A lean month for film screenings, but we’re about to enter into the film festival season, with the London Film Fest programme announced on 3 Sept: we already know of one Korean film in the festival schedule for October. Also, remember that the K-music festival opens on 1 Oct: time to get your tickets.
Exhibitions
- Do Ho Suh’s solo show at Tate Modern continues into October
- Bongsu Park’s group show at gallery rosenfeld continues until 12 Sept
- Han Do-hyun: Icheon ceramics exhibition opens at Dorich House Museum on 4 Sept
- Lines between Silence – a dialogue in thread, clay and wood, is at Han Collection on 4 – 25 Sept
- Park Jieun: Journeys (pt 1) opens at Pontone Gallery on 5 Sept
- Mieumwanbo: Strolling Through Korean Gardens opens at the KCC on 11 Sept
Performance
- Swag Age – the Joseon-era musical – has a concert performance on 8 Sept
- There’s a Swag Age highlights screening with Q&A on 7 Sept
- Wonho’s “Stay Awake” tour is at the Shepherds Bush Empire on 11 Sept
- BLOO’s “Out of the Bloo” tour is at the Clapham Grand on 19 Sept
- The Devita x Don Malik: Love is a Song tour comes to London on 21 Sept
- Seong-Jin Cho plays Prokofiev’s 2nd piano concerto at the Barbican on 18 Sept
Screenings
- Jo Heeyoung’s The Continuing Land screens in New Malden on 25 Sept
Everything else
- The KCC hosts a craft workshop on 4 Sept
- There’s an online session — a “K-Dream Starter” –- to kickstart your life in Korea on 5 Sept
- The 2025 Kpop UK National Competition takes place in Kingston on 6 Sept
- The RSA hosts a session on sustainable jewellery-making with Seeun Kim on 10 Sept (members only)
- Kingston’s 2025 ESEA Culture Festival is on 13 Sept
- Copeland Park in Peckham hosts Market Root Vol. 5, 13 – 14 Sept
- SJ Kim and Juhea Kim appear at Foyles ESEA Lit Fest on 20 Sept
- The 2025 London Hallyu Festival is on 27 Sept
- The British Museum hosts a Korean still life painting workshop on 28 Sept
- British Korean Society members should look out for details of their Chuseok reception on 29 Sept
- The Squid Game experience is available at ExCel (daily except Tuesdays)
- There’s a beginning-of-term K-pop party at Heaven on 7 Sept
Books expected
- The Crustacean by Jang Jin-yeong tr Kim Chi-young pub Brazen
- Art on Fire, by Yun Ko-eun tr Lizzie Buehler pub Scribe
- Families for Mobility: Elite Korean Students Abroad and Their Parents’ Reproduction of Privilege, by Juyeon Park pub Rutgers University Press
- Triangle Republics: Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan, by I Jonathan Kief pub Columbia University Press
- Beyond the Sewol: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora, by Areum Jeong pub University of Hawai’i Press
- The Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park pub Brazen
- Soju Party: How to Drink (and Eat!) Like a Korean, by Irene Yoo pub Knopf
- The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing, by Juhee Moon tr Clare Richards pub Ten Speed Press