The eighth World DJ Festival, an annual outdoor electronic music festival, will take place at the Yangpyeong Gangsang Sports Park, Gyeonggi Province, next month.The festival will be held May 4 and 5. Each day it will begin at 2 p.m. and continue all night until 5 a.m. the next day. This year, the event falls on a long weekend that includes the national holidays of Children’s Day (May 5) and Buddha’s Birthday (May 6).DJs from both Korea and abroad will play mostly electronic dance music, with hip

Tiffany, a Korean-American member of Girls’ Generation, is in a romantic relationship with Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul, a Thai-American member of K-pop group 2PM, their respective entertainment agencies confirmed on Friday.“Tiffany and Nichkhun have been in a relationship for four months,” a spokesperson for SM Entertainment, Girls’ Generation’s agency, told a sports daily.Rumors of their romantic relationship surfaced on March 11 after Nichkhun, 25, and Tiffany, 24, were seen on a date at a fusion

Biblical biopic ‘Son of God’ unlikely to persuade secular audiences

ROME (AP) ― A Paul Gauguin still life stolen from a wealthy collector’s home in Britain decades ago has been recovered after hanging for 40 years in a Sicilian autoworker’s kitchen. The worker bought the painting along with one of lesser value by another French artist, Pierre Bonnard, for about $100 at a 1975 Italian state railway auction of unclaimed lost items, said Maj. Massimiliano Quagliarella of the paramilitary Carabinieri art theft squad. Italian authorities on Wednesday estimated the st

Some 40 Chinese workers stride into a pond, form a line in the middle dividing it into two parts, then shortly after disperse, walking freely in the water. This odd performance is found in a scene from a 1997 video by Zhang Huan of China. His video is among the diverse media artwork by 24 international artists currently on view at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibits satirically, critically or sometimes humorously depict today’s political and social problems. Zhang intends to “rais

Wayne Shorter, one of the greatest saxophonists in the history of jazz and a 10-time Grammy winner, will stage his second live concert with the Wayne Shorter Quartet at the LG Arts Center in Seoul on April 12.The Wayne Shorter Quartet’s first performance in Korea in 2010 was entirely impromptu, with the pure improvisation dazzling local audiences at the time.The veteran ensemble will return to Seoul once again next week, with new jazz sounds, fresh interpretations and innovative compositions.The

Brian May and Roger Taylor of the legendary English rock band Queen ― behind all-time classic hits such as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You” ― will be making their way to Korea this summer as part of the Super Sonic 2014 festival first lineup. Popular “American Idol” eighth season runner-up Adam Lambert will be joining the iconic rock stars on stage, taking the mic as Queen’s honorary leading vocalist, which he has done on and off over the past few years.  May an

Paul McCartney, a former member of the legendary British band The Beatles, will hold his first-ever concert in South Korea next month, organizers said Thursday.The show is part of his “Out There” world tour that began in Brazil last year and has taken him to 23 big cities around the world. During the Seoul concert, scheduled for May 28 at Seoul’s Jamsil Stadium, McCartney will perform tracks on “New,” his new album released last year as well as songs from his career with The Beatles and as a sol

Philippe Jaroussky, Ian Bostridge to hold solo recitals in April

Media artist Shirin Neshat’s 20 years of work on show

The 20th edition of the Dream Concert, an annual showcase of popular K-pop acts, will take place at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on June 7, the concert’s organizer Korea Entertainment Producers’ Association said on Tuesday.Under the slogan “We Love You Korea,” this year’s Dream Concert is scheduled to feature today’s hottest K-pop groups including Girls’ Generation, EXO, Beast, KARA, 4minute, B1A4, VIXX, A Pink, Girl’s Day, T-Ara, U-Kiss, BTOB, Rainbow, Crayon Pop, Boys Republic, Dal Shabet and m

South Korean girl group 2NE1 has been chosen by U.S. media website BuzzFeed as one of “11 girl groups from around the world to love right now.” According to an article posted on the popular website Monday, 2NE1 is riffing on the format all over the world, along with British “X-Factor” champs Little Mix. The article further mentioned that the four members ― CL, Park Bom, Dara and Minzy ― are amazing dancers who create wild, over-the-top videos and that each have a distinct personality.The band’s