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New exhibition honors Korean heritage, art By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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Samakh Leao, a freshman forward on the Gladiators’ varsity boys team, controls the ball after Rome’s Emerson Lom takes a tumble April 19. The Gladiators continued an undefeated season after their 3-0 victory over Rome, then blanking North Forsyth, 4-0, on April 26.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The juried exhibition at the Johns Creek Arts Center, on display until May 10, features a dynamic set of more than 40 works that express Korean heritage. Art shown in “Hallyu: A Celebration of Korean Art” is the coming together of a dozen Korean and Korean American artists with different lenses from which they view a shared culture, across varying mediums and levels of melding the traditional and modern. “Hallyu,” originally of Chinese origin, translates to “Korean Wave” which refers to the dramatic growth in popularity of Korean culture, through products like Korean drama films and K-pop. Work from a mother-daughter duo, Kyungsook Lee and Sarah Park, captures the multigenerational element to the show, how the relationship to culture might adapt but doesn’t dissipate with time.
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Johns Creek High soccer team notches 2 wins in state playoffs By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek High School boys soccer team advanced to the Round of 8 in the Class 6A GHSA state finals this week, following playoff wins over Rome and North Forsyth. The Gladiators scored shutouts against Rome, 3-0, in the first round April 19, and North
Forsyth, 4-0, in the second round April 26. Johns Creek was set to face North Atlanta April 30 – before Herald press time – for a chance to advance to the Final Four on May 3. Reflecting on the Rome victory, Gladiators head coach Kelly Bowler described the match as an “ugly” one, attributing it to “big moment jitters” with four sopho-
more players and one freshman starting. “Hopefully that was what they needed to go into the next game with a little bit more confidence and a little bit less hesitation,” Bowler said. The Gladiators are ranked ninth in the nation and third in Georgia and have gone undefeated with one tie.
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Mina Duffie’s work, “Conggi Nori,” which won first place, sets the scene of children playing Gonggi — a popular Korean children’s game played with at least five grapesized pebbles, or gonggitdol. The piece, along with her other work, uses Korean traditional paper called hanji.
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