Koreana is a full-color quarterly on Korean culture and arts, including traditional heritage as well as modern and contemporary activities. Each issue includes in-depth coverage of a selected theme, followed by an array of articles on artists and artisans, historic and cultural landmarks, natural attractions, reviews of stage performances and exhibitions, literary pieces, and today’s lifestyles. Published since 1987, the magazine can also be accessed at (www.koreana.or.kr).

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SPECIAL FEATURE _ Temple Food: Casting Aside Desire and Delusion
SPECIAL FEATURE 1 A Meal Shedding Greed / Mun Tae-jun
SPECIAL FEATURE 2 Eating as Communion with All Creation / Kong Man-shik
SPECIAL FEATURE 3 Soul-Soothing Food Evokes Home /Baek Young-ok
SPECIAL FEATURE 4 You Are What You Eat / Park Mee-hyang
SPECIAL FEATURE 5 A Monk’s Way of Tea / Park Hee-june
FOCUS _ Ssireum Becomes UNESCO Heritage of Humanity / Park Hong-soon
INTERVIEW _ The Man Called ‘Nam June Paik’s Hands’ / Lim Hee-yun
ART REVIEW _ Aesthetic Organism of Concrete / Lim Jin-young
GUARDIAN OF HERITAGE _ With Fire, Air and Water, Smith Forges Homi / Kang Shin-jae
IN LOVE WITH KOREA _ Light for the Poor and Powerless / Choi Sung-jin
ON THE ROAD_ Three Mountain Paths in Mungyeong / Lee Chang-guy
TALES OF TWO KOREAS _ ‘Refugees are the Vanguards of Change’ / Kim Hak-soon
Books & More / Charles La Shure, Ryu Tae-hyung
‘City of Ash and Red’ An Allegorical Tale of Isolation and Ostracization
‘The Paintings of Korean Shaman Gods: History, Relevance and Role as Religious Icons’ A Rare Visual Study of Korean Shaman Deities
‘Communion’ The Traces of Breathing
AN ORDINARY DAY _ Happiness Dreamed by a ‘Lucky’ Youth / Kim Heung-sook
ENTERTAINMENT _ Reality TV Tourism Takes Flight / Jung Duk-hyun
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTs _ Time Hidden in Squash / Jeong Jae-hoon
LIFESTYLE _ Laid-back, Minimized Vacationing / Kim Dong-hwan
JOURNEYS IN KOREAN LITERATURE
Ethical Time Lapse That Follows Loss / Choi Jae-bong