Arts & Culture Programs

2026 Gala

2026 Annual Gala

2026 Van Fleet Award Honoree
JENSEN HUANG
Founder & CEO
NVIDIA

This year, the Korea Society is honored to announce the 2026 Van Fleet Award recipient is Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in recognition

Taeku Lee

With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values

The Forgotten Home Front

As the Korean war (1950–1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929–2007) was stationed in Pusan to

Hand Taste: Cook Like a Korean Grandmother with Esther Choi

We all know cooks whose fingertips seem to infuse every meal with deliciousness. In Korean, that magic touch is called sohn-mat, or “hand taste”―but you

ENVY:

“What Stacy Kim understands, and what took me too long to appreciate myself, is that our darkest emotions often shed the most light. ENVY makes

Author Talks:
Lee Seong-bok & Anton Hur

Mountains, rivers, trees, flowers, the dark, a cat, a train. In the elemental forms and figures of our world, Lee Seong-bok finds repositories for thought,

Gather Around My Table

Where does a great recipe come from? For Kay Chun, it’s all about inspiration. And to a lifelong New Yorker, inspiration is all around. Drawing

Yejin Choi

With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values

Koreatown, NYC:
The Consumption of a Transnational Brand

In the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop groups becoming wildly

Afterlayers : Tai Hwa Goh & Julia Kwon

Image courtesy of the Artists Two artists transform traditional materials–textile and paper–to explore themes of identity and memory. Tai Hwa Goh creates intricate, layered installations from

Author Talks: Kim Eui-Kyung

In her absorbing and candid novel Hello Baby, Kim Eui Kyung explores what women endure to become mothers. The novel features six women in their

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