November events | London Korean Links

November events 2024 — Clockwise from top left: Lee Heemoon at K-music | Bek Hyunjin at the Coronet | Geumhyung Jeong at the ICA | Alienoid 2 at the London Korean Film Festival

The need for difficult decisions continues into November, with music, film, literature and artistic events simultaneously calling for our attention. LKL’s pick of the upcoming month has to be Lee Heemoon at the Purcell Room, closing this year’s K-music Festival. Regretfully, we’re going to have to pass on Geumhyung Jeong’s performance at the ICA (we can’t unthink her highly-charged 2017 encounter with a vacuum cleaner) as it clashes with both the BKS annual reception and the closing gala of the London Korean Film Festival; instead we’re going to have to make do with her Performative Lecture on 15 November (thus sacrificing a literature event at the KCC and a K-music concert at the South Bank). And the prospect of a rare encounter with Bek Hyunjin unfortunately means that we’ll have to pass on a couple of film screenings, but that’s what we’ve come to expect of the Autumn cultural season. Whatever you choose, enjoy!

Live performance

There is contemporary jazz from Gray by Silver at the KCC on 1 Nov
Sunmi Hong plays drums in the Teis Semey quintet at the Vortex, 18 November
The K-Music Festival concludes with Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Orchestra and No-Noise on 15 November and Lee Heemoon on 23 November
Multi-disciplinary artist / performer Bek Hyunjin is at the Coronet Theatre on 8 and 9 Nov
Hyowa Project and Jieun Kim fuse traditional Korean music with modern jazz on 14 Nov in Dalston
Illusionist Yolllin Lee performs at the KCC on 6 Nov
NCT Dream’s Dream()Scape tour comes to London on 12 Nov
XG’s “The first HOWL” tour comes to Manchester and London 18 and 19 Nov respectively

Screenings

The London Korean Film Festival opens on 1 November, lasting until 13 November
The BFI’s Korean film season Echoes in Time continues until the end of the year with an excellent selection of 30 Golden Age (60s) and New Korean Cinema (late 90s – early 00s) titles
The ICA’s retrospective of Hong Hangsoo’s more recent movies continues until 8 Dec
The ICA is also hosting a number of movie screenings related to Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction

Exhibitions

Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction is at the ICA until 15 December
Haegue Yang’s Leap Year is at the Hayward Gallery until the New Year
Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern until March 2025
Ga Kook-hyun’s Sensible Still Life is at Mokspace until 15 November
Sasapari’s 2024 exhibition K-Women: Celebrating Korean Female Artists opens in Kingston on 22 November
In Durham, the Oriental Museum’s focus on the lives of Richard and Joan Rutt continues into Spring next year
The Delight immersive video experience is in its third incarnation in Borough Yards until the New Year
The KCC’s exhibition: Digital Heritage, Now! AI With You continues until 20 Nov

Everything else

Suk-Young Kim talks at SOAS, Sheffield, UCLan and Edinburgh, 1 – 7 Nov in a series of lectures that builds from her published works
The 2024 Kimjang Festival will be held in Chessington Community College on 2 Nov
Separately, KORSA’s Kimchi Festival will be held near St Bride’s Fleet Street on 23 Nov (details coming soon)
The British Korean Society has its annual reception on 13 November
The Peaceful Unification Advisory Council hosts From Escape to Hope: Escape in Search of a United Korea on 16 November in New Malden
There’s an opportunity to hear from authors Eun Hee-kyung and Lee Geum-yi in Kingston on 14 Nov and the KCC on 15 Nov
And on 16 Nov you can hear from Dallergut Dream Department Store author Miye Lee at the KCC