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A notice of the current show at Asia House, featuring two Korean painters.
Exhibition Period: 29th September – 17th October 2009
Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish, Street, London W1G 7LP [Map]
Reception: 5th October, 6:30PM
TransReal: My Home Town is a reaction, and an exploration of this reaction, towards the seemingly increasing acceptance of the transient and subjective [...]

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Lost and Found at Rokeby Gallery

3 January 2009 Events news
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Six Korean artists exhibit in London: Han Keryoon, Hong Young In, Jeon Kyung, Lee Lee Nam, Lee Gil Woo and Yee Sookyung

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Good Evening, Ms. Jiyoon Lee!

11 March 2008 Conference reports
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Matthew Jackson reports from last Thursday’s gallery talk at the KCC
I had assumed that the Nam June Paik talk by Jiyoon Lee would take the form of a tour around the gallery itself. The schedule of the evening was fuller than I had expected, and required the setting of the ‘Sejong Room’ on the basement [...]

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We look forward to lunchtime

17 February 2008 Bae Junsung
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An assessment of “Good Morning, Mr Paik Nam June”
Korean Cultural Centre, UK, 1 Feb – 2 Mar, Mon-Fri 9:30 – 5:30
It must be a very attractive prospect to be offered the job of curating a prestigious exhibition at the high-profile launch of a cultural centre. Having a blank canvas to work on certainly must be [...]

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The ribbon is cut; the Centre is open

2 February 2008 Bae Junsung

Jennifer Barclay reports from the official opening ceremony of the new Korean Cultural Centre UK.
Korea has been ’setting the pace of popular culture far beyond its boundaries in the last decade,’ noted Mr Andrew Ramsay (left) of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the opening remarks at the launch of the Korean Cultural [...]

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Feminism and women artists in Korean art

24 February 2007 Chung Kyung-ja
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Lecture 5 in Jiyoon Lee’s Art & Society in Modern Korea course.
Big caveat: a very simplistic and immature summary, prepared by someone with limited knowledge or understanding of these things, of a very brief lecture covering a huge topic. Treat with extreme caution. Posted here as a “stub” (in Wiki terms) which I might build [...]

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South Korean artist’s response to the Division of Korea

16 December 2006 Conference reports
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South Korean Artists’ Response to the Issue of Divided Korea
Lecture by Jim Hoare and Jiyoon Lee
Monday 11 December at Asia House 6.45-7.45pm
The current exhibition at Asia House is producing much food for thought. This is now the third post devoted to the exhibition and is unlikely to be the last. In an evening of two [...]

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Uncovering Wonderland

5 December 2006 Cho Duck-hyun
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Review of the Asia House exhibition by Beccy Kennedy
The multi-storey, multi-story exhibition of contemporary Korean art at Asia House, Through the Looking Glass, provides a multi-faceted Korean art experience, in terms of the media used and the themes approached by the artists. Independent curator, Jiyoon Lee, uses the looking glass as an audience-friendly metaphor to [...]

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