Korean General Store

The only thing Korean about this page is me. The rest is filled with randomness I find on the web. These wares represent the things I find most worthy. Welcome to the Korean General Store.

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First Bamboo Biennale Creates Cutting-Edge Structures in Small Chinese Village

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Cloud-Like Explosions Photographed in Midair by Ken Hermann

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Artist Vincent Bal Turns the Shadows of Everyday Objects into Ingenious Illustrations

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Illustrator ‘Yoyo the Ricecorpse’ Animates Quirky Hand-Drawn Characters With Her Original Photography

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WATCH: Ignight: An Experimental Long Exposure Light Film by Daniel Barreto [video]

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(via Remarkable Photos Capture the Incredibly Rare Sight of a Swimming Fish Trapped Inside a Jellyfish)

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(via How Interpreters Train to Conduct Simultaneous Translation of Two Different Languages)

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(via A LEGO Stop-Motion Remake of Ghostbusters)

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(via How and Why Cats Are Able to Jump as High as They Do In Comparison to Humans)

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(via The Japan's Fastest Mochi Master Explains the Incredible Process of Pounding Rice Into Mochi)

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The Art Market (in Four Parts): Art Fairs

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The Art Market (in Four Parts): Auctions

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The Art Market (in Four Parts): Galleries

It’s a dog-eat-dog world! -KGS

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(via An Interactive Online Passport Tool That Ranks Countries Based on Travel Quality)

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NPR alumnus Bilal Qureshi sent these photos from his prolonged adventure in India. I’ll let him tell the backstory:

The Mahmudabad Palace in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, belongs to one of the erstwhile royal families of India. As the government determines the building’s future in a pending Supreme Court decision, its rooms sit abandoned and unused. Those rooms include a sprawling library filled with shelves of books in various stages of disrepair. The books date back centuries, from British colonial records to literary first editions, and Persian poetry collections to withering maps and lithographs of India before Independence.

That’s one haunting library time capsule.

-Nicole

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So cool! I hope it will be preserved soon!! -Emily

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Bad Company

Filmed, Produced & Directed by: Simon Sharp (simonsharpphoto) Associate Editor: Poul Madsen (Bombay Flying Club)

Bad Company is a story shot in the brick factories of Kathmandu, Nepal. Factories in which scores of children as young as 5 are sent to work, often as labourers and as donkey boys (shepherds) in order to pay off gambling debts borne by drunk uncles and fathers or to earn money for the very basics of life, food and water.

Once there they become bonded and institutionalised for years to come. The kilns envelop them physically and emotionally as bodies are broken and dreams dashed.

It is here they will grow into men. However, what kind of men is moot as nuture in the kilns is one of a lawless, peerless underworld in which children not only witness but also feel the wrongs done to their elders as the psychology and the pain inflicted on others is passed down the line to them, weak and defenceless as they are. In turn they learn how to inflict pain on to a body even less powerful, the animals themselves.

Guys, this one is HARD to watch, especially if you are an animal lover. But it felt important to watch it to show the dark underbelly of the world in which we live. -KGS

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Aerial Shots That Demonstrate The Stark Divide Between Rich and Poor