An exhibition hall dedicated to Korea’s historic and cultural relics has opened in the State Museum of History of Uzbekistan, the National Folk Museum of Korea announced Tuesday. The hall will be managed by the Uzbekistan Museum in Tashkent, while all the exhibits will be provided by the Korean institution through the Korean Embassy of the Central Asian country. The newly opened hall in the Uzb...

Shinhan Bank will support the on-going restoration project of Namdaemun, the historic gate in Seoul which was severely damaged by arson fire in 2008, the Cultural Heritage Administration announced Tuesday. The bank and the cultural administration signed a contract Tuesday morning, confirming the bank’s financial support for two parts of the restoration project: The creation of giwa, traditional ...

Lawmakers, business leaders and art figures urged a quick passage of the Mecenat bill first proposed three years ago at a press conference held on Tuesday at Press Center in central Seoul. Rep. Cho Yoon-sun and Lee Seong-heon of the ruling Grand National Party; Park Young-ju, head of the Korean Business Council for the Arts; Lee Seong-rim, head of The Federation of Artistic & Cultural Organizati...

Artists have issued an open call to creative people who want to join them for a second day of performance art on the Seoul subway system this Saturday. The first Performance Art in Subway Cars on Aug. 20 involved the work of nine groups and individuals from six countries, including Morocco and Myanmar. The idea is to perform on the subway itself as it moves from stop to stop. This event is exp...

Camarata Music Company is holding its autumn concert Saturday. The concert will feature music ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, sung by the CMC Chorale. The program will include a range of musical styles from classical to jazz and pop. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at Chung Dong First Methodist Church in central Seoul. Tickets are 15,000 won in advance or 25,000 won at the doo...

Probationary Theater Company will present “If These Tables Could Talk” from Friday through Sunday at White Box Theater in Seoul. The comic drama is set in a New York restaurant, where the diners’ private conversations are shown in turn. Threading this together are the waitresses who move from table to table, while the unusual lives of the seemingly normal customers is slowly revealed. Doors op...

A lecture hosted by the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday Sept. 6 promises to put paid to the idea that North Korean literature is dull. Jacco Zwetsloot will introduce the world of North Korean comic books, along with some of his favorite extracts. Published since the early 1980s, Zwetsloot says the cartoons tend to focus on three things: cautionary tales, how to spot spies, and heroic tales fro...

Entries are open until Oct. 2 for the 2011 Busan Global Center Photo Contest. Photographers entering are asked to submit photos that show the city’s international side under the theme “opening up to differences and striving for harmony.” First prize is 1 million won, followed by second and third prizes of 600,000 won and 300,000 won. There is also a 300,000 won prize for the most popular photo ...

Seoul city government has started to offer business start-up consulting service in Korean for foreigners who feel comfortable speaking Korean. The city has run a business startup class of 100 aspiring foreign entrepreneurs in English since March, but non-English speakers had trouble keeping up with the class because they are not so fluent in the language, according to city officials. On Saturda...