Pacific Plaza is a new Asian mall by Wembley Stadium, including a supermarket and a Korean food outlet. They’re having a belated celebration of the New Year this Saturday, with all sorts of fun events. The festivities start at 12:30pm and continue till around 6:30. Korean cultural interest is scheduled for 2:15pm, 4pm and 5pm, … [Read More]
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Life as a banana – Korean adoptees speak at Cambridge
LKL reports from last Saturday’s half-day conference at Cambridge: “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue”. What is it like to be yellow on the outside but white on the inside? Adoptees freely joke about the banana analogy. But simply being a white person in a yellow skin is only part … [Read More]
Yulgok Yi I – a learned slouch with a stomach problem
LKL reports from the most recent Friday evening seminar at SOAS, in which Isabelle Sancho examined the letters of Confucian Scholar Yulgok Yi I What should one expect from the letters of one of the best-known Confucian scholars? In some respects, the sort of thing you might expect from any correspondence: pleasantries about health, about … [Read More]
Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Army – talk at the Senate House
The Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar is pleased to present: Global Japan Series: Professor Takashi Fujitani, University of California, San Diego ‘Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Amy: Some Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII’ Thursday 25 February 2010, 5:30-7pm Room G37, South Block, Senate House Building, University of London All welcome. [Read More]
Lifting King Kong at the KCC
News of the next screening at the Cultural Centre, continuing this month’s sporting theme: Lifting King Kong, also known as Bronze Medallist: Film title: Lifting King Kong (Kingkongeul deulda), 2009, 120mins Director: Park Geon-yong Cast: Lee Beom-soo, Joan, Lee Seul-bi, Park Jun-geum Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, The Korean Cultural Centre, Grand Buildings, The Strand, London WC2N … [Read More]
Nothing to Envy: it brought tears to the eyes of a jaded cynic
LKL reports from the book launch of Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy – Real Lives in North Korea It was a well-informed audience attending Barbara Demick’s book launch at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday, many of whom had been to North Korea. As the strains of a Mozart Symphony wafted upstairs from the concert … [Read More]
4482 [SASAPARI] Utopia / Dystopia: A Palace with Contemporary Views
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Now in its third year, 4482 [SASAPARI] is the annual showcase for Korean contemporary artists living and working in London. In 2010, subtitled Utopia/ Dystopia: A Palace with Contemporary Views, it presents the latest work from 53 artists in the cavernous Bargehouse building on the South Bank. In the art world’s continual search for the … [Read More]
Kim Yeon returns to the Albemarle Gallery
One of LKL’s favourite exhibitions of 2009 was Korean Aesthetics at Albemarle Gallery. One of the artists from that exhibition, Kim Yeon, returns to the Albemarle in a group show which also includes work by David Reimondo and four talented graduates from 2009. From the exhibition catalogue: Kim Yeon’s sculptures encourage moments of meditation and … [Read More]
Kimsooja: Talking Art at Tate Modern
News of an artist talk coming up next weekend. Saturday 20 February 2010, 14.00–15.30 Korean born artist Kimsooja is internationally known for her installations, films, photographs and performances. Her interest in fabrics references nomadic life in her trademark Bottari -bundles made of traditional Korean bedspreads, usually used to pack clothes. This sense of wrapping and … [Read More]
Pansori in York
News of a rare Pansori performance on UK shores: Pansori: Heungboga Friday 12 February 2010 at 7.30PM Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Kim Eun Yeong pansori Barrie Webb director Pansori tells traditional folktales in song to a drum accompaniment and is a key part of Korean heritage dating from the 17th century. Heungboga, the story … [Read More]
60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue
News of an interesting half-day seminar in Cambridge: This is an invitation to the seminar “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue” which will take place in Cambridge on Saturday the 20th of February 2010. Ever since the Korean War Armistice in 1953, almost 200,000 Korean children have been adopted to … [Read More]
Barbara Demick talks about her book Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
In her new book Nothing to Envy – Real Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick uncovers the secrets of the world’s most secretive country, through the stories of six North Koreans. Covering illicit love affairs, party loyalty and crippling poverty, the stories are the result of tenacious investigations and interviews in a country not connected … [Read More]
Take Off screens at the KCC
News of next Thursday’s screening at the KCC The 37th Korean Film Night at The Korean Cultural Centre UK Film title: Take Off (Gukgadaepyo), 2009, 137mins Director: Kim Yong Hwa Cast: Ha Jung-Woo Venue: KCC, Multi-purpose Hall Time: Thursday, 11th Feb, 7:00pm In 1996 a small Korean town is undergoing a large-scale construction in preparation … [Read More]
Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club on BBC4
Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to figuring out what this is all about, but BBC Four has a one-hour documentary on Monday 8 February at 10pm. Time Out has selected it as Pick of the Day. Looks like it’s seriously worth a look. Here is Gabriel Tate’s commentary from Time … [Read More]
Sulki Yu with the Thames Philharmonic
The Thames Philharmonic and Sulki Yu at the Landmark in Teddington on Saturday 20 February 2010 at 7:30pm Liszt: Les Preludes Bruch: Scottish Fantasy Op 46 Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C major Op 52 Conductor: Byung-yun Yu Landmark Arts Centre: Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £20 (Family: 2 adults and … [Read More]
Korea’s Ancient Culture and Art, and Modern Economy
An invitation to an informational event at the Korean Cultural Centre on 10 February, from the Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project. We would like to invite you to a series of short films on Korea’s artistic and cultural treasures, and the remarkable economic growth of the past 30 years. The films will cover, amongst … [Read More]