Best wishes for the Year of the Tiger. Things are taking a while to get started this year, but there’s beginning to be more signs of life on the Korean cultural front.
Exhibitions
- Last chance: Union Gallery’s London Art Fair group show, including two Korean artists, is open until 5 February
- Last chance: Anicka Yi’s hovering squids will be rounded up and taken away from the Tate turbine hall on 6 February
- Last chance: Bongsu Park’s dream explorations will be taken down at Gallery Rosenfeld on 13 February
- Last chance: a’strict’s and Je Baak’s immersive video installations will be taken down on 20 February (the exhibition’s run has been extended by two weeks. Well worth a visit if you’re in the area)
- New this month: Jukhee Kwon features in October Gallery’s new group show held in memory of Pamela Kember, formerly head of Arts and learning at Asia House. 3 Feb – 12 March
Music and performance
- There’s a choreography workshop with Theo Song on 12 February
- The KCC’s House Concert featuring string quartets by Mendelssohn and Dvorak is at St James’s Piccadilly on 24 Feb
- Violinist Hyeyoon Park appears with Benjamin Grosvenor at the Wigmore Hall, 15 Feb
- The Novus quartet give a coffee concert at the Wigmore Hall on 20 Feb
- Last chance: Unsuk Chin’s second violin concerto will be available on BBC Sounds until 17 Feb
Discussions and Calls for Papers
- The Scottish CKS has two discussions scheduled for this month: Yewon Lee on The Politics of Class and Solidarity for Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul (9 Feb) and Celeste Arrington on The Legalistic Turn in Korean and Japanese Governance Regarding Tobacco Control and Disability Rights (16 February)
- Unsu Kim’s entertaining debut novel Cabinet will be the subject of a conversation with Phillip Kim at the KCC’s first literature vent of the year on 23 Feb
- The CFP for the first Oxford CKS Graduate Students’ Forum closes on 4 Feb
- The CFP for the 2023 IKSU conference closes at the end of March
Date for the diary
- Bristol Old Vic stages a collaboration between Bath Spa and K-Arts Universities on a theme of family reunions, 3-12 March
Publications
Last month
As well as the titles we were expecting when we posted our monthly update at the beginning of January, the following books hit the online stores:
- Shin Young-bok’s Reflections from Prison
- Kim Hyo-eun’s I am the Subway tr Deborah Smith
- Lee Juck’s One Day illustr Kim Seung-youn tr Asuka Minamoto, Dianne Chung, Lee Juck