The recent announcement of the programme for the (live) K-Music Festival and the (live) Festival of Korean Dance gives us plenty to look forward to in the Autumn, but actually this month is pretty busy too:
Exhibitions
- The KCC Royal Palaces exhibition closes on 21 August
- Minyoung Choi’s solo show at Lychee One gallery closes on 6 August
- Hyangmok Baik’s solo show at BEERS London closes on 7 August
- In Harrogate, the Korean ceramics exhibition at Messums closes on 7 August
- Haegyue Yang’s exhibition at Tate St Ives continues all month
- Sojung Jun’s Green Screen shows daily at Piccadilly Lights during August
Film
- BLACKPINK – the movie – will be in theatres 4 – 9 August
- The KCC’s season of documentary screenings (online and at the Bertha DocHouse) features
- The Sea of Itami Jun (dir Jung Da-woon) @ Bertha DocHouse 1 August
- Sound of Nomad (dir Kim So-young) online 5-7 August)
- Time to Read Poems (dir Lee Soojung) @ Bertha DocHouse 10 August
Other real world events
- Chef Joo Won hosts a pop-up casual dining experience at the Bun House for two months from 5 August
- There’s a Kpop/hip-hop night at Fire nightclub in Vauxhall, 6 August.
- There’s a Liberation Day Walking Tour of Central London, 15 August
- London Kpop Street opens its first Pop-up Shop in London, 28-29 August
Online
- The KCC hosts an online interview with Spurs star footballer So-Hyun Cho and Williams F1 driver Jack Aitken, 5 August
- The Edinburgh Fringe moves online for many performances this year; at least three Korean performances will be available to watch from 6 August
- The KCC hosts an online cookery class on 11 August
- Look out for a special movie talk to be announced by the British Korean Society soon – likely to be 24 August
- The KCC’s literature event on 25 August features Yeon-sik Hong in conversation with Paul Gravett, talking about Umma’s Table
Books
- Highlight of the publishing calendar in August is the publication of Hwang Sok-yong’s prison memoir (tr Sora Kim-Russell and Anton Hur); other titles becoming available during the month cover shamanism, literature and cultural identity in the Korean War, female factory workers, rights advocacy in Korean movies and Lady Yi’s Encyclopedia of Daily Life. More details on our Upcoming Publications page
- The 2021 UCLan IKSU Korean Literature Review Contest deadline is 1 October