By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)A mask is made to cover the face. But it doesn't stop simply covering the face. It sometimes has the art of creatively representing an individual other than the original on

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)After a couple of moves, the New York Korean Church moved to the present location in 1927, with Cho Byeong-ok and Lee Yong-seol leading a campaign to purchase a church building

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)The Temple Stay Program which was initiated on the occasion of 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup Games is now becoming one of the unique cultural events. At the time of its inaugurati

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)The Hangul Day is again becoming a holiday since 2013. The holiday designation of Hangul Day was abolished in 1991 in consideration of the fact there were too many holidays and

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Yeoyudang is Dasan Jeong Yak-yong's another penname. The year 2012 is the 250th anniversary of his birth, and UNESCO selected Jeong Yak-yong as an individual who should be

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)The ownership title of the building, which was first used as the legation of the old Chosun Empire in Washington, D. C. of the United States of America was formally transferred

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)It was known that as of November 21, 2012, the number of foreign tourists who have visited Korea surpassed the 10 million mark. This is the 7th of all Asian countries. This lan

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Already in October, the wind is high and the frost in the dawn,All the vegetables in and out the wall being harvested,Prepare for the upcoming winter with Kimchi made delicious

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Up until 1970s, we Koreans had to prepare wintering by stockpiling at home a few thousands of briquettes, a few tens of heads of Napa cabbage for Kimchi, and a few bags of rice

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)The method and instrument of transporting things differs from place to place, from race to race, for the landscape people live on and the things they move are different. During

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)A plow is used to plough the field; a shovel is used to turn the soil; a pick is used to dig the land. There are many a different farming tools, but the hand plow is the most u

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)I am not quite sure if that picture is still kept intact even today, but the front facade of the main Blue House, Korea's presidential palace, is painted with the image of

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Statistically, our Republic has passed the population mark of 50 million as of last June 23, 2012. Our per capital income of $20,000.00 with that population made us the seventh

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Fleur Pellerin, who was born in 1973 and adopted away to a family in France when she was only six months old, 2012 became a Cabinet minister in charge of small and medium busin

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Bernard Leach, a world-renown English pottery theoretician who was known to have turned his career to the world of pottery when enamored in the Chosun ceramics while engaged in

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)The first specially naturalized Korean was born on March 21, 2012. Yohan, aged 53, director of the International Clinic of Severance Hospital, is the very protagonist. He is th

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)How fresh it is to see/ a foreign in our country.Black or white, or half black half white/ how fresh it is to see a different color, a different look.A different eye, a differe

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)This exposition, with its curtain raised on the last May 12, is presently on the go successfully. Under the subject 'The Seas Alive, Breathing Seashore,' it will run fo

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)This expression was originated from a book titled "San Gyeong Pyo." or a book of mountain scenes published in 1769 by a Silhak scholar named Sin Gyeong Jun in the years of King

By Jeongnam Kim(Former Senior Presidential Secretary for Education·Culture·Society, World Korean News advisor)Daijangkyung is the complete collection of Buddhist Sutras, Laws and Treatises. The word is originated from Sanscrit, and the collection includes the Buddhist sutras, Laws and