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]
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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]
Discussion: A Korean micro-reunification
In this discussion, authors Jihyun Park and Seh-lynn Chai, respectively from North Korea and South Korea, will talk about what they shared and what differences they felt they had, while writing The Hard Road Out together. How did they overcome that sense of alienation? Could their encounter serve as a micro-reunification model going forward? The … [Read More]
2022 International Conference on North Korean Human Rights
Join the 2022 International Conference on North Korean Human Rights in the heart of Westminster to learn about critical challenges and opportunities to address the human rights situation in North Korea. This is an in-person event and will not be streamed live. The ongoing human rights crisis in North Korea poses the greatest challenge to … [Read More]
London Korean Film Festival 2022: the detailed schedule
Here’s your at-a-glance no-clicks-required version of the detailed schedule for this year’s London Korean Film Festival: Time Title Strand RSC = Regent Street Cinema | ICA = Institute of Contemporary Arts | PHC = Picturehouse Central | GC = Garden Cinema | CL = Ciné Lumière | Gen = Genesis Cinema | Rio = Rio … [Read More]
Dreamcatcher plays the Brixton Academy
Billboard-acclaimed K-Pop girl group DREAMCATCHER will reunite with their fans in London on the 2022 Dreamcatcher World Tour “Apocalypse: Follow us” tour. The seven-member group are back with their dynamic metal sounds, powerful ballads and jaw-dropping choreography. [Read More]
Japanese Breakfast UK Tour
Those of you who have read the memoir Crying in H-Mart won’t want to miss this tour by the band whose lead singer is the author. Tickets are hard to come by, though: Wed 19 Oct London 19:30 Hackney Church – Sold out Thu 20 Oct Bristol 18:30 The Marble Factory Fri 21 Oct Leeds … [Read More]