Soo Hyun Hwang – Sense of Darkness With their eyes closed throughout the show, the performers in Sense of Darkness draw the audience into a world in which intricate movements and sounds are amplified. Each performer uses the sound created by themselves as signals to coordinate the locations of oneself, the other performers, audience members, … [Read More]
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K-Dance 2022: Art Project Bora ‘MUAK’
Seven performers burst the confines of logic as they dismiss the notion that we watch dance and hear music exclusively. MUAK is a piece inspired by music with the same name by the composer Isang Yun. According to Isang Yun, in Western music, the tunes are made up by the composer. But in Asian music, the … [Read More]
April Korean Literature Night: Shoko’s Smile
Shoko’s Smile A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of Korea’s most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows … [Read More]
KCC April House Concert: Regency String Quartet
The Regency String Quartet Mabelle Young-Eun Park, violin Hermes Jungho Byun, violin Jamie Howe, viola Ellen Baumring-Gledhill, cello Programme Beethoven String Quartet No.4 in C minor, Op. 18 I. Allegro ma non tanto II. Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto III. Menuetto allegretto IV. Allegro Intermission Mendelssohn String Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op. 80 I. Allegro … [Read More]
Modern Korean history documentary double bill at the KCC
Korean Film Nights presents four episodes of the television documentary series Modern Korea 2, produced by the KBS television channel. Each episode uses footage selected from the vast KBS archives to create compilation narratives that look back at the social, political, and cultural themes that have marked Korea’s history over the decades. The footage and … [Read More]
Eric Nam: There & Back Again UK Tour
Global singer-songwriter Eric Nam returns to London for two performances with his all-English sophomore album, There And Back Again. One of the most popular and recognisable celebrities in Asia, Eric Nam is a multi-faceted Korean-American entertainer and TV personality. He also includes Glasgow and Manchester in the tour. [Read More]
Escape from Mogadishu – UK Theatrical Release
Escape from Mogadishu is a nail-biting political thriller based on a true story starring Kim Yoon-seok (The Chaser) and Huh Joon-ho (Netflix’s Kingdom). Rival diplomats from North Korea and South Korea become trapped as civil war rages in Mogadishu, Somalia. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival requires uniting with bitter … [Read More]
KCC House Concert Spring Special
The KCCUK’s House Concert Spring Special is designed to provide you with an island of calm as we look forward to Easter and try to put Covid behind us. A string quartet will play Borodin, bringing you into Spring with calmness and warmth. Painter Sangjig Moon’s artworks will be projected on the screen while the … [Read More]
Gallery visit: Jukhee Kwon in Expanding Horizons
October Gallery has represented Korean artist Jukhee Kwon for almost ten years now, and it was natural that when planning an exhibition in memory of their trustee Pamela Kember they should include work by the Korean artist as she exhibited in Asia House when Kember was director of Arts and Learning there. Somehow, during the … [Read More]
Seminar: Joseon Ryori versus Hansik
National food traditions are an important element of national identity and therefore they can be used as an effective instrument in a state’s cultural politics and the construction of its global image. Since the division of the Korean Peninsula into two independent states in 1948, Korean cuisine has developed in two separate directions. Today, two … [Read More]
Seminar: The Political and Social Role of Confucian Thoughts in Koryŏ Dynasty
How did bureaucrats as intellectuals ruling Koryŏ dynasty (918~1392 C.E.) shape their political thoughts to govern the country and what kinds of thoughts influenced them? This talk will try to find the answer. Koryŏ dynasty located on the Korean peninsula is generally regarded as a Buddhist society. Of course, people of Koryŏ dynasty lived their … [Read More]
Korean Art: Cultivating the Unexpected, at Opera Gallery
Opera Gallery London is delighted to present Korean Art – Cultivating the Unexpected, a group show that brings together five prominent Korean contemporary artists: Cho Sung-Hee, Chun Kwan-Young, Jae Ko, Yoo Bong Sang and Seo Young-Deok. Their artistic approaches to materials and forms speak to nature, culture, traditions and society in unusual ways. Dwelling on … [Read More]
A Distant Place screens at BFI Flare
Jin-Woo lives a deliberately quiet life in rural Korea, working as a shepherd and looking after his young niece Seol. Though Seol is approaching school age, Jin-Woo keeps their contact with the outside world to a minimum, save for the family that employs him. But everything changes when his college boyfriend Hyeon-min and estranged sister … [Read More]
Screening: Lee Man-hee’s The Road to Sampo
Korean Film Nights presents director Lee Man-hee’s final film ‘The Road to Sampo’ (1975). This film was digitally restored in 4K in 2021. The original film used for the restoration was the 35mm original negative film and the 17.5mm sound negative film both of which were collected in 1982. This event will be moderated by … [Read More]
March Korean Literature Night: The Road to Sampo
This March we will read the novel ‘The Road to Sampo’ by Hwang Sok-yong. This month will also feature a special discussion Zoom event, with all participants able to turn on the camera, speak, and discuss the work during the talk. Prof. Jieun Kiaer (Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics, University of Oxford) will … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Drifting Terrain, at the KCC
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) presents Drifting Terrain, an exhibition featuring recent and newly-commissioned works by UK-based artists, Euphrosyne Andrews, Nia Fekri and Seungwon Jung. Both aligning with the UK’s cultural initiatives and celebrating Lewisham’s designation as the 2022 London Borough of Culture, the KCCUK has developed this exhibition in collaboration with Lewisham Arthouse, … [Read More]