Reading through Ji Young Shon’s bio kinda makes me feel like a slouch. Right now she’s attending the Royal College of Art in London. Before she left her country of Korea to go to art school, she received a degree in physics and Computer Information and Electronic Engineering and worked at a molecular biology lab […]
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Sep
Propping up Seoul's nascent street culture, and pushing the movement forward
I had the opportunity to check out the R-16 (R = Respect) festival last year in Suwon, just outside of Seoul, Korea. I haven’t been to many breakdancing contests. OK, that was my first one. It didn’t take much, though, to realize that the event is bringing a level of legitimacy to an artform that […]
