If K-pop and club music isn’t your thing, June so far seems to be a reasonably quiet month, which after such a busy May is no bad thing.
Exhibitions
- Architect Byoung Soo Cho has a solo exhibition at the Coronet Theatre until 6 June
- The KCCUK’s current exhibition Icheon and Beyond — The Space Within Form finishes on 5 June
Classes and seminars
- A SOAS seminar on 1 June looks at How East Asia has responded to the fallout from the war against Iran
- The SOAS–INALCO Joint Postgraduate Conference: Reframing Contemporary Korea — Language, Culture, and Society is held online on 5 June
- Capital City College hosts two Korean cuisine workshops on 13 and 20 June
Theatre
- Proud Mary, a play exploring the diaspora experience, is at Playhouse East 9 – 10 June
- The Last Man, a Korean Musical, is at Southwark Playhouse until 13 June
Film Screenings
- The KCCUK screens a restored Madame Freedom on 30 June
Music
- Xdinary Heroes – The New Xcene tour comes to the Kentish Town Forum on 2 June
- SXSW London holds two club nights featuring Korean DJs and producers, 2 and 3 June
- Twice’s “This is for” tour comes to the o2 on 3 and 4 June
- XG performs at Capital FM Summertime Ball in Wembley Stadium on 6 June
- WOODZ’s Archive 1 World tour comes to the Troxy on 10 June
- Sung Joon plays Pop Music in Manchester Square Gardens on 18 June
- ATEEZ play BST Hyde Park on 28 June
- The Rose’s Rosetopia tour is at the Hammersmith Apollo on 30 June
- Clara-Jumi Kang plays Britten at the Cadogan Hall on 10 June
Books expected
Academic
- The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979, by Russell Burge pub Harvard University Press
- Divided Korea: Understanding Unification Narratives, ed Sojin Lim, Virginie Grzelczyk, Daniel Mitchum pub Palgrave
- Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts, ed Jin Y. Park and Sumi Lee pub University of Hawai’i Press
- Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, by Yi Kyu-bo tr Remco E Breuker pub University of Hawai’i Press
- Emotions, Affects, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture, ed Jisoo M. Kim pub University of Hawai’i Press
Fiction in translation
- The Forest Called You, by Amil tr Lee Joheun pub Harvill
- Swell, by Son Bo-mi tr Janet Hong pub Two Lines Press
- Orange and the Bread Knife, by Cheong Ye tr Slin Jung pub Wildfire
Other
- The Psychology of Luck: Korean Secrets for Attracting Wealth and Success, by Min Ji Yoo pub Leap