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Music, Music Review Jul 7, 2020
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Park Hye Jin’s house music transforms your room into an emotive, prismatic dance floor
- By Joshua Minsoo Kim
- Tags: Music Review, Park Hye Jin, How Can I, Ninja Tune, South Korea, Korea, house music, dance music, If U Want It, Like This, footwork, Korean, synths, Recommended, Video

Music, Concert Preview Oct 25, 2019
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K-pop veteran Tiffany Young strides forward on ‘Run for Your Life’
- By Ed Blair
- Tags: Concert Preview, Tiffany Young, K-pop, Girls’ Generation, South Korea, BTS, California, I Just Wanna Dance, Carly Rae Jepsen, Fernando Garibay, Lips on Lips, Talk Talk, Gee!, retro-pop, the Vic, Recommended, Video

Film, Movie Review Nov 30, 2018
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning demonstrates the perils of trying to adapt Haruki Murakami to the screen

The new Korean film feels like a stalemate between two master storytellers.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Burning, Lee Chang-dong, Haruki Murakami, Barn Burning, Yoo Ah-In, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven Yeun, South Korea, literary adaptation

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jun 21, 2018
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Andersonville’s Passerotto is a tale of two peninsulas

One Off Hospitality vet Jennifer Kim’s unlikely union of Korean and Italian is seamless and inspired.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, ndersonville, Passerotto, little sparrow, italian-korean, hwe, sundubu, Gwangju, South Korea, Korean food, ja jiang mian, Korean-American, Koji BBQ, David Chang, Jennifer Kim, One Off Hospitality, Avec, Nico Osteria, Bill Kim, Urban Belly, Belly Q, Beverly Kim, Parachute, Edward Kim, Mott St., David Park, Hanbun, Snaggletooth, Bill Montaigne, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2018
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High-ranking Chicago Police commander Paul Bauer shot and killed near the Thompson Center, and other Chicago news

Also, City Council Black Caucus chair Roderick Sawyer criticizes Garry McCarthy for being "disrespectful to black people."
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Police Department, Paul Bauer, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Thompson Center, gun violence, John Hancock Center, Roderick Sawyer, Garry McCarthy, Election 2019, City Council, City Council Black Caucus, Southwest Air, Midway International Airport, winter weather, Winter Olympics, Pyeongchang, South Korea, P.F. Chang's, Father and Son Pizza, restaurant closings, ABC 7 Chicago, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2018
Toni Preckwinkle endorses Democratic front-runner J.B. Pritzker for governor despite controversy, and other Chicago news

Also, a homeless couple is suing the city for removing their tents.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, Toni Preckwinkle, Rod Blagojevich, Election 2018, Elon Musk, O'Hare International Airport, the Boring Company, Dennis Edwards, the Temptations, Chicago Police Department, homelessness, Winter Olympics, PyeongChang, South Korea, ice skating, figure skating, Bradie Tennell, United Airlines

Music, In Rotation Jan 23, 2017
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Singer-songwriter Adam Gottlieb on an album to fortify fighters for justice

Plus: Blues musician Andy Willis on the night Howlin’ Wolf got him, Reader writer Leor Galil on Ela Stiles’s mystical pop, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, Ela Stiles, Molten Metal, Black Metal, Anti-Gravity Bunny, drone, ambient, Riverman, Thin Ties, Stan Moeller, Peter Elizalde, Winter Playground Mystery, South Korea, Lil Peep, Adam Gottlieb, Mavis Staples, Livin’ on a High Note, Yes, The Moonshiner, Take Us Back, Bob Dylan, Charlie Parr, Redbird, Fiona Chamness, Howlin’ Wolf, blues, Andy Willis, Video

Arts & Culture, Art Sidebar Sep 16, 2014
Five must-dos at Expo Chicago

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Art Sidebar, Expo Chicago, International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, Navy Pier, One and J. Gallery, South Korea, Tell Me the Truth, Seung Yui Oh, See Saw, In/Situ, Michael Rakowitz, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Expo Editions + Books, Medium Cool, Western Exhibitions, WesternXeditions, Lilli Carre, Paul Nudd and Onsmith, Deb Sokolow, Dialogues: "What Do Your Politics Get From Being in My Art?", Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports, Mess Hall, Abigail Satinsky, Jim Duignan, Expo Video, Studio Gang Architects, Monster Movie, Takeshi Murata, Jennifer K. Reeder, A Million Miles Away, Madonna, Like a Prayer, E.T.

Film, Movie Review Sep 25, 2013
Where's the love for filmmaker (and honorary Chicagoan) Hong Sang-soo?

The South Korean writer-director is a stalwart of contemporary cinema—and even an SAIC grad. But you still won't find his work on local movie screens.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Hong Sang-soo, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, South Korea, School of the Art Institute, SAIC, Woman on the Beach, Night and Day, The Day He Arrives, Like You Know It All, Hahaha, In Another Country, Isabelle Huppert, Tale of Cinema, Oki's Movie, Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Our Sunhi, Philip Roth

Arts & Culture, Art Critic's Choice May 2, 2012
Documenting Pizza Huts and cerebral palsy

'Stranger Than Family' offers a case study in, well, the strangeness of family
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Art Critic's Choice, family, Matthew Avignone, South Korea, adoption, photograpy, Pizza Hut, cerebral palsy, spina bifida

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2011
Best of 2011, number 5: Poetry

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Poetry, Lee Chang-dong, Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs, Secret Sunshine, Best of 2011, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Decalogue, the human condition, South Korea, Minister of Culture, J.R. Jones

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2010
Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother

A love triangle plays out against a real-world agriculture protest in Kim Jong-Guk's partially scripted "Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother," screening tonight at the School of the Art Institute.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Obbah, A Girl's Elder Brother, Vancouver, International, Film, Festival, School of the Art Institute, SAIC, Kim Jongguk, Jong-guk, Jong-guk, Dragons and Tigers, special award, experimental, South Korea, Pusan

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2009
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Back and to the left

Former Chicagoan Jim Finn explores the story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped and put to work for the North Korean propaganda machine in "The Juche Idea," screening tonight at the University of Chicago.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Communism, Fidel Castro, South Korea, musical, Jim Finn, Kim Jong-Il, Shin Sang-ok, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo, Interkosmos, Leonard Nimoy, Bilbo Baggins, The Juche Idea, North Korea, Shining Path, Maoist, Peru, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2008
Want a free trip to Norway?

Applications for a four-week, all-expenses-paid cultural exchange to Norway are being accepted by Rotary International.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Rotary International, Group Study Exchange, Norway, South Korea

Film, Movie Critic's Choice May 5, 2005
3-Iron
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, South Korea, Drama, Silent Film

Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice May 29, 2003
A Song and Dance Tradition of Five Millennia
- By Ted Shen
- Tags: Theater Critic's Choice, South Korea, Chinese Influence, Japanese Colonization, Culture, Music, Dance

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Park Hye Jin’s house music transforms your room into an emotive, prismatic dance floor

Recommended Video
K-pop veteran Tiffany Young strides forward on ‘Run for Your Life’

Lee Chang-dong’s Burning demonstrates the perils of trying to adapt Haruki Murakami to the screen

The new Korean film feels like a stalemate between two master storytellers.

Recommended
Andersonville’s Passerotto is a tale of two peninsulas

One Off Hospitality vet Jennifer Kim’s unlikely union of Korean and Italian is seamless and inspired.

Video
High-ranking Chicago Police commander Paul Bauer shot and killed near the Thompson Center, and other Chicago news

Also, City Council Black Caucus chair Roderick Sawyer criticizes Garry McCarthy for being "disrespectful to black people."

Toni Preckwinkle endorses Democratic front-runner J.B. Pritzker for governor despite controversy, and other Chicago news

Also, a homeless couple is suing the city for removing their tents.

Video
Singer-songwriter Adam Gottlieb on an album to fortify fighters for justice

Plus: Blues musician Andy Willis on the night Howlin’ Wolf got him, Reader writer Leor Galil on Ela Stiles’s mystical pop, and more

Five must-dos at Expo Chicago

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier

Where's the love for filmmaker (and honorary Chicagoan) Hong Sang-soo?

The South Korean writer-director is a stalwart of contemporary cinema—and even an SAIC grad. But you still won't find his work on local movie screens.

Documenting Pizza Huts and cerebral palsy

'Stranger Than Family' offers a case study in, well, the strangeness of family

Best of 2011, number 5: Poetry

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry

Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother

A love triangle plays out against a real-world agriculture protest in Kim Jong-Guk's partially scripted "Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother," screening tonight at the School of the Art Institute.

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Back and to the left

Former Chicagoan Jim Finn explores the story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped and put to work for the North Korean propaganda machine in "The Juche Idea," screening tonight at the University of Chicago.

Want a free trip to Norway?

Applications for a four-week, all-expenses-paid cultural exchange to Norway are being accepted by Rotary International.

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The new Korean film feels like a stalemate between two master storytellers.

One Off Hospitality vet Jennifer Kim’s unlikely union of Korean and Italian is seamless and inspired.

Also, City Council Black Caucus chair Roderick Sawyer criticizes Garry McCarthy for being "disrespectful to black people."

Also, a homeless couple is suing the city for removing their tents.

Plus: Blues musician Andy Willis on the night Howlin’ Wolf got him, Reader writer Leor Galil on Ela Stiles’s mystical pop, and more

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier

The South Korean writer-director is a stalwart of contemporary cinema—and even an SAIC grad. But you still won't find his work on local movie screens.

'Stranger Than Family' offers a case study in, well, the strangeness of family

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry

A love triangle plays out against a real-world agriculture protest in Kim Jong-Guk's partially scripted "Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother," screening tonight at the School of the Art Institute.

Former Chicagoan Jim Finn explores the story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped and put to work for the North Korean propaganda machine in "The Juche Idea," screening tonight at the University of Chicago.

Applications for a four-week, all-expenses-paid cultural exchange to Norway are being accepted by Rotary International.

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