A retrospective of Lee Bul’s work is coming up at the Hayward Gallery. We are promised that she will bring “cyborgs, mirrored labyrinths and a Zeppelin” to the newly refurbished South Bank space. Lee Bul: Crashing Hayward Gallery, 30 May – 19 August 2018 From 30 May to 19 August 2018, Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery … [Read More]
Month: April 2018
3rd Line Butterfly, Billy Carter, ADOY + Say Sue Me @The Great Escape, Brighton
If you want to catch all four Korean bands in Brighton, your sensible plan is to visit Patterns, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton BN2 1TL, on Saturday 19 May from 12:15 mid-day till 3:45pm – though they all separately have other gigs too. The Great Escape Brighton, 17 – 19 May 2018 greatescapefestival.com | Buy tickets … [Read More]
Say Sue Me + Billy Carter play Windmill Brixton
Two Korean bands on their UK tour join together at the Windmill: Say Sue Me + Billy Carter Windmill Brixton | 22 Blenheim Gardens | London SW2 5BZ Wednesday 16 May 2018 at 8pm – 11pm Adv Tickets £8.00 via WeGotTickets Facebook event page Damnably presents Say Sue Me’s first solo London headline show with … [Read More]
BKS event: The Two Ambassadors
The annual event hosted by the British Korean Society with our ambassadors to the Koreas. Highly recommended: An Update on the UK-Korea Relationship Tuesday 22nd May 2018, 6.30pm to 9.00pm SOAS, University of London Alumni Lecture Theatre | Paul Webley Wing | Senate House | Thornhaugh Street | Russell Square | London WC1H 0XG Book … [Read More]
Text of the Panmunjeom Declaration
I’m wondering why a text as significant as this one is not prominently displayed on the Chongwadae or Ministry of Unification websites. The following is the unofficial translation you can find in the English-language newspapers. If there’s a materially different official version that subsequently comes to light I’ll repost. Update 12 May 2018 – I’ve … [Read More]
KCC May House Concert: Piano Quintet with Joon Yoon
May’s House Concert features music by Brahms and Schubert: KCCUK May House Concert Tuesday 22 May 2018, 7pm Korean Cultural Centre | Grand Buildings | 1-3 Strand | London WC2N 5BW (Entrance in Northumberland Avenue) Register via [email protected] Programme Schubert: Fantasie for Violin and Piano in C major, D. 934 Schubert: Piano Sonata in C … [Read More]
Book review: Lee Yil – Dynamics of Expansion and Reduction
How often do you read the learned essay that accompanies a new art exhibition and find yourself not understanding a word of it? For me, more often than I would like. I am never sure how to tell whether the essay is unclear because the writer is being deliberately obscure (to cover up the fact … [Read More]
Connect: North Korea launches community centre crowdfunding campaign
LKL is happy to pass on this press release from Connect: North Korea: In 2003, the first North Korean refugee arrived in the UK. Today, nearly 700 North Korean refugees live in New Malden, Surrey. Upon arriving in the UK, North Korean refugees are ill-equipped to integrate and settle into British society and few services … [Read More]
Screening: The Old Garden
Continuing the season of adaptations of Korean novels. LKL’s seven-year-old review of the novel can be found here. The Old Garden (오래된 정원) Director: Im Sang-soo (2007, 112 mins) Cast: Ji Jin-hi, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Eung-soo, Kim Hyun-ah Original novel by Hwang Sok-yong KCCUK, 24 May 2018 7:00 pm | Reserve via Eventbrite Anti-government protests … [Read More]
LKFF 2018 Teaser Screening #2: Memoir of a Murderer
The second LKFF2018 Teaser screening is Won Shin-yeon’s adaptation of Kim Young-ha’s Memoir of a Murderer: Memoir of a Murderer (살인자의 기억법) Dir Won Shin-yeon (2017, 118min) With Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Nam-gil, Kim Seol-hyun Monday 21 May 2018, 7pm | Regent Street Cinema | Book tickets Serial killers are popular figures in South Korean cinema, … [Read More]
K Hip-hop: Penomeco, Punchnello, Millic in London
An evening of Korean hip-hop at Scala: Cult of Ya presents Penomeco + Punchnello + Millic Sunday 13 May 2018 | 7PM: Doors | 8-10PM: Show | £30 + | Book tickets Scala | 275 Pentonville Road | Kings Cross | London N1 9NL Cult of Ya is proud to present a unique showcase of … [Read More]
Peggy Gou at the Village Underground – the headline set
For those who couldn’t secure tickets – or who didn’t have the energy – to go to Peggy Gou’s appearance at the Village Undergroud for Mixmag Live earlier this month, here’s the complete set, from Mixmag’s YouTube Channel: [Read More]
Book Review: Ahn Jung-hyo – White Badge
Ahn Jung-hyo: White Badge Soho Press, NY, 1989, 337pp Originally published as 하얀전쟁, 1983 Translated by the author If I saw Jeong Ji-young’s White Badge (1992) when it screened in London eight years ago, I do not remember it. I cannot imagine having a similar lapse of memory concerning Ahn Jung-hyo’s Vietnam war novel on … [Read More]
Seong-jin Cho plays Chopin in Oxford
This one will be popular: Seong-Jin Cho & the Oxford Philharmonic Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford Sunday, 29 July 2018 – 20:00 Tickets: £42.00 £30.00 £20.00 £10.00 | Book tickets CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, ‘Eroica’ Seong-Jin Cho piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor … [Read More]
Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart with ASMF at Cadogan Hall
Two Mozart concerti at the Cadogan Hall: Yeol Eum Son and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Cadogan Hall | 5 Sloane Terrace | London SW1X 9DQ Friday 20 April 2018, 7.30pm Tickets from £10 | Cadogan Hall Box Office: +44 (0)20 7730 4500 Book online Described as “marvellous, intense and boundlessly virtuosic”, … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Remembering The ‘Comfort Women’, at Deptford Does Art
Art exhibition, book reading and film screening on a “Comfort Women” theme later this month: Remembering The ‘Comfort Women’ Deptford Does Art | 28 Deptford High Street | London SE8 4AF | www.deptforddoesart.com 25 April – 29 April The sexual slavery of some 200,000 women and girls by the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2 was … [Read More]