The first of SOAS’s Friday evening seminars of 2019: Clever Speakers and Flexible Listeners: A Study on Sais-soli in Korean Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Central Lancashire) 18 January 2019, 5:15 – 7:00 pm Venue: Brunei Gallery Room B211 Online registration required Abstract Variation is natural and important part of language. What is fascinating in speech … [Read More]
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Crush European Tour @ Kentish Town Forum
Miss Vogue recently compiled a list of All the Korean Artists You Need To Know Now, which includes DEAN, Zico, Holland … and Crush. You can catch Crush live in London in January: Crush: Europe Tour Hosted by Cult of Ya Sunday, 20 January 2019 from 18:00-23:00 O2 Forum Kentish Town | 9-17 Highgate Road … [Read More]
DAY6 1st world tour ‘Youth’ @ Kentish Town Forum
Day6, the five-member boy band from the JYP stable, make their London debut on 25 January. O2 Forum Kentish Town | 9-17 Highgate Road | London NW5 1JY Friday, 25 January 2019. 17:30 – 22:00 Tickets £85 – £158 | Book tickets [Read More]
Power play – a group exhibition at the KCC and Delfina Foundation
The first major group exhibition, split across two London venues, explores the power dynamics at play in relationships between individuals, institutions and the state. By my reckoning, seven Korean artists have had residencies at Delfina Foundation. Two of them – Young In Hong and Geumhyung Jeong – have already had performances / exhibitions showing their … [Read More]
Hyeyoon Park coffee concert at the Wigmore
Making a welcome return to Wigmore Hall, Korean Hyeyoon Park has established herself as a violinist of outstanding gifts and expressive power. Her programme precedes one of Beethoven’s most challenging works for the instrument with Szymanowski’s subtle and elusive myth-based poems. Hyeyoon Park violin | Sholto Kynoch piano Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937): Myths Op. 30 Ludwig … [Read More]
KCC Special Concert: Joyful Harmonica Ensemble
Joyful Harmonica Ensemble are a group of disabled musicians originally from the Daegu Sungbo School in Korea. This school encourages their students to become more involved in the cultural and arts industries by providing them opportunities to perform at a variety of venues. The nine members of Joyful Harmonica Ensemble play various types of harmonicas, … [Read More]
Sunwook Kim plays the Wigmore Hall
Winner of the 2006 Leeds Piano Competition, the South Korean’s programme has as its lynchpins three major sonatas alongside a world première of a new work by his compatriot Donghoon Shin, the RPS composition prize winner and the awardee of the LSO Panufnik commission. Programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in D K311 Ludwig … [Read More]
Call for Papers: Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Edinburgh, Sept 2019
Deadline for this call for papers is 1 February 2019: Call for Papers Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, 4 – 6 September 2019 We are pleased to announce that the triennial Joint East Asian Studies Conference (JEASC) will be held at the University of Edinburgh from 4 to 6 September 2019. The … [Read More]
Shifting Landscape – the first of the KCC’s film seasons of 2019
The KCC announces its first group of screenings for 2019 – three early movies from the Korean New Wave. It’s nice that they’ve got three screenings in January – a month that has been something of a cultural drought for the KCC in recent years. Shifting Landscape The release of Park Kwang-Su’s 1988 film Chil-su … [Read More]
Meet + Greet w/ beauty YouTuber Joan Kim
Inspire Me Korea is hosting Korean-American Youtuber Joan Kim’s first official London Meet & Greet for customers of Inspire Me Korea. Joan will be sharing all her beauty secrets with you during a Beauty Talk and Q&A, plus a meet & greet – where you’ll get the chance to chat to Joan and of course, … [Read More]
Novus String Quartet coffee concert at the Wigmore
Novus String Quartet play Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky Sunday 16 December 2018 11:30AM Wigmore Hall £16 (Concs £14) includes programme and coffee/sherry/juice | Book tickets This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet is an early work, written in 1827 when he was 18 and shows the impact … [Read More]
Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia: Legislative Patterns of Female Legislators in Korea and Taiwan
Organised by the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies, but of interest to Koreanists: Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia: Legislative Patterns of Female Legislators in Korea and Taiwan 5 December 2018, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm SOAS, Russell Square, College Buildings, Room 4426 Abstract Drawing insights from the literature on the effect of gender on … [Read More]
December events 2018
Finally, it’s calming down a bit, after a truly hectic couple of months, but there’s still plenty going on. Film and TV There’s another chance to catch Lee Chang-dong’s Burning prior to its theatrical release next year: 10 December at Regent Street Cinema The SOAS North Korea Society is hosting a screening of The Jangmadang … [Read More]
Exhibition: Hey Siri, What am I doing?
A brief group show featuring young Korean artists based in London: Hey Siri, What am I doing? Safehouse 2 | 137 Copeland Rd | London SE15 3SN 30th Nov – 2nd Dec (PV Night: 29th Nov 18.00-21.00) Hey Siri, What am I Doing? -Keeping it real? Hey Siri, What are You Doing? -I was just … [Read More]
You come in, I come out: a gay man in the South Korean army
Jeram Yunghun Kang tells his personal and disturbing story of coming out as gay in the South Korean army, and discusses the institutional homophobia that still criminalises gay men in the military today. Jeram is a London based artist who earlier this year produced an art installation and book, ‘You Come In, I Come Out’ … [Read More]
UK BTS fan group seasonal events
Some meet-up events to keep UK ARMY members happy during December. Enjoy! BTS Christmas Party London, 15 & 16 December | Manchester, 29 December Purchase tickets on Eventbrite Happy Holidays ARMY! UKBTSARAMATION & BTSRADIO UK present to you our first annual BTS Christmas meet-up! The events will be occurring at two locations and across different … [Read More]