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Japan university to study Peru’s Nazca Lines

Mar 22, 2012

TOKYO (AFP) ― A Japanese university will open a research centre near Peru’s Nazca Lines to study the ancient geoglyphs which are designated a UNESCO world heritage site, Kyodo news agency said Wednesday. The new facility set up by Yamagata University will operate for 15 years to study the large designs etched into the ground in Peru’s southern plains, with Japanese and local researchers expected...
Wax museum spurs sticky situation in Iraq

Mar 22, 2012

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) ― An exhibit of wax statues depicting some of Shiite Muslims’ most beloved clerics, aimed at paying tribute to this Iraqi holy city’s contributions to culture, has been dipped in controversy as some Sunnis decry the figures as heretical. The wax sculptures are due to be displayed at a museum in Najaf, but even before the exhibit opens, some Sunni Muslims ― rarely shy about highl...
Greece mulled buying Acropolis statues from U.K., files show

Mar 22, 2012

ATHENS (AFP) ― Greece’s Bavarian-born King Otto considered offering Britain cash or antiquities in the 19th century in exchange for marbles removed from the Acropolis, previously unpublished historical files have shown. “There is a document to the foreign ministry, subsequently forwarded to Otto’s minister in London, with instructions on how to request the marbles back,” Acropolis Museum directo...
U.K. experts find 7th-century teen buried in her bed

Mar 19, 2012

LONDON (AP) ― Archaeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a 7th-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads. Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is known. Just over a dozen of these “bed bur...
Indian Cultural Center shows India’s diversity

Mar 18, 2012

Indian Cultural Center chief says day during Yeosu Expo will be designated India Day This is the seventh article of the series introducing cultural centers of different countries in Seoul. ― Ed. Some aspects of Indian culture like the cuisine or yoga have already permeated into the South Korean society. Banu Prakash, director of Indian Cultural Center, however, asserted that there is much more ...
S. Korea opens first cultural center in Mexico

Mar 14, 2012

South Korea opened its first Korean Cultural Center in Mexico Tuesday, hoping it will serve as a bridge between the two different cultures. The ministry has said it will open five more cultural centers in India, Belgium, Thailand, Brazil and Egypt by the end of this year as the recent popularity of Korean pop music and TV dramas, known as “hallyu,” has increased world interest in Korean culture....
South Korea opens first cultural center in Mexico

Mar 13, 2012

South Korea opened its first Korean Cultural Center in Mexico Tuesday, hoping it will serve as a bridge between the two different cultures. The three-story building located in the center of Mexico City features a library, two exhibition halls, rooms for learning Korean language and traditional Korean music, an audiovisual room and a multipurpose hall, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports...
Belgian director to head Asian Arts Theater

Mar 12, 2012

Frie Leysen, a renowned artistic director in the international theater scene, was named to lead the Asian Arts Theater, a major venue for Asian arts currently under construction in Gwangju, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday. Vice Culture Minister Kim Yong-hwan presented a letter of appointment to Leysen at his office in Seoul. Leysen is the first foreign director to head a major art venue i...
New Sejong head to foster public participation in arts

Mar 12, 2012

Activist-turned-CEO calls hallyu a product of cultural imperialism Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, with three major concert halls, two art galleries and nine art companies under one roof, has long been touted as one of the most prestigious art venues in Seoul. Bagh In-bae, new president of SCPA, wants to turn the center that has been pursuing high-level, professional arts for many years i...
Artist Heizer’s big rock rolls to California

Mar 12, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Rock stars are a common enough sight in Los Angeles but it’s not often when a rock is the star. Los Angeles residents are coming out to catch a glimpse of a massive boulder that arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before dawn Saturday, after lumbering across Southern California for the past week and a half. It will become the centerpiece of acclaimed earth artist ...
Czech Info Center to bring modern arts, literary works

Mar 11, 2012

“Milan Kundera and Franz Kafka are so well known here. (Their reputation in Korea) helps me introduce more names,” he said. Stressing a long tradition of cultural exchanges between the two countries, the ambassador said there’s a need to establish more direct exchange between contemporary writers in the two countries. Praha was the second city in Europe after Saint Petersburg in Russia where a M...
Stone cold curling

Mar 9, 2012

All about strategy A curling game consists of two teams of four players competing with eight stones. A team earns points based on the number of stones closest to the center of the target. The closer the stones are to the target, the more points are earned. Matches last 10 ends ― an end is similar to an inning in baseball, each team gets eight stones per end, two for each curler. The scoring i...
Korean traditional culture to highlight Seoul summit

Mar 8, 2012

Hallyu stars join PR campaigns, cultural events Korean traditional arts are the highlight of cultural events planned for the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Summit slated for March 26-27. “Foreigners still don’t really know the difference among cultures of China, Japan and Korea. I hope this upcoming event will help them to understand the uniqueness of Korean traditional culture,” Sohn Jin-chaek, general di...
Latest malady of the tech-obsessed: "no-mobile-phobia"

Mar 8, 2012

Do you panic if you're caught without your mobile phone? In a British survey released last week by mobile phone tech company SecureEnvoy, two thirds of 1,000 people polled said they feared being phoneless, up from 53 percent four years ago. Those aged 18-24 suffered the most (77 percent) followed by those aged 25-34 (68 percent). Women were nine percent more likely to be what is now dubbed nomop...
2013 Nordic festival in U.S. capital

Mar 7, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The renowned Kennedy Center venue in the U.S. capital will next year host dozens of artists and performing companies from Nordic countries to celebrate the region’s theater, dance, music, and food. The “Nordic Cool 2013” festival in February and March next year will feature visiting artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Faroe Islands, the center an...

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