April 23-May 3, 2009

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

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

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.

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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