Bamseom Pirates gets another London screening. We enjoyed it when it came around last year. Bamseom Pirates, Seoul Inferno Dir Jung Yoon-Suk – 2017 – 119min – Korean w/ Eng subtitles Presented by Always Restrictions – A DIY Space For London Fundraiser £5 – All Profits Directly To DIY Space For London | Buy tikets … [Read More]
Year: 2018 (page 21)
Peggy Gou in Mixmag Live at the Village Underground
Peggy Gou rounds of a busy few weeks in London with a set at the Village Underground: Mixmag Live with Peggy Gou Friday 6 April 2018, 10:00 PM – 4:00 AM Village Underground | 54 Holywell Lane | Shoreditch | London EC2A 3PQ £8.00 – £15.00 | Ages 18+ | Buy tickets here Mixmag Live … [Read More]
Lee Yil: seminar and book launch of selected writings on Contemporary Korean Art
Artist Bada Song and critic / lecturer Paul O’Kane spent a large part of last year helping to translate and edit an important new collection of mid-to-late 20th century writings of renowned Korean art critic Lee Yil (1932-1997), “the main observer of “Dansaekhwa”, or Korean monochrome”. That work has now come to fruition, with the … [Read More]
Lee Ufan’s Relatum – Stage, by the Serpentine
“It is our dream come true to work with Lee Ufan in London” enthused Hans Ulrich Obrist at the KCCUK talk which marked the installation of Lee’s Relatum – Stage outside the Serpentine Gallery on 6 February. After Lee’s hugely high-profile project at Versailles in 2014, with such a dramatic backdrop, the siting in a … [Read More]
Korea Future Initiative publishes #UsToo report on North Korea
The #MeToo campaign is generating so much news in South Korea that it could be easy to forget that the same issues exist, to a greater degree, north of the border. Korea Future Initiative is a London-based organisation that rescues vulnerable North Koreans, reports and investigates human rights violations, and provides redress for exiles through … [Read More]
Peggy Gou’s busy couple of weeks in London
Berlin-based Korean DJ Peggy Gou seems to be everywhere right now: on the March cover of British music magazine Mixmag… …where she provides this month’s cover mix; …on BBC Radio 1, where she made her Essential Mix debut in the small hours of yesterday morning, with the BBC’s Pete Tong introducing her as ‘arguably the … [Read More]
KCC March House Concert: Sooyeon Lee (Cello) + Milo Harper (Harp)
I do like it when a musician explores some of the lesser-known British repertoire. Granville Bantock (1868-1946) composed several rarely-played works for cello and orchestra, one of which will be performed this evening in a version for cello and harp. Even less well-known is the music of Benjamin Frankel (British, 1906-1973) and the Polish harpist-composer … [Read More]
Rory MacLean: Inside the world’s most secretive nation
A follow-up to the British Council exhibition of Nick Danzinger’s photographs, presented in conjunction with the production of The Great Wave at the National Theatre. Inside the world’s most secretive nation Tues 10 April, 6pm – 7pm Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre Tickets £7 (concessions £5) | Buy tickets Rory MacLean travelled to … [Read More]
DEAN, 2xxx!, Juseon, Rad Museum, & Reone play the Islington Assembly Hall
DEAN and 2xxx! return to London bringing Juseon, Rad Museum and Reone: Capsule Live in London: DEAN, 2xxx!, Juseon, Rad Museum, & Reone Islington Assembly Hall | Upper Street | Islington | London N1 2UD Sunday 18 March 2018, 20:00–23:30 Tickets available here SPECIAL GUEST OPENER: PREP DEAN is a superstar. He’ll make history when … [Read More]
[On tour] In-Sook Chappell’s Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok
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Korean-born adoptee In-Sook Chappell has a major new play going on tour for 10 weeks. Catch it if you can. The playwright comments: “I was born in Korea and came to the UK as a baby and was brought up as English. Because of this I am interested in how immigrants often erase a part … [Read More]
Screening: Kim Ki-young’s The Soil
This year the KCC’s first film screenings are adaptations of Korean novels. We start the season with Kim Ki-young’s adaptation of Yi Kwang-su’s 1932 novel 흙, variously known as The Soil, Earth or Peasants. Kim Ki-young: The Soil (흙 – 1978) Cast: Lee Hwa-si, Kim Jeong-cheol, Yeom Bok-soon, Nam Sung-hoon Thu 29 March 2018, 19:00 … [Read More]
Screening: My Heart Is Not Broken Yet
Moon So-ri is the narrator of this moving film specially selected for screening close to International Women’s Day 2018. LKL caught it in Sheffield in 2015 – brief review here. My Heart Is Not Broken Yet Dir: AHN Hae-ryong (2007) Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Saturday 10 … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Kim Minjung – The Memory of Process
Looking at the image which publicises Kim Minjung’s solo exhibition The Memory of Process at White Cube, you wonder how it is that she came to be branded as a Dansaekhwa artist. The busy, multicoloured concentric circles, like patterns made by raindrops in a psychedelic puddle, are miles away from the austere, minimalist calm that … [Read More]
2018 LSE SU North Korea Forum: Before He Presses the Button
The LSE Students’ Union presents what seems to be turning into an annual one-day conference on matters North Korean: 2018 LSE SU North Korea Forum: Before He Presses the Button 24 March at 9:00–18:00 The London School of Economics and Political Science | Houghton Street | London WC2A 2AE Tickets £15 – £35 | Buy … [Read More]
Grizzly plays at The Water Rats
Korean singer-songwriter Grizzly would like to invite you to his first London show: I’m not a Grizzly Friday 23 March 2018, 8pm – 9:30pm The Water Rats | 328 Gray’s Inn Road | King’s Cross | London WC1X 8BZ Tickets: £13 – £19 | Buy tickets Visit the event’s Facebook page for updates. In March 2018, a … [Read More]
Screening: The Propaganda Game
The SOAS North Korea Society invites you a screening of the film ‘The Propaganda Game’. The Propaganda Game Dir Álvaro Longoria (2015, 1h 38min) Wednesday 21 March at 7pm SOAS, 22 Russell Square Room T101 Check for updates on the event’s Facebook page The Propaganda Game is a 2015 documentary film about North Korea by … [Read More]