1 November 2009
General academia
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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1 November 2009
Events news
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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Environmental protest goes mainstream
17 October 2009 Earth AlertOver 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 [...]