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Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic Print E-mail
ImageApril 24–May 16, 2008
10:00 AM–5:00 PM, Monday through Friday
Open to the Public and Free of Charge

Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 30 at 5:30 PM

Exhibition Venue
The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

The Korea Society is pleased to present Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, an exhibition of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris that document the concert by the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on February 26, 2008.

In these fascinating and often-stunning photographs, Harris offers a portrait of the historic event, encompassing both the concert itself and all the other major activities of the nearly 300-member delegation—artists, staff, accompanying patrons, guests and press corps. The exhibition captures multiple aspects of the New York Philharmonic orchestra’s two-day visit to Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Most notably, the photographs afford an inside view of this previously unimaginable influx of Americans—the largest group since the days of the Korean War over half a century ago—and insights into the inhabitants of this reclusive country.

The exhibition is accompanied by Harris’ book, Inside North Korea, published by Chronicle Books in 2007, which features photographs from previous visits to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. These photographs document life in Pyongyang and scenes from along the northern border with China, the highly militarized DMZ and the tightly controlled economic and tourist zones. The book includes short essays, extended captions and a foreword by noted North Korea expert Bruce Cumings. The book will be available for purchase at The Korea Society during the period of the exhibition.

Following its run at The Korea Society, Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic will be available for travel to colleges, universities, galleries and non-profit institutions across America.

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Cross-Cultural Traffic: Toying with Brands, Borders and Bootlegs Print E-mail
ImageWednesday, May 28, 2008 at 6:30 PM


The Korea Society

950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, Eighth Floor


Please join us for a lively talk on Korean toys and their fascinating origins in the interplay between Korean, Japanese and American pop cultures. This panel is presented in conjunction with our current traveling exhibition, Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood .

Panelists:
Joshua Bernard, editor, CollectionDX.com
Eric Nakamura, publisher, Giant Robot Magazine
Joanne Rudis, design director, Fisher Price/Mattel
Seho Kim, creative director, The Korea Society

$10 (members) and $15 (non-members)

Buy tickets online or RSVP to (212)759-7525, ext. 355 email.

 
The Kyopo Project Print E-mail
ImageUpcoming Exhibition

May 29-August 15, 2008
10:00 AM–5:00 PM, Monday through Friday
Open to the Public and Free of Charge

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 29 at 5:30 PM
Open to the Public and Free

Exhibition Venue
The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)


Panel Discussion on Asian Diasporas

Thursday, May 29 at 6:30 PM
$5 (members) and $10 (non-members)
RSVP to (212)759-7525, ext. 355 or email or register online. Buy tickets

Panelists: CYJO (photographer/artist)
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis)
Lok Siu (Professor of Anthropology and Asian/Pacific American studies at New York University)

Moderator: Alexandra Chang (Events Coordinator at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute of New York University)

Kyopo (교포): A person of Korean descent who lives, or who has lived the majority of his or her life, outside of Korea.

 

The Kyopo Project-a collection of 171 photographic and literary portraits of kyopo created by photographer/artist CYJO-is an intriguing record of the global kyopo community. Settled in places as geographically and culturally different as the United States, Denmark and Brazil, The Kyopo Project's subjects are the faces of global trends towards transculturalism and transnationalism. The exhibition explores traditional notions of identity and challenges the meaning of being Korean.

 

"Being a kyopo is being part of a tribe, for we are tied together by our experience, race, culture and ethnicity in a specific way. Indeed, the individuals who appear in CYJO's project represent the complex and random inter-weavings of this tribe. It is a visual and textual expression of an organic web of relational connections that bloomed into more than two hundred subjects," says Marie Myung-Ok Lee, a novelist and visiting lecturer at Brown University.

 

Asian Diasporas: New Conceptions, New Formations, a collection of essays co-edited by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Lok Siu, will be available for purchase at The Korea Society during the exhibition.

http://chelseanow.com/cn_54/fromonenycapartment.html

http://www.koreamjournal.com/Magazine/index.php/kj/2007/december/artists_trax

 

About the Artist & Panelists

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Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood Print E-mail

ImageThe Korea Society Gallery

Exhibition Dates and Time: 
January 31 - April 18, 2008
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday

Open to the Public and Free of Charge

Location:
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

Podcast Available! Toys - always more meaningful than the simple playthings they appear to be-can embody the fantasies, values, obsessions and anxieties of a generation. Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood includes a veritable toy box of over 90 flamboyantly colored action figures, robots, miniature tanks and paper dolls from 1970s and 1980s Korea.
Super Taekwon V © 1976 Robot Taekwon V co., Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Related program:
Cross-Cultural Traffic: Toying with Brands, Borders and Bootlegs
(Wednesday, May 28, 2008)
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Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World Print E-mail





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Korean Funerary Figures:
Companions for the Journey to the Other World

Exhibition at The Korea Society Gallery

July 26, 2007 - December 18, 2007 Extended!
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Tuesday through Friday

Open to the Public and Free of Charge

Location
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)



  • "... eye-catching." - New York Times Art Review,
    "Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People", August 17, 2007 link
  • "... the artifacts... are truly treasures." - Japan Times Review,
    "Little Friends for the Other World", October 11, 2007 link


Image Upcoming Gallery Talk
Happy Souls and Anxious Mourners:
The Uses of Funeral Figures in Pre-Modern Korea
with
Charlotte Horlyck
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London

November 6, 2007 at 6:30 PM 
When a member of the community dies, ritual helps to ease the pain of the living. In early Korea, where no effort was spared to ensure the satisfaction of the soul of the deceased, ritual also helped ease the pain of the departed soul. Throughout their history, Koreans employed a variety of highly crafted artifacts in their funeral rites in order to assuage and cheer the spirits of the dead. Professor of Korean art history Charlotte Horlyck will talk about the use of funeral figures in pre-modern Korea and how they reflect Koreans' changing interpretation of life, death and their own place in the cosmos.

About the Presenter
Charlotte Horlyck is an assistant professor of Korean art history in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She formerly curated the Korean collection at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and continues to act as an advisor to museums in Europe and the United States. The author of numerous articles on Korean art and culture, Horlyck's current research explores how social, religious and economic changes are manifested in Koryǒ-period Korean funerary remains.

For more information or to register for  any of the above programs, contact Jinyoung Kim, senior program officer for arts, at (212) 759-7525, ext. 316 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . You may fax your reply to (212) 759-7530.



Death is an aspect of the human condition that touches every culture in every age, and almost all cultures envelop death in a rich artistry as a way of managing the trauma it causes. In nineteenth and early twentieth century Korea, artisans carved joyful wooden figurines depicting acrobats, clowns and mystical animals-which are called kkoktu-to place on the funeral biers of the departed. A collection of 72 kkoktu will be brought to the U.S., for the first time ever, for an exhibition in The Korea Society Gallery. Organized jointly with the Seoul-based Ockrang Cultural Foundation, Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World will run at The Korea Society Gallery from July 26 to November 20, 2007.

The kkoktu are archaeological treasures in their own right. Their costumes and poses reflect the realities of rural Korean village life during a period that left few written records. More importantly, the kkoktu open a window on a timeless, characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the gaiety depicted in many of the figurines may seem incompatible with mourning, what they are intended to express is a deep desire that the deceased loved one will enter the next world surrounded by joy. The figurines also embody a sophisticated appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience.
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