The excitement is palpable, as it always is just before any dance competition. Upbeat Latin tunes echo through a hall of dressing rooms that buzz with giddy conversations in a number of languages. Inside, flamboyantly dressed men ensure that every tassel of their costumes is in place while their female partners apply thick eyeliner and …
Month: October 2013
Han. A simple word that has had many meanings over the years in the Land of the Morning Calm. There’s the Han River. The family surname. The shortened form of hana, one. Even Korea’s name in Korean is Hanguk. And that famous Korean concept of powerful sadness, which has no literal translation in English and …