K-fashion perceived as youthful by global fashion world, says executive director Jung Ku-ho

Playing host to roughly 250,000 visitors, this year’s Seoul Design Week came to a close this week, highlighting some of the world’s leading designs in “smart city” technology. Held from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2 at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the annual event hosted by the Seoul Design Foundation was organized under the theme “Smart City, Smart Design, Smart Life.” “Through this forum we have attempted to address the sudden changes in modern, contemporary living by providing various problem-solving so

As part of a move to help promote Korean literature abroad, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea is hosting book launch events in various US cities.The books to be unveiled are Bae Su-ah’s “The Essayist’s Desk” and “Recitation,” which will be released by Open Letter Books in October and Deep Vellum Publishing in January next year, respectively. Korean novelist Bae Su-ah (Literature Translation Institute of Korea)The marketing events will be held between Oct. 5 and Oct. 14 in New York, S

“Whether the cow is brown, black or spotted, its milk is all white,” Kim Dong-ho muses in “White Milk,” included in his newly published compilation of translated poems “Belly Button Disc.”The book comprises 56 selected poems originally written by Kim in Korean and co-translated into English by Kim Won-chung, professor of English literature at Sungkyunkwan University, and poet-translator Ko Chang-soo. 　In his work, 82-year-old poet Kim examines life’s mysteries and the world from a Taoistic persp

“Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?” By Ian BrownThe Experiment (320 pages, $24.95)As a cranky wit and a wondrous observer, Ian Brown has a compelling take on the joys and agonies of growing older. His pleasures are your pleasures, and his fears will feel as familiar as old friends.Does Brown relish having turned 60? Hardly. He seems a little stunned by it — ambushed and wounded. It’s as if the thought of turning 60 caught up with him in

Over an election season dominated by blatant flip-flops and lofty claims, there is one position that Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has stood by firmly: He hates the media.But his strong and often times brutal disdain for reporters is surprising, given that in his four decades in the public light, no one has been able to take him down. Not a single newspaper article has prevented him from getting this close to the presidency, and for that he should be thankful.Because Trump has

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 50 years have passed since police raided New York’s Stonewall Inn, touching off protests on Christopher Street that fueled the LGBT movement.To mark the moment, the popular bar and haven for homeless youth, sex workers, trans people and others in search of community and self was designated a national park in June by President Barack Obama.It’s against that backdrop that longtime resident of the Greenwich Village neighborhood, famed photographer Mark Seliger, decided on a

The globalization of the South Korean webtoon industry now seems to be in full swing. On Sept. 28, the webtoon agency Tooneed Entertainment announced that it would be publishing webtoons and running intellectual-property-related businesses in Southeast Asia as well as China, Japan, and North America. Tooneed provides webtoons to KTooN, the third-largest webtoon service provider in the country, and operates intellectual property procurement and protection businesses.  Tooneed EntertainmentTooneed

From film festival in mountains to silver grass fields, southeastern city offers seasonal delights

Vienna-Dutch coffee hybrid fronts a mish-mash of sips