Exhibitions
- It’s the last chance to see the V&A’s Hallyu exhibition, which closes on 25 June, and the KCC’s craft week exhibition, Light of Weaving: Labour-Hand-Hours, which closes on 30 June
- Soojin Kang’s solo show at Gathering continues until 17 June
- Han Collection’s exhibition of works by buncheong artist Shin Sang-ho also finishes on 17 June
- Tae Kim’s solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery continues until 24 June
- Lee Ufan is in a two-person show at Pace Gallery from 2 June
Screenings
- You can still find the Nam June Paik documentary at the ICA and maybe elsewhere
- Ma Dong-seok actioner The Roundup: No Way Out – can be found at many Odeon cinemas from 9 June
- The KCC starts a weekly season of four documentary screenings entitled Labour(s) of Love, starting on 15 June.
Live music
- The Shilla Ensemble play at Arsenal of Sounds on 2 June, and their leader Hyelim Kim performs in the new opera Woman at Point Zero at the Royal Opera House 29 – 30 June
- In the world of K-pop
- Red Velvet play Wembley Arena on 6 June
- Lee Seong Jong’s European tour has been pushed back till November
- Joo Yeon Sir plays Britten Violin Concerto in Greenwich on 16 June
- Okkyung Lee performs live at the ICA, 25 June
Special events
- York St Johns University’s Korea Day is on 3 June
- The KTO hosts a special Korea Now! event at Outernet and St Giles Square on 10 June
- Fortnums hosts a conversation with Judy Joo, Maree Kinder, Euny Hong and Rosalie Kim, with Korean food, on 15 June
- There an exhibition of North Korean Food in New Malden, 24 June
Discussions and seminars
- The V&A hosts a two-day Hallyu conference on 2 and 3 June
- The Edinburgh conference: Korean Youth – Spaces, Ecologies and Technologies – together with BAKS AGM – takes place 19 – 20 June
- Wayne Patterson talks about William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea at SOAS on 14 June
- Jihyun Park and Lindsey Miller talk about North Korea at Stanfords on 14 June
- The BKS hosts a Korea update with our ambassadors to the two Koreas on 15 June
- Rosalie Kim talks on the subject of The Korean Wave: The technology that propelled a global cultural phenomenon at Imperial College, 17 June
- The 2023 IKSU Korean Studies Summer School takes place online, 28 – 30 June
Everything else
- There’s a K-pop / hip-hop night at Fire Vauxhall on 2 June
- Learn how to apply Korean gel nails in Soho, 3 June
- Be-oom hosts a Korean Tea blending workshop on 10 June
- Manchester has a K-pop day on 10 June
- There’s a Korean Culture Day in Bexhill on Sea on 17 June
Publications expected
- Literature in translation:
- Another Person by Kang Hwa-gil tr Clare Richards
- The End of August by Yu Miri tr Morgan Giles
- Non-fiction
- Korea: A New History of South and North by Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Victor Cha
- The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, by Sung-yoon Lee
- Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War: Comparing North and South Korean Writing, by Jerôme de Wit
- Introducing Korean Popular Culture, ed Youna Kim