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Past events

Set out below are the past events that I have been tracking, together with reviews / reports of the events, where available. It’s not a comprehensive listing of past events (for example, I’ve missed out most of the Chatham House talks I didn’t manage to get to), and it will remain incomplete until I can get this table to update automatically from my events calendar. That’s not going to happen while I’m dependent on Google.

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When Where What Link Review
14-20 Dec 2006 Jerwood Space Still Dynamics - Korean Contemporary Art Here Here and here
11, 13 Dec 2006 Fairfield Hall / RNCM Grand Finale of Think Korea 2006 Think Korea site here  
11-16 Dec 2006 Byam Shaw / Central St Martins “here I am now”. A contemporary art exhibition by students and professors from Kyungwon University Seoul Here  
11 Dec 2006 Asia House South Korean artists’ response to the division of Korea Asia House site here Here
8 Dec 2006 SOAS Musings on North Korean Art   Here
6 Dec 2006 Chatham House Korea Discussion Group: China’s “Korea Wave”: National branding, piracy, idols and fans Chatham House site here Here
2 Dec 2006 Asia House Symposium on Shakespeare in Asian Theatre Asia House site here Here
25 Nov 2006 Asia House Through the Looking Glass - panel discussion Asia House site here Here
23 Nov 2006 - 9 Dec 2006 Barbican Mokhwa Theatre Company perform Oh Tae-suk’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet Barbican site here Here
23 Nov 2006 - 3 March 2007 Asia House Through the Looking Glass - Korean Contemporary Art. (Think Korea link here) Exhibition site here Here
7 Nov 2006 Bonhams Sale of Korean contemporary ceramics Bonhams site here Here
27 - 29 Oct 2006 SOAS / Royal Academy of Music Contemporary music from the Korean Society of Women Composers Think Korea site here  
7 - 29 Oct 2006 Cell Project Space Circuit Diagram - Japanese, Korean and British contemporary artists Cell site here Here
12 Oct 2006 Asia House Chuseok celebrations Click here Here
27 Sept - 1 Oct 2006 Odeon Covent Garden Surprise Korean Film Festival 2006 Click here Here, here and here
20 Sept 2006 V&A, 6:30 for 7pm Anglo Korean Society private tour of the Korean & Asian collection, hosted by Beth McKillop. Click here Here
19 Sept - 28 Nov 2006 Union Gallery, SE1 “Give me Shelter” exhibition Click here Here
18-23 Sept 2006 Various Korean film at the Firecracker film festival Click here  
16 Sept 2006 Bruntwood Theatre, RNCM Fantasia: Explore Korean Traditional Dance Click here and here Here
14 Sept 2006 Bloomsbury Theatre Fantasia: Explore Korean Traditional Dance Click here and here  
11-12 Sept 2006 Bloomsbury Theatre Baudeogi - a Korean musical Click here Here
10 Sept 2006 British Museum Talk on Mingei, including Korea’s place in that movement. Stephenson Lecture Theatre Click here  
8-24 Sept 2006 Lounge Gallery Sensuous Panorama - contemporary Korean artists Click here  
6-7 Sept 2006 Halifax Hall, Sheffield University Annual conference of British Association for Korean Studies. “Generations in Korea: Past, Present and Future”. Click here Here
28 August 2006 Odeon West End Screening of Bong Joon-ho’s hit movie The Host as part of Frightfest 2006 Click here  
17 August 2006 Chatham House Asia Programme meeting: Jasper Becker “The Challenge of North Korea to Regional and Global Stability” Click here  
15-18 August 2006 York The International Conference on Peace and Reconciliation
In Search of a Common Identity: The Korean Peninsula and Other Contexts		 Click here  
12 August 2006 The Fairfield, Fairfield Road, Kingston Open-air Korean festival organised by the Korean Residents Society of New Malden Click here  
25 July 2006 BBC4 Eating in the Danger Zone: a programme on the things that Koreans eat which Westerners don’t typically eat. A focus on dogmeat is anticipated Click here here
22 July 2006 Northcott Theatre, Exeter Dulsori. “Raw passionate energy pulses through the driving rhythms of Korea’s drumming sensation” Click here  
21 July 2006 SOAS main entrance Open-air evening event as part of the drumming summer school.   here
17-21 July 2006 SOAS Learn how to drum, Korean style. Korean SamulNori percussion, tutored by Dulsori. £60 for 5 evening classes. Drums will be provided, beginners welcome Click here here
17 July 2006 Purcell Room SamulNori: Rhythm Sticks 2006 Click here  
30 June 2006 Chatham House Korea Discussion Group: Dr Maurizio Martellini “Toward an ideal negotiation format with the DPRK”    
26 June - 1 July 2006 Barbican A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Yohangza Theatre Company Click here here and here
23 June 2006 Paris Quai Branly museum opens. Click here  
19-25 June 2006 Everywhere Global Week of Prayer for North Korea Click here  
14 June 2006 HMS Belfast Anglo-Korean Society celebratory dinner    
13 - 15 June 2006 Bloomsbury Theatre NewRa dance group perform the Rite of Spring plus some Korean Danoje ritual music Click here here
18 May-25 June 2006 Cat Hill Gallery, SW18 Exhibition of flower paintings by artist Rho Sook-ja Click here  
10 June 2006 Tate Modern All day video tribute to Nam June Paik Click here  
5 June 2006 SOAS lecture theatre Lecture: Korean Modern Culture - Prof Kim Chang-Nam from SungKongHoe University (part of London Korean Festival 2006) Click here here
29 May - 3 June 2006 Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street Modern Korean Ceramics - Traditional yet Contemporary (part of London Korean Festival 2006) Click here here
27 May 2006 V & A Lecture Theatre Korean day at the Victoria & Albert Museum (part of London Korean Festival 2006) Click here here
26 May 2006 Chatham House (a.m.) Korea Discussion Group: presentation on the Cheonggye Cheon restoration project in Seoul Click here  
25 May 2006 Asia House Korean Ceramics: Art and Techniques. Talk by Dauphine Scalbert. Click here here
24 May 2006 Bloomsbury Theatre Korean Breeze - Concert of traditional Korean music Click here Here
23 May 2006 West Road, Cambridge Korean Breeze - Concert of traditional Korean music. Click here  
22 May 2006 Hollywell Music Rm, Oxford Korean Breeze - Concert of traditional Korean music. Click here  
22 - 26 May 2006 Prince Charles Cinema London Korean Film Festival. 9 films from 2005. (part of London Korean Festival 2006) Click here  
20 May 2006 Mean Fiddler Crying Nuts, Wanderlust, and Ji Hye Lee play the Mean Fiddler (part of London Korean Festival 2006) Click here Here
11 May 2006 Watershed, 267 The Broadway, Wimbledon Gig by young Korean band The Meredith. 8pm onwards. Other bands will be playing Click here  
8 May 2006 Prince Charles Cinema Screening of Hyeol-ui nu / “Blood Rain” (Kim Dae-Seung) as part of Asia Extreme season Click here  
3 May 2006 Asia House (evening) Lecture - New approach to East Asian History - Dr Wontack Hong from Seoul Click here  
2 May 2006 LSE, Hong Kong Theatre, 6:30pm Korean Ambassador to UK, Dr Cho Yoon-je: Reform, Innovation and Internationalisation: the challenges of the new Korean economy. Chaired by Howard Davies Email events at lse dot ac dot uk  
1 May 2006 Prince Charles Cinema Screening of Gawi / “Nightmare” (Ahn Byung-ki) as part of Asia Extreme season Click here  
1 May 2006 Fairfield Halls, Croydon Lee Soo-Young performs numbers from her latest album (Grace) with the RPO. Korea Fantasy. Click here Here
28 April 2006 Royal College of Art Screening of “A Little Monk” Alternative blog link here Click here  
24 April 2006 Prince Charles Cinema Screening of Bunshinsaba / “Ouija board” (Ahn Byung-ki) as part of Asia Extreme season Click here  
17 April 2006 Prince Charles Cinema Screening of Hayanbang / “Unborn but forgotten” (Lim Chang-jae) as part of Asia Extreme season Click here  
11&12 April 2006 Peacock Theatre Eun Me Ahn Company: Chunhyang - an impossible love Click here here
6 April 2006 St James’s Piccadilly Daegum recital - “Scent of Eastern Wind” Click here here
17-18 March 2006 Birkbeck College “What a difference a region makes”: 2 day symposium on East Asian cross-border flows of popular culture. Click here here
16 March 2006 Foreign Press Association Anglo-Korean Society / Korean Embassy “Korean Night”    
16 March 2006 Chatham House Korea Discussion Group - Social Injustice and Economic Dynamism in Contemporary Korea Click here  
24 Feb 2006 SOAS L61 Exploring Korean Music colloquium. Report here here
24 Feb 2006 SOAS Khalili Lunchtime Daegeum recital (Lee Sangkyu)    
24 Feb 2006 SOAS Brunei Portrait of Hwang Byungki—evening concert featuring Hwang’s compositions with Hwang and other distinguished performers   here
24 Feb 2006 SOAS Vernon Talk on the future of Korea, particularly North / South relations, by representative from Korean Embassy, followed by free buffet.    
23 Feb 2006 Asia House Portrait of Hwang Byungki—evening concert featuring Hwang’s compositions with Hwang and other distinguished performers    
16 Feb 2006 Conway Hall Korean Cultural Evening - food, performances. Put on by University of London Korean Society    
10 Feb 2006 Curzon Soho & general release General release of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance    
9 Feb 2006 Curzon Soho Preview screening of Lady Vengeance, with Q&A with director Park Chan-wook    
7-26 Feb 2006 Peacock Theatre Ye-Gam Inc: Jump Click here here
27-29 Jan 2006 Battersea Arts Centre Theatre Momzit - Empty Hands. Part of London International Mime Festival. “A beautiful visual theatre performance based on Korean ritual ceremonies and shamanism, accompanied by traditional percussion music.” Click here  
26 Jan 2006 Asia House Charlotte Horlyck lectures on Korean temple architecture Click here  
24 Jan 2006 BBC4 Jonathan Ross’s Asian Invasion: Korean Film Click here  
20 Jan 2006 General release General release of A Bittersweet Life    

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