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Creation Center Opens Doors to Artists

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia Staff Reporter Local and international artists will now have a new place to find inspiration, do research and create fresh artwork, with the recent opening of the Gyeonggi Creation Center (GCC), located in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. The center offers an art residency program to support creative work and research by local and foreign artists. ``GCC acts as a platform to gather artists from all over the world for international exchange, to share a nomadic spirit, and to collectively engage and cultivate creative synergy among artists of various genres as an experimental and progressive contemporary art center,'' the organizers said, in a statement. A total of 24 artists, 16 Korean and eight foreign, have been invited to participate in the center's pilot art residency program. The artists will reside in the center for three months through December. ``Foreign artists and a few Korean artists will create works based on local issues, or participate in local collaboration programs together with residents. They will partake in field investigations,

Nov 6, 2009

Clubs, Art Exhibitions & Sports Games

Clubs Club Heaven Yeoksam-dong Located next to the Renaissance Seoul Hotel, Heaven is fast gaining a reputation as a clubber's paradise with star DJs and a celebrity clientele. Electronic music is the main menu, with laser light and paper confetti shows aplenty on the side. The club caters to partying at any hour of the night: the ``main stage'' on the first floor is open all night long until 6:30 a.m., while club hoppers can enter the upper level's ``after stage'' after 4:30 a.m. Call 1644-8466. Le Nuit Blanche Cheongdam-dong Formerly Club Answer, Le Nuit Blanche is introduced as a posh restaurant, theater and club. Located in front of Hotel Prima in Cheongdam-dong, Le Nuit Blanche offers Cirque du Soleil-type performances at its theater restaurant. World class DJs from all over the world are invited to perform at the club. Call (02) 514-4311 or visit www.lenuitblanche.com. Underlounge Seoul Hongdae or Hongik University Area This is the local club of a hip Japanese chain that's also to be found in Shanghai. Located in the famous clubbing area, Hongdae, it'

Nov 5, 2009

Concerts, Museums & Theater

Classical Concerts KBS Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center Nov. 6 Conductor Othmar Maga will lead the KBS Symphony Orchestra for Mozart's "Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K.482," Sibelius's "Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43" and Webern's "Passacaglia, Op.1" with prodigy pianist Kim Sun-wook. Tickets cost from 35,000 to 90,000 won. For more information, visit ticket.interpark.com or call (02) 781-2243~4. Located near exits 4 and 5 of Nambu Bus Terminal on subway line 3. Kaori Muraji's Guitar Recital 'The Arpeggione' Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center Nov. 22 Japanese guitarist Kaori Muraji, who was praised by the great composer Joaquin Rodrigo as ``the 21st century interpreter''' of his music, will hold a recital. The program features works by Bach and Chopin, as well as Schubert's ``Sonata fur Arpeggione unt Klavier'' D.821 with violist Richard Yongjae O'Neill. Tickets cost from 30,000 to 80,000 won. For more information, visit ticket.interpark.com or call 1577-5266. Located near exits 4 and 5 of Nambu Bus Terminal on subway line 3. Helene Gr

Nov 5, 2009

Traditional Tale of Prince Ho-dong Takes Stage

By Han Sang-hee Staff Reporter Ballet favorites during the winter season include ``The Nutcracker'' and ``Swan Lake,'' but this year local viewers will have the chance to watch ``Prince Ho-dong,'' a creative piece by the Korea National Ballet Company (KNBC). Led by renowned choreographer and art director Kook Su-ho and KNBC's choreographer Moon Byung-nam, the troupe is staging the traditional story of Prince Ho-dong and Princess Nak-rang as part of a project by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to bring various Korean works to the international scene. The blending of traditional tales with ballet started in the 1980s, and it was Lim Sung-nam, the first artistic director of the KNBC, who brought the tale of Prince Ho-dong to the stage in 1988 and surprised both viewers and critics. Ever since, there have been various attempts to bring Korean tales to the ballet stage, including ``Prince Ho-dong'' and the Universal Ballet Company's ``Shim Chung'' and ``Chun-hyang.'' Now ballet fans will get to see an upgraded version of "Prince Ho-dong" for the first time

Nov 4, 2009

Korea Gallery in US to Be Renovated

By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter The National Museum of Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Wednesday with the Smithsonian Institution to work together for three years in an effort to renovate the institution's Korea gallery. Choe Kwang-shik, director of the National Museum of Korea, and Julian Raby, director of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleryat the Smithsonian Institution, attended the signing ceremony in Seoul. It is part of the national museum's project ― launched this year ― to support Korean galleries overseas. Under the memorandum, the two museums will collaborate in moving the gallery to a new place, conduct research on the collection, hold a special exhibition of Korean relics, publish Korean cultural contents and establish a Web site for the gallery by 2011. The Smithsonian Institution is home to 19 museums and nine research centers. The Institution holds priceless artifacts, natural historical relics and scientific materials from all over the world. Among subsidiary museums, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sac

Nov 4, 2009

800-Year-Old Bamboo Invoices Found in Shipwreck

By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter About 1,400 pieces of Goryeo relics, including wooden tabs inscribed with information about the articles onboard, were excavated from a shipwreck near Taean's Mado Island, South Chungcheong Province, in a recent underwater project. The National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage said Wednesday that the discovery includes ceramics, grains and wooden products. Among others, the excavation team recovered 64 pieces of "mokgan," or wooden labels, including "jukgan," or bamboo tabs, which record information about shipping, departure times, destinations, recipients, and kinds and amounts of the cargo. This is the first discovery ever of bamboo tabs from the Goryeo era, which are inscribed with the records of the invoice. The institute said that according to the wooden invoices, the cargo shipwrecked while sailing to deliver grains, fermented fish sauce and porcelain from Haenam, Naju and Jangheung in South Jeolla Province to a high-ranking general in Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong, North Korea, the capital city of Goryeo) in the winter

Nov 4, 2009

UBC Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Theater Renovation

By Han Sang-hee Staff Reporter The Universal Ballet Company (UBC) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, making the event even more special by renovating its 28-year-old theater. ``I had seen the molding being done on the center when I was a student at Sunhwa Arts School, and now we have transformed the Universal Arts Center into something greater," said Julia H. Moon, the general director of the UBC, during a gala to celebrate the renovation last week. ``We have put great effort to bring the best and repay the love we have received from so many visitors.'' Despite the colorful performances the UBC has staged over the years, the troupe had to deal with complaints from some visitors due to the uncomfortable seats and obstructed views. The center originally had flat floors as it was once used as a banquet venue. Thus, the company twice went through a facelift ― in 2006 and this year ― to become a more comfortable and pleasant performance venue. The new chairs are from Kotobuki, one of the most famous chair manufacturers in the world, making the individual s

Nov 3, 2009

My Scary Girl Wins Two Awards at NYMF

By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter The Korean musical "My Scary Girl" won two awards ― the Outstanding New Musical and Outstanding Individual Performances ― at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). The NYMF announced the 2009 NYMF Awards for Excellence on Oct. 29, in which a total of 28 works were competing. Bang Jin-ui received the Outstanding Individual Performances for her portrayal of the female protagonist in "My Scary Girl," becoming the first Korean musical actor to win the prize at a foreign musical festival. "I think our musical might be fresh for Americans. The black comedy elements appealed to the American audience. So I could perform very happily. I want to share this honor with my colleagues and staff who worked with me for more than one year," Bang said. The stage adaptation of the 2006 Korean comedy/horror/romance film of the same name, portrays an awkward but romantic relationship that develops between Hwang Dae-woo, a naive English instructor who has never really dated a girl, and Lee Mi-na, a sweet girl who claims to be an art major but turns

Nov 2, 2009

Paradigm Art Acts a Bridge for NY, Seoul

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia Staff Reporter New York-based businesswoman Christina Kang is using art to bridge the gap between Seoul and New York. Through her company Paradigm Art, Kang introduces contemporary Korean art to American clients and international contemporary art to Korean clients. But unlike others in the business, Paradigm Art is mainly focused on educating people about art and not just selling it. ``A lot of people need an education in order to train your eye, to appreciate and to buy art. For example, I can say `this is one of the best contemporary art works' and you may not agree with me on why this is one of the best contemporary art works," Kang told The Korea Times in an interview last week. "But once you get to know what it is about, meet the artist, you can personalize the experience and it becomes yours. It's easier and better for me to sell art, which falls into the art consulting category." Kang has been in the business for 10 years. In 1999, she founded Paradigm Art (www.paradigmart.com) in New York with the vision ``to raise the awareness of

Nov 2, 2009

59th Arario’s Kim Helps Nurture Global Korean Artists

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia Staff Reporter A handful of Korean contemporary artists are slowly attracting attention on the global art scene, but there's a lack of superstar Korean artists who can rival the name recognition of some of their Japanese and Chinese counterparts. But all this could change in just a few years time with the help of Arario Gallery founder, businessman and artist Kim Chang-il. One of his dreams is to discover Korean artists who will take the global art scene by storm. ``Young British Artists (YBAs) like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin were responsible for opening new fields in contemporary art in England. Will Korea ever have those 10 or 15 artists like Hirst and Emin who opened the doors for new art? It's very important. I don't think Korea has that right now… The role of Arario is to find that artist who can make a name for himself globally, instead of doing just OK nationally. We should support them to make better and better art,'' Kim told The Korea Times, at his office in Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. Arario Gallery is o

Nov 1, 2009
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