Do you know the artwork ? It’s a painting of two men playing ssireum, Korean wrestling, and the audience is shown enjoying the game by eating some candy and smoking. It is a famous artwork painted by Kim Hongdo. Through his paintings, people can discover his thoughts, emotions, and contempo

Imagine having a drink with foreign friends in Korea. What Korean drink would you first introduce to them? Most of us would choose soju or beer because they are the most common. People think they represent Korean alcohol. However, there are many more representative traditional liquor types in Korea.

Every great artist has their own style. Dynamic brush strokes and starry nights make us recall Vincent Van Gogh. Most of us can instantly identify the painter Klimt when we look at women in gold and water lilies by Monet. There is also one other great artist that is easy to recognize. Girls playing

Return to the memory of art classes from middle and high school. Did you ever imagine that the creations you made breath life into? Like the story of Geppetto and Pinocchio, this little dream may still live in our childlike, even though we have long lost interest in fairy tales. And there is Aardman

Sitting in the middle of a classroom full of students, you look around. The friend next to you is taking notes, another student is doodling on her notebook, and the one behind you is sneakily reading a book instead of paying attention to the lecture. You stop to wonder how many days are left until s

Robert Rauschenberg, a master of pop art, said, “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made – I try to act in the gap.” “Art” is the word that causes people to feel suddenly heavy and burdensome. However, as Rauschenberg says, art is not something difficult to connect with. It

“You need to separate plastics when you recycle. Protect our environment!” Everyone has heard this sentence several times since childhood, and we follow the rule routinely. However, have you ever thought of plastic being turned into material for art? The Sookmyung Times strongly recommends visiting

Alice had begun to get bored of just lazing about the side of the river bank with nothing to do when she spotted a white rabbit looking at its watch saying “I’m late, I’m late”. Alice follows the rabbit down into a large rabbit hole under a hedge. This is the start of Alice’s adventures. In the seri

It’s a rapidly changing world, and the trend is to focus on living in the present. However, it is easy to find the beauty of the past affecting today’s busy hectic modern life. But there is an age that past artists and current photographers are together. To offset an age of massive image overflow on

As exams approach, you might be searching for good places to get rid of stress. One such place SMT would like to introduce to you is a place full of lights and digital images. Lights sparkle amongst each other and digital images are lively shown all about the room. It appears as though digital art v

In the Spring of 1718, a great man said, ‘Each brush stroke is so powerful that it seems like it’s alive, and all things painted must appear as they are in nature with stems and leaves wet with dews, bugs flying about, and a human salivating at the sight of a cucumber and watermelon. This painter’s

At times in daily life, we all can feel like we are stuck in a groove. Some of you may even dream of breaking out of your frame of confinement and starting a new life. ‘Nick Knight: Image’ exhibition may be what you are looking for. It is a great way to start a brand new you. Nick Knight is a pionee

Gogh, a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, comes alive with eye contact and blinking, the elegant ballerina in Dancer on Stage is dancing, the Woman with a Parasol looks backwards and her skirt is fluttering, the Women in Tahiti draws near, and the sound of pipe by a boy is heard. Does this sound to

The anchor appears and addresses the TV audience with “This is MBC news desk. I’m MBC anchor Sieun, and with me is Field Reporter Lee. Lee, what is happening in the world today?” Sounds like a real news program, doesn’t it? However, these people are pretending to be on a TV news program at the MBC n

‘What does that design mean?’ Many people think designing is difficult, and understanding the essence of the design is more difficult when they find themselves at a design exhibition. However, think about the red double-decker buses in the U.K or the benches at public parks. Design is a part of our

Turn for a moment to the picture on the left. Just as the sun rises, a family starts off on a long journey. The mother and her two sons take wheel that is pulled by a yellow bull. The father pulls the bull. The two sons play with a bird and appear not to have a care in world. Flowers adorn the image

Today, there are various drinks available to people to choose from, and people are always looking for something to drink on hot days. Look around, students and faculty often come to campus carrying a drink. The drink is likely a coffee or a cool lemonade, but what about trying something new? Too man

Despite the coldness, over the winter months the Korean drama Replying 1988 made not only hearts of every student at Sookmyung Women’s University warm but it warmed the hearts of all TV watchers. It covered stories of the past that warmed and opened the hearts of neighbors. However, it was hard to e

Light is essential for every living creature in the world. Light is the means by which all creatures live, and with the use of colours and shapes, we can now see light. Furthermore, light has now become art. Today light is used by artists as one ingredient in their creation of works of art. At Speci

t one time, the collections were a popular hobby for most boys and girls, and they learnt about different subject matter through the method. One of collection hobbies is that of stamp collecting. Still, stamps offer people with the means of learning a variety of cultural knowledge and background inf