The pace of events is gradually picking up. Looking ahead to April, to ensure the best price for your Festival of Korean Dance tickets, book during the early bird discount period which ends on Friday 17 March.
Exhibitions
- Zadie Xa’s solo show continues at Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hallyu exhibition continues at the V+A. Both highly recommended
- Collect is at Somerset House 3-5 March (with previews 1-2 March)
- The KCC’s current exhibition, Transfer, continues all month
- Jukhee Kwon’s solo show, Liberated, opens at October Gallery on 16 March
Film
- Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Broker is on at many theatres in the first part of the month
- KCC’s film nights start with a screening of Lee Yoon-ki’s My Dear Enemy on 9 March
- The BFI Flare LGBTQ+ festival has a Korean focus this year, with four feature films and one short. 15 – 26 March.
Live music
- Pop and hip-pop
- AOMG artists perform at the Hammersmith Apollo on 10 March
- Junny’s “Blanc” tour comes to London and Manchester 12 and14 Mar respectively
- NCT Dream’s tour comes to Wembley Arena on 28 March. General ticket sales open on 3 March
- Classical
- Novus String Quartet play Britten, Janáček and Shostakovich at the Wigmore Hall Thu 16 March
- They perform a similar (but not identical) programme in Haslemere on 18 March
- Joo Yeon Sir plays Beethoven, Frolov and Vitali/Charlier at LSE on 23 March
Special events
- Sheffield University holds its annual Korea Day on 11 March
Talks and seminars
- The Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosts two events:
- The Korean Wave: Its Past, Present, and Future, 6 March
- The Ra Jong-yil Lecture 2023: Dr Chung Sye-kyun on Korea’s Role in the New International Order, 7 March
- Yun Ko-eun talks about The Disaster Tourist at the KCC on 31 March
Everything else
- The British Korean Society holds its AGM on 20 March
- There’s a Kpop night at Fire Vauxhall, 3 March
Publications expected
- Non-fiction
- Barbara Zitwer’s Korean Book of Happiness
- Monica Macias’s memoir Black Girl from Pyongyang
- Hawon Jung’s Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement
- A Forgotten British War: The Accounts of Korean War Veterans, ed Michael Patrick Cullinane, Iain Johnston-White
- Choi Byonghyon’s Ryu Sŏngnyong, Chancellor of Chosŏn Korea (slipped in under the radar last month)
- Fiction
- Dolki Min’s Walking Practice tr Victoria Caudle