
Gradually more real-life events are appearing in the calendar, but while we wait for things to catch up with the improved Covid situation, let’s get out and enjoy the weather after such a dismal May.
Special Events
- The British Korean Society is arranging an event to honour British veterans of the Korean War on Thursday 24 June 2021, streamed from the National Army Museum
- The Korea Tourism Organisation has organised a walking tour of Korea-related sites in Central London, 23 June 2021
Exhibitions
- The KCC’s new exhibition, The Royal Palaces of Joseon, opens on 8 June
- Han Collection’s exhibition, Baekja – A Story of Korean Porcelain, lasts until August
Screenings
- The London Korea Film Festival resumes its real-life teaser screenings: 17 June in Sheffield (Voice of Silence) and 24 June in London (Deliver Us From Evil)
- You should be able to find somewhere that’s screening Minari – for example the Prince Charles in Leicester Square has it for most of the month.
- Tense political thriller The Man Standing Next is available online on Curzon Home Cinema from 25 June courtesy of Blue Finch Film Releasing.
- The KCC’s season of films by female film directors – Filming Against the Odds – continues all month.
Performance
- The KCC has two house concerts this month: an online song recital on 10 June and a live cello recital at the KCC itself on 24 June
- The K-Music showcase videos stay online until 27 June.
Other online events
- British Korean Society members have a talk on Korea’s UNESCO sites, 8 June.
- Colette Balmain talks about Music for Healing — BTS, radical love and becoming other, 9 June
- The KCC’s Literature Club event this month features Kim Bo-Young (I’m Waiting For You) in conversation with Sophie Bowman and Sung Ryu, 23 June.
- The next in Hyelim Kim’s series of music seminars is on 24 June
- The KCC’s series of ink painting classes continues until 23 June
- The KCC’s Korean speech contest is on 26 June (apply by 12 June)
- UCLan’s IKSU Korean Studies Summer School runs 28 – 30 June
- The Korean Embassy and National Unification Advisory Council are running an essay competition on the subject of permanent peace on the Korean peninsula. Submission deadline 12 July.
Other real life events
- Some tickets are still available for the K-cuisine classes at Westminster Kingsway College this month
- There’s a K-pop themed outdoor brunch at Fire Garden Vauxhall on 20 June