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Clubs, art exhibitions and sports games

Clubs Underlounge Seoul Hongdae or Hongik University Area This is the local club of a hip Japanese chain that also has a branch in Shanghai, located in the famous clubbing area Hongdae. Spacious, with a supersized mirror ball hanging over your head, DJs from near and far make music while you hang out at the bar or in classy private rooms. Located near the main entrance of Hongik University. Call (02) 325-5715 or visit www.underlounge.kr. Boutique Club 52 Itaewon Once called Function inside Macaroni Market, Club 52 boasts a chic and modern interior with the DJ spinning the beats for the hippest crowd from the center of the dance floor. Featuring top DJs from both home and abroad, two bars inside the club serving the coolest cocktails including some made with Hendrick’s gin, and a high-class interior, Club 52 is always the place for good times. Club Volume Itaewon Located in the Crown Hotel near Noksapyeong Station, Club Volume offers the finest venue for specially themed weekly events and talented international DJs for unforgettable nights of dancing and debauche

Nov 24, 2011

Concerts, museums and theater

Classical Concerts Romantic Concert Sejong Center for the Performing Arts* (See ‘Venues’ on the right for more information) Dec. 4 Maestro Geum Nan-sae is set to conduct the Seoul Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, performing “La Boheme” by Puccini and “Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64” by Tchaikovsky. He will be on stage to offer an explanation of the pieces. Soprano Seo Hwal-ran and tenor Eom Seong-hwa will also take part in the performance. Tickets cost 5,000 to 30,000 won. For more information, call (02) 399-1789. Ensemble Berlin Live in Seoul Seoul Arts Center* Nov. 30 Virtuoso ensemble “Ensemble Berlin,” consisting of members from the Berliner Philharmoniker, is set to hold its first national tour starting in Seoul Nov. 30, followed by Gyeongnam Culture and Arts Center in Jinju Dec. 1 and Geoje Art Center in Geoje Dec. 4. The ensemble includes violinists Philipp Bohnen, Hwang Sun-young, Martin von der Nahmer, cellist Clemens Weigel, contrabassist Ulrich Wolff, oboist Christoph Hartmann, and bassoonist Mor Biron. Hwang will take part in this tour as the second violi

Nov 24, 2011

Classical concerts

Classical Concerts Romantic Concert Sejong Center for the Performing Arts* (See ‘Venues’ on the right for more information) Dec. 4 Maestro Geum Nan-sae is set to conduct the Seoul Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, performing “La Boheme” by Puccini and “Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64” by Tchaikovsky. He will be on stage to offer an explanation of the pieces. Soprano Seo Hwal-ran and tenor Eom Seong-hwa will also take part in the performance. Tickets cost 5,000 to 30,000 won. For more information, call (02) 399-1789. Ensemble Berlin Live in Seoul Seoul Arts Center* Nov. 30 Virtuoso ensemble “Ensemble Berlin,” consisting of members from the Berliner Philharmoniker, is set to hold its first national tour starting in Seoul Nov. 30, followed by Gyeongnam Culture and Arts Center in Jinju Dec. 1 and Geoje Art Center in Geoje Dec. 4. The ensemble includes violinists Philipp Bohnen, Hwang Sun-young, Martin von der Nahmer, cellist Clemens Weigel, contrabassist Ulrich Wolff, oboist Christoph Hartmann, and bassoonist Mor Biron. Hwang will take part in this tour as the seco

Nov 24, 2011By Do Je-hae

MasterChef opens Korean cooks audition

By Noh Hyun-gi MasterChef, a competitive cooking game show that has gained popularity in over 30 countries, has opened the registration for auditions in Korea through Dec. 31. All are welcome to try out. The winner will receive 300 million won and support for future endeavors from the production. The show will air in April, 2011 on O’live, a lifestyle channel on cable. MasterChef first aired on BBC, a British channel, in 1990 and has become an international blockbuster. Last year, Britain’s Season 6 attracted 46 million viewers. Across many seasons in different countries, the format of the show has developed. In some episodes the contestants have to prepare dishes with given ingredients from a mystery box and present them to the judges. In others, the judges test the chefs knowledge on food and preparation skills. Sometimes, the contestants have to work in teams to complete tasks such as catering for a wedding. In Australia, the show aired a junior and a celebrity season. The participants face weekly eliminations until only one is named MasterChef. Director S

Nov 22, 2011By Do Je-hae

Exhibition marks 1,000 years of Buddhist scripture

By Do Je-hae For the Buddhist community, this year has been the year of the millennial anniversary of the Tripitaka Koreana, the world’s oldest Buddhist canons in Chinese script carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century. UNESCO described the Tripitaka Koreana as “one of the most important and most complete corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world.” Various museums across the country have been celebrating the landmark year with special exhibitions, the latest of which is being held at the National Palace Museum of Korea until Dec. 18. Organized by the Cultural Heritage Administration, the exhibition shows rare original copies of texts that served as the basis for the Tripitaka Koreana during the Goryeo Kingdom (918-1392). A little background knowledge of Tripitaka Koreana is key to appreciating the exhibition. It was believed that the scriptures would be helpful in guarding the country from foreign aggression. So the Goryeo Kingdom started to establish the wooden canons, but they were burned by Mongolian forces in 1232. The Tripitaka Korean

Nov 22, 2011By Do Je-hae

David LaChapelle: photographer of surreal ingenuity

By Noh Hyun-gi Provocative, surreal yet stunningly artistic; that’s how the works of David LaChapelle, 48, a renowned photographer are esteemed. But LaChapelle was surprisingly humble and soft-spoken, who openly shared his life story including his withdrawal from the world and his unadorned take on art. He is in Korea for his retrospective exhibition, “David LaChapelle,” which will be held at the Hanman Design Museum at Seoul Art Center (SAC), southern Seoul, through Feb. 26, 2012. This show is the artist’s second exhibition in Asia after one last year in Taipei, Taiwan. The exhibit hosts some 160 pieces spanning the artist’s 25-year career starting in 1985. Viewers will be able to see his earlier works commissioned for fashion and celebrity editorials, as well as his “The Raft of Illusion” the site-specific installation “Chain of Life” and his most recent work “Gaia.” For a world famed artist, LaChapelle follows a rather simple and humble work philosophy. He finds that unconsciously — being in the right place at the right moment, inspiration just comes. “I feel li

Nov 22, 2011By Do Je-hae

Korean, Aussie contemporary art meets

By Kwon Mee-yoo It has been 50 years since Korea and Australia established diplomatic relations and the friendship is now blooming on the art scene, with two exhibitions “Tell me Tell me” and “City within the City.” The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) hosts “Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011,” in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, at its main building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, through Feb. 19, 2012. The exhibition was first held at the National Art School in Sydney from June 17 to Aug. 24 before travelling to Korea. Co-curated by Glenn Barkley of the MCA and Kim In-hye of MOCA, the title of the exhibition came from Korean girl group Wonder Girls’ song by the same name. “We hope the exhibition will explain the relationship between the two countries and we are happy to introduce young Australian artists to Korea,” Barkley said. In the exhibition, not only do Australian and Korean cultures meet, but so do the times of 1976 and 2011. “Though Australian art is not well-known in Korea, it has hidde

Nov 21, 2011By Kwon Mee-yoo

’Korea has respect for design’

By Kwon Mee-yoo Paola Antonelli, 48, senior curator at the Department of Architecture and Design at the famed Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, has an open mind for talented designers and keen eyes for finding good design. “It was great as always,” she said recalling her four-day visit to Seoul on the day of her departure, Thursday. It was her fourth visit to the city at the invitation of Hyundai Card. When she first came here in 2008, she was here to create the “Humble Masterpieces” exhibit at Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center. “On the first day, I walked from Jongno 3-ga to 5-ga and then walked by the site where the new Museum of Contemporary Art building is going to be and went to a few galleries there,” she said. Namdaemun Market was another favorite of Antonelli. “I also went to Namdaemun because I had a colleague who had never been to Seoul before and wanted to show her the market. It’s always interesting to see the market,” she said. “I loved the part with pillows, comforters and blankets, because that’s so Korean — Koreans used them to s

Nov 18, 2011By Kwon Mee-yoo

Kang Hyo-jung’s Tatiana leaves local fans in awe

By Do Je-hae There are trademark scenes that make or break a ballet performance, such as the balcony “pas de deux” in “Romeo and Juliet,” where the two lovers profess their love for each other. In “Onegin,” the most important parts of the story take place in the heroine Tatiana’s bedroom in the first and third acts. During the first part, Tatiana is a young girl who instantly falls in love with the arrogant aristocrat Onegin. In the third act, she is married to another man, tragically forced to deny Onegin’s belated declaration of love. Prima ballerina Kang Hyo-jung’s debut as Tatiana in Seoul this week left many in the audience in awe of her breadth of acting and flawless technique. The latest addition to the roster of principal dancers at Germany’s Stuttgart Ballet had never danced a full-length production on the local stage. At the invitation of her mentor Julia H. Moon, general director of Universal Ballet, Kang came to Seoul last week to take on the main role as Tatiana in “Onegin.” The 26-year-old made a much-anticipated appearance on the stage at the LG A

Nov 16, 2011By Do Je-hae

Artist Lee Ufan returns with ’Dialogue’ series

By Kwon Mee-yoo Artist Lee Ufan returns to Korea with new works in his “Dialogue” exhibition held in a new annex at Gallery Hyundai in Sagan-dong, central Seoul, from today. In his first exhibition after a major retrospective “Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from June to September, Lee presents works that are simple and understandable to viewers. Upon entering the gallery, visitors will encounter Lee’s straightforward yet strong dots that seem to talk to them. The exhibition is rather simple and small in scale. There are seven large oil paintings and four small water color and oil works hung on white walls on the first and second floors of the gallery. Lee’s “Dialogue” series might look like simple strokes, but it is a result of his constant anguish over art, and elaborate calculations, balancing the double-sidedness of inside and outside. Lee applies coats of paint over and over to achieve color and texture and it might take weeks or even months as he waits for the previous coat to dry. At a press preview of the exhibit M

Nov 14, 2011By Kwon Mee-yoo
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