Arts & Culture Programs

Private Tour of An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese & Korean Art @ Christie’s

Members of The Korea Society were invited to an exclusive private tour of an exhibition that showcased works from renowned private, American, Asian-art collections. Exquisite pieces

The Buddhist Arts of Korea with Dr. Robert Mowry

This illustrated slide lecture will introduce Korean Buddhist art, focusing on the late Three Kingdoms period (traditionally, 57 BC – AD 668), the Unified Silla

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Gallery Opening: Finding Dignity The Art of Hyong Nam Ahn

  An award-winning sculptor and installation artist, Ahn incorporates lights, sounds, and movement into his work and seeks to find the human spirit within the

Prometheus: The Art of Tchah Sup Kim

Tchah Sup Kim has experimented with a wide variety of genres and methods, including pop art, geometric abstraction, mail art, readymade objects, environmental art, and

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Korean Ceramics: The Great Tradition

This illustrated slide lecture will survey the history of Korean ceramics from the early historic period through the nineteenth century. It will focus on the

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Young Shik Kim

Young Shik Kim is a Korean folk-art painter who combines historic technique and materials with contemporary forms and non-traditional colors.  Her style of simple objects

Tea Story

Enjoy a cup of freshly brewed tea! Representatives of the Hagajae Museum from Korea will demonstrate a traditional tea ceremony, compare the development of tea

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A Conversation with Food Director Soo Jin Kim

Prominent Korean food director Soo Jin Kim takes us behind-the-scenes of creating and styling food for countless hit TV dramas and films, including The King

Miindo, Velazquez and Ants: Gallery Exhibition

  Unrestrained by boundaries of medium or style, Lee LeeNam playfully reimagines classic works of art from different genres, time periods, and countries.  He adds

Private Tour of Dansaekhwa Korean Abstract Art @ Christie’s

From October 8 to 23, Christie’s showcased 33 paintings by eight Korean masters of modern abstract art, including those from the Dansaekhwa movement, at their