Here’s what we’re looking forward to this month:
Exhibitions
- The KCC’s winter group show, Begin Again, closes on 4 Feb. The next group show, Transfer, opens on 24 Feb.
- The V+A’s Hallyu exhibition continues all month, as does the Whitechapel Gallery’s Zadie Xa solo show
- Han Collection has an exhibition of tea bowls by Shin Chul and Kim Byoung-yeoul, 2-23 Feb
- Further afield, Young In Hong’s solo show Ring of Animals opens in Antwerp’s Extra City Kunsthal on 18 Feb
Live performance
- Seongjin Cho makes his solo debut at the Barbican on 13 Feb
- Epik High perform in Manchester and London, 6 and 12 Feb
- The Rose perform at the Kentish Town Forum on 14 Feb
- ATEEZ play the O2 on 22 Feb
Talks, Seminars and family classes
- Ven Beop Song returns to Le Cordon Bleu for another temple food demonstration, 8 Feb
- The British Korean Society joins with the Mount Paektu Research Centre for a talk on Science Engagement with the DPRK, 9 Feb
- SOAS hosts a one-day conference on The Real North Korea: in its Multiplicity of Origins, Dynamics, and Futures, 11 Feb
- The V+A hosts a variety of family-friendly events linked to their Hallyu exhibition to coincide with half term, 13 – 17 Feb
Publications expected
- Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: Essential Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang, by Hwa Yeong Wang and Philip J Ivanhoe (Oxford UP)
- While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America, by Yeonmi Park (Simon and Schuster)
- Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War, by Suzy Kim (Cornell UP)
- Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres, by Dal Yong Jin (Harvard UP)
- The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop, ed Suk-young Kim (Cambridge UP)
- Skull Water, by Heinz Insu Fenkl (Spiegel and Grau)
- Hawai’i UP are listing A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong by Don Baker, but as they haven’t finalised their cover artwork yet that might slip.