Before anything else, can we please have one minute’s silence in memory of the great gayageum master Hwang Byung-ki, who passed away yesterday aged 82.
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Thank you.
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And now for February’s events
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The year seemed to start slowly, but it soon picked up with all sorts of events popping up from out of nowhere. In particular K-pop concerts seem to be cropping up all over the place, and February is a full month.
Live performance
- Jay Park plays the Troxy on 4 February
- ULU Live seems to be the venue of choice for early-stage K-pop acts to try out the London audiences:
- Dreamcatcher performs there on 14 February, and
- The Rose performs there on 24 February
- A special concert at the KCC on 23 February features baritone Claudio Jung with pianist Grace Yeo.
- The KCC’s House Concert on 27 February features piano duo Cheongbin Yu and Victor Dohan Lim
Film
- Kim Hong-joon’s documentary on Kim Ki-young is being screened at the KCC on 22 Feb, followed by a discussion between Kim Hong-joon and Mark Morris
Exhibitions
- Kim Minjung’s solo show continues at White Cube all month
- Collect 2018 is at the Saatchi Gallery 22-25 February
- Lee Ufan’s new exhibit is unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery on 6 Feb.
- Lee Jeongwoong’s solo show Laputa – The Fall opens at Pontone Gallery on 2 Feb
- The KCC photography exhibition related to the Pyeongchang winter Olympics lasts until 17 Feb
- The images that inspired Nick Bonner’s book Made in North Korea will be on show at House of Illustration from 23 Feb
- Contemporary Korean Ceramics at the V&A closes on 11 February
- Koh Sang-woo’s work will be on show at James Freeman Gallery until 3 February.
- In Durham, the photography exhibition The Hills are High opens at the Oriental Museum on 9 February.
- Juree Kim and Neil Brownsword are holding Open Studio at the V+A on 14 and 24 Feb
Talks, conferences
- The SOAS conference, Colonialism and its Reverberations, is on 3 February.
- The All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea hosts a talk on Human rights in North Korea after a decade of change, 5 February.
- In Bath, Chung-in Moon talks on the subject of Security in the Third World: The Case of North Korea, 9 February.
- LSE’s Korea Future Forum is on 10 February
- Lee Ufan is in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the KCC on 6 February
- There’s a discussion with North Korean exile Jihyun Park at SOAS on 6 February
- White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht is launched at Foyles on 6 February
- SOAS’s evening seminars this month feature Javier Cha on Intellectual History and Computing on 9 Feb; and Alexander Vovin on 23 Feb
- Nick Bonner talks about the House of Illustration exhibition on 23 Feb.
Everything else
- There’s the opportunity to learn a little North Korean cuisine on 20 February, in aid of Connect North Korea.
- Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairytale is this month’s topic for the KCC Korean Literature Night on 28 February
- The monthly Sewol silent protest is on 17 February
- Don’t forget that you have until the end of March to complete your Kim Aeran Essay.
- K-pop related events include
- An afterparty after the Jay Park gig on 4 February
- A light night event in Birmingham on 9 February
- A pop / hip-hop party in Vauxhall on 16 February
Links:
Open Studio at the V+A was a really great event! There are plenty of other great ones coming this year as well: https://loop.gl/blog/london-photography-events-2018