The first of four public seminars at SOAS this month features taegŭm player Hyelim Kim: Actualising Musical Tradition: Performance-as-Research on the Korean flute, taegŭm Dr Hyelim Kim (SOAS, University of London) Date: 6 February 2015, 5:15 – 7:00 PM Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: B102 The taegŭm, a horizontal bamboo flute, is considered one of the … [Read More]
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LSE lecture: Is the multicultural state a doomed project in South Korea?
The cynics will say that multiculturalism in South Korea consists of teaching foreigners how to make kimchi. The upcoming talk at SOAS will examine the matter in a bit more depth. Constructing the Multicultural States in South Korea & Japan: Chimera or Reality LSESU Korean Society Annual Lecture Series 31 January 2015, 14:00–16:00 Room 7.02, … [Read More]
Dance Beyond Borders: a seminar to follow the performance at Trinity Laban
Next Wednesday the dance company from the Korea National University of the Arts are performing a triple bill at the Trinity Laban Theatre. Global Korean Wave Symposium: Dance Beyond Borders The performance will be followed by a symposium, Dance Beyond Borders, hosted by KCCUK and chaired by Mirella Bartrip, Director of Dance at Trinity Laban … [Read More]
Spring + Summer 2015 seminars at SOAS
Timetable: 16/01/15 Pop Nostalgia, Pop Canonization and Korean Music Reality Shows Dr Haekyung Um (University of Liverpool) 23/01/15 North Korea Faces the World: A Story of Nuclear Weapons, Economic Reform, and Normalization Dr Ramon Pachero Pardo (King’s College London) 30/01/15 Rhee Syngman in the first decade of the twentieth-century Justin Youngchan Choi (SOAS, University of … [Read More]
North Korea Freedom Week – programme of events
Attached is a full programme of events for North Korea Freedom Week. Here is an introduction to the week, from Kim Joo-il: North Korea Freedom Week in Europe 2014 8-14 December On 18 November, the UN General Assembly Third Committee passed a resolution condemning North Korea for its systematic and widespread human rights violations. The … [Read More]
Book review: The Birth of Korean Cool
Euny Hong: The Birth of Korean Cool How one nation is conquering the world through pop culture Simon & Schuster UK, 2014, 267pp Euny Hong’s first non-fiction book (we loved her novel) is in turn infuriating, entertaining and informative. Let’s get the infuriating bits done with first. In her approach to Romanization she is cavalier, … [Read More]
Discover Korea: How much do you know about Korea?
Yes, I know you’re all focused on the Film Festival right now, but here are some interesting things for your diary later this month. Note that RSVPs to these talks are to the Embassy, not the KCC. Discover Korea: How much do you know about South Korea? Four talks on Korean Culture | Economy | … [Read More]
North Korean Memoirs with Yeonmi Park and Jihyun Park
If you missed out on the event in Parliament earlier this week (KBS report here), there’s a repeat in a slightly bigger venue on Monday. North Korean Memoirs with Yeonmi Park and Jihyun Park Monday 3rd November 2014, 2pm – 4pm St Anne’s Church London W1D 6AF. Due to the high demand, we are delighted … [Read More]
Controversy in Korean Literature: Hailji on Road to the Racetrack
What a great way to warm up for the London Korean Film Festival. Artist Talk: Think !n Literature Film Screening & Talk: Controversy in Korean Literature Wednesday 5 November │ 18:30-23:00 │ Korean Cultural Centre UK │ Speaker: Hailji, Author The Road to Racetrack RSVP to KCCUK on 0207 004 2600 or [email protected] We cordially … [Read More]
LKL’s latest must-see film of the LKFF 2014: The Road Called Life
It’s taking a while to go through the LKFF 2014 programme to prioritise those films which I simply *have* to go to see. So thanks to Frances Yoo from Studio Meditation with a Pencil for alerting me to the title that instantly has gone from “when I get round to it, I’ll look to see … [Read More]
Mother Green Tree Frog and Her Children, at Gresham College
Gresham College hosts a free lunchtime talk, which they file under “Very Unusual”: Mother Green Tree Frog and Her Children Thursday, 13 November 2014 – 1:00pm Barnard’s Inn Hall | Holborn | London EC1N 2HH | www.gresham.ac.uk Speaker: James Grayson Overview Through an examination of selected Korean folktales, the lecture will illustrate how traditional society … [Read More]
BAKS Conference 2014 – full programme announced
The programme for this year’s BAKS conference has been released. Book details are at the bottom of this post. British Association for Korean Studies Conference 2014 Korean Identities in a Global Age University of Sheffield, Halifax Hall, The Endcliffe Village, Endcliffe Vale Road, Sheffield S10 3ER 21–23 November 2014 Schedule Friday (21 November 2014) Arrival … [Read More]
Ambassador Lim on security challenges in NE Asia
Notice of the upcoming Korean Studies evening seminar at SOAS: Security Challenges in Northeast Asia HE Ambassador Sungnam Lim 31 October 2014, 5:15 – 7:00 pm Brunei Gallery Room B102 With an introduction by Professor Paul Webley, Director of SOAS, University of London, and chaired by Dr Tat Yan Kong (SOAS, University of London). [Read More]
Korea’s Economy in Transition – a report from the recent evening at Asia House
Sometimes, when you go along to an evening talk, you are looking forward to the networking rather than the substance of what the speakers will be saying. Perhaps you think you won’t learn much, and you’re going along out of a vague sense of duty, because other people will expect you to be there. Well, … [Read More]
South Korea: An Economic Powerhouse in Transition, at Asia House
News of an upcoming talk at Asia House: South Korea: An Economic Powerhouse in Transition 21 October 2014, 18:00 – 20:30 Asia House is delighted to invite you to join us for a stimulating discussion on the economic and foreign relations between the EU/UK and South Korea. The format will be a seated conference followed … [Read More]
Two simultaneous talks on North Korea in Oxford and London, 14 October
Rather last-minute notice of a talk on sources on contemporary North Korea. Note that the seminar is in SOAS’s Vernon Square campus. How do we know what we think we know about North Korea? The use of records from the archives of Pyongyang’s former communist allies to challenge the received wisdom. Date: 14 October 2014, … [Read More]