Featured Programs
55th Anniversary Celebration New York Gala Dinner Annual Dinner | Mon, Jun 4, 6:00 pm Members, friends, and supporters of The Korea Society will mark the 55th anniversary of the organization at a gala dinner at the The Plaza in New York City on June 4. Please join us for this ... MORE |
Choi Min-Shik Tribute: Chi-hwa-seon @ Museum of the Moving Image Film | Sun, Jun 3, 3:00 pm The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea’s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing “Korean Cinema Now” program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image... MORE |
Korean Flavor Exposed with Angelo Sosa Cooking | Tue, Jun 5, 6:30 pm Restaurateur and Top Chef contestant Angelo Sosa brings Korean spices to his award-winning cuisine in his first cookbook, Flavor Exposed, 100 Global Recipes from Sweet to Salty, Earthy to Spicy. A collaboration with renowned food a... MORE |
Inside the Gate: An American Nun's Training Within Korean Buddhism Lectures | Wed, Jun 6, 6:30 pm Bhikkuni Seon Joon Yale graduate and American Jogye Order Buddhist nun, discusses the essential elements of Korean Buddhism and the daily life of women training to become monastics in modern Korea through her personal experience and p... MORE |
Honor Thy Parents: Filial Piety in Choson Literature and Paintings One-day Conferences | Thu, Jun 7, 9:00 am Registration is now open to New York-area K-12 educators for Honor Thy Parents: Filial Piety in Chosǒn Literature and Paintings. Join Dr. Mark Peterson, Professor of Korean Studies at Brigham Young University, as he speaks... MORE |
Feast or Famine: DPRK Agrarian Posters Gallery | Thu, Jun 7, 6:00 pm Feast or Famine features 23 original posters from the Katharina Zellweger Collection. Zellweger collected over 100 posters during her tenure as the director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation program in Pyongyang from 2... MORE |
Knowing North Korea Book Event Policy | Tue, Jun 19, 6:00 pm What is it like to serve as one’s national representative in North Korea? How is one received, from leaders to ordinary North Koreans? How does one deal with the political fallout of a nuclear test soon after one’... MORE |
Corporate Views on Korea: From FTA Implementation to the Presidential Election Business | Fri, Jun 22, 12:00 pm Now that the KORUS FTA has been in effect for three months, what has changed in the business environment between the United States and South Korea? To what extent has the treaty created jobs, spurre... MORE |
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Recent Programs
 New Perspectives: Women and the Choson DynastyLectures | Tuesday, May 22, 6:30 pm Dr. Michael Pettid offers new perspectives on the women of the Chosǒn Dynasty (1392-1910) and their roles in Confucian society. Known as a traditionally male-dominated culture, the Chosǒn Kingdom limited the roles of women in politics, education, and leadership. Using several ancient texts, Dr. Pett... |
 Choi Min-Shik Tribute: Failan @ Museum of the Moving ImageFilm | Sunday, May 20, 3:00 pm The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea’s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing “Korean Cinema Now” program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image). |
 Korean Cinema @ The Silk Screen Asian American Film FestivalFilm | Friday, May 18, 7:00 pm The Korea Society co-presents three Korean films at the Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The festival, which runs this year from May 11th through 20th during Asian American heritage Month, was founded to showcase the best contemporary films from Korea, Japan, China, Tai... |
 Korea and the World: Iran, North Korea and the U.S.-ROK PartnershipPolicy | Thursday, May 17, 6:00 pm How do international efforts to curtail Iran’s development of nuclear weapons echo on the Korean Peninsula? What are the implications for North Korea’s nuclear weapons development? And how does the U.S.-ROK strategic partnership address these concerns? His Excellency Kim Young-mok, ROK Consul General to... |
 A Morning with AMOREPACIFIC, Skincare from KoreaMembership Appreciation | Wednesday, May 16, 10:30 am The Korea Society and AMOREPACIFIC invite members—current and new—to a morning of beauty at the AMOREPACIFIC Counter at Neiman Marcus in The Mall at Short Hills, New Jersey. Join fellow members for an intimate reception with AMOREPACIFIC’s signature green tea and other refreshments. FREE Delux kits, feat... |
 Director’s Talk with Filmmaker Christine Yoo: The Making of Wedding PalaceFilm | Thursday, May 10, 6:30 pm First-time director Christine Yoo shares her remarkable experience making Wedding Palace, a loving portrayal of a tight-knit Korean family. Christine began writing the script in 1999 and, when major studios passed on it, she decided to make the film on her own. Actor Stephen Park (Fargo, ... |
 Covering North KoreaPolicy | Thursday, May 10, 8:30 am What is it like to be posted in Pyongyang? What are the limitations and opportunities of reporting from a closed state? What are myths or where are hidden truths? The second installment of this summer’s Knowing North Korea series features Ivan Zakharchenko, United Nations Bureau Chief for RIA-Novosti. Z... |
 The Korea Society Welcomes ROK National Assembly Speaker Chung Ui-HwaPolicy | Wednesday, May 9, 5:00 pm The Honorable Chung Ui-Hwa is the ROK National Assembly Speaker (Acting), a member of the 18th National Assembly, Vice Speaker, member of the National Defense Committee, Chair of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee and Acting President of the World Scout Parliamentary Union. He has ... |
 Hearts of PineBook Café | Thursday, May 3, 6:30 pm In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system—those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military—lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Joshua Pilzer’s Hearts of Pine provides a window into the lives of three such survivors: ... |
 Managing Sovereign Wealth: Principles and ChallengesBusiness | Wednesday, May 2, 8:15 am Scott Kalb looks back at his three-year tenure as Chief Investment Officer of the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), focusing on the principles that underlie good asset management and the challenges facing sovereign wealth funds in the years ahead. The Korea Investment Corporation was founded in 2005 t... |
Jun 3
CHIHWASEON @ MOMI
Jun 4
55TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION NEW YORK GALA DINNER
Jun 5
KOREAN FLAVOR EXPOSED WITH ANGELO SOSA
Jun 6
INSIDE THE GATE: AN AMERICAN NUN’S TRAINING WITHIN KOREAN BUDDHISM
Jun 7
HONOR THY PARENTS: FILIAL PIETY IN CHOSON LITERATURE AND PAINTINGS
Jun 7
GALLERY OPENING/ GALLERY TALK
FEAST OR FAMINE: DPRK AGRARIAN POSTERS FROM THE ZELLWEGER COLLECTION
Jun 19
KNOWING NORTH KOREA BOOK EVENT: ONLY BEAUTIFUL, PLEASE
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