OK, it was the second time I had seen it. The first time, I had slept through it. But that was because I had been entering into the spirit rather too much by indulging in a drinking session of Hongian proportions beforehand. The second time round, there was the anticipation of seeing the lead actress … [Read More]
Month: April 2013 (page 2)
Print exhibition news: Breeze, at Mokspace
We loved Hyun Jeung’s woodblock prints when they were shown at Mokspace last year. So we’ll be sure to pop in to Mokspace to see them again, now in a group show. Breeze Hyun Jeung, Katsutoshi Yuasa, Phil Greenwood Group Print Exhibition Opening Reception: Tuesday 9th April 2013, 6.30 – 8.30pm Exhibition: 9th April – … [Read More]
I can’t believe he asked her that
The context was this. It was the Q&A after the 4 April screening at BAFTA of Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha, attended by the lead actress Moon So-ri, the first featured actor of the KCC’s Year of the Four Actors. Tony Rayns was talking to Moon So-ri about how she got her first screen role. Moon started … [Read More]
Hyungkoo Lee at Bexley Heritage Trust: BEASTLY HALL – A place where artists and creatures collide
Hyungkoo Lee at Bexley Heritage Trust BEASTLY HALL – A place where artists and creatures collide 28 March – 1 September 2013 Celebrate 60 years of our historic Queen’s Beasts topiaries by escaping into a world of fantastical creatures. Meet a carnival of unlikely monsters and unnatural beings in the new exhibition, Beastly Hall. Featuring … [Read More]
Twinsters – what a compelling story
On February 21, 2013, Samantha, an American actor living in Los Angeles, received a message via Facebook that would drastically change her life. It was from Anaïs, a French fashion design student living in London. Anaïs’ friends viewed a YouTube video featuring Samantha. They were immediately blown away by the identical appearance of Samantha & … [Read More]
Gwon Osang: Postmodern Times — at HADA Contemporary
This is probably April’s (and maybe May’s) exhibition of the month: a mini-retrospective of Gwon Osang’s work. Gwon is a fairly regular artist in the London gallery scene – his work has been shown in London since 2006 and maybe earlier. Perhaps the most high-profile showing was at Korean Eye 2010 in the Saatchi Gallery. … [Read More]
Korea Rocks profile #1: Apollo 18
Four top bands are coming to the UK this month as part of the Korea Rocks tour presented by Hyundai Card Music. Here’s a profile of Apollo 18, who have featured in LKL’s Critics’ Choice two years running, 2009–2010, selected by Anna Lindgren and Mark Russell. Award-winning South Korean post-hardcore/post-rock act Apollo 18 formed in … [Read More]
Korea Rocks profile #2: Galaxy Express
Four top bands are coming to the UK this month as part of the Korea Rocks tour presented by Hyundai Card Music. Here’s a profile Galaxy Express, who featured in LKL’s Critics’ Choice for 2011. Award-winning South Korean rockers Galaxy Express formed in 2006 in Seoul. The trio of guitarist/vocalist Jonghyun Park, bassist/vocalist Juhyun Lee, … [Read More]
Korea Rocks profile #3: Goonamguayeoridingstella
Four top bands are coming to the UK this month as part of the Korea Rocks tour presented by Hyundai Card Music. Here’s a profile of Goonamguayeoridingstella, or Goonam for short, whom keen-eared filmgoers might have heard in one of the Leesong Hee-il films that screened at the BFI recently as part of the London … [Read More]
Korea Rocks profile #4: Gate Flowers
Four top bands are coming to the UK this month as part of the Korea Rocks tour presented by Hyundai Card Music. Here’s a profile of Gate Flowers: Playing a mix of hard rock and alternative rock, Korean quartet Gate Flowers’ debut eponymous EP netted them the government-sponsored Hello Rookie prize for being the most … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Hur Shan — new, playful, and portable revelations at Gazelli Art House
“You said my work wasn’t very portable,” smiled Hur Shan as we chatted at the opening evening of his two man show at Gazelli Art House. “Well, take a look!” It was true. I had said precisely that in my notice of the current exhibition, The Tainted, at Gazelli Art House in Dover Street. In … [Read More]
Meet the Authors – Korean Literature event at the KCC
To tie in with a couple of Korea-related events at the London Book Fair, the KCC is hosting an event with two Korean authors on 15 April, chaired by SOAS’s Grace Koh. Choe Yun will be known to many LKL readers as the author of There a Petal Silently Falls – the first book set … [Read More]
Couleur de peau: Miel, aka Approved for Adoption, screens at Leeds Young Film Fest
If it wasn’t for the fact that London has a date with Moon So-ri this Thursday, I’d be leaving work early, getting on a train to Leeds and sitting down to watch this film. I do hope it comes to London at some stage. It’s the animated autobiography of a Korean adoptee in Belgium. Korean … [Read More]
Captain Kang screens at CinemAsia
Back in 2011, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam gave us the wonderful Planet of Snail. This month, another Amsterdam film festival, CinemAsia, will be screening a new Korean documentary – Captain Kang, which premiered at Busan 2012. Captain Kang (강선장) Director: Won Ho-yeon (원호연) South Korea, 2012, HDcam, 75′ Sunday 7 April, 13.20 This … [Read More]
April events 2013
The event of the month, and possibly the event of the year (hope I’m not speaking too soon), is Korea Rocks (see under Music listings below). But there are some pretty good exhibitions this month as well. And then Moon So-ri is in town too. Oh, and there’s the London Book Fair too. Let me … [Read More]
Overview of the Korean Publishing Market at the London Book Fair 2013
Korea is the Market Focus for the London Book Fair 2014, and with the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature coming up next month it’s good that we have two Korea / Asia-related talks at the London Book Fair – one on Translation, with participation from Deborah Smith (@londonkoreanist) and this one, a presentation from … [Read More]