Hallyu Con 2023 – where Korea Meets You: A Month-Long Celebration of Korean Culture in its Vibrant Forms Get ready to immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Korean wave (hallyu) as Hallyu Con 2023 comes back to town! KCCUK is thrilled to announce an extraordinary event in convention-style format, inviting the audience to … [Read More]
Category: Language & Learning (page 16)
Jung Jae-il in Conversation
Award-winning composer Jung Jae-il is has created some of South Korea’s most popular scores. He has worked on titles such as Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Broker, Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game series and collaborated with Bong Joon Ho on Okja and Parasite. At this event, he will talk about the growing appeal of Korea’s cultural output overseas and … [Read More]
Audible Garden: Panel Discussion with the artist
Join us for a discussion on Friday 11 August 2023 at 17:30 at Korean Cultural Centre, 1-3 Strand, London. Discover the inspiration behind the captivating artworks and gain insights into the artist’s creative process. This panel discussion also offers a unique opportunity to delve deeper into the connection between art, philosophy, and technology with two … [Read More]
Sang Young Park, Anton Hur and Simon Lam on Love in the Big City
KCCUK is pleased to announce an in-person talk about the novel Love in the Big City with the author San Young Park and the translator Anton Hur. A fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction, Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that … [Read More]
The Korean War: 70 Years On
Dr Grace Huxford reflects on the events and legacy of the Korean War 70 years since the conflict ended. On 27 July 1953, an armistice agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Korean War (1950-53). However, tensions on the Korean peninsula remained high and the legacies of the conflict continue to this day. In … [Read More]
Love in the Big City – Sang Young Park and Anton Hur in conversation
Libreria is thrilled to welcome a star of Korean fiction, Sang Young Park, and brilliant translator, Anton Hur, as they discuss Love in the Big City – a fresh and unique debut novel, longlisted for the 2022 Internatioal Booker Prize. Love in the Big City is about queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and the … [Read More]
North Korean human rights abuses and security concerns: A parallel challenge
The Centre for Geopolitics and Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge are co-hosting a special talk by Ambassador Shin-wha Lee (ROK Ambassador for International Cooperation on North Korean Human Rights). Talk Summary: The nuclear program and human rights abuses in North Korea are interconnected, yet often treated separately. However, … [Read More]
Veterans of the Korean War – event at National Army Museum
Hear what it was like to serve in Korea from veterans of the conflict as they gather to mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the armistice. The Korean War was one of the ‘hot wars’ of the Cold War era. Although largely forgotten today, its legacy continues to have a huge global impact. … [Read More]
Book talk: William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea – At the Deathbed of Empire, 1896-1904
William Franklin Sands was the highest-ranking foreign adviser in the Korean government in the twilight years of the Choson dynasty. His book, entitled Undiplomatic Memories, first published in 1930 and now nearly a century old, has been the seemingly definitive account of his life and career in Seoul. However, his Papers in the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary outside … [Read More]
Korea Update with the two ambassadors
Two British ambassadors will talk about their work, the UK’s current relations with the two Koreas, and current issues on the Peninsula. Colin Crooks became Ambassador to the Republic of Korea in 2022, having previously served as Ambassador in Pyongyang. He joined the FCO in 1992, and has had other postings to Beijing, Jakarta and … [Read More]
North Korea: Jihyun Park and Lindsey Miller in conversation
Join us with Jihyun Park and Lindsey Miller who have joined forces for this fascinating evening of both gripping and poignant discussion about their own experiences in North Korea and talking about their books The Hard Road Out: One Womans Escape from North Korea and North Korea: Like Nowhere Else. North Korea is an open-air prison from which … [Read More]
2023 IKSU Korean Studies Summer School
The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) launched Korean Studies Summer School in 2021. The IKSU Korean Studies Summer School is free to attend and open to all. This Summer School is funded by the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies, Ministry of Education … [Read More]
Edinburgh Conference: Korean Youth – Spaces, Ecologies and Technologies
Join a wide range of students and scholars for this two-day in-person conference examining the lives and struggles of young people in Korea. This public conference sees researchers and academics coming together to explore the ways in which the lives of Korean young people have been affected by societal changes. Political upheaval, the climate crisis, … [Read More]
Histories of Philosophies in the Peripheries: The Case of Korea
There is still no standard work on the history of Korean philosophy in a Western language. Even in Korea, there is no general consensus on whether premodern intellectual traditions in Korea qualify for a history of philosophy: a well-known situation for us working in global or intercultural philosophy. However, a distinctive Korean interest in philosophical … [Read More]
V+A Hallyu seminar: K-drama and K-pop in focus
Complementing the Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibition, this symposium brings together speakers from fans and scholars to business insiders to delve into the creativity, challenges and models that shaped the success of K-pop and K-drama today. Programme Friday, 2 June 15.30–16.00 Registration and coffee 16.00–16.10 Welcome and opening remarks by Joanna Norman, V&A Museum. 16.10–17.00 … [Read More]
May Literature Night special: book talk with Cheon Myeong-kwan
Cheon Myeong-kwan, author of Whale, is a Korean novelist, screenwriter and director whose work has been translated into eight languages. Set in a remote Korean village, Whale follows three mythical characters with interlinked lives: Geumbok, who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who … [Read More]