It’s January, so it’s time to start thinking about the London Art Fair. This 5-day show at the Design Centre in Islington next week “brings together over 100 leading galleries from across the UK and overseas. Museum-quality Modern British art is presented alongside contemporary work from today’s leading artists, covering the period from the early … [Read More]
Year: 2013 (page 35)
Hanmi Gallery at the London Art Fair
Hanmi Gallery is the only Korean-owned gallery to be participating at this year’s London Art Fair. Here are the details of what you can expect to find at their stall in the Projects area. Location of Reality Hanmi Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Art Projects at London Art Fair 2013. Focusing on … [Read More]
LKL 2012 Quiz of the Year — the answers
The answers to LKL’s 2012 Quiz of the Year. How many did you get? 1 The Watermelon Economy It was Lee Seung-han, the boss of Tesco in Korea, who accused Lee Myung-bak of running a watermelon economy: on the outside, lots of rhetoric about “green” growth, but actually red on the inside. “Not even communist … [Read More]
Some fun with the Time Person of the Year 2012
Some meaningless statistics for you. According to Time Magazine’s readers, Kim Jong Un is 55 times more popular than the Mars Rover, 56 times more popular than Psy, and 77 times more popular than the Higgs Boson. [Read More]
Saharial’s Entertainment Weekly: Block B’s lawsuit and Rain’s National Service Lite
Its only the first week of January and the Korean media is already buzzing with a heap of scandal. First off the bat is Rain who enlisted in the army in March 2012, and joined the Defence Media Agency (DEMA) like many other stars before him. Whilst not having used up his three official holiday … [Read More]
Eungyo aka A Muse (은교, 2012) review: aging, loneliness, and the pursuit of a muse
Eungyo is, on the surface, the story of a controversial relationship between a 70-year-old man and a high school girl, but ultimately provides a moving dissection of age and loneliness that deserves to be described as more than simply an ‘erotic thriller’, though both thrilling and erotic it is. [Read More]
Teen Top in London gig
I suppose I have to mention that boy band Teen Top are coming to London on 8 February to do a gig at The Forum in Kentish Town. More information at UnitedKpop. Tickets on sale on Ticketmaster from 5 January. [Read More]
Alexander Liebreich’s musical diplomacy in Pyongyang
Great BBC feature on Alexander Liebreich and his musical diplomacy with the Munich Chamber Orchestra in Pyongyang. http://bbc.in/100eliE. A briefer feature can be found on iPlayer here. LKL interviewed him in Tongyeong in 2012 when we visited the Tongyeong International Music Festival, of which he is artistic director. And a one-hour long documentary about his … [Read More]
Kim Jr completes power station that was the death of his father
It’s interesting that Kim Jong Un’s New Year Speech contains reference to the completion of the Huichon Power Station – the very project that is said to have caused the death of Kim Jong Il when it was discovered to have been botched. [Read More]
John Everard launches Only Beautiful Please at Asia House
John Everard has already held a US launch of his entertaining book containing his reflections on life in North Korea – Only Beautiful Please. And LKL reviews the book here. We enjoyed it. He is now holding a UK launch at Asia House on 24 January. Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea … [Read More]
January events 2013
Happy New Year to all LKL’s readers. 2012 was a hectic year, and many of us are still recovering. Some of the details of this month’s events are sketchy at the time of writing, but watch out for things commemorating the 5th anniversary of the opening of the KCC, at the end of this month. … [Read More]
Bongsu Park: Emanate — at Mokspace
Mokspace presents the first new exhibition of 2013: Bongsu Park: Emanate Preview: Tuesday 8th January 2013. 6pm Exhibition Date: 4th January – 21st January 2013 / Opening Hours : 11am – 6pm, Every day Bongsu Park’s work seeks to address the fundamental questions of existence. Rather than applying a scientific or logical approach where analysis … [Read More]
Joyce Yang UK debut piano recital in Cambridge
Joyce Yang is not a name I had come across before. But she won a silver medal at the Van Cliburn competetion, and she is appearing in a series of piano recitals in Cambridge – the Cambridge International Piano Series – which includes some seriously big names: Barry Douglas, Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe. The … [Read More]
Jiseul – a film to watch out for in 2013
It won awards at Busan where it premiered in the 2012 festival, and it will be showing at Sundance and Rotterdam: Jiseul (지슬) – a sombre film about the 1948 Jeju Uprising, written and directed by Jeju resident O Muel (오멸). It might not be an easy film to watch, but it’s an important part … [Read More]
Event news: Sunwook Kim at the Frant Festival of Music 2013
Leeds Piano Competition Winner Sunwook Kim will be playing at the Frant Festival of Music 2013. Date: Fri 25th January 2013, 7.30 pm Venue: Frant Church: High Street Frant, Nr. Tunbridge Wells, TN3 9DX Music by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Tickets £12 from Frant Stores or tel. 01892 750665/750845 In aid of the conservation of … [Read More]
Song Hae-sung: A Better Tomorrow – not worth the time
I have a huge admiration for Alua at Otherwhere and Colette at Oriental Nightmares for dedicating the time and energy to writing reviews of Song Hae-seong’s remake of the classic A Better Tomorrow. I only had the enthusiasm to stay for the first half hour (which I found confusing and uninteresting) before deciding my time … [Read More]