Past Programs

New Narratives in Korea: Baek Sehee

  Part memoir, part self-help book, and completely engrossing, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee is a book

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Korea & FIFA World Cup

  South Korea holds the proud distinction of being the first independent Asian country to participate in a FIFA World Cup tournament in 1954. Still,

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Author Talks: Bora Chung

 Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the winner of a PEN/Heim Grant, Cursed Bunny  is the wildly original debut story collection from Bora Chung “Whether borrowing

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Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema with Karen Han

Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by culture writer and screenwriter Karen Han is the first definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award–winning South

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A Very Asian Guide to Korean Food

  Introduce children to Asian cuisine and the #VERYASIAN movement! Written by Michelle Li, A Very Asian Guide to Korean Food introduces young readers to

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Heinz Insu Fenkl – Skull Water

SKULL WATER is the story of Insu, the son of a Korean mother and a GI father in the U.S. Army, and the intertwined tale

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The Korea Society & The Strand Present: Patricia Park

Join us for an in-person event with award-winning author, Patricia Park, for the release of her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of

Han!

“[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness

Artist Talk: Seongmin Ahn with Eleanor Hyun

Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times: In Seongmin Ahn’s paintings, it is not our past we are looking at but our possible future. – John

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

The Korean-born, German-educated, life-long New Yorker, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) coined the phrase “the electronic superhighway” long before the Internet was born. A consummate shape-shifter