty strong opinion on its competitors. "We believe that other burgers are shit," it tells you all over the store — on signs out front, inside, on the menu, on worker uniforms and also on some versions of their packaging.
Brother Anthony, president emeritus of the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea, will give a lecture Tuesday on the history of the 1392-1910 Joseon Kingdom, focusing on one eventful year: 1866.
The Kurdish people are not well-known around the world, partly because they don't have their own country.
While Rob, a British resident of Seoul, was away from home, his landlord paid an unannounced visit to his apartment on July 6, and his dog Luna escaped while the apartment door and front gate were left wide open.
One of the consistently best things about Sinchon for the last 15 years is Beer O'Clock, a foreign-owned sports pub that opened in 2009.
Seventeen became the first K-pop act to perform at Glastonbury last month, as reported widely all around the world, from The Guardian and BBC to NME to Rolling Stone, to Times of India and Australian Broadcasting Corp. It's a pretty amazing milestone, way bigger than the time Sultan of the Disco, Jambinai and Choi Go-eun played Glastonbury way back in 2014. Their achievement a full decade earlier received considerably less fanfare.
The curtains are set to close around a large neighborhood south of central Seoul's Itaewon, the first phase of the Hannam New Town redevelopment project.
Sometime in early July, a friend from my hometown shared a video introducing "tissue bread," a mini-loaf of bread in which each of the slices is tissue-thick — that someone had found in Korea.