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Month: September 2011 (page 4)

Family Ties with Director Q&A at the KCC

event date Mon 12 Sep 2011 venue KCCUK posted

Last year the Thames Festival provided the opportunity for a couple of collateral events in the form of concerts by Winterplay and Baramgot. This year, director Kim Tae-yong is over for the screening of the restored silent film Crossroads of Youth, and will stay to answer questions after the KCC’s screening on Monday of his … [Read More]

Exhibition visit: Tradition Transformed – Contemporary Korean Ceramics at the V&A

posted updated 17 Aug 2022 by Jasleen Kandhari 4 minute read

Tradition, Transformed, Contemporary, Korean, Ceramic – the words used to describe the title of the exhibition as well as the thematic arrangement of this display in the V&A’s Ceramics & Korea Gallery from May until October 2011. Showcasing the innovative art forms produced by 18 Korean contemporary ceramicists aged 40-70 from the South Korean peninsula, … [Read More]

Junghwa Lee plays Ravel and Faure at St Martin-in-the-Fields

event date Mon 12 Sep 2011 venue St Martin-in-the-Fields posted

News of an upcoming lunchtime recital of French piano music on 12 September at St Martin’s, Trafalgar Square. Lunchtime Concert 1:00pm – Monday 12 September 2011 Junghwa Lee Pianist Junghwa Lee, a native of Korea, performs actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, and has frequently appeared in concerto performances as a soloist, … [Read More]

A Yi Mun-yol short story in the New Yorker

posted updated 20 Aug 2022 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

A Yi Mun-yol short story (An Anonymous Island) is published in The New Yorker — a first! wp.me/p1mFzB-cJ. Via @subjobjverb. Translation is by Heinz Insu Fenkl. Update: LKL article on the short story and Im Kwon-taek’s screen adaptation of it (Village in the Mist – 안개 마을, 1983) can be found here. [Read More]

Donguibogam to feature at the Thames Festival

posted updated 20 Feb 2026 by Sena Lee 2 minute read

2013 will see the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the Donguibogam, the most precious book in traditional Korean medicine (TKM). There will be a commemorative World Traditional Medicine EXPO (known as Donguibogam EXPO) in Sancheong in 2013 (6 September — 20 October, 45 days) to celebrate this anniversary. Sancheong County, at the foot … [Read More]

Team Korea: White Tiger Challenge – Ready for America’s Cup in Plymouth

posted updated 20 Feb 2026 by Philip Gowman 5 minute read

Earlier this year, Team Korea made history when it became the newest nation to enter the America’s Cup, the oldest still active, international sporting competition in the world. This is a brand new America’s Cup competition however, with a new approach that has already revolutionised the sport. With the stated aim of having the ‘best … [Read More]

Korea Calling at the Thames Festival 2011

event date 10 Sep - 11 Sep 2011 posted

Korea returns to the Thames Festival this year (10-11 September) with a range of entertainments. The Taekwondo demonstrations are always popular, plus this year there’s the Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra. If you’ve ever heard a Beatles number performed on massed Gayageums, you were probably listening to these ladies. They’ve also been known to accompany B-boys, which … [Read More]