Tag: Korea
Kim Jong-Un is truly a modern dictator, for he now even has his own vintage’ed side-scrolling run’n’gun shoot ’em up video game! From Moneyhorse Games, Glorious Leader! features Kim Jong-Un and his sidekick Dennis Rodman (naturally), but mostly Kim Jong-Un battling his way through a 16-bit-style adventures, though the colorscape is probably bigger. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea […]
Here’s video of the Korean multimedia performance collective Tacit Group created performing Six Pac-Men, an audiovisual piece that combines Steve Reich’s 1973 minimalist composition Six Pianos with the titular arcade game. Here’s how it works, via Prosthetic Knowledge. “Six Pacmen” is a work of art made by utilizing Pacman, the video game which was released in 1980, and Six […]
A men’s rights activist group called Man of Korea filed an injunction against the Korean pop song “Be Ambitious,” by Dal Shabet. The group takes issue with lyrics “are about a woman who’s thirsty for sex.” “She’s very sexual in revealing that she can’t take it anymore (without sex) and is annoyed at her boyfriend who […]
South Korea has the highest rate of plastic surgery per capita than anywhere else in the world. Plastic surgery has become not just the norm but “integral” to the so-called self-improvement process. Artist Ji Yeo notes pinpoints the source. It is a culture where men are judged on their financial balance sheet and women by their beauty. The […]
