Lee Seung-ah (이승아)

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  New Full Moon Day
  2012/02/03, Source,
  Above picture: (Full moon has a special meaning in Korea; photo courtesy of Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Moon has a special meaning for Korean people. A symbol of prosperity and good fortune, the Moon has long influenced life patterns and lifestyles in Korea. In traditional communities where people farmed and fished for a living, the lunar cycle provided a dependable schedule for when to start and end each year of agricultural work. The first full Moon of the lunar year, called Jeongwol Daeboreum, came to mark the beginning of the farming year and became an event as important as Seollal, the Lunar New Year,...More

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  New agency to promote Hallyu
  2012/01/31, Source,
  (Photo courtesy of MCST) Culture Minister Choe Kwang-shik, along with First Vice Minister Kwak Young-jin and Culture and Arts Bureau Director Park Sun Tae, attended the official launching ceremony of a new ministry agency for the promotion of Hallyu on January 30,...More

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  [Contribution] Hallyu brings color to the nation of Tango
  2012/01/30, Source,
  Not only me but most Argentines were not familiar with Korea, since the Asian nation does not stand out, being hidden behind China and Japan. I first got to know about Korea because of the taekwondo boom in Argentina and then, just a few years ago, I had access to news on K-Pop and Korean movies filmed by Director Kim Ki-Deok through the Internet. Still, there were not many opportunities to learn about Korean culture except for information about samul nori, or K-pop events, and the reason might be the geographic distance between Argentina and Korea. However, the Korean culture festival held at Avenida Cinema on October 14 last year was a fresh shock to me,...More

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  Asia's top models come together
  2012/01/19, Source,
  Models from 15 Asian nations came to Seoul Olympic Park for the 2012 Asia Model Festival Awards (AMFA) for two days from January 17 to 18. Hosted by the Korea Model Association, the award ceremony provides a chance for Asian nations to communicate with each other by sharing and exchanging their own pop culture and fashion trends. Participants gathered from nations including China, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore, under the slogan "Asia is One".. Representative models, singers, actors, and major figures in the fashion and beauty industry for each nation were brought together for the seventh annual AMFA. The largest model festival in the world and the only event of its kind in Asia, this year's AMFA gathered around 4,000 domestic and international guests in the event hall,...More