As part of the KCC’s participation in London Fashion Week events, four of the designers exhibiting in the K-Fashion Odyssey are doing a talk at 4pm this Friday. As usual, pre-registration is required. K-Fashion Odyssey: Artist Talk Party The Korean Cultural Centre UK cordially invites you to the Artist Talk Party of K-Fashion Odyssey. Friday … [Read More]
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Korean interest at the Asia House Pan-Asia Film Festival
The Asia House Pan Asia Film Festival launches on 26 February. In its sixth year, it has an exciting line-up which includes 7 UK premieres. While a cursory look at the schedule reveals little of Korean interest, scratch the surface and you will see more. The opening gala, a Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, … [Read More]
Heeseon Byun: Shorthand, At Mokspace
The first exhibition of the New Year at Mokspace opens on 13 February: Heeseon Byun: Shorthand 13th February – 1st March 2014 Opening night: Thursday 13th February 2014, 6.30 – 8pm M O K S P A C E | 33 MUSEUM STREET | LONDON | WC1A 1LH | www.mokspace.com Tuesday – Saturday : 11 … [Read More]
DJ Masa Live in London
There have been K-pop nights in London before, but not one that has created this amount of buzz… DJ Masa Live in London Get ready for the biggest K-pop club night London has seen yet – DJ Masa, the most famous international K-pop DJ is coming to perform LIVE in London for his last international … [Read More]
Korean Designers at London Fashion Week 2014
The first scheduled event of London Fashion Week this year is a catwalk show featuring the Autumn / Winter 2014 collection of Jackie Lee (J. JS Lee), at 9am on 14 February. DESIGNER NAME: Jackie Lee BACKGROUND: Born in Seoul, Korea, Lee spent five years working as a Senior Pattern Cutter in Seoul and two … [Read More]
KCC launches its Korean Literature Night series
You’ve all read Please Look After Mother by now. What did you think of what is probably the most successful piece of translated Korean fiction ever? If you haven’t read it already, the KCC is granting an amnesty, giving you the opportunity to read it and then discuss it with like-minded people afterwards. It’s part … [Read More]
Free gayageum and minhwa classes at the KCC
Continuing its aim to present the broadest aspects of Korean culture in the UK, the KCC is offering another season of gayageum and minhwa classes – for free. Apply by 15 Feb. The Korean Cultural Centre UK is now taking applications for our free 10 week painting course, Minhwa: Folk Painting Class and our 12 … [Read More]
Escape from North Korea – Panel discussion at LSE
Another North Korea refugee related event this Wednesday at the LSE. This is a public event, but please signify your attendance on the event’s Facebook page or by emailing R.Faruq at lse.ac.uk so that they can register your name for security purposes. At time of writing there are 120+ attendees, so I hope they’ve got … [Read More]
BBC Panorama on Pyongyang University of Science & Technology
Tonight’s BBC documentary on PUST is already generating column inches. The Independent calls the university, which is backed by South Korean and US charities, a “Trojan Horse”, though some regard such language as unhelpful. A long trailer article for the programme is now up on the BBC website. After its 8:30pm screening tonight it will … [Read More]
Kim Ha-young at 43 Inverness Street
The first new show of the new year at 43 Inverness Street features new work by Kim Ha-young. HaYoung Kim 21 FEBRUARY – 22 MARCH 2014 PV: 20 February 6 -9 pm 43 Inverness Street, London, NW1 7HB OPENING HOURS: FRI AND SAT 12-6PM OR BY APPOINTMENT “These works are to be seen as the … [Read More]
Bada Song: Ta-iL, at the Agency Gallery
News of an exhibition by Bada Song at the Agency Gallery this month: Bada Song: Ta-iL the Agency Gallery, 66 Evelyn Street London SE8 5DD, www.theagencygallery.co.uk 25th Jan 2014 – 1st March 2014 Preview 24th January, 6-9pm Wed-Sat 10.30am – 6pm Last Fridays of the Month 10.30am – 8pm The Agency is pleased to present … [Read More]
Je Baak & Ahn Jinkyun at HADA Contemporary
Notice of HADA Contemporary’s next exhibition: Je Baak & Ahn Jinkyun 6 – 23 FEBRUARY 2014 OPENING – THURSDAY | 6 FEBRUARY 2014 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM HADA Contemporary | 21 Vyner Street | London | E2 9DG | www.hadacontemporary.com Wed – Fri 11am – 6pm | Sat – Sun 11am – 4pm HADA … [Read More]
2014 Korean Literature Nights
Here are the Korean Literature discussion nights that the KCC has lined up for 2014: Wed 26 Feb Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung-sook Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving … [Read More]
February events 2014
London Fashion Week The KCC’s first new show of the new year is the K-Fashion Odyssey – it forms part of the International Fashion Showcase 2014 linked to London Fashion Week. London Fashion Week itself opens on 14 February with catwalk shows from J JS Lee and Eudon Choi. The work of Rejina Pyo will also … [Read More]
Screen writer Park Hoon-jung the first focus of the KCC’s 2014 film programme
Having focused on actors and directors in their screenings in the last two years, the KCC this year shifts to looking at other members of the production team – music directors, cinematographers, production designers and the like. Appropriately, in the run-up to the London Book Fair in April, the first profession to get the spotlight … [Read More]
Kim Suhee’s Ribbon of Error at the RCA
At the various group shows put on at the art colleges you can usually count on encountering more Korean artists than you were expecting, and the interim exhibition at the Royal College of Arts this weekend was no exception. I had gone along to see a performance of Kim Suhee’s work Ribbon of Error, and … [Read More]