Another action-packed month this month: Ko Un in Aldeburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge, PSY at the Oxford Union, jazz-gugak fusion in Piccadilly, manhwa at the KCC, two all-day conferences and of course plenty of film. And if you’re quick there might just be a ticket or two left for December’s BigBang appearances.
Film
- The Im Kwon-taek season is just winding up at the ICA and the BFI
- The London Korean Film Festival runs 1 – 11 November in London, with a regional tour to Bristol, Bournemouth and Glasgow in the following 10 days.
- This month’s director at the KCC, if you had any spare film bandwidth after Im Kwon Taek, the BFI Film Fest and the LKFF, is Song Hae-seong, with screenings each Thursday: in order, Rikidozan, Maundy Thursday, Failan, A Better Tomorrow
- Those waiting to get hold of Kim Ki-duk’s Crocodile on DVD will finally be rewarded on 13 November when 3rd Window releases it in a set with Arirang.
- On the subject of DVDs, you can now get the other Kim Ki-duk’s Barefoot Youth (1964) and also the classic Coachman (Kang Dae-jin, 1961) on DVD with English Subtitles. You can also get Park Chan-wook’s Night Fishing on a Taiwanese release.
Music
- Highlight of the month is a jazz / gugak fusion concert as part of the London Jazz Festival, with members of Baramgot and the Tori Ensemble and a British saxophonist (14 November)
- Grace Yeo makes her Wigmore Hall debut, 4 November
- Violinist Joo Yeon Sir plays in a rush-hour recital at the V&A, Friday evening 2 November
Exhibitions
- The KCC’s exhibition The Colours of Korean Comics, running 1 – 21 November, features five of Korea’s top manhwa artists.
- The show with the biggest names this month is One must imagine Sisyphus Happy, which finishes on 10 December
- The Korean Artists Association has a one-week group exhibition commencing with a performance on 28 November
- Maximum City featuring work by Hong Young-in ends at Sesame Gallery on 10 November
- Lee Jaehyo’s exhibition at the Albemarle finishes on 3 November
- Chang Yu-jung’s exhibition, Eclipses, finishes at Art First Gallery on 10 November
- Ahn Jin-kyun’s exhibition in Brighton continues until 18 November
- Baik Hyun-jhin’s solo exhibition continues at 43 Inverness Street until 17 November
- Ahn Chul-hyun’s exhibition, Infinite Voyage, is at HADA Contemporary, 1-28 November
- Shin Mee-kyoung’s soapy Duke of Cumberland is still in Cavendish Square
Literature, talks and seminars
- PSY’s members-only talk will be at the Oxford Union, 2pm on 7 November
- Ko Un appears in Aldeburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge, 3-10 November, accompanied by Brother Anthony
- SOAS is running a one-day seminar on State Capitalism and Development in East Asia, 6 November
- BAKS has its annual one-day seminar on 17 November – an event entitled Korea’s Place in the World, now and 20 years hence.
- LSE has an economic and political forum on 24 November
- SOAS’s free evening seminars are 16 November on North Korean moral didactic literature and 23 November on Sino-North Korean relations
- You are reminded that SOAS recently released a call for papers in respect of a Korean Screen Culture conference at the end of next May
Social
- The Anglo Korean Society diners meet up on 1 November at Arang
- The Anglo Korean Society’s annual dinner at the House of Lords is on 22 November
- The British Korean Women’s Society has a public launch at the KCC on 20 November
- Kiejo Sarsfield’s cookery classes are 17 and 24
- Members of the Korean Language Meetup Group and the K-pop team will no doubt have plenty of meetings as per the schedules on their websites.
Do you have the (link for the) call for papers for the Korean Screen Culture conference at SOAS?
I’ve just got the OK from SOAS to post the call for papers, so it’ll go up on LKL over the weekend