Here’s what I know about: Visual Arts The big news for July is the start of the exhibition Artists, Art and Culture of North Korea. Opens 18 July. Watch this site for further news on associated events Choi Jeong-hwa’s exhibition continues at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. More soon. Academia, discussions etc Two talks at Chatham … [Read More]
Month: June 2007
Kingston Korean Festival 2007 programme
Courtesy of the Korean Language Meetup group: 10th Korean Festival 2007 Festival Programme 09:50 Entry 10:00 Opening Ceremony 10:30 Ceremonial Parade of British Korean War Veterans 10:50 Gilnori (Samulnori genre) performed by Hanaldarae team to pronounce the start of the festival and pray for a successful festival 11:00 A series of traditional Korean dance performed … [Read More]
Enjoy the festival
Don’t be put off by the jaded travel professionals appearing in today’s more lengthy post. Go to Kingston tomorrow and have some fun. I hope the weather’s OK. As for the Trafalgar Square event, I’m afraid I’ve got to be elsewhere, so again can I ask you to take your digital cameras and send in … [Read More]
Korea, fizzling – a rather less than sparkling brand launch
An unruly mob of louts and freeloaders from the travel and journalism trade gathered on the top floor of New Zealand House yesterday evening to honour the launch of the “Korea, Sparkling” tourism brand. When it had been launched so successfully down below in Trafalgar Square not two weeks beforehand, some of us wondered why … [Read More]
A hallyu tourism research project in Leeds
A reader at ukfan’s DJG Comic Relief forum is doing a research project on Dae Jang Geum. He’s a PhD researcher at Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University. As part of this he needs your help to perfect a cultural survey. The survey can be found here. Please email it to … [Read More]
Support the SlowPokes
An enthusiastic team from the Korean embassy will be competing in the Standard Chartered Great City Race on 19 July. Calling themselves the Slowpokes, the all-female team are aiming to complete the arduous 5km road race in record time thanks to their kimchi-rich diet. They are also aiming to raise £2,500 for the Breakthrough Breast … [Read More]
Two ambassadors and a minister at Chatham House
Next week is an eventful one for followers of the foreign relations of the two Koreas. On Wednesday afternoon there’s a rare opportunity to hear two of the most senior figures from the foreign ministry of the DPRK speak on the subject of the DPRK’s foreign relations, while on Thursday lunchtime the Korea Discussion Group … [Read More]
A listing of Korean food stores
Update 12 December 2018. The current exhibition of Jeonju cuisine at the KCC has a handy “Korean Food Map” of London, listing out restaurants and food stores in the area. It seems pretty comprehensive, so I’ve rewritten this post, which was originally compiled in 2007, using data from that leaflet, at least for London and … [Read More]
UK-trained beauty expert opens Busan Academy
My dear friend Nam-hee Kim (김남희) has just taken the bold step of opening her own Beauty Academy in Busan: the Michae Beauty Academy (미채 뷰티 아카데미): www.mcbeauty.co.kr. Nam-hee studied at the London College of Fashion, part of University of the Arts, London — and part of her course was theatrical make-up and design. I … [Read More]
More pictures from the 2007 Dano festival in Trafalgar Square
Many thanks to Katie, Mark and Sung-min for letting me use their pictures of the Dano festival last Sunday. Mark has uploaded a full set of his photos over at the Korean Language Meetup site. Go visit the gallery – there are some other good photos over there too. I’ll also be asking people to … [Read More]
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I know it’s a pain in the backside. But as I increase this site’s functionality and content I use more computing power at my webhost. And because I’m using the cheapest hosting package I can get, my webhost takes my site offline for a quick cooling-off period if I’m hogging the CPU too much. Looking … [Read More]
SOAS workshop: Culture and Society in Modern Korea
SOAS has now announced the programme for its free one-day Korean Studies workshop on 26 June. There are some entertaining speakers. Jim Hoare will be talking about the South’s engagement policy; Keith Howard looks like he’s going to be talking about something way over my head but he usually presents in a user-friendly manner. I’m … [Read More]
New report presents evidence of crimes against humanity
Christian Solidarity Worldwide yesterday launched a new report, seven years in the making, which concluded that there is a prima facie case that the DPRK regime is guilty of crimes against humanity. The report has had input from lawyers familiar with the international human rights regime and is based, inter alia, on interviews with 80 … [Read More]
4482: The Open Studio
The very first group show of London based Korean artists under the banner of 4482: The open studio 28 June – 30 June 2012 King’s Park Studio | 152-178 Kingston Road | New Malden | Kingston Upon Thames KT3 3ST Chanhyo Bae | Chongwoon Choi | Han Jiseok | Hong Jung Ouk | Jin Kim … [Read More]
Please send in your Dano photos – particularly b-boy action shots
As you may have gathered, I didn’t make it to the Dano event in Trafalgar Square on Sunday. But it would be great to get a flavour of what it all looked like. Jennifer’s great post yesterday helped, but it would be fun if you could send in any photos you have. I’ll decorate yesterday’s … [Read More]
Rivers dance for Dano
A roving reporter’s account of yesterday’s Trafalgar Square Dano festivities by Jennifer Barclay with photos mostly by Jeon Sung-min (photo of the b-boys by Katie) It was a grey day on Sunday 17 June; but I donned a slightly sparkling T-shirt and set out for Trafalgar Square for the first ‘Korea, Sparkling’ Dano festival to … [Read More]