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Kim Hong-do’s Album of scenes from Daily Life

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by Eunjung Shin on 31 January, 2010

in Arts, British Museum, History & heritage, Kim Hong-do

Eunjung Shin continues her exploration of some of the works you can find in the British Museum’s Korean collection
Throughout the five hundred years of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), the everyday lives of the common people were rarely depicted in painting. On the contrary, landscape painting was the preferred genre, or other paintings with themes related [...]

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Re-papering the Sarangbang at the British Museum

18 January 2010 British Museum
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An extra reason to visit the British Museum in the next couple of days:
Conservation in focus: re-papering the sarangbang
Watch conservators at work in the Korea Foundation Gallery
Monday 11 – Tuesday 19 January, 10.00–17.00
Room 67
Free, just drop in
Conservators from the Hirayama Studio in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research will be re-papering the Museum’s sarangbang, [...]

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The Stone Buddha in the British Museum

16 December 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin continues her survey of the treasures in the Korean gallery in the British Museum

As you enter the Korean gallery in the British Museum you might easily overlook the small stone Buddha at the entrance, his face turned modestly to the ground. If you want to see his expression, you have to sit down [...]

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The full moon jar in the British Museum

20 November 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin commences a series of articles helping those unfamiliar with Korean art to understand some of the treasures in the Korean Gallery in the British Museum. Her first choice is the famous Moon Jar.

Whenever people ask me what the essential characteristic of Korean art is, I always answer: ‘naturalism’. The full moon jar [...]

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Korea’s 21st Century Music: There and Now

22 October 2009 British Museum
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Notice of a concert at the British Museum on 30 October
Traditional Korean Music Performance
The British museum
The BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets: £5 – Concessions £3
Friday 30th October 2009: 19.00~20.30
Booking Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8181
www.britishmuseum.org
Korea’s 21st Century Music: There and Now
As a part of this autumn’s programme of traditional music events the Korean Cultural Centre UK, the [...]

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Mudang and minhwa

28 February 2009 British Museum
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A write-up of a study day at SOAS and British Museum on 24 Feb 2009. Shamans, Chaekkori, Bojagi and Chogapko all demystified. And, meet the Toilet Spirit.

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Watching Korea with the British Museum

18 December 2008 British Museum
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Peter Corbishley reviews the recent Korean Film double bill – Marathon and Wedding Day

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K-film double bill at the British Museum

5 December 2008 British Museum
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Details of two family-oriented films to be screened on Saturday at the British Museum

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Chuseok at the BM — part sprint, part marathon

26 September 2007 British Museum
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It is a commonplace observation that Korea is caught between two larger neighbours. Similarly, in marketing terms, the Korean events at the British Museum last Saturday were dwarfed by the blitzkrieg advertising for the Chinese “First Emperor” and the Japanese modern design exhibitions, both also at the British Museum at the same time. But although [...]

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Moon jars old and new

25 September 2007 British Museum
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There were moon jars a-plenty at the British Museum on Saturday: old and new, whole and smashed, real and fake and, as is the nature of these objects, none of them perfectly spherical.

In pride of place in Room 3, just as you enter the museum, is one of the prized items in the British [...]

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Focus on a piece of happiness

12 September 2007 British Museum
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The story goes that Bernard Leach, browsing in a Seoul antiques store in the mid 1930s, came across a Choson dynasty Moon Jar and held his head in disbelief at its beauty. And, after one of the more inspired impulse buys in recent art history, he walked out of the shop “carrying a piece of [...]

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Bang goes Chuseok

5 September 2007 Anglo-Korean Society

Two events to celebrate Chuseok, Korea’s harvest festival.
Firstly, the Anglo-Korean Society will be having a buffet dinner at Young Bean Kwan on the Barbican highwalks in the City on 20 September. Guest of honour will be Ambassador Cho.
There will be a short pre-dinner talk on Korean customs and food, and guests will be entertained by [...]

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