It’s LKL’s 14th birthday today. What’s in store as we start our 15th year online? Thankfully it’s a bit of a quiet month, though there’s plenty of music going on, and look out for conferences at Wolfson College and the LSE. My own highlight to brighten up these miserable days is Igudesman and Joo at the Festival Hall. Keep checking the relevant websites though, because events are being cancelled as fast as they are being announced.
Exhibitions
Last chance
- Korean crafts at Collect 2020 (finishes today)
- Song Ginyoung exhibition at Whitehall Historic House (finishes today)
- Ceramics by Ree Soo-Jong and Lee Hun-Chung at Messums London (till 14 March)
- Connect, BTS art projects in London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Seoul, New York (till 27 March)
- Joo Yeon Park’s Library of the Unword, at the National Poetry Library (till 29 March)
- Suh Do-ho: Bridging Home, London, near Liverpool Street Station (till 31 March)
- Adidas Originals by Ji Won Choi in Designs of the Year exhibition (till 31 March)
- In Paris, the contemporary hanbok exhibition Lee Young-hee’s Stuff of Dreams at the Guimet closes its doors on 9 March
New this month
- A group show by 30 Korean student artsts with the enigmatic title “?”, 7 – 10 March
- Joonhong Min and Shinuk Suh’s Rendered Reality opens at the KCC on 10 March
Screenings
- Snowpiercer gets a rare (and consequently sold-out) screening on 1 March
- The KCC screens The Marines Who Never Returned on 19 March
- Swindler (19 March) and Our Home (26 March) screen at the Crystal Palace Film Festival
- The Prince Charles Cinema is screening Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (17 March) and Burning (30 March)
Music
- Igudesman and Joo play the Festival Hall on 4 March
- Hyelim Kim is among those improvising at Cafe OTO on 6 March
- Julia Hwang and Ben Tarlton play at the Wigmore Hall on 9 March
- ATEEZ: The Fellowship – Map the Treasure tour comes to Wembley Arena on 20 March
- PH-1 “Roommate Search” tour comes to London on 22 March
- Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart with the Aurora Orchestra at Kings Place on 28 March
- KCC’s House Concert on 31 March features Trio Rouge
Theatre
- Chris Yun-Ward directs Kafka’s Red Peter, 6 – 8 March
Conferences and discussion
- Wolfson College hosts a workshop entitled Korea’s Strategy – Economic Success, Popular Culture, and Global Art on 20 March
- The 2020 LSE East Asia Forum Youth in the East Asia – Pioneers of Change is on 28 March
- The KCC’s book club discusses Nine Cloud Dream on 25 March
Everything Else
- Sheffield has its third Korea Day on 1 March
- The BKS Annual General Meeting is on 23 March
- An Inter-Uni Running Man contest takes place in Grenwich on 7 March
- The various K-pop themed parties are listed on the Facebook events page
Let me know what I’ve missed via the Event submission form