Agents of the Korean National Intelligence Service (KNIS), Park Pyung-ho (Lee Jung-jae) and Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung) are both independently hunting a North Korean spy within the agency. When the leaked top secret intel jeopardises national security, they are ordered to investigate each other and slowly start to uncover the shocking truth. HUNT is a … [Read More]
Month: October 2022
Begin Again: KCC UK X Germany Open Call exhibition 2022
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) presents a new exhibition 2022 KCC UK x Germany Open Call Begin Again, opening on 23 November until 4 February at 1-3 Strand, London, featuring six international artists: Iden Sungyoung Kim, Kyungmin Sophia Son, Nina Nowak, Sooun Kim, Yambe Tam and Ya-Wen Fu. To expand the opportunity of these talented emerging … [Read More]
Lee Hyemi shortlisted for Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
Congratulations to poet Lee Hyemi, translator Soje and the pioneering Tilted Axis Press for being shortlisted for the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation with the collection Unexpected Vanilla, published in 2020. Awarded every two years, the prize honours the best book of poetry by a living poet from Africa, Asia, Latin America … [Read More]
Korea Kimchi Festival 2022
The superfood kimchi appears on tables all over the world! 2022 Korea Kimchi Festival, a global project to promote kimchi from Korea, the origin of kimchi, to the world and to put superfood kimchi on the table of the world, special event for the world will be held in 4 countries including Korea, UK, Vietnam … [Read More]
ESEA Culture Festival and Prelude for Harvest Festival 2023
The Korean British Cultural Exchange (KBCE) is celebrating the 7th Anniversary of the Kingston Korea Festival 2022 with the launch of the ESEA (East & Southeast Asian) culture festival. The ESEA community share the exact date for the Harvest Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, regardless of its name: Chuseok (Korea), Tsukimi (Japan), Tết … [Read More]
Kingston Korea Festival: UK National Kpop Competition
The Kpop UK National Competition returns for its 4th year. Hosted by KBCE and produced by the London KPop Dance Workshop (LoKo). Finalists from all over the UK will battle it out to win our Kpop Dance category, Kpop Vocal category and Freestyle Dance Battle. The overall winner will receive £400 and the winner of … [Read More]
Blackpink play BST Hyde Park 2023
The unstoppable BLACKPINK are your next headliners for American Express presents BST Hyde Park! With their countless record-breaking hits, BLACKPINK have taken the world by storm. Don’t miss their UK festival debut Sunday 2 July 2023. Full supporting lineup to be announced! FAQs can be found on the official website here [Read More]
Festival film review: Hommage
In her first feature, Passerby #3 (2010), Shin Su-won looked at the life of a woman who left her job to try to become a film director. In her latest, she returns to a similar movie-making theme. Hommage is about a middle-aged movie director, Ji-wan, whose films have never been much of a success. She … [Read More]
Yun Choi: Running at the Speed of Light, the Body Becomes a Turtle
LUX is delighted to present the first UK solo exhibition by South Korean artist Yun Choi in partnership with the London Korean Film Festival. Yun Choi collects images, words and behaviours marked by South Korean banality and remixes them for her videos and multimedia installations. Through the fantastical embodiment of vernacular culture, her practice activates a … [Read More]
Leesong Hee-il’s Shallow gets world premiere at Raindance Film Fest
Mother disappeared. Son faces the truth that was hidden for thirty years. In 1983, a twisted love story among a woman, a revolutionary, and a fraktsiya unfolds. A film about memory, Swallow explores what happens when hurtful memories pass back out of the deep pit and present their corpse. When Hoyeon’s mother inexplicably disappears, he … [Read More]
KCC November House Concert: Violin and Piano
Part I Katherine Yoon (Violin) | Yuki Hammyo (Piano) Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 100 (18′) I. Allegro amabile Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major “Kreutzer” Op. 47 I. Adagio sostenuto – Presto (10′) Intermission Part II YoungJune Lee (Violin) | YoungJune Lee (Violin) | Svitlana Kosenko (Piano) Moritz … [Read More]
Cancelled K-pop Flex at the O2 Cancelled
This event is now cancelled following the recent tragedy in Itaewon. An incredible night of Kpop featuring seven bands, some of them making their London debuts: Winner Pentagon AB6IX Younite Viviz Weeekly Billlie [Read More]
Haenyeo Exhibition: Experience the value of living heritage of Jeju
Haenyeo are female divers in the Korean province of Jeju. UNESCO recognised the value of the culture of Jeju Haenyeo in that the female divers dive undersea without any breathing apparatus, pass down their muljil (haenyeo diving) skills for many generations, practice a sustainable fisheries system to coexist with nature, emphasise the role of women, … [Read More]
Yun Posun Memorial Symposium 2022
The Yun Posun Memorial Symposium was established in March 2013 to foster new partnerships between the UK and Korea, promoting longer-term understanding and the growth of contemporary Korean studies and culture in Scotland. The symposium is named after Yun Posun, who graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1930 and ultimately became the father of … [Read More]
Hwang Jihae returns to Chelsea in 2023 with her third garden
Korean garden designer and environmental artist Hwang Jihae will be returning to the Chelsea Flower Show in 2023 with a show garden titled “A Letter from a Million Years Past”. The news was released at a press conference at RHS Linley Hall in central London today. Hwang won Gold Medal and Best Artisan Garden in … [Read More]
Korean Blue – new work by Choi Boram, at Cromwell Place
(The) sky in my country Korea is intense blue, and our east sea is so clear and pure that it would dye the fabric into blue – Kim Whan-ki Unlike for Yves Klein, the colour blue was a hue that meant home to the pioneering Korean painter Kim Whan-ki who moved to Paris in the … [Read More]