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...PKM Gallery unveils a solo presentation by conceptual artist Koo Jeong A, who will represent South Korea at next year’s Venice Biennale....
...One North Korean escapee told researchers from the Stimson Center’s 38 North programme that they only received electricity for a few hours a year, on January 1, so they could watch leader Kim Jong Un’s new...
...As film magazine editor Haery Kim observes in an essay accompanying Chan-wook’s photographs, “here is a storyteller freed from the confinements of storytelling”....
...Park Chan-wook likes to surprise. Over a three-decade career, the vastly respected South Korean writer-director has made a signature of intricate and beautiful cinema, goosed with eye-popping shocks....
...That at least would seem the lesson of Decision to Leave, the superlative new thriller from South Korean maestro Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden)....
...My own movie of the year was Decision to Leave, a lush and haunting psychological thriller from South Korean maestro Park Chan-wook....
...From the films of Park Chan-wook to the bestselling books of Toshikazu Kawaguchi, fantastical tales rooted in the alleyways of Seoul and Tokyo have drawn on the region’s folklore....
...“On economic issues, Biden needs to reassure the South Koreans that his policies are also in their interests,” said Kim Hyun-wook, director-general of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy....
...“For Hybe, the key is to diversify its content,” said music critic Kim Young-dae....
...The threat followed comments issued on Sunday and broadcast on state television in which Kim described Suh Wook, the South Korean defence minister, as a “senseless and scum-like guy”....
...“The sense of crisis and anxiety over our industry’s competitiveness is greater than ever,” said Kim Yang-paeng, senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade....
...On Sunday, she described South Korean defence minister Suh Wook as a “senseless and scum-like guy” after he made remarks describing the South Korean military’s “capabilities and posture to conduct a precision...
...Too many journalists write about Kim Jong Un’s hairstyle, or if he likes Swiss cheese, and not about the crimes he is committing.”...
...With just a million cases so far, there are too few people who have immunity from natural infection, despite the high inoculation rate,” said Kim....
...“It costs a lot to produce films and soap operas, especially fantasy films, whereas making comics requires little money but can have nice visual effects,” said Park Jeong-seo, head of webtoon business at...
...“North Korea has made several requests for sanctions relief, which the US is not prepared to grant,” said Kim Hyun-wook....
...But Hyun-wook Kim, a professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, said Seoul was still scarred by the failure of former US president Donald Trump to provide adequate assistance after South Korea was...
...At the top end there were wooden flute figures from Kim Yak Dae and piping melodies from Lee Man Wol, whose saenghwang, a kind of mouth organ, looked like an Art Deco sculpture....
...“I tried to enter the two bigger platforms in vain,” says Jeong Jin-sil, a writer for The Sisters of Karamazov, a popular webtoon on Postype....
...“We are living in an era of growing competition — not just great power competition between the US and China, but competition over political values as well,” said Kim....
...So they need to hire more former US officials as their lobbyists,” said Kim Young-woo, an analyst at SK Securities....
...Austin was speaking alongside Suh Wook, his South Korean counterpart, after annual talks about the military alliance between the countries....
...But they need to step up efforts to secure key materials domestically in case China stops supplying minerals,” said Sohn Jeong-soo, a researcher at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources...
...“The big change is Biden,” said Kim Hyun Wook, a professor at Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a research body affiliated with South Korea’s foreign ministry....
...“We are no longer doing business with just China and Japan in mind,” said Kim Jin-woo, RBW president. “Instead, we are now looking at the global market.”...
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