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GAPYEONG, Gyeonggi Province -- South Korea’s biggest jazz festival completed its four-day run on Monday with a total of 42 acts from around the world. The Jarasum International Jazz Festival, which started in 2004, takes place in October every year on Jara Island, a river island in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province -- some 40 minutes from Seoul by the ITX Cheongchun High Speed Train. This year, more than 30,000 music...

Known as music for grannies and scorned by fans of K-pop, trot is making a hip comeback – but can this wildly sentimental music ever break out of its home country?

[INTERVIEW] Migrant workers lives explored in dance performance, A Seventh Man Posted : 2021-06-01 15:22 By Park Ji-won Choreographer Jung Young-doo / Courtesy of LG Arts Center"A Seventh Man," a dance piece by choreographer Jung Young-doo dealing with migrant workers, will be performed again, 11 years following its creation in 2010. The work, inspired by the book with the same title, "A Seventh Man," (1975) a book by John Berger and Jean Mohr about the lives of migrant workers in Europe, exp...