Singer-songwriter and The Rose vocalist Woosung has announced the “B4 WE DIE Tour”, an 11-date headlining world tour kicking off next month. The 11-date run kicks off on October 17th in Bangkok, Thailand, and is set to hit cities across Asia, Oceania, Europe, and North America including Los Angeles and New York. Woosung is a … [Read More]
Event Notices
Details of individual events. As with all archives, these posts are filed in order of publication, rather than in order of the events themselves.
Korean artists at FOCUS Art Fair 2024
FOCUS Art Fair, founded in 2017 under the direction of Sungmin Hong and Jungwon Lee, is an international art fair offering a platform for diverse and rising artists to bring their unique visions to life. Since its inception, FOCUS has hosted over 45 overseas exhibitions, spotlighting the voices of well-known names, top galleries, and young … [Read More]
Makgeolli Brewing Workshops at The Hoxton Shoreditch
Join Julia Mellor of The Sool Company in The Apartment at The Hoxton Shoreditch for a unique experience to discover Korean traditional alcohol known as ‘Sool’. Learn how to make makgeolli, taste artisanal Korean rice wines, enjoy an exclusive cocktail, and take home your own batch of brew to ferment at home! At the 3pm … [Read More]
The Comfort Woman, at King’s Head Theatre
In a moving one-woman performance, experience the powerful story of Minja, a young girl from a remote South Korean village whose life is shattered by World War II. The play follows Minja’s journey from childhood to her innocence being cruelly stripped away when she is deceived and abducted by the Japanese Army, thrust into a … [Read More]
2024 Korea Kimchi Festival at Samsung KX
Celebrating culture, flavour and tradition, the 2024 Korea Kimchi Festival is a global celebration of Korea’s main culinary dish, diving into the heart of Korean Culture. This year’s festival will take place from September 26th to November 23rd, traveling to Los Angeles (USA), London (UK), Sydney (Australia), and New Delhi (India). It is an event … [Read More]
Seong-Jin Cho Plays Ravel and Liszt in late-night Prom
Sir András Schiff, the advertised pianist for this evening’s recital, has had to withdraw owing to a broken leg. The BBC Proms is grateful to Seong-Jin Cho for appearing at short notice. Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who dazzled Proms audiences earlier this season with Mozart’s ‘Jeunehomme’ Piano concerto, gives a recital of solo piano works … [Read More]
London Korean Film Festival 2024
Ranging from new releases to independents to special strands, the London Korean Film Festival is the largest Korean film festival outside of Korea. To complement the BFI’s Echoes in Time season, the festival will present two strands of films at BFI Southbank – Women’s Voices, showcasing 15 years of Korean female directors, and Cinema Now, … [Read More]
BFI Film Season: Echoes in Time — Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema
The BFI Southbank programme for late October and November 2024 begins with Echoes in Time: Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema, a major new season running from 28 October to 31 December. Programmed by Young Jin Eric Choi and Goran Topalovic, Echoes in Time will focus on two groundbreaking periods in the … [Read More]
Foyles Korean Culture Month: An Evening with Joo Dong-geun
To celebrate Korean Culture Month, Foyles are delighted to welcome Joo Dong-geun to Foyles, the artist behind the sensational webtoon All of Us Are Dead, for his debut appearance in the UK. Discover the mind-expanding world of his work, and the motivations and inspirations behind his much-loved stories. Joo Dong-geun is a South Korean webtoon … [Read More]
Foyles Korean Culture Month: Miye Lee in Conversation
The author and translator of international bestseller DallerGut Dream Department Store join us via video-link for a discussion about their captivating work, as part of the Korean Culture Month programme at Foyles. Miye Lee was born in Busan in 1990. After graduating from the Busan National University School of Materials Science and Engineering, she worked … [Read More]
Mire Lee: Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern
Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor announce that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures which use kinetic, mechanised elements to invoke the tension between soft forms and rigid systems. Her new site-specific work for the Turbine Hall will be open to the public from 9 … [Read More]
Knitted together: the Korean lives and legacies of Richard and Joan Rutt
Drawing on the objects and photographs of the main donors to the Korean collection at the Oriental Museum, Knitted Together details Richard and Joan Rutt’s 20 years living in South Korea in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War (1950 – 1953). Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of when Richard first arrived in Korea as … [Read More]
Haegue Yang: Leap Year, at the Hayward Gallery
Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range of media – from paper collage to performative sculpture and immense sensorial installations. Equally as wide-ranging, her inspiration draws on diverse histories and customs, including East Asian traditions and folklore, modernism, contemporary art history and nature. Yang uses a variety of crafts, techniques and materials in her work, … [Read More]
Hong Sangsoo’s latest to screen at the BFI London Film Festival
Isabelle Huppert is reunited with Korean maestro Hong Sangsoo in an irresistibly enigmatic comic vignette about language, poetry, exile and the art of communication. In her third collaboration with South Korea’s super-prolific auteur, Isabelle Huppert – here at her most slyly mischievous – plays Iris, a Frenchwoman in Korea who offers language classes using her … [Read More]
Jinhee Kim: Drink Water, at Frieze Cork Street
ThisWeekendRoom are pleased to present Drink Water, the solo exhibition by Berlin and Seoul-based artist Jinhee Kim. Kim uses the everyday act of drinking water as a metaphor to contemplate the meaning of identity beyond distinctions of race, culture, gender, and language. Her paintings depict figures caught in seemingly repetitive and mundane routines: a face … [Read More]
Bang Yongguk: III Europe Tour in London
Get ready for a dynamic performance as Bang Yongguk brings his ‘III Europe tour’! This is not just a concert—it’s a journey through Bang Yongguk’s career, featuring songs capturing his duality as an artist. From his k-pop roots to his hip hop and R’n’B anthems, each side of Bang Yongguk will come to life on … [Read More]