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Of Interest...
a play by
Lloyd Suh
May 9 - June 7, 2009
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York City, NY
Min
Suk Chun returns to the wife and family he left 15 years ago in order
to celebrate his hwan'gap, the Korean 60th birthday celebration that
marks the completion of the Chinese zodiac cycle. But with no pants and a
bottle of Jim Beam, what does the future hold for this absentee father?
Presented by Ma-Yi Theatre Company and The Play Company.
$25. For tickets call (212) 971-4862, or visit www.playco.org or www.ma-yitheatre.com .
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New York Debut
Friday, June 5 at 8 PM
Isaac Stern Auditorium
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Please join us for the debut performance of the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra in New York.
Led by renowned conductor Daejin Kim, the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in South Korea. They have been embraced by audiences throughout Asia, Europe and North America, performing at Asia Orchestra Week in Osaka in 2003 and the Eckelshausner Musik Fest in Germany in 2004. The Philharmonic's featured concerto artist, Sunwook Kim, is one of the most sought after young concert pianists today. Having been the first Asian to win the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition, and the youngest winner in 40 years, Kim has has appeared as a guest artist with the London Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and
many more.
The program, which celebrates the anniversaries of the Korean Cultural Service in New York and the Korea Music Foundation, will include Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelley, op. 7; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, op. 58; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, op. 74 (Pathetique).
Tickets are $20–$75. To purchase, please contact Carnegie Hall at (212) 247-7800 or www.carnegiehall.org. Tickets and Korean-speaking representatives are also available at Koryo Bookstore, at (212) 564-1844, and Cosmos Department Store, at (212) 889-6410.
For all other inquiries, please contact the Korean Cultural Service in New York at (212) 759-9550 or
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or the Korea Music Foundation at (212) 942-5978.
This performance is generously sponsored by Suwon City, South Korea.
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April 23-May 3, 2009
Join us as The Korea Society joins the The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival to present three films about Korea: My Dear Enemy, a deadpan relationship comedy, and two documentaries, Yodok Stories and The Last Mermaids.
The
trio of films will be screened on multiple evenings from Thursday,
April 23, through Sunday, May 3, at the AMC Village VII in Greenwich
Village and Tribeca Cinemas. Complete schedule and ticket purchase
information are available through The Tribeca Film Festival.
My Dear Enemy (2008)
Directed by Lee Yoon-ki
Starring Ha Jung-woo and Jeon Do-yeon
123 minutes, Korean with English subtitles
Lee Yoon-ki's (This Charming Girl)
deadpan comedy trails a pair of former lovers-he's a charismatic
romantic and she's a no-nonsense realist-who bump into each other one
year down the road. Hee-su (Jeon, Cannes Film Festival 2007 Best
Actress Award, Secret Sunshine) wants back a hunk of cash she lent him,
but perpetually penniless Byung-woon is unable to settle his debt.
Refusing to leave Hee-su in the lurch, he carts her around Seoul on a
day-long urban road trip to borrow small amounts from various
acquaintances. As both day and debt are whittled down, the pair fall
back into old patterns, rehash unsettled gripes, and slowly come to see
each other in a new light.
Playing on:
Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30 PM AMC Village VII
Thursday, April 30 at 9:45 PM AMC Village VII
Friday, May 1 at 5:45 PM AMC Village VII
Buy tickets online at The Tribeca Film Festival
Yodok Stories (2008)
Directed by Andrzej Fidyk
82 minutes, Korean and English with English subtitles
Yodok:
site of North Korea's most notorious political concentration camp and a
word that registers barely a blip on the radar for most of the world.
Few of its prisoners emerge alive to tell their story. Multiple
award-winning director Andrzej Fidyk (North Korea: The Parade)
finds a few such escapees living in exile in South Korea. Among them is
Jung Sung-san, former director of some of North Korea's most ambitious
propagandistic musical theater displays. In this uplifting and sobering
doc, Fidyk convinces him to turn his talents toward a work revealing
the true North Korea, using the traditional musical theater style.
Playing on:
Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 PM AMC Village VII
Saturday, April 25 at 2:00 PM AMC Village VII
Monday, April 27 at 9:45 PM AMC Village VII
Thursday, April 30 at 3:00 PM AMC Village VII
Buy tickets online at The Tribeca Film Festival
The Last Mermaids (2008)
Directed by Liz Chae
19 minutes, Korean with English Subtitles
Generation after generation, the women of Jeju Island have survived by becoming Haenyo (women sea divers). Director Liz Chae spent months living with the chief of one of the last remaining Haenyo tribes.
For 2,000 years, the Haenyos of Jeju have fought men, governments, and
armies to protect their right to make a living from the sea. Now they
want the tradition to stop. These are The Last Mermaids.
Playing on:
Monday, April 27 at 6:45 PM AMC Village VII
Thursday, April 30 at 1:15 PM AMC Village VII
Friday, May 1 at 8:45 PM AMC Village VII
Sunday, May 3 at 3:30 PM Tribeca Cinemas Theater
Buy tickets online at The Tribeca Film Festival
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New School Media Forum:
Thursday, April 30, 2009
11:45 AM – 4:00 PM
The New School for General Studies
Ana-Maria and Stephen-Kellen Auditorium (screening)
Room 1204, 2 West 13th Street (forum with Hwang Sok-yong)
I. Film Screening: The Old Garden
Directed by Im Sang-soo, 2007
Based on Hwang Sok-yong’s eponymous novel
11:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Ana-Maria and Stephen-Kellen Auditorium, 2 West 13th Street
II. A Conversation with Hwang Sok-yong
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room 1204, 2 West 13th Street
This event is co-sponsored by the Foreign Language Program of the New School for General Studies (NSGS), the Asian Studies Program of CUNY, and Seven Stories Press.
About the Author:
Hwang Sok-yong is one of South Korea's foremost authors, a writer of worldwide renown, and the recipient of Korea's highest literary prizes and numerous international awards. His work, which grapples with the troubled history of
the divided Korean peninsula, has earned him the rare achievement of a wide readership and appreciation
in both North and South Korea. Americans were first to exposed to Hwang's writing when his novel, The Guest (Seven Stories Press), was published in the U.S. in 2005. His second American release will be The Old Garden, due out in September 2009. Recently, Hwang began experimenting
with a new mode of storytelling in the digital age by serializing his
novels on the Internet and running an online magazine.
The New School Media Forum
is a research forum for faculty and students in the fields of media,
film and cultural studies at the New School. It aims to foster and
extend research in those fields by organizing lectures, symposia and
conferences. The New School Media Forum is supported by the Department
of Media and Cultural Studies at Eugene Lang College and the Department
of Media Studies and Film at New School for General Studies.
For inquiries contact Jaeho Kang:
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A Special Concert of 21st Century Korean ‘New’ Traditional Music
Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7:00 PM at
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
Fusion Vocal Group, Anaya Project Sinawi
The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proudly presents the second annual concert, Korea 21: Music Here and Now, in
collaboration with the Gugak FM Broadcasting System in Seoul and the
Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association of New York on Sunday, April 5 at 7 p.m., at Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Symphony Space.
A highlight of this
event will be the select group of outstanding Korean traditional and
popular music artists directly from Korea, such as fusion vocal group, Anaya and Project Sinawi,
who ranked in the top ten at the 2008, “21C Korean Music Project
Competition,” one of the most prestigious new music competitions in
South Korea. A special guest music ensemble for this concert is Vinalog,
a leading world music group in Korea known for creating “Korean jazz”
in combination with Korean traditional music genres and instruments.
Ticket: $25, Students $15
For tickets please visit www.symphonyspace.org/events
For more information call Symphony Space box office: 212-864-5400
or
Contact The Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association (KTPAA)
Phone: 212-921-9344
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