Another interesting event organised by the SOAS Korean Social and Environmental Justice Society: Digital Sexual Violence in South Korea Monday 24 June 2019, 18:30-20:30 Room S312, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom (enter via north door on SOAS campus) Spy cams in hotel rooms and public toilets, revenge porn, date rape […]
Category: Language & Learning
Korean Speech Contest 2019 at the KCC
The annual speech contest is open for applications until 16 June: Korean Speech Contest 2019 Saturday 22 June 2019, 2pm @KCCUK Apply by midnight, 16 June 2019. Visit the KCC website for further details
Call for Papers – BTS: A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project
The call for papers has been issued for the long-planned conference on BTS: Call for Papers – BTS: A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project Kingston University, January 4-5, 2020 Korean boy group BTS are the first ever Korean act to perform at Wembley Stadium as part of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. Debuting in 2013 under […]
BKS / Chatham House event: The Korean Peninsula – A Diplomatic Outlook
An event for British Korean Society members: join now. The Korean Peninsula – A Diplomatic Outlook Thursday 13 June 2019, 5.30 pm to 6.30pm Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London SW1Y 4LE Members of the BKS are warmly invited to the annual briefing given by the British Ambassadors to Seoul and Pyongyang, […]
K-Drama + Korean television symposium @UCLAN
Hosted by the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Wednesday 5th June 2019 (check-in and drama-screening Tuesday 4th June from 5 pm) Registration required on Eventbrite More details on UCLAN website. The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK, is delighted to host a the K-Drama and Korean TV Symposium, which is devoted to scholarship on […]
Korean Screen Cultures Conference @UCLAN
Hosted by the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Thursday 6th June to Friday 7th June 2019 (Check-in and film screening from 5 pm Wednesday June 5th) Registration required on Eventbrite. More details on UCLAN website. Pre-conference K-Drama symposium: Wednesday 5th June 2019 (check-in and drama-screening Tuesday 4th June from 5 pm) The University of […]
SOAS seminar: North Korea and Socialist Czechoslovakia
The second SOAS seminar of June: North Korea and Socialist Czechoslovakia from the World War II to Sino-Soviet Split Amb. Jaroslav Olša, jr. Friday 14 June 2019, 5:15 – 7:00 PM Venue: SOAS Brunei Gallery Room: B204 | Register on the SOAS website Abstract The seminar focuses on the decade of the most intensive cooperation […]
SOAS seminar: The Video Game Industry in South Korea
The summer season of evening seminars at SOAS starts up again on 7 June: The Video Game Industry in South Korea: Between National Destiny and Counterculture Dr Chloé Paberz (CKS Visiting Scholar) Friday 7 June 2019, 5:15 – 7:00 PM SOAS, Brunei Gallery Room B103 | Register via SOAS website Abstract South Korea’s image of modernity is closely […]
A Celebration and Book Launch: Korean Treasures in the University of Oxford
The second book launch in Oxford in the space of less than a month. A Celebration and Book Launch: Korean Treasures in the Bodleian Libraries and the Museums of the University of Oxford Thursday, 6 June 2019 – 2:15pm Weston Library (formerly the New Bodleian) | Broad Street | Oxford OX1 3BG In the presence […]
KCC workshop: Dreams and Dreaming – their place in our lives
After the successful event at the Wellcome Collection in April, this is a second opportunity to join a discussion about dreams, contribute a memorable dream and have it featured in Bongsu Park’s DREAM AUCTION | DREAM RITUAL project. Dreams and Dreaming- their place in our lives Friday 31 May, 3:00– 4:00 PM @KCCUK To reserve […]
2019 Quiz on Korea at the KCC
Your Korean needs to be seriously good, as does your general knowledge on Korea, to take on the international finalists. Take a look at last year’s televised final in Korea. Still, you get to meet Lee Teuk. If you think you’re good enough, or if you just want a bit of fun in the UK […]
[Cambridge] Ra Jong-yil Lecture – Professor Carter Eckert
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This year’s Ra Jong-yil Lecture at Cambridge will be given by Professor Carter Eckert from Harvard University: The US in the Making of South Korean Militarism (1945-1961). The Shasha Suite | Westminster College | Madingley Road | Cambridge Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 – 17:00 to 19:00 Militarism has been deeply intertwined with Korean history and […]
Ex-periphery: South Korea in the Post-miracle Era
A talk at St Antony’s College Oxford this month: Ex-periphery: South Korea in the Post-miracle Era Monday, 13 May 2019, 5:30pm Venue: Fellows’ Dining Room, St Antony’s College Speaker: Irina Lyan (Oxford) Convenor: Rosemary Foot In this talk I propose to draw attention to the often neglected category of ex-peripheries—former developing economies which are still […]
Discussion: Denuclearising the Korean Peninsula
Denuclearising the Korean Peninsula: a public meeting with Francis Daehoon Lee, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, South Korea; Glyn Ford, former MEP and author of ‘Talking to North Korea’; and Carol Turner, CND. People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy is a South Korean NGO with consultative status at ECOSOC, the UN Economic and Social Council. It […]
SOAS seminar: The Re-Organization of the Rural Economy in Modern Korea
The first, and possibly only, seminar of the new term: Empire by Association: The Re-Organization of the Rural Economy in Modern Korea, 1870-1945 Dr Holly Stephens (University of Edinburgh) Friday 26 April 2019, 5:15 – 7:00pm SOAS Brunei Gallery Room B104 | Registration required via SOAS website Abstract The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were a […]
LKL chats with Tiffany Kwok, organiser of the Easter K-pop party at Scala
LKL doesn’t generally post articles about the plethora of all-night K-pop parties that seem to be a regular feature of the London calendar nowadays – and increasingly in other cities too. Why? Well, it’s partly because there are so many of them (we have limited writing hours in the evening and limited storage space at […]
Chatham House Korean Peninsula Peace Forum
A one-day conference at Chatham House to examine the state of play on the Korean peninsula following February’s summit in Hanoi. Update: the conference is now fully subscribed. Korean Peninsula Peace Forum: Prospects for Lasting Peace on the Korean Peninsula Friday 12 April 2019 Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London SW1Y 4LE […]