In August 2020, UC San Diego history professor Todd Henry decided to combine his interests in Korean urban history (reflected in his first book, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea 1910-1945) and Korea’s queer history (the topic of a collection he edited titled Queer Korea, and his forthcoming book, Profits of Queerness: Media, Medicine, and Citizenship in Hetero-Authoritarian South Korea, 1950-1980 ) by, as he put it, “exploring the unknown history of queer life around Euljiro.”
In August 2020, UC San Diego history professor Todd Henry decided to combine his interests in Korean urban history (reflected in his first book, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea 1910-1945) and Korea’s queer history (the topic of a collection he edited titled Queer Korea, and his forthcoming book, Profits of Queerness: Media, Medicine, and Citizenship in Hetero-Authoritarian South Korea, 1950-1980 ) by, as he put it, “exploring the unknown history of queer life around Euljiro.”
Eight galleries located in downtown Seoul s Euljiro area are bustling with visiting art enthusiasts as part of Preview Art Week 2023. One of the designated galleries, ART Corner H, is displaying 10 Slovak artists paintings and sculptures until Sept. 26. This particular exhibition, “Colour & Form Ten Slovak Artists,” is held in partnership with the Slovakian Embassy in Seoul, ART Corner H and the Society of Slovak Artists on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Slovak Republic and Korea.
Extra Noir brings musical texture to Euljiro s alleys
Posted : 2021-01-19 18:02 A colorful corner of Euljiro in downtown Seoul / Courtesy of Extra Noir By Jon Dunbar
A walk through the alleys of central Seoul s Euljiro neighborhood led a foreign professor on a musical journey.
Andrew Wilbur, an associate professor at Seoul National University originally from the U.S., found his way to some of the area s older record shops, where he picked up a number of mysterious vinyl records from several decades in Korea s past. Some of them had little information about the artists, and while a number were full of instrumental covers of pop hits of the 60s and 70s, others seemed to feature original compositions on electric organs, Wilbur, who together with his wife Laura Francescangeli runs an indie record label and hosts a podcast, both named Extra Noir, told The Korea Times. I fell in love with these and used a few tracks on the podcast but decided that I