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Sporting event slated for migrant workers in Seoul

Migrant workers and Koreans compete in balloon judo at last year’s migrant workers’ athletic competition. The annual event will be held at the Jamsil Sports Complex in Songpa-gu, southeastern Seoul, Sunday. / Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan GovernmentBy You Soo-sunSeoul city will hold its seventh annual migrant workers’ sports competition at the Jamsil Sports Complex in Songpa-gu, southeastern Seoul, Sunday.About 900 people, including foreigners and Korean nationals, are expected to participate in the event.The event is held for the 120,000 migrant workers living here to offer a chance for foreigners and Korean nationals to come together, according to the city government.For some, it is an event they look forward to all year. One participant from China said, “I came with my family last year and had a wonderful time, so I decided to participate again this year. There is much to see, various games and concerts ― my family looks forward to this all year round as it’s a chance for us to meet people from different countries.”Participants can compete

Canadian band embarks on Asia tour

Members of the Canadian band Pseudo are, from left, Mikhail Castro, Liam Lyte and Jonathan Lyte. / Courtesy of Ken RobinsonBy Jon DunbarCanadian pop-punk band Pseudo is coming to Korea this week for their first ever Asian tour. The band will play two shows in Seoul this weekend before hitting Japan for five shows, then returning to Korea at the end of the month for this year’s Zandari Festa.It’s quite a feat for a band normally, but this Toronto pop-punk trio already finished a 91-day, 52-date U.S. tour in July.“This year we started touring a lot so we figured, why not give it a shot now?” Jonathan Lyte, guitarist/vocalist, said in an interview with The Korea Times. Lyte created the band in 2010 with high school friend Mikhail Castro, later adding Lyte’s brother Liam on bass.“We really wanted to do this tour ever since we created the band back in high school,” Lyte said.The Korean part of their tour came together thanks to some help by Ken Robinson, a former expat resident of Seoul who moved back to Canada in 2015 to study in Ryerson Uni

Seoul Foreign School to present drama workshop

Eduardo Castro Neves holds a theater workshop at Ege University Bornova in Turkey. / Courtesy of Eduardo Castro NevesBy John RedmondSeoul Foreign School’s theater department will host a theater workshop featuring Eduardo Castro Neves, Saturday.The Brazilian dancer will teach an all-day workshop in both contact improvisation and playback theater. Contact improvisation and partnering systems help every performer develop greater physical awareness as well as listening and performing skills. “Beginning with the use of positive and negative space, learning basic body-weight awareness and ways to create connection, artists will work on how to follow a physical point of contact, lift, support and give and receive weight to and from a partner,” Neves said. Playback theater is a form of improvisational theater in which audience members tell stories from their lives and watch them subsequently enacted by a group of actors. The technique was developed by Jonathan Fox from the U.S. and Jo Salas of New Zealand and is based on the traditions and rituals of storytel

Chef forages ingredients for cocktails

Expert chef Dustin Wessa forages for fresh ingredients in the wilderness of Korea. / Courtesy of Dustin WessaBy Jon DunbarWhen Dustin Wessa goes up a Korean mountain, he brings his appetite. The North American chef, who moved here more than 13 years ago, forages on the slopes for some of his ingredients.“Getting lost in the woods was a big part of my childhood and onwards,” Wessa told The Korea Times. “Foraging for fungi in particular had this real backwoods draw to it. With every trip outside of our super metropolis toward the hills, the bounty of wild greens at the marketplaces was of particular interest.”Wessa developed a reputation for his foraged ingredients as owner chef of the Gyeongnidan-area restaurant Dandy Pink, which he ran for five years.Next Wednesday he will bring his knowhow to a master class for Sool Bar Week, an event promoting bartending at various venues in Seoul.Students of the class will learn foraging techniques and how to identify what is safe and use them in cocktails as bitters, salts, syrups and infusions.“I started foraging he

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KBS World launches 24-hour English radio channel

By You Soo-sunKBS World Radio launched an all-English radio channel, with its first program “KBS World Radio News.” It began broadcasting at 5 p.m., Monday.The new KBS 24-hour channel is expanding the English language network and increasing its accessibility by offering it through its mobile applications “Kong,” “KBS World Radio” and “KBS On-Air.”  Listeners can keep up-to-date with music scene news with R&B singer Park Jung-hyun also known as Lena Park. Her program, “One Fine Day” will air every weekday from 5:10 to 7:10 p.m.Following this will be “Korea 24,” a one-hour news program with Henry Shinn, an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of the Korean news scene through both print and broadcast. Listeners may expect deeper insights into various domestic affairs and international news. It will also cover feature stories from The Korea Times and The Korea Herald.  Singer and producer Oneway Peter will join Angela Park on “K-Pop Connection,” which Park has hosted for th

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