Things are starting to get busier again…
Special events
- The KCC’s online Hallyu Con 2021 is on 4 September
- KBCE’s Korean Harvest Fest (part of the Kingston Korean Festival) is in New Malden on 18 September
Exhibitions
- Han Collection’s special Moon Jar group show continues all month
- TOUCH – a group project by ISKAI Art shows at Gallery 46, one week only, from 2 September
- Haegue Yang’s Strange Attractors, at Tate St Ives, closes on 26 September
Performance
- Sung Im Her opens the Festival of Korean Dance on 17 and 18 September
- Company SIGA is the second and final act in the Festival of Korean Dance, 23 and 24 September
- At the Wigmore, the Esme Quartet will be giving a coffee concert on 19 September, and Esther Yoo and Yekwon Sunwoo give a violin recital on 20 September.
- If you haven’t got tickets for Seongjin Cho at the Wigmore on 25 October you’re probably too late
Online events
- The 2021 International Korean Arts Conference – Seeing ‘Arts Hallyu’ from Without – is on 3 September
- The RASKB colloquium ‘Kim Tschang-Yeul, an asceticism caught in the turmoil of History‘ is on 6 Septmber
- The RASKB has an online talk ‘Remember Half-Koreans Like Us Existed‘ on 14 September
- The World Hallyu Congress takes place 12-15 September
- The RASKB’s book club this month discusses Bae Suah’s Untold Night and Day, 23 September
- The RASKB’s final event of the month is a lecture entitled ‘Dingy Basements: Korea’s Live Music Venues‘ on 28 September
Books expected this month
- The Soft Power of the Korean Wave ed Youna Kim,
- The Moral and Religious Thought of Yi Hwang (Edward Y J Chung),
- On Translating Modern Korean Poetry ed Jieun Kiaer, Anna Yates-Lu, Mattho Mandersloot,
- Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895–1920: Arirang People (Hye Ok Park),
- The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea ed JongHwa Lee, Chuyun Oh, Yong-Chan Kim, Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China (Sunhee Koo),
- Future Yet to Come: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Modern Korea ed Sonja M. Kim and Robert Ji-Song Ku,
- The Waiting, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim tr Janet Hong
- Magic Candies, Baek Heena tr Sophie Bowman
Everything Else
- Chef Joo Won’s pop-up at BUN H주USE, highly recommended, lasts all month
And don’t forget: you have until 1 October to submit your entries for the 2021 UCLan IKSU Korean Literature Review Contest.