Featured events
- The London Korean Film Festival comes to the Barbican from 5 November, dovetailing and sometimes clashing with a Bong Joon-ho retrospective (1-14 Nov) at the South Bank. If you’re a BFI member you might have got tickets for the Q&A with Director Bong. If not, tough luck. [Update: more tickets now released]
- The London festival tours to Manchester (7-9 Nov) and Nottingham (16-18 Nov). More details on http://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/
- Nottingham Trent University is holding a series of Korean events in November – a concert on 1 November, and an exhibition of antique Korean maps till 22 November. If you want to catch up with Director Bong, he will be doing a Q&A in Nottingham on 16 November
- JUMP! returns to the Peacock, 3 – 21 November
Sport
- South Korea play Serbia at Craven Cottage (Fulham FC) at 2:30 on 18 November. Tickets from £12. Daehan Minguk.
Visual arts / antiques
- It’s Asian Art in London week till 7 November. Expect to find a lot of the oriental galleries pulling out all the stops to bring ceramics and screens to market.
- I-MYU opens up in the West End for the week, with a show of work by Lee Lee-nam and Lee Gil-woo at Alon Zakaim Fine Art
- SaLon gallery shows work by Dorothy Yoon till 22 November.
- The Earth Alert exhibition continues at the KCC until 28 November. Some great photos of Saemangeum, for those who have been following that particular issue.
Music
- Younee comes to the end of her tour with gigs at the Vortex (1 Nov) and 606 Club (8 Nov)
- Kim Duk-soo performs in Cambridge, 7-8 November
Cookery
- Kiejo Sarsfield is giving two of her fun cookery classes on 14 and 28 November
Talks
- Stephen Epstein talks about Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture in Cambridge on 2 November, Between Some (Korean!) Rocks and a Large Place: Japan, China, and South Korean Popular Media in Oxford on 4 November and then South Korean Popular Culture and “Asia” in the New Millennium at SOAS on 6 November. (Choose between the latter and Kim Ki-duk’s Bi-mong at the Barbican)
- North Korean refugees talk about their experiences on 3 November in Portcullis House
- Dan Martin introduces the films of Yu Hyun-mok at the Korean Film Festival before the double-bill on 10 November
- The Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project will be holding an evening entitled Innovative Korea — From Past to Present at the KCC on 18 November
- Martine Robeets talks at SOAS on Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference on 20 November
- James Grayson talks at the KCC on Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites on 24 November
- Shin Wookhee talks at SOAS on US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry on 27 November (for a complete list of this season of SOAS seminars click here)
Further ahead
- Yi Chul-jin is back in town, and will be performing authentic Korean traditional dance at Roehampton on 2 December
Thought you’d like to know that the BFI have shifted the “Mother”/Bong Joon-ho conversation into NFT 1 now, so there’s a second chance to get tickets. Apparently this renders existing seat allocations useless, but, hey, good news for those who missed out, non?
Cheers
Hey Ian, thanks for passing on the good news