Join the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council for a special commemorative concert marking the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. This meaningful evening will bring together voices from the South and North Korean communities, featuring professional musical performances, guest speakers, exhibitions, and a shared celebration of freedom and the hope for reunification. Programme Part 1 – Keynote … [Read More]
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Dislocation & Diaspora – East Asian Poets in Conversation
Join Wasafiri for a poetry reading and panel discussion on dislocation and diaspora with Theophilus Kwek – who will read from his latest collection, Commonwealth (Carcanet, May 2025) – and Suji Kwock Kim, author of Notes from the Divided Country. The evening will be chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor and poet Jennifer Wong. The three … [Read More]
Voices from North Korea: Music & Talk
Join Freedom Speakers International on June 14 from 5-7 pm in Raynes Park, London, for an inspiring evening of personal stories and live music at Voices from North Korea: Music & Talk. North Korean refugee speakers will talk about their lives growing up in North Korea and their journeys to freedom, offering rare first-hand insights … [Read More]
The US-Japan-ROK Triangle: Lessons from Pythagoras
The Camp David Accords lay the foundation for a long-overdue alignment of the United States, Japan, and South Korea as they each grapple with the implications of China’s rise, emerging threats to regional peace and security, and growing challenges to the liberal democratic order. Leadership Changes in Washington and Seoul call into question the stability … [Read More]
Endless Bonds: AI and Korean Heritage
The Korean Cultural Centre UK is pleased to present Endless Bonds: AI and Korean Heritage, an immersive media showcase running from 17 July – 22 August 2025. Organised in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea, this exhibition brings Korean cultural heritage to life through a series of cutting-edge digital experiences. Marking the 80th anniversary … [Read More]
In introduction to the KCCUK’s 여운 | Lingering Fragments summer screening season
As in other recent summers, the KCC is collaborating with Birkbeck in curating a season of experimental and documentary films. The press release introducing the season is reproduced below. The season comprises the following programmes: 18 June: Han Okhi and Kaidu Club: A Cinema of Outsiders 25 June: Korean War Commemorative Screening: Forbidden Fatherland 2 … [Read More]
Lingering Fragments season: Writing Poems at the End of the World
The final evening of Lingering Fragments brings together three contemporary works by young Korean artists and filmmakers who challenge the conventions of cinematic practice with striking, deeply personal films—all making their UK premiere. These works speak to one another in subtle and surprising ways, offering contrasting perspectives and tones while reflecting on themes of memory, … [Read More]
Lingering Fragments season: Women’s Oral Histories
This programme brings together two films that speak from vastly different moments in Korea’s feminist and queer history yet are bound by a shared insistence: to speak, to witness, and to survive. In Lesbian Censorship in School 1 (2005), director Lee Young offers a raw, first-person account of teenage queerness and institutional repression. Told through … [Read More]
Korean War Commemorative Screening: Forbidden Fatherland
Forbidden Fatherland focuses on listening to memories, pain, and the lived experiences of those forced to leave their families behind. It gives voice to those who grew up with absent relatives, to families marked by the trauma of displacement, and to the enduring sense of longing that persists 75 years later. The filmmaker, Kim Lyang, is … [Read More]
Han Okhi and Kaidu Club: A Cinema of Outsiders
There are two prejudices in cinema as it exists: filmmaking is only a man’s job, and movies should be a box office success. We, as outsiders, will break these two stereotypes – Kaidu Club, Chosun Ilbo, March 30, 1974 In 1974, Han Okhi and a group of fellow students from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul … [Read More]
Summers: a play by Heejin Kim
Today, the Earth is quietly heating up. A boy sets out to fight the sun. A girl silently watches over him. Together, they witness a village consumed by fire. The boy becomes an environmentalist. The girl has no choice but to work at a factory to make a living. The boy becomes a “cool” environmentalist—trying … [Read More]
Ga Kook-hyun – Sensible Still Life, at Mokspace
Ga Kook-hyun returns to Mokspace with a solo show inspired by the beauty of ceramics. ‘My work embraces the beauty of emptiness. Through gradual simplification and open spaces, object and void come to acknowledge one another. As the emptiness grows, the presence of the object becomes more intimate, more profound.’ Centred on the idea of … [Read More]
Artist Talk+Performance with Haedong Lee
This year’s theme for SASAPARI’s discussion series ‘K-Art Now’ is Performance Art and Installation Art. Please join 4482 SASAPARI for a captivating artist talk and live performance with Haedong Lee, a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of sound, space, and human presence. Lee creates immersive environments using experimental sound objects, electronic instruments, … [Read More]
K-music 2025: JAMBINAI with London Contemporary Orchestra
Orchestral grandeur collides with post-rock fury. Post-Rock band JAMBINAI make their Barbican debut in a rare and electrifying performance with the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) led by Robert Ames—a conductor renowned for his work in contemporary classical music and for collaborations with artists such as Radiohead, Frank Ocean, and Steve Reich. JAMBINAI sound less like … [Read More]
K-music 2025: Okkyung Lee with Mark Fell
A sonic dialogue between cello and electronics. This year’s K-Music Festival opens with a groundbreaking performance featuring Korean cellist and composer Okkyung Lee, known for her genre-defying style, creating vast sonic landscapes that move freely through noise, jazz, Western classical, and her homeland’s traditional and popular music. For the acclaimed festival’s opening night, Okkyung Lee … [Read More]
K-Food Cooking Class
On 19 June, the Korean Cultural Centre UK and CJ Foods present a ‘K-Food Cooking Class’ as a part of a Touring K-Arts programme. To increase the opportunities for people to attend, the workshop will be held across 2 sessions, Session #1 from 11.00 – 14.00, and Session #2 from 16.00 – 19.00, at Divertimenti … [Read More]