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MADELINE MILLER dissects the central hero of Homer’s Iliad in her novel The Song of Achilles. The Iliad, one of the oldest works of Greek literature, recounts the end of the Trojan War and the quarrels between King Agamemnon and the demi-god Achilles. While the classic is centered on themes of war,
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Senior Primo Laura
2021.09.04 09:40
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“I DO not create beautiful artworks,” said Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko when a viewer complimented her works for their beauty. What Taeko embodies in her artwork is the pain of comfort women, mine workers, and poets under Japanese colonialism. This year, to celebrate Taeko’s 100th birthday, Yonsei
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Kim Shin-young
2021.06.06 00:28
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SEX IS complicated. It can be a beautiful experience of vulnerability and realization of one’s desires, but it can also be a woman’s source of anxiety, pain, and shame. How do we navigate sex to get the most mutual pleasure out of the experience? Katherine Angel’s book Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Agai
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Scott Dora
2021.06.06 00:27
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IMPRESSION SUNRISE, La Grenouillère, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny are some of Oscar-Claude Monet’s most celebrated pieces, known for their gentle and immersive depictions of seasonal atmospheres. Monet was a French painter who began impressionism, a 19th-century artistic movement typified by delic
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Jung Ye-won
2021.05.09 01:34
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WHEN YOU walk into an exhibition meant to embody the spirit of Seoul, would you expect the first sight to be a bright moon over a dark ocean? At the heart of Insadong, 2021 Delight Seoul gives you another perspective of Seoul, reinterpreting its life and individuality through new media art. Design S
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Senior Primo Laura
2021.05.09 01:27
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"I AM aware I am an imperfect messenger on climate change. The world is not exactly lacking in rich men with big ideas about what others should do," acknowledges Bill Gates in his newest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Gates directly addres
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Senior Primo Laura
2021.04.04 14:57
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THE MBN TV show I am a natural is a popular nature documentary that started airing in Aug. 22, 2012. The show has now aired more than 440 episodes and has an average viewer rating of 5%. According to Hanguk Gyungjae, it is one of the most popular culture programs on Korean broadcast. The show strive
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Kim Nayoon
2021.04.04 14:54
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THE JOSEON dynasty sounds like a time that lay a great distance away from us and one that is impossible to revisit today. The nearest connection most people have had with the generation would be through Korean dramas or history channels on television. Experiencing a historical event through a second
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Jung Ye-won
2021.03.07 18:24
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THE SISTINE Chapel ceiling, The Last Judgement, Pietà, David—these are just a few of Michelangelo’s highly acclaimed Renaissance masterpieces. Most of his artworks are frescoes [1] in the Sistine Chapel and marble sculptures that are part of the architecture, making them impossible to transport for
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Kim Shin-young
2021.03.07 18:21
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TODAY, ART exhibitions are becoming more interactive and digital than they have ever been. We are now faced with installations that aren’t just encased in a frame on the wall, but are expanding across all four walls and even the floor. With the projected images constantly changing from the interacti
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Kim Shin-young
2020.11.30 03:41
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HUA MULAN is an honored war hero who appears in a Chinese folktale from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-589). Disguised as a man, Mulan joins the imperial army in her father’s stead and trains to become a warrior to protect China from the Northern invaders. The ancient legend has bee
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Lee Jong-min
2020.11.01 19:48
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SOME PEOPLE call it boring while others describe it as the best game of the century. Animal Crossing has earned a huge number of fans since its launch in 2001. The hype was especially excessive for this year’s release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the newly developed Nintendo Switch version. For the people who are adhering to the #StayHome directives amid the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened social distancing guidelines, the game has provided a so-called “healing effect” to its players. In order to understand the Animal Crossing fandom, one should take a look at how the series has evolved;
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Lee Jong-min
2020.05.02 00:12
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THE bestselling book of 2018 The 90s are Coming by Lim Hong-taek has become the bible for those who wish to understand the mindset and behavior of Koreans born in the 1990s. Today, it has established itself as the go-to book for those who find themselves uttering the line “back in my day…” It is also an interesting psychological report for the younger generation who, upon reading, will realize that their own actions may be somewhat of an enigma for their seniors. As part of the “90s generation” clan myself, this review aims to fact-check the author’s analysis of Korea’s youth. Rest assu
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Kwon Do-in
2020.04.04 16:13
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AS YOU walk into the exhibition, you are overtaken by a hanging portrait of Chu-sa Kim Jeong-Hui. Referred to as the father of documental archaeology and chu-sa-chae**, Chu-sa lived during the late Joseon dynasty from 1786 to 1856. The biographical exhibition is divided into three themes: Hak ye il chi, Hae dong tong you, and You hee sam mae, each theme defining a period of his life. In celebration of his contributions to Korea, the Seoul Arts Center invites you to explore Chu-sa’s life and his best works. Hak ye il chi: Chu-sa’s literary and artistic works become one The first pieces in the e
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Noh Ruby
2020.03.13 03:54
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KIM JI-YOUNG, born in 1982, had high hopes of excelling at her job in an advertising company. She was young, curious, and above all, ambitious—but such desires were immediately dissolved in the face of reality. Kim, like many other women in South Korea, got married, and eventually had to leave her job due to heavy household chores and child nursing. She was stuck in a vicious cycle of labor, and felt her identity fade away little by little. Her enthusiastic and creative self with visions of her career ceased to exist; she was now just one of the many mothers and wives in postmodern Korea
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Kim Kyu-ri
2019.12.02 02:28
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TEENAGERS. THEY are either “thinking about shagging, about to shag, or... shagging,” as the Netflix series Sex Education so frankly puts it. Indeed, it is only natural that teenagers—no doubt driven by their hormones—are enthusiastic yet confused about sex. According to Defining Sexual Health, a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence is a period which sets the basis for mature sexual relationships. Teenage sex education is essential in educating the next generation of youth to be well-informed, but also to destigmatize sex as a taboo subject. In fact,
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Kwon Do-in
2019.11.02 22:22
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WHAT DOES your ideal music festival look like? Does it involve standing in the sun for hours without any updates on your favorite artist showing up? Or do you imagine you and your friends huddled together in fear of tents falling on top of you due to harsh winds and heavy rain? If this sounds like a holiday to you, then this festival would have been your personal paradise. On the last weekend of July, tens of thousands of people fell prey to one of the biggest scams in festival history, as many entered with high hopes but came out empty-handed from the Holiday Land Festival (HLF) 2019. What wa
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Noh Ruby
2019.09.04 00:12
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“And yet through it all, Cinderella remained ever gentle and kind…” ~ Narrator, Cinderella (1950) IT IS a strange thing – not many people remember this key takeaway from one of the most iconic Disney princess films of all time. When we think of Cinderella, many tend to remember the magical glass slippers and the promises of true love with a “Prince Charming.” However, tucked away and often forgotten are lessons of courage and kindness Cinderella conveys despite all the adversities she faces. Cinderella’s endearing qualities have always been the driving force of the narrative&mdash
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Azrin Tan
2019.06.03 00:08
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“IT’D BE better if the world would all slow down,” the song “ClosedLoop” woefully laments, the acoustic arrangement in the background deceptively simple and the voice that accompanies it hushed. After a series of drum taps follows a slight distortion that mutes the clear guitar sounds, and then immediately intensifies. The song is somber, wondering about the benefits of facing reality when one can choose to stay home, and its message is enhanced by the sleek atmosphere the musical arrangement creates. This is a talent that music artist Elliot Moss has mastered in his 2017 album, Boomerang. The
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Kim So-yeon
2019.05.07 13:06
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A CROWN of bright yellow daffodils, magenta hibiscus, and orange dahlias outline the portrait of a woman adorned with gold nuggets and rainbow beads. At first glance, we picture Frida Kahlo and her famous self-portraits. Yet Frida isn’t the only pioneer of colorful, vibrant art. A traveler, writer, and artist, Chun Kyung-ja expressed her pain and sorrow through spiritual motifs and saturated hues. Chun is well known as a figure of contemporary and modern Korean art, and her works deal with unconventional themes portrayed through original, novel methods. Like Frida’s, Chun’s colorful paintings
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Kim Kyu-ri
2019.04.04 01:33