In case you missed it (you probably didn’t), BTS, the record-breaking K-Pop boy band, took a hiatus last year and the Korean popular music industry is reeling.
“Past Lives” is the most grown up movie about love that you will ever see
“Past Lives,” written and directed by Korean Canadian Celine Song, and the opener at Seattle International Film Festival this year, is without a doubt the most grown up movie I have ever seen—and that you will ever see, too.
The Korean wave brings all things Korean to the U.S.
Korea. A land of tiger lilies and green mountains topped with temples. A land of spicy food, sleek sedans, and compelling tunes. It’s a land divided and yet still with one beating heart.
Angelina Jolie’s film ‘Unbroken’ finally opens in Japan more than a year later
By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” opened Feb. 6, more than a year after the rest of the world, in Japan, where the main character […]
Hawaii plantation to stop growing sugar
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s last sugar plantation is getting out of the sugar-growing business, signaling the end of an industry that once powered the local economy and lured thousands of immigrants to the islands.
Mmm … mochi! — A Japanese new year’s treat, a harbinger of good blessings, a choking hazard?
By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly If you frequent Asian markets during the year, especially around special holidays, you are probably familiar with the colorful and interesting variety of mochi, […]
An interview with Sidney Rittenberg — Part 3: “Thunder but no rain” over South China Sea, Confucian communists, and a wonderful life
By Wen Liu Special to Northwest Asian Weekly No one can better shed light on U.S. and China relations for us than Sidney Rittenberg, who knows China and the Communist […]
COMMENTARY: Accident cases pose complex issues
By Jennifer Bates For Northwest Asian Weekly Recently there has been a lot of publicity and news coverage about the Ride the Ducks tour bus crash. There were five deaths […]
Connecting the dots with Eunice Kim
By Jocelyn Moore Northwest Asian Weekly Walking into Davidson Galleries at Pioneer Square in October, you will likely find people connecting the dots at Eunice Kim’s latest printmaking exhibition, “2005-2015: […]
Summer cheers for Asian beers — A world of beer—stepping out of the local to find something new
By Greg Young Northwest Asian Weekly I once lived with a roommate who seemed to prefer an obscure little beer that I had never heard of before. That beer was […]
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