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Korea’s Ancient Culture and Art, and Modern Economy

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by Philip Gowman on 4 February, 2010

in Events news, KCCUK, KSCPP

An invitation to an informational event at the Korean Cultural Centre on 10 February, from the Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project.

We would like to invite you to a series of short films on Korea’s artistic and cultural treasures, and the remarkable economic growth of the past 30 years.
The films will cover, amongst others, Tripitaka [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

Companies:
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January-March Korean class season at the KCC

3 December 2009 Events news
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Next term’s Korean language courses at the KCC are open for subscription:
APPLICATION DEADLINE: by Wednesday 9th December 2009, 10am. via Email only
1. NEW STUDENTS FOR BEGINNERS 1: Wednesday 9th December 2009, 10am
This is for new absolute beginner students who have not studied at KCC before.
2. CONTINUING STUDENTS: Wednesday 25th November ~ 5th December 2009
This is [...]

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Supervisions at the KCC

2 December 2009 Arts
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Notice of the Cultural Centre’s latest exhibition.
Supervisions: UK Korean Artists
Exhibition Dates: 4 December 2009 – 6 February 2010

CHUNG Daun | CHUNG Jae Yeon | HONG Kiwon | HONG Kyu | HONG Seung-pyo | JEE Mina | KANG Sangbin | KIM A Young | KIM Hwang | KIM Hyo Myoung | LEE Kyu-seon | LEE Seong [...]

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Margaret Drabble’s search for the Crown Princess

4 November 2009 Conference reports
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Jennifer Barclay, author of MEETING MR KIM: OR HOW I WENT TO KOREA AND LEARNED TO LOVE KIMCHI, reports from the Korean Cultural Centre on Dame Margaret Drabble’s lecture based on her novel THE RED QUEEN
Dame Margaret Drabble, CBE DBE, looks elegant with her hair in a natural bob and a touch of red lipstick. [...]

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Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites

1 November 2009 General academia
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Details of November’s Global Korea Lecture at the Cultural Centre:
Tuesday 24th November 2009, 6.30pm
Subject: Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites
Speaker: Professor James H. Grayson (School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre
According to the 2005 Korean Household and Population Census, Christians now represent nearly 30 per cent of [...]

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Innovative Korea – from past to present

1 November 2009 Events news
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The Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project present an evening introducing Korea’s long-standing innovation:

Date: 18th November 2009
Time: 6.15 for 6.30 pm
Location: Korean Cultural Centre UK
Grand Buildings, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5BW
Programme
A short talk will precede three documentary films, covering three representative pieces of Korean culture,
and a detailed overview of Korea’s innovative industries today:

The Sarira [...]

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Presenting Korean Culture 2: Why bother with the artist VIPs?

31 October 2009 KCCUK
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Having being forced to think about issues concerning the presentation of Korean culture in London for the recent seminar at I-MYU, here are some additional thoughts, with maybe some more to come.
The current exhibition at the Cultural Centre provides a stimulating and thought-provoking panorama of environmental issues. Present at the opening reception were two of [...]

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Korean Literature Workshop with Ch’oe Yun

21 October 2009 Events news
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Alas, it comes too late to give me any useful input into the Korean Literature Translation Institute’s essay competition, but this is a worthwhile initiative:
The Korean Literature Workshop
With Ch’oe Yun, the author of ‘There a Petal Silently Falls’
The Korean Cultural Centre
Tuesday 27th October 2009: 18.30~21.00
Facilitator: Dr Jo Elfving-Hwang, the University of Sheffield
As a part [...]

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Behind the scenes with the KAA

20 October 2009 Event reports and reviews
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The plan for an evening of performance and visual arts at the KCC came quite suddenly, and when I met Park Sunnee for a quick chat about it six weeks ago the plans all seemed rather vague. I have in the past been sceptical about Korean organisational abilities, and the mountain to climb in such [...]

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Environmental protest goes mainstream

17 October 2009 Earth Alert
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Over the past few years, environmentalists have been protesting about the massive land reclamation project at Saemangeum on the west coast of Korea. As well as being an environmental tragedy, it has also been a minor irritation in UK-ROK relations: prominent among the campaigners have been British naturalists protesting about the scheme’s impact on the [...]

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Earth Alert: Photographic Responses to Climate Change

13 October 2009 Events news
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Last year the KCC ran a stimulating exhibition Blight and Hope – Poverty through the Lens, featuring the response of international photographers to a particular issue. A follow-up exhibition opens on 13 October 2009:
Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK,
Ground Floor, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW
Exhibition Dates : 13 October 2009 – 28 [...]

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Margaret Drabble: the search for the Crown Princess

20 September 2009 Events news
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A couple of years ago at the BAKS conference Margaret Drabble gave a fascinating talk about how she came to be captivated by the story of Lady Hyegyong, wife of Prince Sado. Sado was son of a king and father of a king, but never made it to the throne himself. Lady Hyegyong wrote her [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-31

31 August 2009 Business
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Korean designer Choi Min-kyu fixes UK clunky plugs. Cool. http://bit.ly/4kvvIb #
N Koreans labouring in Russia's timber camps: the UK connection, on Newsnight tonight: http://bit.ly/3wAaFJ #
Many hearts broken: Lee Young-ae married http://bit.ly/1HzXO6 #
North Korean loggers in Russia: the full video here http://bit.ly/s6YvM #
Ha Ji-won's Busan accent takes Haeundae over the 10 million mark http://bit.ly/yNbyp [...]

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Michael Shin on Yi Kwang-su’s The Heartless

29 August 2009 Events news
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The third Global Korea lecture of 2009 will be held at the KCC on 29 September at 6:30pm. Michael Shin from Cambridge University will talk on Yi Gwangu’s The Heartless, sometimes known as Korea’s first modern novel. There will be a raffle to win the novel in an English translation.
The novel The Heartless by Yi [...]

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