Here are the main events for March. Despite the respectable length of the list, I can’t help feeling that since January, which felt crazily busy, we’ve been in a slight holding pattern: pre-pandemic we’d got used to a relatively frequent schedule of events at SOAS and the KCC, but things haven’t yet got back into their stride.
Exhibitions
- Collect 2024 at Somerset House includes work by many Korean artists, 1 – 3 March
- In Manchester, Jane Jin Kaisen’s Halmang is at esea contemporary all month.
- In Bristol, Young In Hong’s Five Acts is at Spike Island all month, with an associated performance on 16 March.
- In London, Choi Jeong Hwa participates in the Hayward Gallery’s group show, When Forms Come Alive.
- The KCC’s open call exhibition, Ordinary World, continues all month
- The Delight media art experience continues its run in Borough Market until mid April
Music and performance
- Yunchan Lim plays Rachmaninov’s third at the Festival Hall on 27 March
- You can hear Unsuk Chin’s Piano Concerto at the Barbican on 14 March
- Sun-Mi Hong makes two appearances at the Vortex, first as part of a quartet led by Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock (2 Mar) and then at the end of the month with her own quintet (29 Mar)
- Camo’s Pressure Makes Diamonds tour is in London on 3 March and Manchester on 4 March
- STAYC’s Teenfresh tour is at the Troxy on 3 March
- BamBam’s Area 52 tour is at the Kentish Town Forum on 24 March
- Eric Nam’s House on a Hill tour is at the Manchester Academy on 25 March and the Hammersmith Apollo on 26 March
- The Rose’s Dawn to Dusk tour is at Wembley Arena on 30 March
Screenings
- The KCC has a screening of Shin Sang-ok’s A Sister’s Garden on 13 March
- BFI Flare includes Yun Su-ik’s Heavy Snow in its programme, along with a brief animation in a short film screening
- Silenced No. 43, a documentary about Korean War PoWs, screens in Kingston on 16 March
Publications expected
- Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981 – 2022, by Jihoon Kim pub Oxford University Press
- Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee by Peter Banseok Kwon pub Harvard University Press
- Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, by Margaret Juhae Lee pub Melville House
- Dawn of Labor, by Park Nohae tr Brother Anthony of Taizé and Cheehyung Harrison Kim pub University of Hawai’i Press