Pontone Gallery’s final exhibition of the year: Lee Jungwoong: Brush and Blue Abstraction 12 December 2019 – 19 January 2020 Pontone Gallery | 43 Cadogan Gardens | Sloane Square | London SW3 2TB | pontonegallery.art Monday – Saturday 10-6pm | Sunday by appointment Lee Jungwoong paints pictures of paintbrushes — he paints the thing that … [Read More]
Month: November 2019
Call for Papers: Korea’s global position, Coventry 2020
Note: this conference will now be held online, on 9 October 2020. Details to follow. Call for Papers 2020 International Conference on “Korea’s global position” The conference will be held on [edit] 9 October 2020 in Coventry. The Korean Studies Unit, Coventry University, invites proposals for panels, roundtables and individual papers to be presented. The … [Read More]
Call for Papers: SoKEN 2020, Edinburgh
Call for Papers for SoKEN 2020, Edinburgh, UK, 8-9 April 2020 The Social Sciences Korean Studies European Network (SoKEN) and Korean Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh invite paper and panel proposals for their upcoming conference Divided Societies on the Korean Peninsula Korean Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the … [Read More]
Review: Hyun Kil-un – Dead Silence and other stories of the Jeju Massacre
Translated by Hyunsook Kang, Jin-ah Lee and John Michael McGuire Eastbridge Books, 2006, 206 pages On a trip to Jeju Island a few years ago I remember having a slightly tipsy interaction with a Jeju-based journalist and intellectual, as we staggered from 2cha to 3cha via a liquor store. “I don’t like America”, he solemnly … [Read More]
Shinuk Suh: Man(u)fractured, at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop
Late notice of an exhibition by Shinuk Suh following his Workshop Foundation residency. Shinuk Suh: Man(u)fractured 29 November 2019-11 January 2020 – extended to 18 January Private View: Thursday, 28 November 2019 Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop | 1 Bard Road | London W10 6TP | unit1gallery-workshop.com Nearest stations: Latimer Road and Shepherd’s Bush Tue … [Read More]
Enlighten – 한, at Menier Gallery
Damilola Eniola presents the fruition of her work in Sound and Music’s New Voices programme: an exhibition, combining both visual artwork and sound. There will be electronic music representing each artwork that people can listen to either at the exhibition or online. At the private view there will be a live performance where her composition … [Read More]
Joon Yoon piano recital at St Mary’s Perivale
There’s an active series of recitals at St Mary’s Church organised by Dr Hugh Mather. Korean performers are often to be found in the schedule. Joon Yoon (piano) Tuesday 3 December 2020, 2.00 pm St Mary’s Church | Perivale Lane | Perivale | Middlesex UB6 8SS Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand … [Read More]
Sun Haeng Cho cello recital at St James’s Piccadilly
Monday 2 December 2020, 1.10pm Sun Haeng Cho, cello Daniel King-Smith, piano Brahms – Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F major, Op.99 Beethoven – Sonata for cello and piano No.5 in D major, Op.102, No.2 Royal Academy of Music series St James’s Piccadilly website [Read More]
AlphaBAT – A Story Not Told: workshop + fanmeet
I’ve held off posting this event as it hasn’t been crystal clear what precisely it is. Even now, with less than three weeks to go, there is inconsistency between the event’s Facebook page and the ticketing website as to when it starts and what you get for your money. Alphabat: 2019 European Tour “A STORY … [Read More]
the Boyz Europe Tour (Dreamlike) in London
Wednesday 18 December 2019 @ 6:00 pm O2 Forum Kentish Town | 9-17 Highgate Road | London NW5 1JY Tickets £52 – £159 | Buy tickets [Read More]
The World’s First ‘Active’ Greenhouse
The greenhouse is an ancient invention, dating back 2,200 years. Modern ‘active’ greenhouses are distinguished from older ‘passive’ ones by the fact that they allow for the adjustment of air and soil temperature. Previously, the first such greenhouses were believed to have been built in Germany in 1619, using a stove to regulate air temperature, … [Read More]
Day6 “Gravity” World Tour at the Brixton Academy
Update 6 December 2019: tickets (£65 – £175) are now on sale via Ticketmaster, and the concert is now listed on the O2 Academy Brixton website. Korean band DAY6 are bringing their GRAVITY world tour to the UK for a date at O2 Academy Brixton off the back of their latest album The Book Of … [Read More]
Joo Yeon Sir: Chaconnes, Divertimento & Rhapsodies
Hearing Joo Yeon Sir’s barnstorming performance of Pancho Vladigerov’s Bulgarian Rhapsody “Vardar” at St James’s Piccadilly with Irina Andrievsky in August made me want to return to her recently-released second CD, Chaconnes, Divertimento & Rhapsodies, for which Vardar is the penultimate track. The album, from Rubicon Classics, follows on from her successful first album Suites and … [Read More]
Korean Writing Today: Kang Youngsook and Kim Haeyeon
Two Korean authors discuss the Korean literary world at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich, where they are writers in residence this month: Korean Writing Today Tuesday 26 November 2019, 7.30 – 8.30pm National Centre for Writing | Dragon Hall | 115-123 King Street | Norwich NR1 1QE Tickets £5 – includes glass of … [Read More]
Kim Sol group interview: letting emotion breathe
Kim Sol talks about Scattered Night, her collaboration with co-director Lee Ji-hyeon, minimal use of music, directing child actors, and portraying divorce with empathy and restraint. [Read More]
Kang Jungsuck: KCC’s 2019 Artist of the Year exhibition
The KCC’s final exhibition of the year: Kang Jungsuck: Artist of the Year 2019 10 December 2019 – 15 Feburary 2020 @ KCCUK PV 9 December, 6pm – 8pm | Register here A solo exhibition of Kang Jungsuck who won the ‘BALTIC Artists’ Award 2019’ from BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art About the Exhibition The … [Read More]