Past Programs

Feast or Famine: DPRK Agrarian Posters from the Zellweger Collection

    Feast or Famine features 23 original posters from the Katharina Zellweger Collection. Zellweger collected over 100 posters during her tenure as the director

Far From Forgotten

In June of 2010, 10 Korean War veterans, now in their 80s and living in Long Island New York: Sal, Robert, Bill, Bob, Eugene, Frank,

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Choi Min-Shik Tribute: Old Boy @ Museum of the Moving Image

The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea’s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing “Korean

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Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into families in North America, Europe,

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Vegetarian Korean Cooking with Haelin Lee at Whole Foods Culinary Center

Learn to make two complete traditional vegetarian Korean meals during this two session hands-on workshop and demonstration at Whole Foods Market (Bowery Culinary Center). Chef Haelin Lee, a

The Music of North Korea: Pathos and Passion

The music of rare and exceptional artistic expression from North Korea will be showcased at the Korea Society as part of its Korean Traditional Music

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

  The Korea Society and the Museum of The Moving Image co-present Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring—a gorgeously shot feature film that has grossed

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Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945-1992

Experience the captivating imagery in this collection of photographs by some of the pioneers of modern Korean photography. The fifty-four photographs showcase the first generation

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today @ MoMA 2012

Yeonghwa is the Korean word for film, and since South Korean cinema now features prominently in every major international film festival, it is a good

Recent Directions in Korean Photography: The New Internationalism

Christopher Phillips, Curator of International Center of Photography, speaks about the explosive development of Korean photography in the late twentieth century. This talk is presented

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