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Month: June 2017

Event news: KCC’s July house concert features the Halcyon Quartet

event date Tue 25 Jul 2017 venue KCCUK posted

Great programme. I’m particularly looking forward to the Moeran. KCC house concert with the Halcyon Quartet Date: Tuesday 25 July, 7pm Venue: Reception Hall, KCCUK Free admission but booking is required. RSVP to [email protected] / 020 7004 2600 ARTISTS: Halcyon Quartet Claudia Fuller violin I Leidy Sinclair violin II Nathalie Green-Buckley viola HeeYeon Cho violoncello … [Read More]

Missing (aka Missing Woman, 미씽: 사라진여자, 2016) review: a poignant study of motherhood and societal despair

posted updated 2 Feb 2026 by Hangul Celluloid 6 minute read

While the societal issues critiqued in ‘Missing’ – and indeed its child abduction story as a whole – can be found in a virtual plethora of Korean films, director Lee Eon-hee wholly succeeds in weaving them together into a worthy, grippingly intricate and ultimately deeply poignant tale of motherhood and female understanding of female pain. [Read More]

Exhibition visit: Contemporary Korean Ceramics at the V+A

posted updated 4 May 2023 by Philip Gowman 5 minute read

This year-long exhibition as part of the Korea/UK 2017-18 cultural collaboration brings together a range of approaches and responses to Korean ceramics. From work that is purely functional to work that is purely decorative, via work that seeks to critique contemporary Korean society, the unifying element is the quality of the craftsmanship and execution. Yoon … [Read More]

Okja to screen in London cinema for 2 days

event date 28 Jun - 29 Jun 2017 posted

So the rumours were true. Okja will be screened at a Curzon cinema, but unless you are a night owl or don’t have a daytime job you will have to take out a Netflix subscription and watch it on your TV. Okja Director: Bong Joon Ho Length: 131 min Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, An Seo … [Read More]

Event news: Han Yujoo launches The Impossible Fairytale

event date Mon 10 Jul 2017 posted

Tilted Axis Press, LTI Korea and The Asia Literary Agency present Han Yujoo talking about her newly translated novel: Metafictional Murder in South Korea Free Word Centre | 60 Farringdon Road | London EC1R 3GA | www.freewordcentre.com Monday 10 Jul 2017, 6:45pm – 8:00pm | Book tickets Join one of South Korea’s hottest young authors to launch her … [Read More]

5th LKFF 2017 Teaser: Lee Soo-yeon’s Bluebeard

event date Mon 10 Jul 2017 posted

The next teaser for the London Korean Film Festival is a psychological thriller set in Hwaseong, site of a real-life string of serial killings from 1986 to 1991: Bluebeard (해빙) Director: Lee Soo-yeon, 2017, 117 mins Regent Street Cinema, 10 July 2017, 7:30pm Book tickets: www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/bluebeard/ South Korea has become known for its gripping thrillers featuring … [Read More]

Call for writers – Bongsu Park’s INTERNAL LIBRARY project

event date Sun 30 Jul 2017 venue The Print Room posted

Details of an interesting collaborative performance in July, taking place in that wonderful space the is the Print Room library / bar / venue under the Notting Hill Coronet cinema. Bongsu Park’s multi-disciplinary projects blur the boundaries between dance and performance art. Her most recent work to be performed in London was the two-part Crossing Over … [Read More]

Hurricane Kimchi appears on BBC World News

posted updated 13 Feb 2022 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Heezy Yang, the South Korean artist, performer and activist, is also known for his fabulous alter-ego, the drag queen Hurricane Kimchi. Currently in London for the Queer Asia conference at SOAS where he is performing alongside Chinese feminist and LGBTQ activist Whiskey Chow, he appeared on BBC World News yesterday: Yang has illustrated several LGBT … [Read More]

Remember You (나를 잊지 말아요, 2016) review: forgotten love, lingering pain

posted updated 21 Feb 2026 by Hangul Celluloid 6 minute read

Yoon-jung Lee’s feature version of ‘Remember O Goddess’ follows an amnesiac man whose new romance is shadowed by a past he cannot recall. A genuinely poignant tale of forgotten love and remembered pain, ‘Remember You’ is at once beautifully romantic and utterly heartbreaking, ultimately asking if ignorance, perhaps, truly is bliss. [Read More]