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By Veeranganakumari Solanki

08 Nov 2012

World Biennal Forum No. 1 | Interview with Yongwoo Lee, President Gwangju Biennale Foundation

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  The culture360.org contributor, Veeranganakumari Solanki interviews Dr. Yongwoo Lee, President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation which has co-organised the world’s first Biennal Forum this month in Gwangju, South Korea. …

By Veeranganakumari Solanki

25 Oct 2012

World Biennial Forum No. 1 | Interview with Marieke van Hal, Director Biennial Foundation

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Marieke van Hal (NL) is the Founding Director of the Biennal Foundation which is co-organising the world's first Biennal Forum this month in Gwangju, South Korea. The event is supported …

By Kerrine Goh

14 Sep 2012

Loneliness from West to East | 'Han', the Korean loneliness emotion and its meaning for the European audiences

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Even with the gloomy, sad, depressing, painful, or distressing atmosphere and the main characters that are almost constantly disappearing or dying, the Western spectator is thankful for Korean movies, in …

By Kerrine Goh

04 Sep 2012

Cinema explores the life of Korean adoptees

Jung strolled lonely through the streets of Seoul. He was five, hungry and lost, as many other kids in the immediate afterword of the Korean War. A police agent found …

By Llobet & Pons

29 Jun 2012

Busan Biennale | work in process

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Llobet & Pons look at the history and development of the Busan Biennale in South Korea and reflect on how it can find a balance between the local and the …

By Anupama Sekhar

27 Mar 2012

Korea | An introduction to Cultural Policy - Part II

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In this article, the final of a two-part series, Kiwon Hong traces the development of cultural policy in South Korea from the 1990s onwards, when focus moved from regulation to …

By Anupama Sekhar

26 Mar 2012

Korea | An introduction to Cultural Policy - Part I

South Korea is among the first Asian countries whose cultural policy profile has been commissioned for the global cultural research platform, WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies (worldcp.org).

By Kerrine Goh

18 Oct 2011

16th BIFF Reportage, Part I: The Numbers Game

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Part One of an in-depth look at the 16th BIFF (Busan International Film Festival).

By Valentina Riccardi

13 Jul 2011

Festivals in society | Interview with Korean Sidance Festival Director, Lee Jong-Ho

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In this second of this two-part interview with culture360.org, Jong‐Ho Lee, Founding Artistic Director, SIDANCE Festival (Seoul International Dance Festival) talks about the importance of festivals in Asia.

By Bilqis Hijjas

12 Jul 2011

Strategies and structures from Asian dance festivals

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A report on a meeting in Kobe, Japan, in April 2011, to share case studies of dance festivals in Asia and to build a network among festival directors.

By Judith Staines

07 Mar 2011

Korea-Finland Connection | East-West dance incubator

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Culture360.org Europe Editor Judith Staines looks at a unique cultural exchange programme currently building connections between professional dance specialists in Finland and Korea.

By Bharti Lalwani

10 Feb 2011

Rethinking Museums | the Leeum Museum of Korea

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culture360.org contributor, Bharti Lalwani, interviews Jeon Seung-chang, Chief Curator of the Leeum Museum at the Samsung Museum of Art in Korea.

By Judith Staines

03 Dec 2010

Nomadic artists

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Judith Staines, Culture360.org’s Europe Editor, met Spanish artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons during their residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in Korea and asked them about their nomadic …

By Veeranganakumari Solanki

02 Nov 2010

10000 Lives: the 8th Gwangju Biennale

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Since the first Gwangju Biennale in 1995, Asia has seen a significant development of contemporary Asian art on the international circuit with more and more Biennales organised in the region.

By Kerrine Goh

31 Jul 2008

Publications on the Asian Film and Audiovisual Markets – Now Available

At the moment where Paris Cinema 2008 closed its programme – with the largest ever showcase of Philippines recent film productions –, the French capital welcomed the first film-symposium of …