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The Old Korean Legation Museum (Korean: 주미대한제국공사관) is a historic house museum located at 15 Logan Circle NW (also listed as 1500 13th Street NW) in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 1877 as a residence for military officer and politician Seth Ledyard Phelps, the house served as the legation for the Joseon kingdom followed by the Korean Empire from ...
It opened on April 25, 2015 and claims to be the first K-pop museum in Korea. [1] [2] [3] Its exhibits cover the history of modern Korean music from the early 1900s, during the Korean Empire period, until the present. It has a total floor space of 1,090 square meters (11,700 sq ft), and has three floors of exhibits, a floor for an auditorium ...
Black Fashion Museum, founded 1979, moved to Washington in 1994, closed in 2007 and collection donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture [9] [10] Corcoran Gallery of Art , open 1869–2014.
As of 2006, many Koreans in Fairfax County, Virginia operate businesses in Washington, D.C., and work for the federal government of the United States. [2]After Korean immigration began, many ethnic Koreans lived in northern Virginia while owning businesses in Washington, D.C. Liz Farmer of the Washington Examiner stated that during the early 1990s there were not very many Korean businesses in ...
A breakthrough came in 2002, when Mindan (also called the Korean Residents Union in Japan) pledged financial support for the museum. They hoped to open the museum by the 60th anniversary of the liberation, in 2005. This movement succeeded, and resulted in The History Museum of J-Koreans opening on November 24, 2005. [1] [3]
The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., also called the DC History Center, is an educational foundation dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Washington, D.C. The society provides lectures, exhibits, classes, and community events. It runs a museum, library, and publishes the journal Washington History.
On July 19, “America’s Next Top Model” (“ANTM”)host and supermodel Tyra Banks celebrated the opening of Smize and Dream, a new ice cream pop-up in the Woodley Park neighborhood of ...
K-pop (/ k eɪ p ɒ p /, Korean: 케이팝; RR: Keipap), short for Korean popular music, [1] is a form of popular music originating in South Korea. [2] It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. [3]