Artist Kim Sooja’s multimedia works explore geography and history via focus on fabricDespite her calm exterior and soothing voice, there is a certain amount of tenseness in Kim Sooja, a Korean artist based primarily in New York ― “primarily” because her work has her on the road for stretches of time.The palpable tension is a deliberately cultivated one, product of a purposeful decision. “There are habitual elements that the body feels and you need to work against it. You need tension, awareness,

Psy to hold press conference on Tuesday in Seoul to talk about his success in the U.S., future plansKorean pop singer Psy has broken the Guinness World Record with his smash hit “Gangnam Style.” Guinness World Records has named his music video the most “liked” in history, earning over 2,295,231 “likes” on YouTube as of Saturday.“Having been the ‘have you seen this?’ video of the last two months across the web, it’s great to be able to award a record for this tremendously popular video,” said Dan

The Korean thriller, “Bittersweet Life,” which starred iconic actor Lee Byung-hun, is poised to be remade in Hollywood. Writer and director Kim Ji-woon’s 2005 crime thriller was about the turmoil involving family rivalries in the Korean mob.Allen Hughes, producer of the popular Jack the Ripper horror film “From Hell,” which starred Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, will be in charge of the film’s remake, according to an online news outlet. Huges also directed the post-apocalyptic

Hallyu boy band TVXQ will kick off its first world tour, “TVXQ! LIVE WORLD TOUR Catch Me,” at the Gymnastics Stadium in Olympic Park, Seoul, on Nov. 17, its management agency S.M. Entertainment announced on Thursday. The group’s tour will cover China, Thailand and other countries around the world, the company said. It will be TVXQ’s first solo concert in Korea since “THE 3rd ASIA TOUR CONCERT Mirotic” held in February 2009, before the group lost its three members Kim Jun-su, Park Yu-chun and Kim

 Rumors have surfaced about Wonder Girls’ leader Sun-ye’s supposed October wedding. “Woman Sense” magazine revealed this shocking announcement in their October issue claiming that Sun-ye was to marry her significant other, a Korean-Canadian missionary, whom she met on a missionary trip in Haiti.Sun-ye has however denied all the marriage rumors via her Twitter page posting, “I want to once again state that the rumors about a next month wedding are false.” A representative from Wonder Girls’ agenc

A scene from Psy's "Gangnam Style" music video.A light-hearted dance battle between rival gangs in Thailand took a nasty turn when the situation escalated into an actual shootout, the local press reported on Sunday.The two gangs were dining at the same restaurant in Bangkok on Friday when their teenage members started to challenge each other by performing the ‘horse-riding’ dance from the hit musi

Park Seo-won (left), CEO of Big Ant International, and Jungwook Hong, chairman of Herald Corporation, discuss the theme of “Sharing Wisdom: Classic, an Everlasting Source of Creativity” during the Herald Design Forum 2012 at COEX Auditorium in southern Seoul on Friday. (Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald)Leading design figures talk about their career, inspirations and visionTwo leading design figures talked on Friday about their sources of inspiration during a special session at the Herald Design Fo

Pop music“Keane Concert in Seoul”: British alternative rock band Keane will hold its first concert in Seoul on Sept. 24 at Olympic Park Handball Stadium. The four-member band with Tim Rice-Oxley on piano and bass, Tom Chaplin on vocals and guitar, Richard Huges on drums and Jesse Quin on bass and percussion is currently on world tour. Keane rose to fame with its debut album “Hopes and Fears” in 2004. The band’s hit song “Somewhere Only We Know” was featured in U.S. drama series “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Spy (Korea)Opened Sept. 20Drama. Comedy. Action. Directed by Woo Min-ho. Agent Kim (Kim Myeong-min) is a typical family man who lives with his wife and two children, struggling with rising rent and low pay, which he earns from selling illegal Viagra imported from China. But, that is just a camouflage. For 22 years, Kim, a North Korean agent, has lived a double life, disguised as an ordinary man. After 10 years of not hearing from his mother country, brutal agent director Choi (Yoo Hae-jin) finds

Carly Rae Jepsen’s album ‘Kiss’ is sweetCarly Rae Jepsen “Kiss”(604/Schoolboy/Interscope Records)The challenge for Carly Rae Jepsen following the monster success of “Call Me Maybe’’ -- arguably 2012’s biggest pop culture moment -- was to steer clear of one-hit wonder status. She did that with another pop smash, the anthem “Good Time,” and Jepsen shows she has even more hits on her second album, “Kiss.”The Canadian singer, brought to our attention by country-mate Justin Bieber, delivers what fans

The first hour of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” contains some of the most rapturous filmmaking of the year.The time is post-World War II America. The streets gleam with hope and possibility. Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an emotionally disturbed loner who already had trouble fitting in with his fellow sailors in the Navy, has landed a job as a portrait photographer at a swanky department store. The superb cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (“Tetro,” “Youth Without Youth”) lights the se

Singer Psy’s “Gangnam Style” is predicted to soon top the U.S. Billboard Single Chart “HOT 100,” after the song jumped from 64th place last week to 11th on Wednesday. The 34-year-old singer became the second South Korean artist and the first South Korean male artist to make the “HOT 100” chart after Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” ranked 76th in 2009. He is also the first singer to reach the chart with a song in the Korean language. Billboard said 188,000 people downloaded “Gangnam Style” from its websit