Gwangju-based artist Doug Stuber will be holding an exhibition of expressionist paintings in the city’s PDG Gallery from June 22.It is the first of several the gallery plans to put on featuring expat artists.To create his paintings Stuber uses bowls of paint in usually two or more colors, which he then applies directly to the canvas to create abstract images. “I try to ‘accidentally’ make shapes that people can relate to,” he explained.  “Often they come out like unusual dinosaurs or strange ani

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BERLIN (AFP) ― Walter Jens, one of Germany’s most prominent public intellectuals whose image was tarnished by his membership of the Nazi party during World War II, has died aged 90, his university said Monday.A spokesman for the University of Tuebingen where Jens had been a professor emeritus of rhetoric said he had died Sunday after a long battle with dementia.Walter Jens, as a writer, researcher and the former head of Berlin’s Academy of Fine Arts, served as a “moral authority” as West Germany

SAN SALVADOR (AFP) ― Salvadoran construction workers building a housing complex unearthed Mayan pots, ceramic fragments and other artifacts, an official said.The find was made in Colon, 25 kilometers west of San Salvador.Specialists alerted to the site also found pieces of obsidian and part of a human skeleton which may also be from the Mayan period.A technician from the Culture Ministry, Julio Alvarado, said the area where the find was made is one the Central American’s country’s richest from a

A 16th-century war diary kept by famous Korean naval hero Yi Sun-sin is highly likely to be added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, officials said Monday.The war diary, called “Nanjung Ilgi,” has recently received a preliminary recommendation for addition to the list by the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the UNESCO Memory of the World, Cultural Heritage Administration said.The move further increased the journal’s chances of getting a final recommendation from the committee dur

Koo Cha-myung, CEO of LS-Nikko Copper, received the prestigious “Copper Man of the Year” award from the Copper Club last week, according to the company.A managing director and the CEO’s son accepted the award in Koo’s place at the club’s annual event held in New York Wednesday.The decision was reached unanimously to award Koo, who is the first Korean to achieve the honor. After assuming his post in 2005, Koo helped raise the company sales from 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion) to 9 trillion won. The

The Korea Tourism Organization has published a guideline on English menus for Korean food and basic conversations for servers who receive foreign guests. The booklet offers names of about 4,300 Korean, Chinese and Japanese dishes frequently found in Korea, in the English, Japanese and Chinese languages. “We standardized the Korean names of more than 4,000 dishes in foreign languages. And I hope it solves the problems we’ve had with poor translation of food menus in small and mid-size restaurants

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Theater“La Dame au Violoncelle”: TV actress Lee Jae-eun, who started her career as a child actress, is making a comeback with a play written by French playwright Guy Foissy. Titled “La Dame au Violoncelle (The Lady of the Cello),” the drama tells the story of an unhappy, depressed woman who is accused of murdering her husband. It is said to be a story of “the quest for happiness.” The play runs from June 5-30 at You-Theater in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul. Tickets range from 20,000 won to 30,0