#10 K-POP sexuality, and the blogosphere; Samcheong-dong; 3 Wise Monkeys; Expo Park Daejeon and more!

January 15th, 2012

In this 10 Magazine Korea Culture Report Dani, Paul and Charles discuss:

  • Hyun-a, pushing the sexuality boundary, Eat Your Kimchi/I’m no Picasso/Robeseyo, and what it all means to K-POP
  • Samcheong-dong, where the hip go to see and be seen
  • Blog of the Month: Three Wise Monkeys
  • Upcoming Events
  • Daejon’s Expo Park
  • Recommendations

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K-BUPPLEPOP!


Hyun-a’s Bubble Pop


“Asian Rebecca Blacks?”

Links:
Hyun-a’s Troublemaker reamed (Eat Your Kimchi)
Hyun-a as semi-feminist (I’m No Picasso)
Hyuna the Stripper and Ajosshi Fans (Roboseyo)

Samcheong-dong!
Sez the wikipedia
Says the Korea Tourist Organization

Blog of the Month
The Three Wise Monkeys

Calendar
The mighty 10 Mag Calendar

Daejeon’s Expo Park
From “Visit Korea”

From Paul's Flickr

The Future is the Past, at Daejeon Expo

Paul’s entire flickr collection (unfortunately all seeming to have undergone some bizarre kind of filtering) of the Daejeon Expo.

Recommendations
ChansBros Coffee
What Would Eve Do?
Pyeongchang Trout Festival
The Waffle House
Roll in Sushi, Itaewon

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10 Magazine’s Culture Report #10: Behind Namsan, The Ascension of Kim Jong-un, Schedule and More!

January 1st, 2012

In this 10 Magazine Korea Culture Report Dani, Rob from Roboseyo, Paul and Charles discuss:

  • The Backside of Namsan – Trams, Coffee and Dongkatsu
  • 10 brilliant events in the next two weeks, courtesy of the 10 Magazine Calendar
  • What happens to North Korea now that Kim Jong-il is dead (with Robosoyo)
  • Was it Kim Jong-il, or was it a lie? Rob tries to determine “real” reports about Kim Jong-il from false ones
  • Recommendations and Resolutions

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10 Magazine’s Korea Culture Report #9: Insadong; calendar; Jeju naval base & 7 wonders; Body Worlds and more!

December 15th, 2011

In this 10 Magazine Korea Culture Report Dani, Paul and Charles discuss:

  • A neighborhood that everyone knows, but often stops visiting – Insadong and a few blocks to each side.
  • 10 brilliant events in the next two weeks, courtesy of the 10 Magazine Calendar
  • The controversy swirling around the Jeju Naval Base
  • Jeju announced as one of the “new 7 wonders of the world.”
  • Body Worlds, an exhibit of plastinated corpses at the War Museum
  • Three recommendations

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INSADONG
Insadong according to “visit Korea”
Insadong on the Wiki

JEJU NAVAL BASE
Background from Japan Today
Stars and Stripes reports on Korea arguing that the US is not involved

JEJU IS A SEVEN WONDER
The Korea Times  reports, you decide!
Busan Haps attacks!

BODY WORLDS
The Official Body Worlds site

RECOMMENDATIONS
The Leeum Museum (The site apparently does not work on a Macintosh)
Korea’s War Museum at Samgakji Station
The Portable Library of Korean Fiction

 

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10 Magazine’s Korea Culture Podcast #8 (The Return Of!): Kyungnidan; Upcoming Events; Korean Politics; Wandeugi; Original Pizza; Roboseyo and More!

December 1st, 2011

We’re back, and renamed the 10 Magazine Korean Culture Podcast! We will return to our twice-a-month publication schedule (on the first and fifteenth).

The podcast still features Paul Matthews (Paul Ajosshi) and Charles Montgomery (www.ktlit.com) and now we’ve added Danielle (Dani) Falb, a military-wife who is relatively new to South Korea.

First we visit Kyungnidan; then we highlight 10 events (from the 10 Magazine Calendar) from the next two weeks; then a discussion of Korean politics including the Seoul Mayoral Elections, GNP response to Gong Ji-young’s The Crucible, and a brilliant video; Finally a look at a quite funny movie (Wandeugi), our blog choice (Roboseyo), and a few personal recommendations.

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Answer our trivia question (alas, you have to listen to the podcast!) and win a free subscription to 10 Magazine!

Mayoral Election:

From Bloomberg
From ROKdrop
The Economist Weighs in
And “The Diplomat”

Gong Ji-young and The Crucible:

KTLIT dicusses the GNP attacks on Gong
Wikipedia on the novel and movie
From the Hankyoreh

Korea – Land of Pizza:


Commentary from ZenKimchi
Wall Street Journal
Excellent semi-academic article on responses to the video

Wandeugi (Punch or 완득이) directed by Lee Han

Review from 10 Magazine’s own Paul Matthews.


Roboseyo makes it all clear for you!

Recommendations

Check out a review of Questioning Minds.

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Podcast 7

September 22nd, 2011

Paul surfs the wave – Korean theatre goes to Edinburg? Edinbugger? Some town in a country England has conquered.

Join Andy St. Louis and the whole crew as the crew painfully acquiesces to Andy’s desire to aurally pleasure photographer Joo Myung Duck.

Charles attempts to tamp down his obesity by hiking on Jeju-do. Eating a horse does not help.

Paul and Charles swear to replace Andy with the pshee-ranger (the “p” is silent) if Andy ever bails on a taping. Andy then puts the ape into taping.

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Joo Myung Duck’s My Motherland is by one of the most renowned photographers in Korea. This exhibition focuses on his remarkable works as the final project of three past exhibitions and presents about 90 works inspired by Korean traditional space and environment. In frozen Black and White photography, Joo captures the history that Korea is losing.

Jeju is cool….

Anju includes..

The New 10 Magazine website
CVG rocks subtitled movies
Something Andy said!

Check it out!

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Podcast 6 – Hwang Sun Won stories; The Lock Museum; Sangsangmadang Culture Center (UPDATE – Correct podcast now linked^^)

August 1st, 2011

After a summer hiatus, the boys at KCREPORT are back! We discuss a mega-collection of three smaller collections (pay attention! there will be a test!) of author Hwang Sun-won (3:09). Then, we visit the lock museum (15:10). Finally (22:04), we debate how to spell sangsangmadang, a hipper than though ‘culture center’ in Hongdae. During the course of this we discuss books, publishing, and reprise Andy’s hatred of the XZI-Ranger.

Then of course, in Noraebang we recommend things we like to do, and things that we thing you might like to do. Charles chats @ Sinawe and Crying Nut, two excellent Korean band. Paul discusses mubi.com, a place to meet film enthusiasts and discuss some odd films, including Kim Ki-young’s Hanyo’s The Housemaid. Andy pimps Koreagigguide.com, a great place to find music in Seoul.

For contacting us, we shout out to the doughty Ranger and Foreigner Joy (despite her support of Andy).

It’s thrilling, spilling, and illing, and all for you…

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Hwang Sun-won's "Lost Seouls"

Lost Seouls cover

 

일 차: Hwang Sun-won’s Lost Souls

Hwang Sun-won (March 26, 1915 – September 14, 2000) is one of Korea’s most famous short story writers.

We discuss a mega-collection of three of his smaller collections.

You can find a full review of this collection and www.ktlit.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

이 차: The Seoul Lock Museum

The museum, verging on an art gallery with its cutting-edge venue and atmospheric displays, brings together a collection of antique locks, latches and key charms from around the world, spanning from the 13th to the early 20th century. The majority of the collection is taken from the late Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Korea but there are examples dating as far back as the unified Silla period (676-935), as well as from China, India, Nepal, Europe and even Africa.

Address : 187-8, Dongsoong-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, Rep. of Korea
E-mail : choiga123@hanmail.net

 

 

삼 차: Sangsangmadang Culture Center

Address: Seoul-si Mapo-gu Seogyo-dong 367-5

Inquiries
- Korea Travel Phone +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
- For more info +82-2-330-6200 (Korean)

Operating Hours
Art Market, Gallery – 13:00 – 22:00
Art square – 12:00 – 23:00
Closed: Every first Monday of the month

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Podcast 5 – “Nowhere to Hide” by Lee Myeong-se: Qi Ranger; right, wrong, or evil?: Portable Library of Korea Literature

June 24th, 2011

Podcast Five and our (well, Paul and my) takes on a brilliant movie, 1999′s Nowhere to Hide by Lee Myeong-se (director and screenwriter. Then, with Andy absent, we can discuss his bete noire, the Qi Ranger and his various Korea themed online presences. Finally a brief description of the Portable Library of Korean Literature, a Jimoondang / Korean Literature Translation Institute collaboration to bring Korean Literature to the English-reading world.

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"Nowhere to Hide," Korean Movie Poster

"Nowhere to Hide," Korean Movie Poster

 

일 차: Another of Paul’s excellent finds, this movie is a bit difficult to find online, partly because an execrable English movie with the same name but an entirely different plot has been released.

IMDB discusses it here.

It is available for purchase at Amazon here.

Cast:   Park Jung-hoon, Ahn Sung-ki, Jang Dong-gun, Choi Ji-woo

Language…….Korean
Year………..1999
Genre……….Action/Comedy/Crime/Thriller
Run-time……..1hr 52min

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve AKA "Qi Ranger"

Steve AKA "Qi Ranger"

 

이 차: The handsome lad to the left is Steve, whose nom de plume is “Qi Ranger,” meaning God knows what.^^

He is ubiquitous (as we say in these parts), being found on the web, twitter, facebook, youtube, a youtube vlog,  Ustream, on the Korea blog, and any place two or more kids are found stringing cans together to make crude communication systems.^^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover of "Photoshop Murder" by Kim Young-ha

Cover of "Photoshop Murder" by Kim Young-ha

 

삼 차: The Portable Library of Korean Literature

Dive  into the Portable Library of Korean Fiction (PLKF). The PLKF is 26 books of short stories/novellas by authors of classic Korean modern literature including Yi Sang (The Wings), Kim Yu-jeong (The Camellias), Kim Moon-soo (The Chronicle of Manchwidang), and Ch’oe Yun (The Last of Hanako).

You can read Charles’ homage to the series here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

노래방: NoraeBang (We recommend!)

The Qi Ranger: Partly because it will infuriate Andy! We begin with his blog (which idiosyncratically loads to an instagram page – explore the menu above)

KTLIT’s coverage of the Seoul International Book Fair

Little Shop of Horrors: If you’re into that whole, musical theater thing.^^

The excellent Korean Foundation.

 

Next Podcast

Hwang Sunwon

The Lock Museum

Sangsangmadang

 

 

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Podcast Four: Seung Woo Back’s Photography and K-pop Eats its Kimchi

May 30th, 2011

They said it would never be achieved (well, the evil Qiranger said it)! But it is the fourth podcast and it features a lively discussion of an art exhibit in which Andy is quite well wrong (1:55), a discussion of K-pop in which Andy comes back strong (16:35), as well as a discussion of Eat Your Kimchi, a site about K-pop and other things (30:41).

Brilliant cultural analysis! Bitter digs at bloggers far more popular than we are! Some kind of crazy open-mic performance on K-pop from Paul! Only 40 minutes long!

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Curiously Sterile

 

일 차: Seung Woo Back’s photographic exhibition, of a quality we argue quite stridently about, is showing at artsonje in the super trendy (not quite HBC trendy, but pretty trendy!) Bukcheon neighborhood.

This exhibit did get Charles to dreaming of his career as a photographic artist, and he has now posted his first exhibit (curated by the spirit of Andy St. Louis)

 

 

 

 

Curiously refreshing

 

이 차: OK.. it’s just an excuse to post a picture of Lee Hyori, but we also have a discussion of K-pop, what we think it means in Korea and overseas.

DISCLAIMER: We are all really too old to understand any of this.^^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat Your Kimchi


삼 차: Eat Your Kimchi combines  Martina’s geekery and Simon’s smoldering good looks with amusing content and brilliant production values.

An amusing introduction to K-pop, Korean culture, and casual dog-abuse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

노래방: NoraeBang (We recommend!)

Seoul Performers: “You are not alone.” Charity benefit for.. well… charities. And stuff.

The Grand Narrative: Korean sociology, gender, and culture (with pics of hot K-pop women)

Wowsan.com: Collections of this and that

 

Next Podcast

Hwang Sunwon

The Lock Museum

And whatever Andy comes up with.



 

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Podcast Three: Nam June Paik, Hi-Seoul Festival and Korean Drinking Culture

May 16th, 2011

That’s right, we’ve made it to podcast three! Listen as we discuss the Nam June Paik Museum in Suwon and the man’s work (1:10), The Hi Seoul Festival (14:08), and finally discuss Korean drinking culture (27:05). And all this done with a beer bottle in hand at the microphone stand!

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Nam June Paik's "TV Cello"

 

일 차: Nam June Paik is the father of Video Art and now has a museum in Suwon which says on its webpage:

Opened to the public in 2008, the Nam June Paik Art Center, aspires to fulfill the artist’s wish by informing its activities through the development of creative and critical research into his thinking and practice. Inspired by the generosity, criticality, and interdisciplinary nature characteristic of both Paik’s work and life, the Nam June Paik Art Center is committed to developing the following:

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Seoul Festival Poster

Hi Seoul Festival Poster 2011

 

이 차: we discuss the Hi-Soul Arts festival, a 6-day festival held around the Hangang (River) and urban squares north of the Han.

 

You can see an excellent short video of some of this artisterociousness at the website of Andy’s nemesis and sworn enemy, the Qiranger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoo In Na endorses soju Chung Ha

Yoo In Na Drinks!

 

삼 차: Korean Drinking Culture

Why do we have a picture of  Yoo In Na holding a cup of soju?

Because we can!

Listen to the three of us pouring a 40 for our lost homies, and drinking six different kinds of Korean beer,  as we take a stab in the dark at figuring out the place drinking has in Korean culture.

Ultimately, I think we conclude we like it, and wish Haejangguk actually worked!

 

 

 

 

노래방: NoraeBang (We recommend!)
Inkbomb 2011; a celebration of all that is tattooing, including the traditional Korean kind.
The Gana Art Space in Insadong
Qi Ranger The Chuncheon Mime Fest

 

Next Show:

The Jimoondang/KLTI Collection of Korean translated fiction
The ArtSonje Museum
K-pop and Eat Your Kimchi


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A Visit To The Jeonju International Film Festival

May 12th, 2011

Earlier this month I made my way down to Jeonju to check out some of the films they had on offer at their 2011 festival. What follows is a rather longwinded description of my whirlwind visit.

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