Saturday morning 5.30 a.m., up An-Sam mountain (well, more of a hill) to an area of temples, or maybe it’s all one temple. This isn’t anywhere in the tourist guide, it’s just one of the many temples in the city, and at this time on a Saturday morning, the hills ...

Korean Comfort Women, who were forced to act as sex slaves when the country was a Japanese colony.

Today I hired an interpreter, a young student who works at CNN ...

Yesterday's visit to the DMZ was a red letter day - pun intended. There was obviously far more movement on the communist side of the border than is usual. In one of the many national English language papers I picked up (several of them have a circulation of 2 million) ...

Thrill seekers to Seoul sometimes visit the 38th parallel, the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ. Some 150,000 visitors visit annually, whisked in and out by commercial tour buses. I went in an army car with a Korean couple. Mr. Lee, a South Korean citizen, would not under normal circumstances be allowed ...

A KFC in Seoul. Colonel Sanders as civic monument?

Outside the American Embassy, I went to see the group who keep a vigil to protest the killing of two schoolgirls. ...

Magnolia blossom in a courtyard of the largest women's university in the world (established 1886 with 28,000 students).

I'm sitting in a hostel room. This is the institute of management ...

Magnolia blossom in a courtyard of the largest women's university in the world (established 1886 with 28,000 students).

I'm sitting in a hostel room. This is the institute of management ...

When cultural reporter Judith Kampfner isn't reporting on New York's rich arts scene for WNYC, she's trotting the globe, covering stories from far-flung destinations. Judith's latest dispatch comes to us from South Korea, where she's attending the 2003 International Festival of Women in Music Seoul. In advance of a ...

In 1943 WNYC-FM went on the air for the first time. Join us as we look back and celebrate six decades of great radio with a special one-hour program. You'll hear exciting performances, incisive commentary, and exploration of the creative process with artists such as Leonard Berstein, Thelonious Monk, Bela ...

Sunday, April 6 at 8pm: New York Collegium at Church of St. Vincent Ferrer. Andrew Parrott conducts the modern-day premiere of Heinrich Biber's Missa Christi resurgentis.

Tuesday, April 8 at 3pm: WNYC-FM 60th Anniversary Special

Wednesday, April 9 at 2pm: Soundcheck 1st Anniversary Special

Friday, April 11 ...

It's going to be an FM year.

Never before has there been such interest in technical development of frequency modulation; never has program master-minding so sharply focused on frequency modulation broadcast scheduling.

With the Municipal Broadcast System's FM unit, WNYC-FM now operating on its new ...

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They might have taken the glitz out of Sunday's Oscars but in the end there was no distancing the biggest show in Hollywood from the real drama on the other side of the world.

Actor Adrien Brody pulled off a major Oscar upset on Sunday by being named ...

 

On the Aisle offers listeners a unique opportunity to experience the dramatist's imagination at work, revealing the risks and rewards of writing for Broadway and Hollywood. It addresses many key questions that writers face when crafting their work to fit an entirely different artistic venue: Is it better to ...

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Images from Glyn Vincent's book The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, An American Painter Indian Encampment Along the Snake River, 1871 (Courtesy of The Anschutz Collection) ...

At the start of 2002, major movie studios were worried about whether audiences would continue filling cinema seats given the economic downturn and the war on terrorism. If anything, though, moviegoers seemed more eager than ever to schlep to theaters and forget their cares for awhile. Domestic box-office receipts topped ...

1. Where can we find evidence of the terminal moraine, the places where the glacier from the last Ice Age stopped and began to recede?

Answer:
We can find striations, deep scratches or lines, on exposed outcroppings as in Central Park, as well as accidentals, also known as erratics, ...

4. What is the geologic origin of The Narrows, the place where Brooklyn and Staten Island are closest?

Answer:
During the last Ice Age, what is now called Upper New York Bay, was a large ice-bound lake. As the ice slowly melted, vast quantities of water poured in to ...