The KCCUK’s second exhibition of the year focuses on folk art: Minhwa: The Beauty of Korean Folk Paintings 5 April–18 May 2019 Korean Cultural Centre UK | 1-3 Strand | London WC2N 5BW Opening Reception: Thursday 4 April 2019, 5–7pm. RSVP required: info@kccuk.org.uk Minhwa Class: Friday 5 April 2019, 6–8pm. RSVP required: info@kccuk.org.uk The Korean […]
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Korean Language & Culture Course Launch Party
This is a course and an organisation we haven’t come across before. Launch event is free, but there’s no indication of the pricing for the course itself. Launch Party for Korean Language & Culture Course Venue: European School Of Economics | 4 Mandeville Place | London W1U 2BG Friday 22 March 2019, 18:00 – 20:00 […]
KCC March House Concert: Salomé Quartet
The KCC’s second House Concert of the year gives us an appealing programme from a young string quartet. Salomé Quartet Tuesday 26 March 2019, 7:00 pm @KCCUK Admission free but Advanced Booking is required (RSVP to info@kccuk.org.uk l 020 7004 2600) Haim Choi (Violin) | Ines Soares Delgado (Violin) | Kasia Ziminska (Viola) | Shizuku […]
Screening: Hyperbolae of Youth
LEAFF’s #KCinema100 series, a celebration of the centenary of Korean cinema, starts on Friday with Director Han Hyeong-Mo’s HYPERBOLAE OF YOUTH (1956), one of Korea’s earliest comedies. The screening is at London’s historic Cinema Museum, once home to the great Charlie Chaplin. The screening will be followed by a reception with Korean food and soju […]
Little Forest screens at the Barbican as part of Chronic Youth Film Festival
One of my favourite films of 2018 gets another London screening this month in the Barbican. Well worth a second viewing. Little Forest – Chronic Youth Film Festival 2019 Dir Yim Soon-rye (2018, 103 min) With Kim Tae-ri, Ryu Jun-yeol, Jin Ki-joo, Moon So-ri 24 Mar 2019, 16:00, Barbican Cinema 3 | Book tickets Korean […]
Jinjo Crew in Breakin’ Convention
Reigning Battle of the Year World Champions Jinjo Crew bring an astounding showcase of elite level breaking, acrobatics and Korean culture, led by crew leader B-Boy Wing, to the annual Breakin’ Convention festival of breakdancing. Performing Saturday 4 May & Sunday 5 May 2019 at Sadlers Wells | Rosebery Avenue | London EC1R 4TN Buy […]
Seong-jin Cho plays Rachmaninov at the Barbican
Hear from the teenage Shostakovich in this all-Russian programme with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto opens quietly enough, but this simple and beguiling beginning quickly gives way what is in fact one of the most technically demanding concertos in the classical piano repertoire. Its lush and romantic elegance is followed by Balakirev’s Islamey, […]
Novus String Quartet lunchtime concert at the Wigmore
Established in Korea in 2007, the Novus String Quartet has gone on to achieve widespread success, notably with first prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2014. Its programme comprises masterpieces by Respighi and Berg composed during the years 1924–6. Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): Quartetto dorico Alban Berg (1885-1935): Lyric Suite Monday 25 March 2019 1:00PM Wigmore Hall […]
Hanbok-inspired fashion on show in Kingston University
An international project in which the Royal School of Needlework collaborated with the Korean Hanbok Advancement Centre, KBCE and Kingston University, has offered a unique opportunity for students to create exhibitable works which creatively reinterpreted elements of the traditional Korean dress (Hanbok) using both traditional and contemporary hand embroidery techniques. The finished pieces by Kingston […]
4482-2019 – The Other Side of the Moon, @Bargehouse
The big group show of London-based Korean artists returns for its ninth iteration. Don’t miss it: it’s only there for a few days. 4482-2019: The Other Side of the Moon 28 March – 31 March 2019 Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London SE1 9PH Open daily, 11am – 6pm, Admission free. 31 participating artists as well […]
World Premiere: Donghoon Shin’s Kafka’s Dream
The second Donghoon Shin world premiere this month is Kafka’s Dream, a commission for the London Symphony Orchestra via the Panufnik Composers Scheme, generously supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust. LSO Futures Sunday 24 Mar 2019 6.00pm – 8.30pm Barbican Hall, London | Book tickets DAVID LANG the public domain * (UK premiere) […]
Remembering Kim Bok-dong 1926 – 2019
Kim Bok Dong was a victim of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, and one of the first of the survivors to speak out in the early 1990s. She became a prominent human rights campaigner on this and other issues affecting lives of young women. She passed away this year on 28 January. On March 13th, […]
Wu Wei premieres Donghoon Shin’s Sheng Concerto
Donghoon Shin has two world premieres this month. The first is with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Murmurs Music dissolving borders, and the world premiere of BCMG Apprentice Composer-in-Residence Donghoon Shin’s Sheng Concerto Thursday 21 March 2019, 7.30pm | Book tickets CBSO Centre | Berkley Street | Birmingham B1 2LF | cbso.co.uk As the world […]
Hyon Gyon: solo exhibition at Parasol Unit
Late notice about a solo exhibition in the Old Street / City Road area: Hyon Gyon 23 January – 31 March 2019 Parasol Unit | 14 Wharf Road | London N1 7RW | parasol-unit.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am-6 pm | Sunday: 12-5 pm Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is delighted to present for the first […]
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement, at South London Gallery
A major show by Haegue Yang in Peckham: Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement 8 March – 26 May 2019 South London Gallery | 65-67 Peckham Rd | London SE5 8UH | www.southlondongallery.org Tue – Fri 11am-6pm | Sat – Sun 10am-6pm. Late opening: Wed + last Fri of the month until 9pm The acclaimed South Korean […]
Pop up ceramics exhibition: 여백, Yeo-baek, Without Words
Following on from their appearance at Collect 2019, the Korea Craft and Design Foundation are holding a pop-up exhibition featuring three of their ceramic artists. Pop up exhibition: 여백, Yeo-baek, Without Words 4 Masons Yard | St James’s | London 6 – 16 March 2019. Open every day, 11 am – 7 pm WE PRESENT and […]
Seven O’Clock The Beginning World Tour in London
Tickets are now available for the London performance in Seven O’Clock’s The Beginning world tour. Seven O’Clock is a six member K-pop boy group under Forest Network. They debuted in 2017 and were contestants on the survival reality show Mix Nine. This is their first world tour. The Garage | 20-22 Highbury Corner | London […]