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www.groovekorea.com / November 2014 12 M U s T R E a D s C A V A L I A Already enjoyed by some 4 million people across North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, Cavalia is a lavish production involving 50 horses and featuring 40 riders, aerialists, acrobats, dancers and musicians from all over the world. K O R E A ’ S M E D I A M A L A I S E F E E - F I - F O - F u M ! From the outside, South Korea’s media appears to be thriving, but just as it did for many other facets of Korean society, the Sewol disaster exposed a rot at the heart of this country’s news media. As Koreans have grown up in a more stable economic climate, meat has taken the foreground in the Korean restaurant scene. Sophia Kim, the proprietor of Jack and the Beanstalk in Namcheon, Busan, runs her restaurant with the polar opposite approach: no meat whatsoever. D I S C O V E R Y From the moment I left Seoul’s urban sprawl with my mom on her second visit to Korea, green replaced gray as I unplugged from the city’s matrix and saw Korea with fresh eyes. C A N N I B A L H E A R T “Our ideas come from everyday life and what’s going on in our lives. We don’t write our songs from intellect, we write them from feeling. We’re pretty adamant about that.” G R O O V E O N W I T H D A N D E A C O N Despite being a classically trained musician, it’s the eight electronic albums that Deacon’s released since 2003 that have garnered him the most attention — well, that and his live performances. A selection from our editors MuST READS 26 40 68 44 36 72