Over 100 works by up-and-coming and veteran artists on auctionArtday, a subsidiary of the Herald Media group, opened its fifth auction last week. It featured 110 paintings, photographs and prints by acclaimed Korean artists, ranging from up-and-comers such as Park Hyung-jin, Kim Jun and Lee Ho-ryon, to established figures Kim Jong-hak, Kim Chang-ryul and Jang Uk-jin. With its fifth auction, Artday has demonstrated that online auctions can present high-priced artworks by established artists. Prev

The first week of July will be a busy one for the music industry as major groups such as Super Junior, 2NE1, Wooyoung of 2PM and ZE:A release their latest work. Known to many as Asia’s “Emperor Gwanggaeto,” Super Junior released its sixth album on July 1 and will perform on “Mcountdown” for its comeback show on July 5.“It is a new performance with modern house-style music. It will be a ‘war of stars’ with all the major groups making comebacks, but we will do our best to comply with fans’ love an

Overseas visitors putting entertainment companies’ rest-and-shop spaces on itineraryInfluencing overseas artists and attracting a burgeoning fan base that knows no borders, it should come as no surprise that Korean pop is one of the reasons why tourists visit South Korea. What might baffle some is how overseas K-pop fans tour South Korea once they arrive, since music, by definition, is intangible. K-pop, however, is proving to be more than just an audio-visual experience. When music goliath SM E

Prima ballerina with Korean National Ballet leaves the troupe to challenge herselfIt is much easier to settle for the present. But for prima ballerina of Korean National Ballet Kim Joo-won, the title given to her more than a decade ago is something that she has to lay down now ― for a new beginning.“I was Kim Joo-won of Korean National Ballet for the last 15 years. That was the only name for me. But I just wanted to do something creative, challenging and something that shows more of Kim Joo-won,

Filmmaker and theater director Jang Jin brings back his 1995 work ‘Heotang'Imagine living the life of a prisoner in this unusual jail cell.You have no idea why you are here. No one tells you when you’ll be released, and everything you do is observed by five surveillance cameras that are placed around your ceiling. But other than that, life is pretty comfortable. It’s almost as if living in a five-star hotel. You get high quality cuisine for all your meals, listen to Karajan, and sip on expensive

Archeologist Im Hyo-jai speaks on his findings of Buyeo artifactsMost Koreans think of the wall paintings of Goguryeo tombs and the splendid gold crowns worn by the Silla royals when asked to name some of the most famous relics of Korea’s ancient three kingdoms period (B.C. 37 ― A.D. 668)Unlike the ones of Goguryeo (B.C. 37 ― A.D. 668) and Silla (B.C. 57 ― A.D. 935), relics of Baekje (B.C. 18 ― A.D. 660) are generally unknown to the public. For many, it’s hard to think of the iconic artifact of

Mid-career artists attempt bold, new approachMid-career artists are usually identified by their own signature styles established over a number of years that gained them domestic and international recognition.“Most artists concentrate on creating a solid, complete and consistent style. The mid-career artists in their 50s and 60s introduced in this exhibition also have pioneered their own paths for more than 30 years,” said Kim Sung-won, fine arts professor at Seoul National University of Science

Multi-talented singer Solbi is holding the first solo exhibition of her paintings in July. Titled “Another Name of Desire,” the exhibition will feature 12 paintings that reflect her own way of observing the world, according to her agency. Solbi has been active not only in singing, but also in broadcasting, musicals and acting. And now she hopes to expand her genre to painting. “I want to be brave and challenge many things in life and live a splendid life,” she told a local daily. Solbi debuted a

K-pop group After School has returned to Korea with its fifth album “Flashback,” after a successful year in Japan.With the new album, full of electronica sounds and beats, the girls are trying to rekindle the image of their debut in 2009.“The album title ‘Flashback’ means that we are trying to go back to our initial image to the fans when we first debuted,” said Jung-A, the group’s lead vocalist, in a news conference held in Seoul on Wednesday.“For our new album, we are trying to show what fans

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― Love him or hate him, there is no escaping Jeff Koons, the king of pornographic kitsch, in Frankfurt these days, with a mammoth double retrospective in two of the city’s main museums.Ubiquitous oversized posters line the river front and are plastered across every metro station proclaiming “Wow” or “Must See” for what is being hailed as the biggest-ever show of works by the 57-year-old American pop artist, opening here on Wednesday. The Schirn Kunsthalle, one of the city’s two m