There don’t appear to be many Korean-focused galleries attending the London Art Fair this year – the main one I can find being Skipwiths, in partnership with CAIS Gallery from Seoul. They will be exhibiting work by: Park Jang Nyun | Doo Wha Chung | Yun Hee Toh | Hyojin Park | Chun Kwang Young … [Read More]
Year: 2019 (page 31)
Sokeel Park awarded MBE
Congratulations to Sokeel Park for being awarded an MBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list, published on 28 December. The official citation in the Foreign Secretary’s Diplomatic Service and Overseas List reads: Sokeel John PARK, Country Director, Liberty in North Korea. For services to UK/Korea relations … though you suspect that Mr Park is … [Read More]
Hanna Moon & Joyce Ng: English as a Second Language
Designed to coincide with London Fashion Week 15-19 February 2019: Hanna Moon & Joyce Ng: English as a Second Language The Charles Russell Speechlys Terrace Room Series Terrace Rooms | South Wing | Somerset House | Strand | London WC2R 1LA 25 January – 28 April 2019 Mon, Tue, Sat & Sun 10.00 – 18.00, … [Read More]
Jihoon Kim on the ‘Archival Turn’ of recent Korean Documentary Cinema
Associate professor of cinema and media studies at Chung-ang University, Jihoon Kim will speak at the KCCUK on 24 January, examining recent tendencies in South Korean documentary cinema. Includes film screenings Cyclical Night (17m) + 88/18 (57m). The talk focuses on a particular aspect of Kim’s project on recent Korean documentary cinema. You can get … [Read More]
Beautiful Vampire (뷰티풀 뱀파이어, 2018) review: visually dreamy urban fantasy needing more weight
Beautiful Vampire initially appears as quirky, warm-hearted and gently funny fantastical entertainment but while the narrative as it stands would likely work well for a short film experiment/pre-feature, there simply isn’t enough story here to adequately hold a full-duration film, even at just 73 minutes. [Read More]
EPIK HIGH 2019 European Tour comes to London
Tickets are currently on sale for EPIK HIGH’s London appearance in March: EPIK HIGH, a 3-member hip-hop group led by rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer Tablo. Debuted in 2001, EPIK HIGH is unarguably the pioneer in the Korean hip-hop scene. Their album ‘EPILOGUE’ took over iTunes and reached #1 on iTunes hip-hop/rap album chart. The … [Read More]
New and upcoming non-fiction titles for 2019
Unlike my list that attempts to compile upcoming literature and fiction titles, here I’ve had to be selective in what to include, otherwise the length of this post would be unmanageable. Nevertheless I’ve almost certainly missed out some titles that I’d want to have on my bookshelf. I’ve divided the list into seven sections: Literature … [Read More]
Cooking with North Korean Refugees
Thu 7 February 2019 18:30 – 21:30 GMT Organised by Connect: North Korea Tickets £43.23 | Book via EventBrite We’re delighted to announce ‘Cooking with North Korean Refugees’ is back! Korean cuisine is spreading far and wide across the UK, but the Korean food eaten in London almost exclusively comes from south of the DMZ. Join … [Read More]
A look back at some of the films of 2018
A wide variety of genres was presented to the London audience this year, from the return of the romantic melodrama (Be With You) to big budget fantasy (Along with the Gods). We also saw #MeToo beginning to have an impact, not just in the themes of movies such as Land of Seonghye and Testimony but … [Read More]
Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2019
Here’s my first attempt at compiling a list of fiction and poetry titles coming up in 2019. Let me know what I’ve missed. Unlike my separate list of non-fiction I have not exercised any editorial control here: this is everything I have been able to find. The list is in four parts: Modern and contemporary … [Read More]
January events 2019
A new year, and thankfully not too busy an agenda for January, but there are some good things here. Don’t forget to submit your panel / paper proposals for the Joint East Asian Studies Conference by the end of the month. Film The KCCUK starts its film screenings with a season of three early movies … [Read More]
Colette Balmain’s top 10 Kpop music videos of 2018
My top 10 Kpop videos of 2018, chosen on the basis of their visuals, storytelling, songwriting and musicality: 10. #Cookie Jar (Red Velvet) Red Velvet are one of the few girl groups to successfully switch between the girl crush and cute concepts. #Cookie Jar, their single from their first Japanese EP, combines the sweet & … [Read More]
Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year Address
The following is the text of Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year Address, sourced from Rodong Sinmun: New Year Address of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un for 2019 Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un made the New Year Address for 2019. The full text of the New Year Address reads: Dear people and service personnel … [Read More]
A look back at the 2018 literary year
A look back at the books and literary events of the year – and a summary of my reading diary. Literature in translation In translated fiction, my reading this year has not managed anywhere near to keep pace with the amount of translations being published. I know I said the same in respect of 2017 … [Read More]