Daejeon artists experiment with ‘souping’ photographic film

Artists in Daejeon embrace curiosity, experimentation and happenstance through film photography in a new group exhibition titled “Soup Kitchen.”The name doesn’t refer to free meals for the underprivileged but to an experimental technique of developing photos, in which a roll of film is soaked in boiling water and other household ingredients, intentionally damaging the film

South Korea voices strong regrets over Japanese textbooks distorting wartime history

South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Friday after Tokyo approved new school textbooks that downplay the coercive nature of its wartime atrocities and reinforce its territorial claims to Dokdo.The foreign ministry also called in Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Aiboshi to deliver the formal protest message after Tokyo’s education ministry approved