| Gyeongju Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond was a secondary palace used by the crown prince of the Silla Kingdom. It also served as a banquet site for important national events and important visitors. The pond was created in 674, during the reign of King Munmu. The pond features three small islands, and a landscape of 12 small hills to the northeast. After the fall of Silla, the site was abandoned and forgotten. |
| The pond was referred to as "Anapji" from the Goryeo and Joseon periods and onwards. In the 1980s, a pottery fragment with the letters “Wolji” (a pond that reflects the moon) carved onto it was found, revealing the true name of the pond. After the discovery, the site was renamed to the current Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond. |
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Director
Mr. Hwang Il-yong
I Miss You - Soyou |
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Admin Team
Wild (ft. Gary Clark Jr.) - John Legend
Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon - Yes Boss |
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Program Team
XXX - Ganju Gok
Snowman - Sia
homeless door (ft. Rad Museum) - offonoff
So Beautiful - DPR Ian |
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PR and Media Team
Breath - DEAN, Rad Museum, Mokyo
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Unfair - EXO |
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Education Team
My My - SEVENTEEN
Blue & Grey - BTS
High Hopes - Panic! at the Disco
Kidult - SEVENTEEN |
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External Affairs Team
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees |
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Holiday Playlist
Last Christmas - Wham!
The First Snow - EXO
The Carol - LOONA
Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Miracle - GOT7
Dear Santa - Girl's Generation TTS
Chrismassy! - The Boyz |
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단 한 가지 못하는 것은
널 내게로 오게 하는 일
이 초라한 초능력
이젠 없었으면 좋겠어 Ooh
늘 나밖에 몰랐었던 이기적인 내가
니 맘도 몰라줬던 무심한 내가
이렇게도 달라졌다는 게 나조차 믿기지 않아
니 사랑은 이렇게 계속 날 움직여 |
The one thing I can’t do
Is bring you to me
I wish I didn’t have
This useless power anymore
The selfish me, who always only knew myself
The heartless me, who didn’t even know your heart
Even I can’t believe that I changed like this
Your love keeps moving me |
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초능력 – supernatural power/ ability
Adjective/Verb stem았/었으면 좋겠다 – to wish/hope
이기적이다 – to be selfish
무심하다 – to be heartless/ indifferent
N+조차 – (not) even – used In conjunction with negation
움직이다 – to move |
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South Korea does zombies in cinema frighteningly well. They don’t need to add anything new to the zombie trope because they work so well with what’s already been established. Instead, you will find them toying with the stories around the zombie outbreaks – Like in 2019’s Kingdom, and 2020’s #Alive.
Kingdom gives us all the goodness of a historical drama with the thrill of a ‘zombie’ plague. #Alive combines nightmarish zombie visuals with the very real horror of the lockdown, to give us a weirdly heart-warming insight into a very millennial zombie apocalypse.
What started it all, however, was 2016’s Train to Busan – a film that personally, accomplished something that I do not think any other zombie apocalypse movie has – it gets you to really, truly care for each of the characters.
Despite being in an enclosed space, the setting never becomes boring – every act uses the titular train in refreshing ways – the one that stands out the most being the scene with the blackouts in the tunnel when the lead cast is trying to make their way to the front of the train.
Train to Busan’s cultural legacy is proved by the steady uptick in the production and positive reception of South Korean Zombie movies. Most recently, its sequel – Peninsula took on the zombie genre to give us a Zombie heist movie like we’ve never seen before. Although it has little in common with its predecessor except for the zombies, Peninsula takes on life after the outbreak and tells the story of tragedy, guilt, and hope in a beautiful way. Much like the first installment, the children are the stars of the show in Peninsula (no spoilers, promise!) which guarantees some moments of comic relief in an otherwise horrifying movie. Living in a post-apocalyptic lawless society, the movie offers little in terms of face-to-fist time with flesh-hungry zombies, opting instead to run them over during intense car chase scenes.
Train to Busan is a thoroughly entertaining Zombie movie, but it like the newer installments in the Korean zombie genre, is also a frightening, Stephen King-esque commentary on society. The infection in any of these movies does not discriminate based on class, infecting the rich and the poor alike. In his consideration of “South Korea’s first zombie blockbuster,” University College London’s Keith B. Wagner describes the film, with its “family-rescue-drama-cum-zombie-survivalist-contamination-anti-neoliberal” sensibilities, as “a polished apocalyptic tale that is unafraid to touch on pressing social issues that matter to Koreans.” Kingdom writer Kim Eun-hee said “I wanted to show the scenes where people of various classes — the aristocrats in silk robes, the butchers and gisaeng (similar to Japanese geisha) — devour human flesh in the same exact way to satisfy hunger,”
When late in the film, Seok-woo discovers that the source of the zombies is the large company he works for, it serves as a sharp reminder of the costs of unchecked corporate greed.
In this way Train to Busan and other movies in the K-horror genre offer us food for thought rather than just brain food for zombies.
A zombie outbreak may be on the loose but South Korean zombie genre’s underlying message is that it is society that is truly sick. |
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Music
Self-Portrait – Suho
Delight – Baekhyun
The Book of Us: The Demon – Day6
Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
Equal – WOODZ
; [Semicolon] – SEVENTEEN
Maria – Hwasa
with HER – Crush
Neozone – NCT 127
Eyes Wide Open – Twice
Dystopia: The Tree of Language – Dreamcatcher
Go Live - Stray Kids
Never Gonna Dance Again : Act 2 - Taemin
Fantasia X - MONSTA X
Is Anybody Out There? - DPR Live
The above list is in no particular order. |
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Drama
Crash Landing on You
The King: Eternal Monarch
Itaewon Class
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay
Start-Up
The Tale of the Nine-tailed
Hospital Playlist
Mystic Pop-Up Bar
Hyena
The Flower of Evil
Hi Bye, Mama!
Love Revolution
My Unfamiliar Family
True Beauty
DoDoSolSolLaLaSol
The above list is in no particular order |
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