Ride to the Rhythm: Gwangju Rhythm and Bicycle Festival, pictures
Around 500 Koreans and foreigners gathered at the park for this adventure. Jason Newland gave us the scoop.
Category: Features
Korean Animation
What exactly has the Korean animation industry contributed to the cartoon world? Read about it here!
Punk Day III reviewed
What Punk Day does right is that it keeps things concise. Punk rock is not the most diverse music, so putting five bands on the bill may seem like a daunting number, but Punk Day consistently keeps the sets short and sweet leaving the crowd more anxious than burnt out for each new band.
My Olympic Summer
It is only once in a lifetime that the Olympics are likely to come to one’s home country and there was no way Andrea Edwards was going to miss it.
Daein Night Market
If you pass through Daein Market on a normal day, you may not notice anything special about it right away. You will see the usual vegetable stands, smell the salty air preserving dried fish and hear the friendly calls of elderly shop owners. However, upon closer examination of this archeological site, one can also feel the vibrations of new life pulsing through the veins of each alleyway.
The Gwangju International Media Arts Festival
This is an exciting time to be in Gwangju; art is very much alive in our city, don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. Come and check out the Gwangju International Media Arts Festival and become part of art in real-time.
Gwangju World Music Festival
Music is a universal language that also carries within it great differences. Music is living history. It is the influences of culture that run deep wherever we come from, told and shared in song. In one place we can hear the wonderful diversity this world has to offer in a language we can all understand. It is what music does best.
The 2012 Jisan Valley Rock Festival: A Review
Of the handful of music festivals held in hot and humid Korean summers, Jisan stands out for precisely one reason: location. Tucked away in the inner folds of Incheon city, the Jisan Forest Resort presents an idyllic landscape; a winding strip of land surrounded on either side by lush green walls with a cool stream flowing around its circumference.