Winter Fishing Cultural Festival Opens On Frozen Wolong Lake In Liaoning Province, Northeast China
Cooks make fish soup during the opening ceremony of Winter Fishing Cultural Festival at Wolong Lake, Kangping County, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 16, 2013. Performers here will hold an ancestor worship ritual and fish in traditional ways during the eight-day festival. The first fish is caught from the frozen Wolong lake in the opening […]
Exhibition Of Photos Shot By Pulitzer Prize Winners Opens In Taipei, Taiwan
Guests attend the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2013. The exhibiton displays 151 photographs shot by the Pulitzer Prize winners since the award was established in 1942. A visitor watch photographs exhibited during the photo exhibition “Capture the Moment: The […]
Chinese People Buy Dried Goods On A Shopping Festival For Coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan
Local citizens come to a shopping festival for the coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 18, 2013. The 3rd Yinchuan shopping festival for the Spring Festival , which will fall on Feb. 10, 2013, lasts from Jan. 18 to Feb. 4. People buy dried goods on a […]
Video Game “Endgame: Syria” Seeks To Illustrate Civilian Loss In Syrian Civil War
This undated image provided by Auroch Digital Ltd. shows the video game “Endgame: Syria.” The new video game based on Syria’s civil war seeks to illustrate civilian loss due to heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces. The British developer of the video game says he wants to educate people about the conflict, but […]
Chocolate Fasion Show Held In Seoul To Promote Salon Du Chocolat Exhibition
A model displays a traditional Korean outfit partially made of chocolate during chocolate fashion show in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The 4-day event is being promoted as South Korea’s first Salon Du Chocolat exhibition, which has a 20-years history and holding shows in 20 cities. A model displays an outfit partially made […]
Visits of the deceased to our dreams
According to many belief systems, dreams often tell our future by presenting images of pre-visional situations or with the appearance of symbolic figures including natural objects. It is not always easy to interpret what they are trying to say. But in certain situations, people notice instinctively what the dream is about. A family experienced a […]
Joseon folksy paintings reveal coy culture
The second floor of Gallery Hyundai in central Seoul was exceptionally crowded for the opening day of a new exhibition Tuesday. Visitors queued up to see erotic artwork from the late Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910). What makes these folksy paintings special is that they are works of Kim Hong-do and Shin Yun-bok, the two top painters […]
‘Arirang’ exhibition will be put on Japan tour
National Folk Museum plans Korea initiatives “Arirang Road” is among the National Folk Museum of Korea’s most ambitious projects this year, aimed at reaching wider audiences at home and abroad. The exhibition tour will last from June to August, going to Tokyo and Osaka in Japan to raise international awareness about “Arirang.” “Arirang,” Korea’s folk […]
Korean chickens ― guardians from evil spirits and disease
Did you know that Korea’s humble chicken has a noble past? There are legends that chickens played a key role in the birth of some members of the royal families of the Kingdom of Silla (57 B.C. 935 A.D.). One king was said to have been born from a huge egg while another noble […]
A noted Kuwaiti poet sends preface of her anthology to be published in Korea
*Editor’s note: I am glad to inform you that The AsiaN will publish the anthology titled “A Woman from Kuwait” of Kuwaiti poet Dr. Souad Al Sabah around the end of this month (January). Some of her poems translated into Korean have already been introduced in The AsiaN’s Korean edition in series under the title of “Poetic Fragrance of Arab.” The noted Kuwaiti […]