Don’t miss a rare chance to learn and experience the fun you can have playing samulnori percussion. Over the past few years Korean percussion group Dulsori have had a regular slot in the SOAS music summer school teaching percussion for a week. This year they’ve gone independent, and will be giving weekly classes over an … [Read More]
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Ku Hyeyoung’s black-clad performances
At the opening of the Crossfields exhibition last week at the KCC Ku Hyeyoung treated us to a preview of a performance she is doing with Kora Terao next week at Goldsmiths. Dressed in a dramatic black creation she stood under a muslin-covered chandelier like an animated statue, declaiming, miming, performing to the music of … [Read More]
The Crossfields fashion designs
Glad that they’ve got some of the fashion on display at the KCC Crossfields show. It was too crowded to appreciate them at the opening. # [Read More]
Taekwondo, Technology, Kimchi & more
In the second Global Korea lecture of 2009, Ramy Salameh from the Korea Tourism Organisation examines what Korea has to offer as a holiday destination: Taekwondo, Technology, Kimchi & more: A touristic overview of South Korea Tuesday 25 August 2009 at 6:30pm Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Culture shock, modern, unique, dynamic, sparkling, friendly, technological, ancient! … [Read More]
August events 2009
Here are the events for August that I know about: Featured event The big Korean Festival takes place at the Fairfield Recreation Ground in Kingston, 15 Aug. After a break last year, the festival is back Exhibitions Cha Jeongrye participates in a group show at Albemarle until 5 September Kim Ayoung’s solo show at I-MYU … [Read More]
Kingston Korean Festival 2009: 15 August
After a break in 2008, the Kingston Korean Festival is back this year on 15 August, timed to coincide with the liberation of Korea from Japan in 1945. As usual, the event is at the Fairfield Recreation Ground in Kingston, and there will be lots of food stalls. Here’s the provisional running order, though as … [Read More]
Kim Ayoung: Ephemera at I-MYU
Notice of I-MYU’s current show, featuring one of LKL’s favourite photographer-artists: Ayoung Kim: Ephemera 24 July – 15 August 2009 Returning to the Scene of the Crime Review by Lucy Soutter (2008) Weegee was the first photographic ambulance chaser, the first to get his hands on a police radio and follow its calls through the … [Read More]
Crossfields – Korean Artists and Designers at the KCC
A notice of the next exhibition at the KCC, commencing 30 July: The Korean Cultural Centre UK is proud to launch that the forthcoming exhibition ‘Crossfields’, an exhibition of 23 artists based in London. The exhibition will take place between 30 July and 12 September 2009. Crossfields brings together a broad range of artists from … [Read More]
Kick the Moon screens at the KCC
This Thursday’s screening is Kick the Moon by Attack the Gas Station director Kim Sang-jin. Here are the details from the KCC website: Kick the Moon (신라의달밤) Director : Kim Sang-jin (2001, 114 mns) Venue : Multi-purpose Hall, KCC Time : 23rd July 2009, 7:00pm Synopsis Two old classmates reunite in a fight to the … [Read More]
Entry Forms, round 2
The Korean Cultural Centre is doing a repeat performance of last year’s “Entry Forms” show, in which Korean artists based in the UK are invited to submit work for an independently curated exhibition. Entries are due by the end of August. Call For Artists And Designers The Korean Cultural Centre UK and British Council are … [Read More]
Seahyun Lee at Harewood House
Having exhibited in London and Portsmouth, Sea Hyun Lee is now on his way up to Leeds for an 8-week show at historical Harewood House. Details below. Sea Hyun Lee: Between Red Terrace Gallery 18 July-13 September These epic paintings, rendered in washes of red, appear deceptively simple at first glance and resemble traditional Korean … [Read More]
Qi Masters in Broadgate Circle and the Scoop
Details of two upcoming outdoor events in the City, sponsored by the Innersound Foundation Sunday 19th July 2009 – 1:00pm-2:00pm at “The Scoop” Riverside – Near Tower Bridge Monday 20th July 2009 – 12:30pm & 5.45pm at The Broadgate Circle – Nearest Tube: Liverpool St AN ANCIENT ENERGY DANCE Qi Masters from South Korea are … [Read More]
A celebration of food, fashion and music
Outside the Banqueting House, two Choson dynasty guards in colourful robes stood to attention to welcome the hundreds of guests. Inside, Han Style and Korean hospitality was waiting. It was in this prestigious venue that the Embassy and Cultural Centre had chosen to launch the Korean food offensive in the UK, in an evening entitled … [Read More]
An exhibition of Gangjin Celadon at the KCC
News of an upcoming ceramics exhibition at the KCC: 2009 European Road Show Exhibition of Gangjin Celadon Porcelain 14 July ~ 23 July 2009 The Korean Cultural Centre proudly announces the upcoming exhibition of Gangjin Craft Exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK. Once beautifully crafted, the clay is fired and glazed, a simple process … [Read More]
Park Jae-eun’s Arirang: UK Premiere
An unexpected event at the Cadogan Hall tomorrow night, Friday 10 July. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Korean conductor Lee Young-chil, will perform Park Jae-eun’s Arirang – “a lovers’ song of separation and longing”. The main items in the programme are Tchaikovsky’s fiddle concerto and fifth symphony. Unfortunately the Cadogan Hall website … [Read More]
Sesame and Saatchi – two contemporary Korean art exhibitions
The first hanging of the Moon Generation exhibition, for all the fanfares which went with it, was disappointing. Single works by different artists can work in a room together – Christie’s showed us how with their recent photography sale – but the Moon Generation curator’s first shot at doing so failed. In part, this was … [Read More]