AROUND TOWN 2

‘Fanta-Stick’

Seoul Fanta-Stick Theater

Throughout 2016

“Fanta-Stick” is performed daily at Seoul Fanta-Stick Theater on an open-ended run. The performance presents representative original Korean music, utilizing traditional Korean instruments to create fusion gugak. Park Ji-hoon, Lee Seok-jae, Kwon Hyun-soo and Na Jung-suk play the main roles of Jangdan and Saemachi. The show also features Yang Ye-rim, Kim Jee, Kim Sae-jin, Yoon Sung-hwan, Kim Byung-soo and Shin Kwang-hee.

Tickets cost 30,000 to 60,000 won. For more information, visit www.fanta-stick.co.kr or call (02) 3143-5959.

‘YOULL’

Jeongdong Theater

Until Dec. 31

“YOULL,” a dance performance mixed with drama, will be staged at Jeongdong Theater until the end of 2016.

The performance will bring a wide range of traditional modes of expression together, including Korean dance, theater, music and martial arts. By applying the heroic fantasy genre to this production, Jeongdong Theater hopes to broaden its popular appeal. Actors Jeon Jin-hong, Lee Hyuk, Park Ji-yeon and Cho Haneul will play the main roles.

Tickets cost 40,000 to 60,000 won. For more information, call (02) 751-1500 or visit www.jeongdong.or.kr.

Three Jewels: Buddhist Art of Korea

Hoam Art Museum

Until November 6

Hoam Art Museum is holding a special exhibition “Three Jewels: Buddhist Art of Korea,” presenting the characteristics and significance of Korean Buddhist art. For centuries, Buddhist art pieces have not only served as objects of worship but also exemplified the aesthetics of their respective periods. This exhibition will highlight art pieces related to the “three jewels” of Buddism ―Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Consisting of three sections, the first will present paintings, sculptures and crafts related to Shakyamuni and Amitabha Buddha, the two central figures of Korean Buddhist faith. The next section will feature printed transcriptions of Buddhist texts and the third will display ritual implements related to Sangha.

Tickets cost 2,000 to 4,000 won. For more information, call (031) 310-1801 or visit www.hoammuseum.org.

‘Color Your Life’

Daelim Museum

Until August 21

Daelim Museum presents “Color Your Life,” an exhibition of works by leading contemporary designers and global brands on the theme of color. / Courtesy of Daelim Museum

Daelim Museum presents “Color Your Life,” an exhibition of works by leading contemporary designers and global brands on the theme of color until August 21. The exhibition will introduce the processes by which color combines with creative designs in diverse materials to produce new objects that transform our everyday lives. Through this exhibition, Daelim Museum will reveal new value in everyday colors, while presenting innovative possibilities for lifestyle changes. Illuminating the creative potential of color, not simply in terms of its aesthetic beauty but in combination with various forms, materials and technologies, it explores the functional uses of color and attempts to achieve a perfect balance among structures, materials and designs.

Admission is 4,000 won. For more information, call (02) 720-0667 or visit www.daelimmuseum.org.

Art Spectrum 2016

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art

Until August 7

The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art has prepared a special exhibition titled “Art Spectrum 2016,” featuring 10 artists. / Courtesy of Leeum Samsung Museum of Art

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art has prepared a special exhibition titled Art Spectrum 2016, featuring 10 artists.

Art Spectrum is a biennial exhibition that aims to discover and promote emerging artists working in Korea, celebrating its sixth edition this year. A selection committee of Leeum’s contemporary art curators as well as critics and curators from outside the institution have worked together to select the 10 artists whose works represent the current state of contemporary art in Korea. Visitors will be able to enjoy the innovative and resolute efforts of rising young artists.

Admission is 5,000 won for adults. For more information, call (02) 2014-6900 or visit leeum.samsungfoundation.org.

Dream Works Animation

Seoul Museum of Art

Through August 15

The Seoul Museum of Art is exhibiting “Dream Works Animation: Journey from Sketch to Screen,” with Dream Works and the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI). Suggested in the exhibition title, it reveals how a popular animation character is brought to life on screen from a rough sketch idea, and offers an insightful look into the processes behind the on-screen magic.

About 400 items are selected for the exhibition, which includes early drawings, storyboards, colored paintings and 3D models of “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “Madagascar,” and “How to Train Your Dragon.”

Tickets cost 8,000 to 13,000 won. For more information, call (02) 325-1077 or visit www.sema.seoul.go.kr.

Inside Heatherwick Studio

D Museum

Through October 23

“Inside Heatherwick Studio” will be exhibited from June 16 to October 23 at D Museum. / Courtesy of Daelim Museum

The exhibition “Inside Heatherwick Studio” that will be held from June 16 to October 23 will provide a window into the studio’s working practices through key works selected from a portfolio spanning 20 years. The exhibition not only features projects ranging in scale from furniture to urban masterplanning, but also explores through the studio’s extensive archive, including test pieces, models, drawings and photographs.

Among the highlights are projects that have captured the popular imagination—for example, the UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the New Bus for London and the Olympic Games cauldron.

Tickets cost 3,000 to 8,000 won. For more information, (070) 5097-0020 or visit www.daelimmuseum.org.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Dongdaemun Design Plaza

Until June 30

Fashion Designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s works will be exhibited until June 30 at Dongdaemun Design Plaza.

Gaultier is a French haute couture with seven years of experience as the creative director of Hermes, and has designed countless costumes and outfits worn by celebrities around the world. The exhibition will feature more than 220 marvelously crafted garments along with other works of Gaultier, including stage costumes, sketches and photographs that will reveal his unconventional and playful designs.

Admission is 15,000 won. For more information, call (02) 724-6953 or visit www.ticket.interpark.com.

Korean Air Box Project

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Until Sept. 4

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) presents the third edition of the Korean Air Box Project until September.

Launched with the inauguration of the MMCA, the Korean Air Box Project involves a selection of contemporary artists who have established unique artistic domains in the international art scene. This ambitious project aims to provide an opportunity for creativity on a grand scale for the artists and enable diversified communication for the public, thereby establishing MMCA as a representative cultural place that garners the interest and attention of the international audience.

Tickets cost 4,000 won. For more information, call (02) 3701-9500 or visit www.mmca.go.kr.

‘Public to Private’

Through July 24

“Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art Since 1989” will be exhibited until July 24 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.

Since the 1950s, the Korean photography scene had long been dominated by documentary and journalistic photography, rooted in realism. This exhibition directs attention to the development of the medium of photography in the history of Korean art, from realism-based public images in its beginnings to the conceptual expression and aesthetic language of individual photographers in the second half of the 1980s and onwards.

Admission is 4,000 won. For more information, call (02) 3701-9500 or visit www.mmca.go.kr.

Kim Hyung-dae Retrospective

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon Branch

Until July 17

“Kim Hyung-dae Retrospective” is the second exhibition of the MMCA’s Korean Contemporary Artists Series. Kim, as one of the pioneers of Korean contemporary art, won an award from the chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction for his “informal” style in 1961. Crossing over the border between paintings and printings, and tradition and modernism, Kim has established his unique formative language depicting Korean society. The exhibition will give a chance to explore his significant works over the last 5 decades including the series “Growth,” “Creation,” “Image” and “Halo.”

Admission is 2,000 won. For more information, call (02) 2188-6000 or visit www.mmca.go.kr.

Impressionism: Art Beyond Art

The War Memorial of Korea

Until July 3

The War Memorial of Korea will hold a special exhibition featuring the works of Claude Monet and other key artists of Impressionism until July 3.

Monet was a French artist from the 1800s to early 1900s and one of the creators of impressionism. He focused on the principle of light, exploring how the same subject looks different by changes of light. His works include “Women in the Garden,” “Impression, Sunrise,” “Haystacks, (Sunset)” and “Water Lilies.” This exhibition will also feature other Impressionist artists including Camille Pissarro, EdouardManet and Edgar Degas, providing a great opportunity for visitors to fully experience and better understand Impressionism.

Tickets cost 10,000 won. For more information, call 1661-0503 or visit www.lovemonet.com.

‘Anthology’

The Seoul Museum of Art will hold the exhibition “Anthology” throughout 2016 that presents Gana Art collection.

The collection consists of 200 works of Korean realism donated by Lee Ho-jae, the head of Gana Art. The 200 donated works are composed of 120 paintings, 10 traditional Korean paintings, 7 prints, and 23 sculptures. The works were created by 46 artists who are members of groups such as ‘Hyun-sil and Bal-un’, ‘Gwangju Liberal Artists Association’, ‘Dureong’ and ‘ImSulNyeon.’ With a large body of historical Minjung artwork that reflects the zeitgeist of the 1980s, the collection provides a comprehensive overview of hyperrealist and expressionist works of Korean art from the 1960s to 1990s.

Admission is free. For more information, visit www.sema.go.kr.

Lee Jung-Seob

MMCA Deoksugung

Through Oct. 3

An exhibition featuring the works of Lee Jung-Seob, titled “The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Korean Modern Masters: Lee Jung-Seob,” will be held at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung until October 3.

Lee’s life coincided with the most turbulent period of Korean contemporary history, marked by colonial rule, war and division. However, he persisted in living his life and expressing himself as an artist. During the colonial period, when any signs of Korean heritage were actively repressed by the Japanese, he boldly made paintings of bulls, a traditional symbol of the Korean people. Even during his years of poverty, transience, and warfare, he produced paintings that laughed at the harshness of reality, expressing the blithe, childlike beauty of happy days spent with his family. As this year marks the 100th anniversary of Lee Jung-Seob's birth, as well as the 60th anniversary of his death, the museum is presenting its first solo exhibition of this extraordinary artist. Covering the full trajectory of Lee's background and career, the exhibition examines how he doggedly pursued his artistic vision despite the oppressive violence and poverty of the era.

Admission is 6,000 won. For more information, call (02) 2022-0600 or visit www.mmca.go.kr.

Buncheong: Traces of Mind

Until July 31

A special exhibition “Buncheong: Traces of the Mind” is held at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art until July 31.

This exhibition will allow visitors to appreciate and compare the wide diversity of ceramic designs that appeared on buncheong ware—“buncheong” is the unique type of porcelain produced in the early Joseon Dynasty. The distinctive designs of buncheong ware exemplify the spirit and vivacity of the Korean aesthetics.

Tickets cost 5,000 to 10,000 won. For more information, call (02) 2014-6901 or visit ww.leeum.sangsungfoundation.org

Cloud Bread

Art Center Tree & Water

The Children’s musical “Cloud Bread” as an open-ended run is staged at Art Center Tree and Water at Daehangno.

After the story “Cloud Bread” made its debut in 2004, this story has undergone several adaptations and captured the hearts of countless children and adults through the musical, children’s music concert, and an animation series. Min Jung-ki, Lim Su-min, Choi Yun-chung and Lee Dae-eun play the main characters.

Admission is 25,000 won. Children must be older than 2 years. For more information, call 1666-5795 or visitwww.mhicon.co.kr.

KBO League

Saturday, June 25 & Sunday, June 26

KIA Tigers vs. NC Dinos

Masan Baseball Stadium

KT Wiz vs. Samsung Lions

Daegu Baseball Stadium

Lotte Giants vs. NC Dinos

Doosan Bears vs. SK Wyverns

Incheon Munhak Baseball Stadium

Nexen Heroes vs. LG Twins

Seoul Jamsil Baseball Stadium

K-League Classic

Saturday, June 25

Suwon vs. Jeju

Suwon World Cup Stadium

Pohang vs. Seoul

Pohang Steel Yard

Jeonnam vs. Incheon

Gwangyang Football Stadium

Sunday, June 26

Seongnam vs. Ulsan

Tancheon Sports Complex

Gwangju vs. Jeonbuk

Gwangju World Cup Stadium

Suwon FC vs. Sanju

Suwon Sports Complex

Let's Run Park Seoul

Let's Run Park Seoul holds races from 10:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. It is located by Seoul Racecourse Park Station, subway line 4, exit 3. For more information, call (02) 509-1114 or visit www.kra.co.kr.