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...Project East,” which hits the runway tomorrow, was formulated in the summer of 2006 while Parent and Kim were in Korea. “We happened to meet up [while in Korea] and started talking about how we had discovered so many cool Korean designers during our summer there,” Kim says. “We wondered why Asian designers don’t get as much exposure as European designers and decided to try to change that.”EAST MEETS WESTKim and Parent compiled a list of professional designers of Asian descent...
...ruling family thinks not. “North Korea is not an ordinary dictatorship—it is a religious cult,” Hyun Sik Kim told 200 audience members yesterday in a speech entitled “North Korea Inside Out—How North Koreans Think, What They Want, Why They Submit to Kim Jung Il.” When asked what religion they practice, Kim said North Koreans say they study the teachings of Kim Il Sung, the country’s former president and father of its current leader, Kim Jung Il. He said North...
...think that you would still be dressing up for Halloween in college. “It’s great, this is about the only cause that Harvard students are dedicated to,” she smirked. “I just had to go out with my Korean roommate tonight. This is a heaping tablespoon of cultural immersion. What’s more American than paying a bunch of money for a ridiculous costume that you’ll only wear once?” As far as patriotic celebrations go, I think you may be neglecting Thanksgiving...
...people live in squalid, sprawling camps around north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when...
...Center for Government and International Studies.The zither is a large stringed instrument used in East Asian music; with or without frets, it is something like a cross between a lap guitar and a harp. IIIZ+ combines zithers from China, Japan, and Korea, along with a changgu, a type of Korean drum. The zithers featured in Wednesday’s show were about five feet long and made of various woods.More than just combining zithers from three different geographical locations, the ensemble aims to set itself apart from popular conceptions of traditional Asian music. “We?...