Korean artist Jeong Woojae invites us to experience a surreal situation, where a young girl’s constant companion is a tropical fish. She goes about her everyday life against a backdrop of park, suburb and street accompanied by various sumptuous and over-scaled specimens, which seem perfectly at home in an alien environment. They float, guide and … [Read More]
Year: 2022 (page 6)
The Coronet Theatre’s “Tiger is Coming” festival: don’t miss any of it.
How long have we all been wanting Leenalchi and the Ambiguous Dance Company to come to London? Probably ever since their Naver Onstage performance went viral on social media. The piece they were performing was Tiger is Coming, which turned out to be the opening track of their subsequent album, Sugungga, a retelling of one … [Read More]
Silent Mind: an exhibition by Lloyd Choi Gallery
An exhibition for London Design Festival 2022, running as alongside the V+A’s Korean exhibition ‘K-Wave’ (September 2022 – June 2023). The included works consider the meditative aesthetic of Korean craftsmanship, exploring how this can help us all find tranquility and consolation in turbulent times. The exhibition title reflects the calm and mindful status of the maker-artists, whose … [Read More]
Our Friendly Neighbours: a video art showcase at the KCC
The Korean Cultural Centre UK with Art Center Nabi Seoul presents their new exhibition Our Friendly Neighbours, opening Thursday 8 September at the KCC Exhibition space featuring major works by media artists Yiyun Kang, Jinjoon Lee and artist duo Bang & Lee. The KCCUK has invited three artists working with new media and installation based … [Read More]
Normal Life: Heesoo Kim solo show at Unit London
Heesoo Kim’s first solo exhibition with Unit London explores our shared contemporary experience through portraiture. In what the artist defines as an “expression of the mundane”, Normal Life is an accumulation of everyday observations. Surrounded by a society that constantly grapples for recognition and success, Kim’s body of work subtly engages with the mild sense of insecurity … [Read More]
Free online + in-person South Korean cinema seminar: Preservation, Distribution and Education
One day seminar on South Korean Cinema for University educators UK and internationally. In person and online, free entry & film screening. About this event Attendance either in person, at Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, or, via Zoom (link available with ticket). Please register via … [Read More]
Ollah Life Peace Pilgrimage 2022
The Korean Christian Bargn Nuri (밝은누리) community return to the UK for three performances of traditional folk music, song and dance on their Ollah Peace Pilgrimage. The Pungmul group 얼라(Ollah) is a group of students and graduates of Samil Haklim in Bargn Nuri community. The name “Ollah” has two main meanings. ‘Ollah’ means a ‘child’ … [Read More]
Free Chol Soo Lee: theatrical release
In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social justice movement. Nearly five decades later, Free Chol Soo Lee excavates this largely unknown yet essential … [Read More]
Ash Island, Leellamarz + Way Ched play the Oval Space
According to Wikipedia, Ash Island is a South Korean rapper. He was a contestant on season 2 of Mnet’s High School Rapper, where he finished in 4th place. He joined The Quiett’s sub-label, Ambition Musik in November 2018. He released his debut album, Ash, on March 22, 2019. The same source tells us that Leellamarz … [Read More]
KCC September House Concert: song recital
This programme compares side-by-side a selection of pieces from two of the great works by Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op.39 and Waldszenen Op. 82. Written eight years apart in 1940 and 1948 respectively, the two pieces capture the essence of the Romantic landscape, both physical and emotional. The mix of sublimity, strangeness, foreboding, melancholy, and sheer … [Read More]
In pictures: Hanji – Paper Compositions
The KCC’s summer exhibition was co-sponsored by the Hanji Development Institute, which is affiliated with the Hanji Theme Park in Wonju, Gangwon-do. Wonju was noted for its mulberry trees, and hence its hanji, in the Sillok from King Sejong’s reign and thus competes with other areas of Korea such as Mungyeong and Jeonju for the … [Read More]
LOONA tour comes to the Brixton Academy
K-pop’s queens of musical lore, LOONA, bring their 2022 LOONA 1st World Tour: [LOONATHEWORLD] to London. The group stands as the epitome of mystery and allure in their concept storyline, seasoned with the charms of the different members that come together for the perfect combination of what makes K-pop unique. Even within the realm of … [Read More]
Korean Arts Festival at the Rose Theatre
Don’t miss this spectacular presentation of traditional Korean music and dance at the Rose Theatre Kingston on ㅣSaturday 4 September, 6pm. With one performance only, all proceeds are in support of Kingston Hospital. Diverse and rich, traditional Korean music and dance continues to evolve from the influence of ordinary people and takes the audience on an … [Read More]
Soup and Ideology: Yang Yonghi’s exploration of the Jeju 4:3 incident through her own family history
It must be a nightmare living with Yang Yonghi: you are constantly being filmed. Yang’s work focuses on her family history, and she has been collecting footage of her daily life since the mid ’90s. When the individual scenes are filmed – conversations, family meals, seemingly unremarkable incidents – the filming must seem without purpose. … [Read More]
Strangers in a Strange Land: two modern classics at Prince Charles Cinema
In The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Jee-woon, 2008) and The Yellow Sea (Na Hong-jin, 2010), outlaws wage war against each other against the backdrop of an alien and unforgiving landscape of chaos. This mayhem is mirrored in the films’ productions, which are notorious to this day for their gruelling shooting conditions, schedule overruns, … [Read More]
Blackpink Born Pink tour at the O2
The most popular girl group on the planet, BLACKPINK are bringing their highly anticipated ‘Born Pink’ tour to The O2 for two nights on Wednesday 30 November 2022 and Thursday 1 December 2022, in support of their second studio album set to release this September. One of the most massively successful K-pop groups in music … [Read More]