Coinciding with rather too many events for London Design Week, three galleries competed with each other last Friday, 23 September, with opening events to show various eccentricities of the contemporary Korean art scene in London. After a quick look in at the dozen or so Korean MA students from Kingston University who were holding their … [Read More]
LKL articles by Philip Gowman (page 123)
A slice of Seoul on show in London
A slice of Seoul on exhibit in London: Korea Times features Bae Jung-hyun’s / JW Stella’s eclectic show in a City gallery http://t.co/oCXQNff2. One of four I went to on Friday night. [Read More]
Bae Doo-na prepares for her role in Cloud Atlas
Bae Doo-Na will have to speak British English for her upcoming role in the Wachowskis’ movie “Cloud Atlas”, says a Chosun Ilbo interview. http://t.co/hy4Dtdps [Read More]
North Koreans demonstrate in London
North Korean exiles demonstrate outside the Chinese embassy in London protesting against China repatriating refugees back to the DPRK – 22 September 2011. http://bit.ly/pQcm6i Photos by Michael Rank. [Read More]
Premium Korea at Harrods
A high profile four-week exhibition of some of Korea’s luxury brands is just coming to an end. I can only speculate as to how much KOTRA paid to hire the Exhibition Gallery at Harrods for four weeks. But space at the UK’s premier luxury department store doesn’t come cheap, and it must have taken a … [Read More]
Boston Globe photos of a Chinese tour group to Mt Kumgang
Yet more photos of North Korea – these are of the Chinese tour group to Mt Kumgang. From the Boston Globe. [Read More]
Joohee Chun – artist in residence in Graz
Congratulations to KAA member Joohee Chun – artist in residence for styrianARTfoundation, Austria. Two exhibitions of her new work in Graz, Austria, 8 Sept – 10 Nov 2011. [Read More]
In pictures: Highlights of the Thames Festival 2011
The Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra playing Wondergirls and SNSD. And their amazing body-popping dancer The Kukkiwon Taekondo demo team performing in the pouring rain. Amazing that no-one broke their neck The crazy K-pop lovers in their noraebang tent singing along to their favourite K-pop tunes The amazing enthusiasm & energy of the seemingly hundreds of young … [Read More]
London Korean Film Festival Announces 2011 Programme
Last night we were treated to a special preview screening of the opening film of this year’s London Korean Film Festival: Kim Han-min’s high-energy historical action film Arrow the Ultimate Weapon. It will get the festival off to a rip-roaring start, as The Man from Nowhere did last year. So the publicity campaign for the … [Read More]
Heinz Insu Fenkl interview
The New Yorker talks to Heinz Insu Fenkl, translator of Yi Mun-yol’s short story An Anonymous Island nyr.kr/n1i5eR [Read More]
Collaboration between Baltic and NMCA
Godfrey Worsdale, Director of Gateshead’s Baltic Centre, talks at the National Museum of Contemporary Art about reaching new audiences bit.ly/nKyROx [Read More]
The new Manhattan Restaurant Jung Sik Dang
Yonhap Feature: A first look at a Seoul chef’s Manhattan offshoot bit.ly/rbyN2D. The new Manhattan Restaurant Jung Sik Dang. “A much better profile than the New York Times” via @subjectobjectverb [Read More]
Bae Chan-Hyo in group show at Quai Branly, Paris
Bae Chan-Hyo’s Existing in Costume and Fairy Tales series are in a current group show at the Quai Branly, Paris. Congratulations. bit.ly/pykj2G [Read More]
Don’t do drugs in Korea
What kind of idiot tries to smuggle cannabis seeds into Korea in a jar of peanut butter? Martin Uden advises: don’t try it! bit.ly/pmtdKX. Update 28 July 2015: Martin Uden’s ambassadorial blog has now been transferred to the National Archives and can be found here. [Read More]
Yeahwon nominated for a Grammy
Nice to see Yeahwon Shin nominated for a Grammy for her 2010 self-titled jazz / latin album “Yeahwon” bit.ly/nVyCnL [Read More]
Bae Doo-na’s upcoming role in Cloud Atlas announced
Looking forward to seeing Bae Doo-na as a clone in Wachowski’s upcoming “Cloud Atlas”. Coverage in Chosun Ilbo | Korea Times | Joongang Ilbo [Read More]