2013 Canal Kylin International Music Festival held in Beijing Oct. 1-3
During the National Holidays, the 2013 Canal Kylin International Music Festival is being held at Tongzhou Canal Park in China’s capital Beijing. From October 1-3, six stages will play host to dozens of top domestic and international acts including Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, Hanggai and Miserable Faith.
Chinese pupils form a smiling face to celebrate National Day in Wuyuan
Pupils of the Taibai Central Primary School form a smiling face to celebrate the National Day in Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Sept. 29, 2013. The People’s Republic of China will celebrate the 64th anniversary of its founding on Oct. 1. (NEWSis/Xinhua)
Differences in taste shown at Seoul Int’l Drama Awards
The explosion in global popularity of the Korean entertainment industry was well highlighted by the biggest ever Seoul International Drama Awards(SDA), which were held at the National Theater of Korea on September 5. For the first time since these awards began in 2006, the voice of Korea’s growing army of international fans could be heard […]
Chinese dancers perform during ethnic art show in Kunming, Yunnan Province
Dancers from Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan perform during an art show for ethnic groups in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Sept. 26, 2013. The two-week-long art show has come to an end. (NEWSis/Xinhua)
Ashraf Dali talks Korean trip on TV
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid(Dali), President of the Asia Journalist Association Middle East Chapter and Editor-in-Chief of The AsiaN, was interviewed live in two Egyptian TV programs on September 23. During those programs, he talked about the activities in the recent visits to S. Korea and Tatarstan along with his new books published this year, the translation of […]
The missing links of Asian history
Emeritus Professor Kim Byung-Mo of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Hanyang University in South Korea has been looking for his roots. After a laborious forty years of research, he was perhaps not surprised to find that he shared a “genetic connection” with the royal family of Ayodhya, a non-descript small city in the central […]
Kazakh director Zhanabek Zhetiru: Recreating myth in cinema
As Otilija Kerbelyte says, in cinema we find the myths and legends portrayed with fantastic genres, special effects, and mythological creatures such as elves and orcs in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Mythical creatures usually wear the clothes, which no human would wear (e.g. faun and fairies in Pan’s Labyrinth) and their cinematic […]
Nomadic Art: the world’s true identity
In Latin American geography and culture, each and every human being is at once a unit and a multiplicity – identical to him/herself while constantly changing. That is how we validate the existential game of cohabitation, how we celebrate presence of a human course originated in wanderings and shipwrecks that occurred all over the world […]
‘Hallyu’ wave on Egyptian shores
Guys singing Korean songs in the street, girls tuning in to Korean dramas on TV every day, and people just making plans to go work in Korea, and maybe even live there, all of these aspects affecting the world, including Egypt, is what’s called the Hallyu or Korean wave. Korean wave started years ago, affecting […]
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