“I compromised the LSE and my tour guides, and all I could produce was a lousy tourist video,” would be a suitable slogan for the T-shirt of tonight’s BBC Panorama programme. OK, so they also interviewed BR Myers, John Everard and a defector or two, but really it was not worth all the hype and … [Read More]
Category: Events (page 228)
Jeong Yun-kyung in Facing Surfaces at Bosse & Baum
Jeong Yun-kyung is an artist whose work grows on you. At least, it’s been growing on me for the past few years, which is why I’m looking forward to her upcoming show near Sloane Square. Facing Surfaces Exhibition open 25th April – 17th May 2013 7-9 Tryon Street, London, SW3 3LG Bosse & Baum is … [Read More]
The Woman, The Gaze, The World: Hanmi Gallery’s 22nd interim exhibition
Hanmi Gallery’s 22nd interim exhibition includes Korean photographer Seulki Ki. Note the two discussion events on 30 April and 2 May which accompany the exhibition. The Woman The Gaze The World Exhibition opens 23 April – 5 May 2013, Tuesday – Sunday 12 – 7pm PV: Wednesday 24 April 2013, 6pm – 9pm RSVP: [email protected] Hanmi Gallery … [Read More]
Shin Meekyoung at Couriers of Taste, Danson House
Bexleyheath seems to be the place right now to view interesting art in a pleasing country house setting. Just down the road in the DA5 postcode is Lee Hyung-koo at Hall Place and Gardens. And in Danson House DA6, which the Bexley Heritage Trust describes as “a beautifully restored Georgian villa where sumptuous interiors tell … [Read More]
View 2NE1’s New Evolution tour on the big screen in Wimbledon
If you can’t get to see 2NE1 live, the next best thing is to see them on the big screen with like-minded people. Hallyu UK and the UK YG Queens have combined to take over the Curzon in Wimbledon this coming Bank Holiday Monday, 6 May, 4pm-6pm. Book tickets via either of their sites linked … [Read More]
Jeong Woojae and Ko Am: Shine Artists at Albemarle Gallery
Now that HADA Contemporary has found its own space in Bethnall Green, it’s good that Albemarle continues to offer space to other collaborators with Korean connections. SHINE ARTISTS 19 April – 11 May 2013 49 Albemarle Street London W1S 4JR www.shineartists.com www.albemarlegallery.com Jeong Woojae Jeong Woojae was born in Korea in 1983. He has a … [Read More]
Engage Korea conference at Oxford: How can the international community effectively engage North Korea?
How do you engage with a country that says it can’t guarantee the safety of diplomatic staff in its own capital, and warns foreigners in its southern neighbour to go home? Is aggressive enough to threaten to reduce its opponents to a sea of fire, yet sensitive enough to complain that its dignity has been … [Read More]
Print exhibition news: Breeze, at Mokspace
We loved Hyun Jeung’s woodblock prints when they were shown at Mokspace last year. So we’ll be sure to pop in to Mokspace to see them again, now in a group show. Breeze Hyun Jeung, Katsutoshi Yuasa, Phil Greenwood Group Print Exhibition Opening Reception: Tuesday 9th April 2013, 6.30 – 8.30pm Exhibition: 9th April – … [Read More]
I can’t believe he asked her that
The context was this. It was the Q&A after the 4 April screening at BAFTA of Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha, attended by the lead actress Moon So-ri, the first featured actor of the KCC’s Year of the Four Actors. Tony Rayns was talking to Moon So-ri about how she got her first screen role. Moon started … [Read More]
Hyungkoo Lee at Bexley Heritage Trust: BEASTLY HALL – A place where artists and creatures collide
Hyungkoo Lee at Bexley Heritage Trust BEASTLY HALL – A place where artists and creatures collide 28 March – 1 September 2013 Celebrate 60 years of our historic Queen’s Beasts topiaries by escaping into a world of fantastical creatures. Meet a carnival of unlikely monsters and unnatural beings in the new exhibition, Beastly Hall. Featuring … [Read More]
Gwon Osang: Postmodern Times — at HADA Contemporary
This is probably April’s (and maybe May’s) exhibition of the month: a mini-retrospective of Gwon Osang’s work. Gwon is a fairly regular artist in the London gallery scene – his work has been shown in London since 2006 and maybe earlier. Perhaps the most high-profile showing was at Korean Eye 2010 in the Saatchi Gallery. … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Hur Shan — new, playful, and portable revelations at Gazelli Art House
“You said my work wasn’t very portable,” smiled Hur Shan as we chatted at the opening evening of his two man show at Gazelli Art House. “Well, take a look!” It was true. I had said precisely that in my notice of the current exhibition, The Tainted, at Gazelli Art House in Dover Street. In … [Read More]
Meet the Authors – Korean Literature event at the KCC
To tie in with a couple of Korea-related events at the London Book Fair, the KCC is hosting an event with two Korean authors on 15 April, chaired by SOAS’s Grace Koh. Choe Yun will be known to many LKL readers as the author of There a Petal Silently Falls – the first book set … [Read More]
Couleur de peau: Miel, aka Approved for Adoption, screens at Leeds Young Film Fest
If it wasn’t for the fact that London has a date with Moon So-ri this Thursday, I’d be leaving work early, getting on a train to Leeds and sitting down to watch this film. I do hope it comes to London at some stage. It’s the animated autobiography of a Korean adoptee in Belgium. Korean … [Read More]
Captain Kang screens at CinemAsia
Back in 2011, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam gave us the wonderful Planet of Snail. This month, another Amsterdam film festival, CinemAsia, will be screening a new Korean documentary – Captain Kang, which premiered at Busan 2012. Captain Kang (강선장) Director: Won Ho-yeon (원호연) South Korea, 2012, HDcam, 75′ Sunday 7 April, 13.20 This … [Read More]
April events 2013
The event of the month, and possibly the event of the year (hope I’m not speaking too soon), is Korea Rocks (see under Music listings below). But there are some pretty good exhibitions this month as well. And then Moon So-ri is in town too. Oh, and there’s the London Book Fair too. Let me … [Read More]