The top video is a new TV commercial for a new variant of the chewy sweet formerly known as Opal Fruits. The commercial is produced by London advertising agency TBWA according to Advertolog. Art director Tom Chancellor has the ad on his site.

The bottom video is the creation of video artist June Bum Park. He’s been doing work showing people being manipulated by giant hands for at least a couple of years as far as I’m aware. I first saw his work at the presentation of Korean video art shown at the British Museum during the London Korean Festival in 2005. The above work, “Parking” was shown during the “Exposed” event in London in May last year. The rather bad copy above was apparently taken by a visitor to the Alllooksame?/Tuttuguale? exhibition in Torino, Italy earlier this year.

Update:

• James over at the Grand Narrative has managed to track down three much better videos of June Bum Park’s work here.

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It seems to be part of the Korean Embassy website. And it’s now coming up on google. It must be a recent creation, because I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve googled in search of “Think Korea 2006″ and only found my own site.

There’s a couple of events on their schedule which I hadn’t heard about - a contemporary video art event during May, which obviously we’ve now missed; and an event at the Bloomsbury Theatre in September, which the Bloomsbury Theatre website doesn’t seem to know anything about yet. Other than that I think I’d managed to capture all the events by various alternative means. I won’t be posting the Sarah Chang performance of the Bruch fiddle concerto (also listed on the Think Korea website) as that’s more Western culture than Korean.

Here’s a link to the Exposed website to judge what you missed. The still on the Think Korea website of a giant hand parking some cars looks very similar to a piece of video art which was shown as part of the Korean Festival last year - a pair of giant hands manipulating a building site in the process of constructing an open-air concert stage. I wish I’d known about it before.

I’ll post more information on the September event at the Bloomsbury when I find out more about it. Meanwhile, if any of you know of any Korean-related events out there, do let me know.

UPDATE: since posting the above I came across the catalogue of last year’s video art show at the London Korean Festival. The artist in question is June Bum Park.

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