The Cultural Heritage Administration and the National Trust for Cultural Heritage are to hold a signing ceremony Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., completing the government’s purchase of the former Korean Empire legation building in the U.S. capital.The building, which was used as the legation building by the Korean Empire until 1905, was originally purchased by King Gojong in 1891 for $25,000. After Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910, the building was forced to be sold t

Artists in Daegu now have a new outlet.Bracket, a new magazine for artists, launched it’s first issue last month. It is the work of three expats who wanted to create a magazine that people would enjoy and serve the art community in a way they thought other expat magazines hadn’t been doing.“We are artists of sorts and think we missed the amount of magazines in print from home. We realized it was something lacking in the community as a whole,” said Chris Cote, who is co-publisher of the magazine,

Expat playhouse White Box Theatre will provide the stage for Steve Martin’s irreverent comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” starting Friday. Created by Hollywood actor and comedian Steve Martin, the 1993 play looks at a fictional meeting between a young Albert Einstein and a young Pablo Picasso at a Parisian bar in 1904. As they argue about the differences between science and art, the others in the bar chime in with their thoughts on how art and science will develop ― with varying levels of accur

Goryeo celadon from museums in Korea and Japan brought together for a special exhibitionGoryeo celadon has become a byword for the sophistication of the art of Goryeo Kingdom (918-1392).Its subtle, delicate and somewhat inexplicable bluish color adorned with inlay patterns fascinated not only the neighboring Chinese and Japanese of the time but also people living a millennium later. An exhibition of Goryeo celadon, which opened Tuesday at the National Museum of Korea, is the first large scale Go

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― International maestro Zubin Mehta was on Monday presented with a medal of honor by Israel’s Shimon Peres for his decades of work with the Israel Philharmonic, dubbing him the “conductor of our hearts.” “Israel used to be a drama and you made us into a dramatic symphony without compromising one for the other,” the Israeli president told the Mumbai-born conductor as he awarded him the Presidential Medal of Distinction.“You made our people feel at ease, feel together through the l

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama cast an absentee ballot on Monday, twinning a campaign push for early voting with an affectionate morale boost for her husband who was hunkered down at debate camp.“Hey, @BarackObama, I just dropped my absentee ballot in the mail ― I couldn’t wait for Election Day! Love you! ―mo,” the first lady wrote on Twitter.The president, locked away in a Virginia resort ahead of his debate with Republican Mitt Romney Tuesday, quickly tweeted back, in an app