아시아 각국의 전통 문화를 뽐내다

 

Asians show off traditional cultures

 

2010-06-23

 

Pyounghwa Plaza in World Cup Park in Mapo-gu was filled with unfamiliar sights on Sunday as people from different Asian countries gathered to introduce their traditional cultures.

The annual “Asia Culture Festival,” hosted by the Asia Culture Festival Organizing Committee and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, was held under the theme “One Asia,” aiming to provide a venue to experience different Asian cultures and thus improve understanding of neighboring countries.

Visitors crowded at the “Asian Village” where booths representing each participating country -- Thailand, Mongolia, Vietnam, Japan, Nepal, China, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Malaysia, India and South Korea -- were set up.

 

 

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[코리아헤럴드] 삼성에게 소니와 애플이란?

Samsung a partner or foe for Sony and Apple?

 

 

2009-12-10

Are Samsung and Sony partners or rivals?

 How about Samsung and Apple?  The answer is both.

 Sony competes with (~와 경쟁하다; n.competition) Samsung in the TV market, but at the same time the Japanese company is one of the biggest buyers of Samsung's display screens.

 

 

 

read full article: Samsung a partner or foe for Sony and Apple?

아르헨티나 대사, 한국 탱고에 매료되다.

 

For outgoing Argentine Ambassador(대사) Alfredo Alcorta, much like his first love, he will never forget Korea....

 

 

 

read full article:  Argentine envoy's last tango in Korea, or is it?

다국적 아티스트들, 한국의 경계를 뛰어넘다

 

 

Conventional standards like nationality are becoming more and more meaningless in our time for defining individuals.

More than 1.2 million expats are living in Korea today and that, of course, includes those who are artists.

Some of them, who have already blurred the border of their "home" countries by settling down in Korea, are set to break more cultural limits.

 

 

 

read full article: "Erasing boundaries in Korea through art"

동대문 vs 남대문 쇼핑!

 

 

Koreans' knack (솜씨) for fine needlework and craftsmanship has been a boon (혜택)  to the country's tourism. Moderate prices added, the country counts among Asian tourists' favorite shopping destinations...

 

Read Full Article:  Shop until you drop 

한국, 관광객도 인종타별

 

 

한국, 관광객도 인종차별

Koreans tend to (~하는 경향이 있다) show greater hospitality (친절, 환대) to Western tourists than to their Asian neighbors (주변 아시아 국가보다 서양에서 온 관광객들에게), the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute (한국 문화관광연구원) said yesterday....

 

read full article:  한국, 관광객도 인종차별