A one-day group show to celebrate Valentine’s Day and the start of the Year of the Monkey will be held on 14 February near Leicester Square: No Monkey Business Q-Park China Town | 20 Newport Place | London WC2H 7PR 14 February 2016, 12 noon – 6pm Curated by Sujin Shin & Mira Gogova Supported … [Read More]
Month: February 2016 (page 2)
Event news: Seong-jin Cho’s St John’s Smith Square debut
Seong-jin Cho gives his first London recital after winning the International Chopin Piano Competition in October last year. Allocated seats for this all-Chopin programme sold out pretty quickly, but at the time of writing there are still some unreserved seats upstairs. Chopin Piano Competition Winner Seong-Jin Cho, piano Friday 11 March 2016, 7:30pm St John’s … [Read More]
Call for Papers: 2016 Korean Screen Culture Conference
After a year in Copenhagen the annual conference on Korean Screen Culture will be in King’s London this year. The Call for Papers was recently issued: Call for Papers: The 5th Conference on Korean Screen Culture Department of Film Studies King’s College London, UK June 3rd-4th 2016 Following successful conferences on Korean Screen Culture held … [Read More]
Conference news: Addressing violence against women and girls in the DPRK
News of the APPGNK’s upcoming one-day conference: Addressing violence against women and girls in the DPRK 22 February 2016, The Houses of Parliament 9am – 4pm The All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea is pleased to announce the programme for its upcoming conference, titled Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in the DPRK. Programme 9.00 … [Read More]
Event news: Business Opportunities with Korea, in Birmingham
The Korea Trade & Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) is hosting a seminar and exhibition, “Business Opportunities with Korea”, on 15th March 2016 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Birmingham city centre. “The UK is now Korea’s second largest trading partner in the EU, and this event offers clear and in-depth knowledge of the processes required … [Read More]
Exhibition news: ART KOREA London
Notice of a group show by Korean artists based in Korea, at the White House near Great Portland Street tube: ART KOREA London Le Dame Art Gallery 3 Feb – 3 Mar 2016 Meliá White House | Albany Street | London NW1 3UP Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm | weekends by appointment 07947 653530 … [Read More]
Comfort Women deal protested at Ban Ki-moon speech
The Justice for ‘Comfort Women’ UK group held a quiet protest outside Westminster Central Hall yesterday as people filed in to listen to a talk by Ban Ki-moon. The dignified campaign continued inside: as Ban got up to speak, a protestor held up a sign demanding that the intergovernmental “deal” be annulled. Ban’s speech was targeted … [Read More]
The KCC announces its Spring 2016 Call for Artists
The KCC has announced its open call for artists for its Spring exhibition: KCCUK Spring Open Call for Artists The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is looking for artists of Korean origin to present their work(s) for consideration as part of our Spring Exhibition Open Call 2016. The winner will have an opportunity to have … [Read More]
“How Korea became fashion’s new fraternity”
Tonight’s Evening Standard page 27. I know I’m going to sound my age here but anyway… Dara from 2NE1 (right) looks fine. But would any of you turn up to an event dressed like G-Dragon (Big Bang) or CL (2NE1)? If anyone’s interested in reading it, it’s a brief puff piece on how Koreans are … [Read More]
2016 Korean Literature Nights
Here are the Korean Literature Nights currently scheduled for 2016. Thu 25 Feb The Investigation By Lee Jung-myung Fukuoka Prison, 1944. Beyond the prison walls the war rages; inside a man is found brutally murdered. Yuichi Watanabe, a young guard with a passion for reading, is ordered to investigate. The victim, Sugiyama – also a … [Read More]
February events 2016
February seems to be the month of artist talks, among other things: Exhibitions and artist talks Dialogues of Space closes at the KCC on 6 Feb, and artist Onejoon Che has a talk on 2 Feb. Noh Suntag has two parallel solo shows at 43 Inverness Street (all month) and Fitzrovia Gallery (closing 26 Feb), … [Read More]