By 3WM

PLATOON KUNSTHALLE‘s new weekly format, OPEN STAGE program in 2012 invites brilliant and talented musicians with a fresh sense to come together and introduce themselves at mini shows, full concerts & jam sessions on their new open stage. Each artist will have a chance to perform either 1 or 2 songs or a whole set, using the basic instrument setup including a bass, a guitar, a keyboard and a drum set.

By 3WM

Battle of the Bands Update:

HEAT I – Went to GLASS INSPIRED, with Wild Card THE HUNGER TREE.

HEAT II – Went to HARRY BIG BUTTON, with Wild Card CRUX

HEAT III – Is coming up this Friday, Dec 9th at the RMT
10:30pm The Kimchi Cowboys
11:30pm Sinister
12:30am The Willman Band.
1:30am Minha

Come out and support the longest running Battle Of The Bands, and show your love of live music and these performers who help keep you entertained, on and off the stage.

By 3WM

Be at the Rocky Mountain Tavern at least 1 hour before your set, or come down at 9 p.m. to enjoy the entire 5 hour program

This year there will be a public guitar raffle– $2 to enter or KRW2,000. Also drink specials add $1 to your drink and enter the Raffle.

Giveaways for the artists include, Olympia Strings and straps, Samick guitar, studio rehearsal time as well as cash prize.

A total 1 million is up for grabs.

By 3WM

Cut Glass Theatre Presents

Oscar Wilde has come to Seoul! The newly formed Cut Glass Theatre Company proudly presents their inaugural production, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. This production of Wilde’s quintessential comedy is a celebration of Victorian ideals, with great attention paid to the beautiful details of style, dress, manners, and speech of the period. The light and tripping text of this comedy of manners moves like music and will leave the audience giddy and gasping for breath. Come and experience for yourself what has made The Importance of Being Earnest one of the most beloved and enduring comedies of all time.

By 3WM
On Saturday November 12 from 9 P.M to 12 at Roofers in Itaewon, the award winning British artist duo Tiger and Bear present to you an evening of comedy performance art entertainment with Tiger and Bear’s Cave to Humanness. The wildest performance art game show you’re ever likely to experience this year. You’ll laugh, cry and probably cringe and if you’re feeling adventurous, you might dance, sing and ddong chim. With special Tiger and Bear personalized art prizes to be “won,” guest appearances from Robot Taekwon V and Mazinger Z and live music from super cool brilliant band Yours, it’s a night you’ll want to tell your grandchildren about when you’re really old and suffering from dementia.

By 3WM
Running from Monday, October 24 to Saturday, October 29,the exhibition is inspired by living beings that surround us. Their organic mechanisms turn into kinetics-moving structures and sounding devices, creating an interface for the audience to feel, see, and hear the arts and science of marvelous nature.

By 3WM
From Ms. Kim of the Korea Tourist Organization: On Zenith Travel and their ad in the Korea Times:

I just got back to my office holding the Korea Times in my hand. It is not tolerable. It is definitely criminal activity.

To find a way to solve this problem, I just spoke with a police officer in the Seocho Police Office(Tel : 3483-9366), he said all victims should bring an accusation against Mr. Kang.
If you need any help while you are visiting police office, please feel free to contact me at 02-735-0101

I will do my best to solve this issue.

Thank you Sincerely, H. J. Kim

By Mizaru

On that weekend when the hood clutters up with rubberneckers, day-trippers and open-mike poets with no talent, it can actually mean something. There is one stroke of organizational genius that will make this another HBC landmark occasion: Turn it into a PROTEST EVENT. Occupy the main drag of Haebangchon. Take the boulevard of Facebook updates and turn it into ‘Liberation Row.’ I mean maybe the Brooklyn Bridge can’t be took so why not take the overpass into Itaewon? What to protest: That you are a rising star in the world and no one knows it, of course! I mean what is your net worth if only one percent of the people you know believes that you are somebody. Excluding friends and family who have to pander to you there is another 90% of people in your world who don’t believe you are anything at all! They won’t follow you on Twitter; so what’s to be done about them? You have to show them. Get yourself camera ready, get on Haebangchon’s one main street and start primal screaming that you have worth.

What to scream?

By 3WM

Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul
September 19-30, 2011

In a series of words in billboard-like signs, “Ever After 9/11″ explores the post-9/11 American psyche on the 10th anniversary of the day after everything changed, including the meaning of words. Artist Julia Kim Smith and poet David Beaudouin cull words from fairy tales, the traditional morality stories, and from political rhetoric, arguably the new morality stories, and present them as icons to be reconstructed into modern tales which draw from both the past and present.

By 3WM

Back in March of this year, I called them and requested a reservation to the US. The person running the show, a Mr. Kang Wystan…sent me an email with a suitable schedule and a price of 1,649,000 won…not exactly the cheapest but given the times we are in, it was OK. I sent an email back and said I would like to make the reservation…he responded by saying that I had to pay the amount that day by 5pm to keep the reservation. He sent me his bank info and I went to the bank and transferred the money, before 5 and called him to let him know I sent it. All seemed ok until I didnt get any confirmation email. I didnt give it much thought, my bad, the warning bells should have gone off. I sent him several emails and phone calls, until over a week later he sent me a confirmation of the itinerary and a confirmation number.

By 3WM

You are invited to BLING & PLATOON NIGHT FLEA MARKET in September, which is the most sensitive season of all time for the trend-setters with a change in the weather.

The night flea market will offer various shopping options from rare and precious items, hand-made and direct sales by designers to memorable stuff that has been hidden away deeply in wardrobes and closets.

The regular program will wash away all your concerns about fashion and lifestyle — the 1000 won auction, the POJANGMACHA DELUXE and dj sets. Visit Platoon to see, hear, eat, buy and enjoy! In order to be a seller, apply on the bling Web site (KRW 20,000).

By 3WM

3WM attended Pvt. Fisher’s appeals hearing at the Seoul High Court where a visibly distraught Fisher had his appeal dismissed in six minutes. A vocal Fisher was escorted from the courtroom after saying, “I didn’t do anything…this shit is wrong…stop fucking pushing me.”

Fisher’s attorney told 3WM he will meet on Friday to discuss an appeal to the Supreme Court with Fisher.

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Andre Fisher has been imprisoned several months for allegedly robbing a taxi driver of 88 dollars in Itaewon, central Seoul.

By Aneika A. McDonald with 3WM

Camp Casey
U.S. Army Private First Class Andre Fisher, 22, will stand in a Korean appeals court on August 9, 2011 in an attempt to overturn a two year conviction, based on grainy video evidence in which the perpetrator’s face was not visible.

After a night out partying, Fisher was accused by a taxi driver of stealing $88 from his taxi. Having denied even entering the cab, Fisher emptied his pockets which contained $14. Fisher was taken into custody by Korean police, and subsequently stood trial in which the prosecutor’s solitary evidence was a grainy surveillance video of a man wearing a hood with his face obscured. Fisher was sentenced to a 2 year prison term and awaits his pending appeals hearing.

According to Fisher’s family, Fisher’s Camp Casey military commanders have been unresponsive to their inquiries, and the U.S. Embassy admits no knowledge of the case.

By 3WM

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS COMMUNITY Presents:

On Line Solo exhibition by

Martyn Thompson 13th-27th July

“Immersive Environments”

Opening www.koreaiac.com Wednesday, July13

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission The long struggle of a female worker has drawn the attention of both the local and international community. Ms. Kim Jin-suk, a member of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) has been occupying the cabin of Crane No. 85, which is 35 metres high, in the shipyard of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) in Busan for six months. Ms. Kim is demanding that the company reconsider the dismissal of dozens of employees and is refusing to leave the cabin despite being sentenced for trespass in January. The sentence carried a find of KRW One Million (approximately US$ 1,000) for each day she has occupied and continues to occupy the crane cabin. Her struggle casts doubts as to the society’s interest in matters of labour and also the role of the government in respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of a third party when business enterprises are involved.