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East Asia
The Quiet Leaf
An exhibition will be held in celebration of the original action sports/skateboard brand, Vans’ inaugural House of Vans magazine issue (collaborated with The Quiet Leaf). The location will be at the Vans Apgujeong store and will be open this February 10th to March 3rd. A short opening event will take…
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East Asia
Renoir: Images of Women
Pierre Auguste Renoir (born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died December 3, 1919, Cagnes) French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He was one of the central figures of the impressionist movement, which…
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Lords of money, lords in offices
Most first-time Western visitors to Pyongyang tend to come back somewhat surprised. They had expected to see the very embodiment of a Stalinist hell. Well, you know the picture: soldiers on every street corner sporting machineguns, ready to mow down the masses, pedestrians in colorless clothing slowly moving amidst mammoth,…
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“New Asia, New Dynamics” motto of the Magazine N
This year, The AsiaN’s Magazine N embarks on the New Year with the phrase, “New Asia, New Dynamics” and truly, it is the start of a whole new platform upon which Magazine N aspires to convey the ideas of reporters and columnists around Asia. Not only has there been shifts…
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The first Salon Gallery project “Consumption”.
Gallery FIFTY FIFTY will be presenting a joint gallery project with three artists, Yenata, Lafic and Kir Cood. These three artists are making a name for themselves really fast and it has started to attract a following especially, in the hip-hop subculture scene. Under the theme of “Consumption”, the exhibition…
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China’s ban shifting hallyu to Southeast Asia
Kim Jae-heun – The Korea Times China’s recent restrictions on K-pop and K-dramas are shifting the Korean wave, or hallyu, to Southeast Asia, officials said Thursday. China has cancelled a series of concerts and the airing of Korean TV dramas and shows after the Korean government decided to deploy a…
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East Asia
True Story of a Little Girl and a Soldier: Ayla
In 1950, Sergeant Suleyman was one of the thousands of Turkish soldiers who went to South Korea to fight the enemy. Suleyman and Ali, a fellow soldier from Iskenderun, had volunteered to help the people of South Korea and to fight in a war that was taking place in a…
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Samsung Electronics surpasses W2 mil.
Samsung Electronics stocks touched 2 million won Thursday, soaring to a record high. It is the first time the electronics giant which debuted on the stock market in 1975 surpassed 2 million won. The world’s leading tech company started trading at 1.97 million won in the morning session, reaching 2…
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Impeached President Park Slams Accusations of Cultural Blacklist
Amid ongoing investigations that the current impeached President Park Geun Hye abused her executive power to blackmail artists and cultural figures, Jung Kyu-jae, chief reporter of the Korean Economic News Daily, conducted an interview with Park just before the Lunar New Year festival. When asked about her position on the slew…
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