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I watched The Interview with a North Korean defector

Posted on 5 January 2015 by admin

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/23066/1/i-watched-the-interview-with-a-north-korean-defector Lucy Edwards, Dazed, 5 January 2015. By the end of 2014, everybody in the world had said their piece on the controversial James Franco and Seth Rogen film The Interview. Is it offensive? Should it be banned? Is America … Continue reading →

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New Stunningly Elaborate Scenes Created Without Photoshop by Jee Young Lee

Posted on 5 January 2015 by admin

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jee-young-lee-update Jenny Zhang Seoul-based artist Jee Young Lee devotes weeks and months to building incredibly elaborate scenes by hand for the sake of taking a single photograph—all without the use of digital manipulation. Confined to the small space of her … Continue reading →

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Former North Korean Poet Laureate Says ‘The Interview’ Is As Explosive As a Real Bomb Being Dropped on Kim Jong-un

Posted on 2 January 2015 by admin

https://news.vice.com/article/former-north-korean-poet-laureate-says-the-interview-is-as-explosive-as-a-real-bomb-being-dropped-on-kim-jong-un By Katie Engelhart “Who knows?” mused actor Seth Rogen last June while speaking with a Rolling Stone reporter about the eventual release of his film The Interview — a comedy in which North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is assassinated … Continue reading →

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Kim Jong Il’s former sushi chef sees coup potential

Posted on 13 January 2014 by admin

In exclusive interview, Kenji Fujimoto says womanizing prompted Jang purge http://www.nknews.org/2014/01/kim-jong-ils-former-sushi-chef-sees-coup-potential/ January 13th, 2014 Kosuke Takahashi1 TOKYO – A chef who served the very top of the Pyongyang elite thinks Kim Jong Un may soon face challengers intent on usurping … Continue reading →

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Artist Creates Elaborate Non-Photoshopped Scenes in Her Small Studio

Posted on 3 December 2013 by admin

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lee-jeeyoung-stage-of-mind-room Alice Yoo Like American artist Sandy Skoglund, Jee Young Lee creates highly elaborate scenes that require an incredible amount of patience and absolutely no photo manipulation. For weeks and sometimes months, the young Korean artist works in the confines … Continue reading →

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The 18th Presidential Inaugural Address

Posted on 25 February 2013 by admin

“Opening a new Era of Hope” http://english1.president.go.kr/activity/speeches.php?srh%5Bpage%5D=3&srh%5Bview_mode%5D=detail&srh%5Bseq%5D=2617&srh%5Bdetail_no%5D=1 My fellow Koreans and seven million fellow compatriots overseas, As I take office as the 18th-term President of the Republic of Korea, I stand before you today determined to open a new era … Continue reading →

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Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire’s speech at AKS dinner 22 Nov 2012

Posted on 22 November 2012 by admin

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=838187482 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Thank you Warwick for that introduction. I would also like to thank Baroness Perry, who is the reason we are able to meet here in Parliament. It is a great pleasure to speak to you this … Continue reading →

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The Good Parts To Life In North Korea

Posted on 2 October 2012 by admin

http://www.nknews.org/2012/10/the-good-parts-to-life-in-north-korea-2/ Question: Was there anything good or positive about living in North Korea? All we hear about are the bad things. Do any of the DPRK’s citizens benefit from the state? Maxwell B. Jae-young: Although media and news only show … Continue reading →

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A Writer Evokes Loss on South Korea’s Path to Success

Posted on 7 September 2012 by admin

LIKE so many South Korean parents at the time, Shin Kyung-sook’s mother saw education as her daughter’s best chance of escaping poverty and backbreaking work in the rice fields. So in 1978 she took her 15-year-old daughter to Seoul, where … Continue reading →

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Interview: London based Korean artist, Francesca Cho

Posted on 12 March 2011 by admin

London based artist Francesca Cho has studied and worked in London for the past seventeen years. I was curious at how an artist who has lived in London for such a long time would think about her self-identity and how … Continue reading →

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