Monthly events lists

The best of wishes for the new lunar year. Like January, February is currently looking to be pretty quiet. But keep checking our Facebook group or sign up for email updates in the sidebar of LKL’s front page – we only find out about some things pretty late in the day and those events don’t … [Read More]

Happy New Year – and congratulations to Jim Hoare, awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours list for “services to UK interests in the Korean Peninsula”. As is often the case January is a fairly slow month for events: Exhibitions Closing imminently are: Haegue Yang’s Leap Year, at the Hayward Gallery (till 5 Jan) … [Read More]

The need for difficult decisions continues into November, with music, film, literature and artistic events simultaneously calling for our attention. LKL’s pick of the upcoming month has to be Lee Heemoon at the Purcell Room, closing this year’s K-music Festival. Regretfully, we’re going to have to pass on Geumhyung Jeong’s performance at the ICA (we … [Read More]

We’re now getting in to peak event season – and in fact this is the longest monthly list I can remember. Frieze is at the beginning of the month, Asian Art in London at the end; and there’s plenty of exhibitions outside of those two art fairs in between to launch the autumn season. Meanwhile, … [Read More]

As Chuseok approaches, the cultural calendar starts to get busy again after the summer lull. Highlights this month are the return of the Ambiguous Dance Company to perform a site-specific piece at the Coronet Theatre, and the Dynamic Duo who celebrate 20 years in the business by making their first London appearance. Plus, if you … [Read More]

Normally at this time of year Korean events in London take a bit of a break and the focus switches to Edinburgh for the Fringe. And yes, there’s plenty to justify a trip to Edinburgh if you can find affordable accommodation, not least the retrospective of Do Ho Suh’s work at NGS Modern One, which … [Read More]

July is another relatively busy month with plenty to satisfy most tastes. So far, my personal priorities are the KCC’s exhibition featuring works by members of the Korean National Academy of Arts, the discussion-concert by the “Godfather of K-pop” in Oxford, and I might be tempted to re-watch the psychological thriller Sleep when it comes … [Read More]

A busy month, the highlight probably being IU’s performance at Wembley Arena. Glastonbury ticketholders will also be able to see Seventeen on the main Pyramid stage. For those who follow hallyu stars from an earlier generation, you can meet former FinKL member Ok Joo-hyun who is in town to mark the London production of the … [Read More]

May is getting very busy, making up for the slow three months we’ve had since the end of January. Highlights include the Festival of Korean Dance, Min Jin Lee in Cambridge, a return visit by Jaha Koo with his historically-aware talking rice cookers, and London Craft Week. Live performance Jambinai play Dingwalls, Camden, on 15 … [Read More]

Here’s the list for April. Plenty on offer for music fans; for others the main interest is outside of London, and in the new books coming out this month. Exhibitions In Manchester, Jane Jin Kaisen’s Halmang is at esea contemporary until 21 April. In Bristol, Young In Hong’s Five Acts is at Spike Island all … [Read More]

Here are the main events for March. Despite the respectable length of the list, I can’t help feeling that since January, which felt crazily busy, we’ve been in a slight holding pattern: pre-pandemic we’d got used to a relatively frequent schedule of events at SOAS and the KCC, but things haven’t yet got back into … [Read More]

Here’s what we know of so far for this month, though experience tells us that more events will spring up without much prior notice… Live performance Kim’s Convenience continues until 10 Feb. They’ve squeezed in an additional performance on 9 Feb due to popular demand, but it’s now returns only. LKL review here Dancer / … [Read More]

Happy New Year. And it’s a busier start to the year than usual with no fewer than six live K-pop / hip-hop events. But before I get to the list, here’s a rehearsal for the New Year’s Eve drone show at Gwangalli Beach, Busan. Pretty impressive, though apparently there was a glitch that postponed the … [Read More]

The film and music festivals are ended, the State Visit over, and commiserations are due to Busan for missing out on the 2030 World Expo. December, thankfully, is less hectic than the last couple of months, with not much happening (as far as we know) apart from the following: Exhibitions Han Collection has a lovely … [Read More]

The customary autumnal calendar carnage continues, with the overpacked screening schedules of the film festivals clashing with music and food events, the challenges exacerbated this year by events marking 140 years of diplomatic relations bunching together in the run-up to the State Visit. I wonder if kimchi will feature on the menu of any of … [Read More]