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Geocachers clean stream

Members of the geocaching group help clear Suam stream in Anyang over the weekend. / Courtesy of Todd Gregory LapmanBy John RedmondA group of environmentalists turned the activity of geocaching into a way to help clean up Suam Stream in Anyang last weekend.Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a GPS receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to stow or seek out containers, called “geocaches” or “caches,” at hidden locations.“We are essentially a leave-no-trace group. So, pretty much anytime we go out caching, we try to clean as we go,” Seoul-based geocacher Todd Gregory Lapman said.The weekend event was part of the “Cache In Trash Out” (CITO) program. “Usually once or twice a year, geocaching headquarters offers a virtual souvenir or reward for making the extra effort to organize a cleanup day,” Lapman said.“We try at least once a month or once every other month to organize an event here in Korea. Any geocacher at any time can organize an event.”The weekend eve

May 1, 2018
Geocachers clean stream

Beijing underground band returns to Korea

Struggle SessionBy Jon DunbarThe Beijing hardcore punk band Struggle Session returns to Korea this Saturday and Sunday for two concerts in Seoul celebrating the release of a split album with local hardcore act Arryam.The first show is Saturday at GBN Live House in Mullae-dong, and on Sunday it's at Club SHARP in Mangwon-dong. Each show has seven bands, including Struggle Session and Arryam.Any foreign band touring Korea is always cause for celebration, but this one is especially meaningful as it brings back guitarist Nevin Domer, who previously lived in Korea in the early 2000s.“We're hoping this release can be a foundation for creating deeper ties between the Chinese and Korean underground scenes,” Domer told The Korea Times. “The international hardcore punk community is supportive, and active participants find they have friends around the world.”First moving to China in the 1990s for university, he came to Korea on a Fulbright scholarship to study the Gwangju Uprising and teach. He later studied Korean language at Seoul National University, while also stayin

May 1, 2018
Beijing underground band returns to Korea

Foreigners on cross-country cycling tour

Captured from YTN. / YonhapBy Kang Aa-young A group of Taiwanese and Japanese has begun a cross-country cycling tour along trails from Seoul to Busan, the Busan Tourism Organization said Sunday. The organization said the group left Busan at around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, and would pass through Bugok, Gumi, Mungyeong and Yeoju before they reached Seoul seven days later. The total of 29 foreigners ― 21 Taiwanese and eight Japanese ― are participating. The program, marketed by a Taiwanese company, is part of “Travel the world by cycling” with each person paying 2.5 million won. A company official said, “Taiwanese tourists crossed the country by bicycle last year and they said the view along the way was amazing and the bike trail was good, drawing good reviews."“Japanese members will check out the bike trail of Korea.” he added.Participants include former CEO of the biggest Taiwanese bike manufacturer Antony Ro, 65, the mayor of the Japanese city of Moriyama and the president of a tourism association from Siga prefecture.

Apr 30, 2018
Foreigners on cross-country cycling tour

Big Day South 2018 audiovisual festival moves to Busan

By Anastasia TrayninDancer Samantha KayThe audiovisual festival Big Day South is coming to Busan this Saturday for a full day of music, art and dance. The festival started in nearby Daegu in 2014 before moving to Ulsan the following year, and more recently appeared in southwestern Gwangju in April 2016. Back after two years, the fourth installment promises to be bigger than ever, showcasing burgeoning Korean and foreign creative talents from across the country.The festival is the work of Irish expat Philip Brett, who co-founded the bilingual online Angle Magazine in January 2013. Angle covers artists active outside the capital, and has expanded to organizing regular events, developing a signature theme of live music combined with interactive visual art. Busan expat resident Cindi L'Abbe, a dancer from the U.S., is co-organizing this year's festival. “With every Big Day South we want to challenge the audience to engage,” Brett told The Korea Times. “This time around we've revisited how we define community.”Big Day South 2018 takes place across four venues near

Apr 24, 2018
Big Day South 2018 audiovisual festival moves to Busan

Yongsan Legacy Running with American spirit

Choe Kyung-ho, left, with fellow U.S. and KATUSA soldiers in Camp Coiner in Yongsan Garrison in this image dated Oct. 2, 1997. / Courtesy of Yongsan LegacyAs the U.S. military relocates out of Yongsan Garrison, Yongsan Legacy aims to archive the living memories of those who served, worked and lived there. This is one of them. ― ED.By Kyung LeeOn select weekday mornings at 5 a.m., Choe Kyung-ho would fit into his gym clothes and combat boots to join his Korean and U.S. military brethren for an intense hike up Namsan Park out from the back gate of Camp Coiner and through a still slumbering Huam-dong. Choe served under the Korean Augmentation to the United States Army (KATUSA) on Yongsan Garrison from March 1997 to March 1999.Laboring on up Sowol-ro along Namsan Park, they reached the Namsan Beacon Fire Station, a historic Joseon-era spot up by the peak, from where they could enjoy a vista of a briefly quiet and empty Seoul before sunrise. Then Choe's unit would trail east and descend back down into the now-awakening city, taking either Sinheung-ro in Haebangchon or Gyeongnidan-gil, bet

Apr 24, 2018
[Yongsan Legacy] Running with American spirit

COEX to host beer festival

By John RedmondThe 10th Great Korean Beer Festival (GKBF) will take place from April 27 to May 6 outside COEX in southeastern Seoul. The 10-day festival, taking place at K-Pop Square, will see 27 craft brewers, food pairings, live concerts, non-verbal performances and costume contests.The GKBF is the nation's largest craft beer festival, hosted and directed by Media Paran since 2013. The festival runs each day from noon to 10 p.m. Entrance is free. Beer sales are restricted to individuals who are 20 years of age or older. Minors must be supervised/accompanied by legal guardian to be admitted to the event. COEX K-Pop Square is located outside exits 5 and 6 of Samseong Station on Line 2. Visit greatkoreanbeerfestival.com or fb.com/greatkoreanbeerfestival for more information.

Apr 24, 2018

French band to tour Korea

Cendrine Cingala of SundRi Feeling. / Courtesy of Les Arts de l'Image, Reunion IslandBy John RedmondThe jazz-influenced band SundRi Feeling will return to Korea for a tour beginning at Strange Fruit in Seoul on Saturday.“We were selected last year for a showcase at Seoul Music Week and played at the Daegu Jazz Festival,” vocalist Cendrine Cingala said. “It was our first time in Korea and we loved it so much we wanted to come back.”They just released their second album, “Dancing Souls,” on March 13. The 10-track album comprises of songs in French, English and Creole featuring Cingala's sensitive voice, with guitar and horn arrangements by multi-instrumentalist Richard Layan offering a subtle blend of jazz, pop, multicultural rhythms and poetry.Bassist Sylvin Marc, known for collaborating with Nina Simone and Chris Rea, also appears on the album.Cingala and Layan formed SundRi Feeling in 2011, releasing their first CD “Accord” in 2014.Cingala, who is fluent in French, English, Creole, Spanish and Italian, writes all the lyrics, and compos

Apr 24, 2018
French band to tour Korea

Shamans perform rituals to Mt. Gyeryong spirit

A shaman climbs skyward over sharp blades without cutting her feet, to show she is possessed by the Sanshin Goddess. / Courtesy of David A. MasonBy Jon DunbarKorean spirituality is heavily based around its geography, particularly the mountain ranges that make up the skeletal structure of the peninsula. In one such mountain, Mount Gyeryong in South Chungcheong Province, resides the spirit of the Sanshin Goddess. In time for the third full moon of the lunar calendar, shamans, as well as Buddhists and neo-Confucianists, hold rituals at various sites on the mountain.Sejong University professor David A. Mason invites foreign guests to visit the Gyeryong-san Mountain-Spirit Shamanic Festival this Saturday, where they will witness rituals performed by well-known shamans representing various shamanistic styles from across the country.“These kinds of performances are so very colorful and dynamic, and these of the festival will be authentic and sincere, all focused on actually venerating the spirit of this holy mountain, not just a show for tourists or staged as cultural heritage,”

Apr 24, 2018
Shamans perform rituals to Mt. Gyeryong spirit

Foreigners join police patrols to fight crime

Seo-gu Bisan 7-dong voluntary crime prevention group members, Youn Seong-gu, left, Gul Na Deem, right, are passing by a tea room located in Bukbu Bus Terminal / Courtesy of Seo-gu Bisan 7-dong voluntary crime prevention groupBy Kang Aa-youngDaegu Seobu Police have been cooperating with foreigners to jointly patrol areas where crimes by foreigners often occur. On Wednesday, 16 members of Seo-gu Bisan 7-dong voluntary crime prevention group joined police patrols. The area around Bukbu Bus Terminal where many foreigners hang out was their target area. The crew included seven foreigners ― one Sri Lankan, one Chinese, three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis. “Bisan 7-dong around Bukbu Bus Terminal is one of the areas with a high density of foreigners. Crimes involving foreigners take place frequently,” inspector Kim Dong-sik said. Foreigners run many shops in the Seo-gu area near Bukbu Bus Terminal. / Korea TimesDaegu Seobu Police have cooperated with foreigners for joint patrols in areas where crimes by foreigners are on the rise. / Courtesy of Daegu Seobu PoliceThe area the bu

Apr 20, 2018
Foreigners join police patrols to fight crime

Community center offers Korean medicine experience

By John RedmondThe Itaewon Global Village Center together with Yongsan-gu Office and Seoul Metropolitan Government will present a Korean Medicine Experience Program in Itaewon, Thursday.As part of World Health Month, the program aims to provide various opportunities for foreign residents in Seoul to get involved in activities that can lead to better health.The center will offer various programs related to health including “Korean Medicine” and “Korean Oriental Medicine.”The “Korean Medicine Experience Program” will give participants an opportunity to learn about Korean medicine and experience acupuncture, chuna spinal manipulation and herbal tea.Host doctor, Dr. Raimund Royer from Austria, is the first foreign doctor in the field of Korean Oriental medicine.In the “Korean Oriental Medicine” session, attendees will learn of two kinds of medical therapy. One is modern medical science called “Yangbang,” and the other is the Korean medical tradition called “Hanbang.” Similar to other Asian therapies, Hanbang utilizes

Apr 17, 2018
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