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Teach art to those who terrorised the Mona Lisa!

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Teach art to those who terrorised the Mona Lisa! - SEO, CHAN-HWE(iam@seochanhwe.com) / Comics Columnist (BING image creator) On 28 January 2024, the Mona Lisa was attacked again. This time with soup. "What is more important, art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?" they shouted. If they had satire that tapestries hung by the dignitaries to show off their status and the satire of CARTOON NO.1 - Substance and Shadow (1843, John Leech) depicting the hungry masses in front of them, I could respect the act as art, but unfortunately, what they did was not a real action to solve the problem, but an extremely safe performance - just only that. It's a really stupid thing to do, treating one of the values that go hand in hand to be human, art and culture, as something that is not necessary. Cartoon No.1 - Substance and shadow (1843, John Leech) Funnily enough, there are people in Korea who are exactly like that. They build apartments in front of the Joseon royal tombs, a ...
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The Korean gov. cannot tame the problem child of Korean comics.

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South Korea's gov. cannot tame the problem child of Korean comics. - SEO, CHAN-HWE(iam@seochanhwe.com) / Comics Columnist On 4 February 2009, Lee Myeong-bak, then president of the Republic of Korea, said in a government office, "Can't we make something like Japan's Nintendo?" This statement was immediately met with ridicule. This was because a game or game maker of Nintendo's calibre couldn't just come out of the president's mouth. People nicknamed it "Myeongtendo," a combination of Nintendo and "Myeong," one of the names of the president at the time. Now, 15 years later, Myeongtendo has resurfaced in Korean politics. On 23 January 2024, Minister of Culture Sports, and Tourism Yoo In-chon announced the direction for the development of the comics and webtoon industry. In short, throw money at the industry and grow it. One of the things that came out of the process was to "strategically foster global platforms like as Netflix and...
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Why I reread the comics Master Keaton as I send off Lee Seon-Gyun(Parasite Lead actor)

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Why I reread the comics Master Keaton as I send off Lee Seon-Gyun - SEO, CHAN-HWE(iam@seochanhwe.com) / Comics Columnist When discussing Japanese manga from the 1980s and 1990s, it's often said that they were "deep and entertaining, based on a wide range of sources," and that they were "high-quality manga that adults could watch as well as children. One manga that fits this description is Master Keaton. The conflict between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is the subject of the fourth and fifth episodes of the sixth volume of this comics. This episode are subtitled "The False Tricolour" and "The Union Jack of Hypocrisy," referring to the people of Northern Ireland who put their hopes in the IRA and the British who suppressed them. An IRA fighter is killed in broad daylight on the street. "A terrorist has been killed," British media reported, as the woman, Jennifer Ochner, a piano teacher and bomb expert. She is beli...
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'GoBaU Museum' project scrapped, a cultural defeat, not a civic victory

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 'GoBaU Museum' project scrapped, a cultural defeat, not a civic victory - SEO, CHAN-HWE(iam@seochanhwe.com) / Comics Columnist On 29 July 2020, the signature tvN TV program "Yoo Quiz on the Block", hosted by Yoo Jae Seok, featured Cho Seok, an artist who drew the hugely popular comic strip "Voice of the Heart". As per the programme's structure, Cho Seok was quizzed at the end of the episode, and the question that appeared on his fingerprint was: "The comics with the record for the longest running comic strip in Korea is this work by the late artist Kim Seong-hwan. What is this work that has been designated as a national registered cultural property?" The answer is <Oldman GoBaU>. <The record set by "Oldman GoBaU" is enormous. After making its debut in "Manhwa Shinbo" in 1950 during the Korean War, it began running in "Dong-A Ilbo" in 1955, and later moved to "Chosun Ilbo" and "Korea Culture...
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