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

Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation Series on Ethics & Common Values: A Conversation with Minister Kyung-wha Kang

  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

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Dyadic | Annette Hur & Hayoon Jay Lee

Exhibition: September 12 – December 13, 2024 | In the modern tradition of abstract art, artists look beyond what we physically see. Using color, shape,

The South Korean Film Industry with Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Jason Bechervaise

South Korea’s film industry is producing movies and original series eagerly anticipated by the global audience, and it is now arguably considered one of the

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Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution | A Curator’s Perspective

Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution is a compelling exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art about the history and transformative legacy of Korean fashion, presenting

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Minsoo Kang: The Melancholy of Untold History with Ed Lin

“With his quietly magical debut, Kang delivers a book that only a history professor such as himself could write. The novel switches between a profoundly

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Hyeseung Song: Docile with Emma Eun-joo Choi

Author Photo: Jack Sorokin “Docile is the rarest of things: a scorchingly honest, beautiful, hugely evocative memoir that’s also a proper pageturner: I read it

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Author Talks: Miye Lee

* Indies Introduce Pick for Summer 2024 “This delightful story transcends…..A comforting story of dreams, lives, and the ways people process all that reality offers

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Ga Mu Ak: An Evening of Korean Traditional Music and Dance

There is a long tradition in Korea of presenting various performances–singing, instrument playing, and dancing–on one stage. Join us for another enchanting evening of Korean

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Writing Short Stories with Gina Chung and Yun Ko-eun

  Is the short story a fiction writer’s laboratory where you can experiment with characters, plots, and ideas? or is it an art form of

Hallyu! The Korean Wave: The Curatorial Roundtable

Image Credit: © MFA BOSTON |       Today, South Korea is a cultural superpower—a global trendsetter producing award-winning films like Parasite, riveting dramas like Squid

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