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East Asia
Can Korea say no to US?
Oh Young-jin – The Korea Times It appears to be unthinkable for South Korea to give up its decades-old alliance with the United States and choose China in its place. However, a combination of events gives a sense of reality to this unlikely scenario. Recently, a group of opposition lawmakers…
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Korea Artist Prize 2016
Korea Artist Prize 2016 exhibition features, artists who were selected by MMCA as this year’s Korea Artist Prize awardees. These artist are Kim Eull, Back Seung-woo, Ham Kyung-ah and Mixrice (Yang Chul-mo, Cho Ji-eun and they were chosen through careful studio visits and interviews. The Korea Artist Prize is recognized…
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China creates over 13 million new jobs in 2016
China created over 13 million new jobs in urban areas in 2016 as part of an effort to stabilize the slowing economy. The country has seen over 1.2 million jobs created for three consecutive years, from 2014 to 2016, according to Economic Information Daily. Despite the economic slowdown, the Chinese…
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Nightlife in Seoul, Itaewon – Hip hop clubs
Are you travelling to Seoul and like to know the nightlife here? Well I’ve written an article about the nightlife in Korea, the Hongdae hiphop clubs edition for the New Year’s Eve article, you should go and check that out first Now Seoul is a big city and has a…
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The “Klimt Inside” Exhibition
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary and is the second child of seven children. Klimt’s work is distinguished by the elegant gold or colored decoration, often of a phallic shape that conceals the most erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are…
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Trump and Asia
Bernard Rowan – The Korea Times I didn’t think Trump had a chance. His campaign rhetoric didn’t reveal much knowledge of global affairs. Beyond the pedestrian, it showed a demagogue hell-bent on thumping illegal immigrants and socking it to convenient enemies. However, Trump did win, and he’ll soon raise the…
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Bird flu under control after culling 30 million chickens, ducks
Acting President and Prime Minister of South Korea, Hwang Kyo-ahn said Tuesday that the spread of avian influenza (AI) that has ravaged poultry farms across the country since mid-November has almost been brought under control. During a daily meeting on the disease, Hwang also warned of the possibility of additional…
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Korean Air Box Project 2016: Yangjiang Group
Korean Air Box Project is a long-term project that organizes displays of installation artworks by renowned artists from around the world in Seoul Box, the central exhibition space of MMCA, Seoul. Celebrating the experimental spirit of contemporary art and presenting a new vision for the future, the project chose Yangjiang…
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Tamara de Lempicka exhibition in Seoul
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980), born as Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter. As an ‘Art Deco’ artist, Lempicka reformed the portrait style, more specifically, the role of subject as a liberated and independent woman. Her work is difficult to…
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Palace Museum received 16 million visitors in 2016
The number of visitors to the Palace Museum in Beijing for 2016 hit 16 million when an 18-year-old student from northeast China’s Liaoning Province bought a ticket on Saturday Morning. The record number of visitors is an increase of 6.19 percent from 2015. More than 15 million visitors have visited…
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