Arts & Culture Programs

Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics & Korean War in Color

      The Korea Society marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War with two exhibitions running June 25 through September

Korean Masked Dance-Drama: Enchanted Fertility Rite and Social Satire

Join us as Theresa Ki-ja Kim, professor emeritus of theater arts at SUNY Stony Brook, discusses how Korea’s unique tradition of masked dance-dramas masterfully blended

Masks of Night: Faces from Traditional Korean Dance-Dramas

Koreans expressed their passion and fear through masked dance for hundreds of years.  The dance-drama dates back to shamanic ritual aimed at warding off malevolent

Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West Through Christianity

    The arrival of the first Western missionaries in Korea in the late 19th century was a pivotal moment in the history of Christianity

Quick & Easy Korean Cooking Podcast

  On May 7, 2009, Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee, author of Eating Korean: From Barbecue to Kimchi, Recipes from my Home, visited The Korea Society to

The Religious Revolution in Modern Korean History

On May 5, 2009, Don Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, spoke about the history of

North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge

    Exhibition September 9 – December 12, 2008 Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Korea Society presents, for the first time ever in the United

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

Exhibition July 26, 2007 – December 18, 2007 “… eye-catching.” – New York Times Art Review, “Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People”, August 17, 2007

Gods, Demons, and Generals: Icons of Korean Shamanism

Gods, Demons and Generals: Icons of Korean Shamanism The exhibition includes representations of Samsin Halmoni 삼신 (Birth Spirit), Sansin 산신 (Mountain God), Taesin Halmoni 대신

Contemporary Korean Choreographers

  Contemporary Korean Choreographers International DUMBO Dance Festival: Contemporary Korean Choreographers October 19 – 25, 2005 In association with WHITE WAVE, a Brooklyn-based performance, teaching