The Green Space Vendetta
This is not an article about environmentalism or protecting the wildlife.
This is not an article about environmentalism or protecting the wildlife.
While in Yangnim-dong, Bondiso is a must-eat restaurant. Well known among Koreans, it awaits its customers with a special atmosphere, tempting them with exotic fusion dishes never before encountered in the City of Light.
There is no pure or perfectly correct saturi; everyone adopts a saturi to a degree and creates a unique blend of their own.
When we think about teaching and learning, we think of all the time and effort teachers put into lesson planning and the ever-present administrative work, and we think of all the time students spend hunched over their textbooks, doing homework, and cramming for tests. Little do we think of our own well-being or that of our students.
Just when you thought hanok architecture had been consigned to either moldering country homes or sterile boutique spaces, a lone hanok restorer in his mid-20s emerges with a vision to not only restore traditional houses in the present but also preserve their structural designs for posterity via 3D modeling.
The Raemi School’s name was coined by the first cohort of students themselves when the school was established in 2012. Raemi (래미) is the reversal of the syllables of the Korean word mirae (미래), which means “future.”
There’s a lot to celebrate in the Republic in August: the end of the War in the Pacific (WWII), the liberation of the Korean Peninsula, and the birth of the Republic of Korea.
These two artists both take as subject matter the dwellings of the alleyways and byways of the past, but as Kang discovers, they are not two peas in the same pod – no two artists are – but these two artists’ pods spring from the same pea plant.