Makeup artist Seong Hee Park, who created looks for K-Pop’s Wonder Girls and TV star Yunjin Kim, explores how the traditional ideals of Korean beauty in the paintings of Chosŏn-era artist Shin Yun-bok influences today’s Korean female stars.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 | 6 PM
6-6:35 PM | Talk
6:40-7 PM | Q & A
Explorer members and above: Free with registration
$5 Members / $10 Non-members
This program is generously sponsored by CJ.
Dinner and a movie– it’s a classic combination. Join us to watch the 2010 Korean film The Recipe (된장), which follows a television producer searching for the chef and recipe of a soybean paste stew (doenjang jjigae), while dining on doenjang jjigae! We’ll also demonstrate how to prepare the stew, so you can make this Korean comfort food throughout the cold winter.
The Dinner
Doenjang jjigae is a staple meal in Korean homes. The earthy flavor of soybean paste is fused with hearty vegetables like Korean radish and zucchini, and includes tofu. The taste of doenjang jjigae is dependent upon the quality of the soybean paste and the richness of the base broth.
Doenjang jjigae is being provided by Kunjip Restaurant.
The Movie
The Recipe is a 2010 South Korean film which mixes romance, a crime story, black comedy, and food to near-perfection. Directed by Anna Lee and starring Lee Dong-wook, Lee Yo-won, and Ryu Seung-ryong, the film is about a television producer who finds out many surprising truths while tracking down the recipe of a magical, mysterious soybean paste stew.
THE RECIPE will screen in Korean with English subtitles.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | 6 – 8 PM
@ The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue
Advanced ticket purchase required for this event. Space is limited.
$10 Members / $25 Non-members
This program is generously sponsored by CJ and SK.
The Korea Society and The New York Film Academy will be hosting an exclusive Screening of Complete Works of Byung Hun Min at NYFA’s Union Square location beginning Monday, December 8 and will run through Friday, December 12. The 5-day event will screen 12 of the acclaimed Korean director’s films with a special Q&A session on Tuesday, December 9 that will follow the screening of his latest award-winning feature Love Never Fails.
With numerous awards under his belt throughout his career such as “Best Picture” and “Best Director” for films like Flight of the Bee, and Mask and Mirror, director Min has recently continued his success with the world premiere of Love Never Fails at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival. He received an overwhelming response where the sold out film left the audience wanting more as they remained in their seats well after the credits finished rolling.
Director Min is currently visiting New York to work on preproduction to the first part of his upcoming Essay trilogy with each film taking place in New York, Paris and Beijing respectively. Essay in New York will also be the first Korean feature length film to be shot in the U.S.
The New York Film Academy’s special screenings will be director Min’s U.S. debut and presents a unique opportunity for students of all backgrounds to learn and experience Korean film.
“We’re thrilled to host directors from all over the world, especially accomplished artists like Byung Hun Min,” said NYFA Senior Director David Klein. “We look forward to celebrating his works and his U.S. debut next week!”
Monday, December 8 – Friday December 12, 2014
FREE with RSVP at korea.rsvp@nyfa.edu
The Screening of Complete Works of Hun Min is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The French have bouillabaisse, Italians have zuppa di pesce, and Koreans have maeuntang! Learn how to make this wonderful, spicy seafood stew in a hands-on workshop led by Chef Walter Rhee. He’ll complete the meal by demonstrating how to make the perfect accompanying appetizers, Korean seafood pancakes (pajeon) and candied anchovies (myul chi bokkum). Trained as a marine biologist before pursuing his culinary passions, Walter will also share tips on how to buy, cut, and make healthy seafood dishes. Korea is, after all, surrounded by water on three sides!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 | 6 PM
Advanced ticket purchase required for this event. Space is limited.
$30 Members / $45 Non-members
Culinary programs are generously sponsored by SK.
What Subway Cinema started in 2001 with When Korean Cinema Attacks! – New York Korean Film Festival, and what has known many incarnations and iterations since then, is back in the funky and freaky curatorial hands of the festival’s original creators, now joining forces with BAMCinematek and The Korea Society to bring you the freshest crop of the record-breaking blockbusters and the must-see recent works of the peninsula’s internationally celebrated auteurs and mavericks. The new New York Korean Film Festival wants to serve as your road map for the best in contemporary Korean cinema.
All films in Korean with English subtitles.
THURSDAY – SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 20-NOVEMBER 23, 2014
BAM Rose Cinema
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
(718) 636-4100 x 1
BAM
| Thursday, November 20 | 7:15 PM GYEONGJU | with Q&A with director Zhang Lu | |
| Friday, November 21 | 7:00 PM THE ATTORNEY | 9:30 PM A HARD DAY | |
| Saturday, November 22 | 7:00 PM THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS | 9:30 PM MAN ON HIGH HEELS | |
| Sunday, November 23 | 5:00 PM THE PIRATES | 8:00 PM FUTURELESS THINGS | |
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 7:15 PM
US Premiere
Director Zhang Lu will be in attendance.
2014, 145 min. DCP
Directed by Zhang Lu
Cast: Park Hae-Il, Shin Min-A, Yoon Jin-Seo, Kim Tae-Hoon, Shin So-Yul, Baek Hyun-Jin, Ryoo Seung-Wan
An “existential ghost story” (Variety) and a poetic, sentimental journey in the vein of Hong Sang-soo’s best films, Zhang Lu’s new film follows the wanderings of Peking University professor Choi-Hyun (WAR OF ARROWS’ Park Hae-Il) as he returns to the city of Gyeongju to attend a friend’s funeral. Spurred by the memory of an obscene picture he saw seven years ago on the wall of a teahouse, he proceeds to go on a strangely aimless quest, fumbling between tantalizing possibilities of erotic satisfaction or perhaps something of a more spiritual nature.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 7:00 PM
2013, 127 min, DCP
Director: Yang Woo-Seok
Cast: Song Kang-Ho, Kim Young-Ae, Oh Dal-Su, Kwak Do-Won, Siwan 2013, 127 min, Blu-ray
Based on the life of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun, THE ATTORNEY was this year’s most controversial box office hit, with over 10 million admissions. Set during the days of the military dictatorship, it follows the moral transformation of a pragmatic, mercenary and a tad shady attorney-at-law Song Woo-Seok (star Song Kang-Ho), who only got into the legal profession for the money. But everything changes one day, when he decides to take on the country’s National Security Law by accepting as his client the student activist Jin-Woo (Lim Si-wan), who has been unfairly arrested and tortured by the government.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 9:30 PM
2014, 111 min, DCP
Directed by Kim Seong-hun
Cast: Lee Sun-Kyun, Cho Jin-Woong, Jeong Man-Sik, Shin Jung-Keun, Kim Dong-Young, Joo Suk-Tae
A selection of the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes film festival, A HARD DAY is a slick police thriller that follows detective Ko Gun-Soo (Lee Sun-Kyun, both a Hong Sang-Soo regular and a blockbuster frequent flyer) on a lung-bursting race against karma and all sorts of odds and (deadly) ends, as he runs over a stranger on an otherwise deserted, dark highway. Hastily shoving the dead body in his trunk in a moment of wild panic, the detective has just bought himself a world of trouble. What follows is a super-charged mixture of bone-crushing action, chases, black humor, and social satire, proving once again that no one makes smart genre films the way Korea does.
THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS
(명량 – 회오리 바다다) 2014
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 7:00 PM
2014, 128 min, DCP
Directed by Kim Han-Min
Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Cho Jin-Woong, Jin Goo, Lee Jung-Hyun
World Premiere of World Wide Version
The blockbuster to sink all blockbusters (17.6 million admissions and counting), THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS is a massive sea epic that depicts the 1597 Battle of Myeongryang, when a formidable Japanese fleet threatened the very existence of the peaceful peninsula. In a desperate, defiant last stand, Korea’s most celebrated historical hero, Admiral Yi Sun-Shin, portrayed by Choi Min-sik (Besson’s LUCY, Park Chan Wook’s OLDBOY) tries to save his homeland from a dire fate, with only a dozen ships at his command and his fierce determination not to go down without a good fight.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 9:30 PM
2014, 125 min, Digibeta
Directed by Jang Jin
Cast: Cha Seung-won, Oh Jeong-se, Esom, Ko Kyeong-pyo, Ahn Kil-kang, Lee Eon-jeong
After a three-year hiatus, Jang Jin (WELCOME TO DONGMAKGOL), one of Korea’s most inventive writer-directors, is back to subvert the tough-guy detective genre and established notions of Korean masculinity. Detective Ji-wook (Cha Seung-won) is the most bad-ass cop in town, never missing an opportunity to beat the crap out of the bad guys. But deep inside, despite his uber masculine good looks, Ji-wook is tired of being a tough boy. Tortured by the unavowable desire to be a woman, he decides to get a sex change. Things get messy when a gang that Ji-wook had busted starts hurting people close to him: time to prove that, even in high heels, he can still kick some ass.
THE PIRATES (해적: 바다로 간 산적) 2014
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 5:30 PM
2014, 130 min, DCP
Directed by Lee Suk-Hoon
Cast: Kim Nam-Gil, Son Ye-Jin, Yu Hae-Jin, Lee Kyoung-Young, Kim Tae-Woo
Korea’s answer to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a family-friendly, Hollywood-style swashbuckling period comedy, powered by an even-keeled ensemble cast, including Son Ye-Jin (WHITE NIGHT, MY WIFE GOT MARRIED) as a lady pirate and Kim Nam-Gil as the unshaven beau. Set in the 14th century during a crucial period in Korean history, the film follows four rival parties of pirates, bandits, and soldiers, as they collide on a search for a grey whale that swallowed a royal seal of great importance. Enter hard-ass sea wenches, a bad guy with an eyepatch, slapstick aplenty, and an impressive display of special effects. A perfect summer popcorn blockbuster that delivers the fun in spades. Arrrrr!
FUTURELESS THINGS (이것이 우리의 끝이다적) 2014
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 8:00 PM
North American Premiere
2014, 107 min, DCP
Dir. Kim Kyung-Mook
Cast: Kim Su-hyeon, Yoo Yeong, Jeong Hye-in, Gong Myeong, Shin Jae-ha
An affectionate and delightful comedy of manners, structured in 13 episodes, FUTURELESS THINGS chronicles 24 hours in the intertwined lives of young clerks working at the same convenience store, and brings into the spotlight the private joys and tears of usually invisible people. What’s revealed is that there’s nothing ordinary about ordinary existence as we’re thrusted into a fascinating world of part-timers, college dropouts, North Korean defectors, gays and lesbians and other social outcasts, eking out a living in the interstices of ultra consumerist South Korea.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
The New York Korean film festival is back in business! That’s right. What Subway Cinema started in 2001 with When Korean Cinema Attacks! – New York Korean Film Festival, and what has known many incarnations and iterations since then, is back in the funky and freaky curatorial hands of the festival’s original creators, now joining forces with BAMCinematek and the Korea Society to bring you the freshest crop of the record-breaking blockbusters and the must-see recent works of the peninsula’s internationally celebrated auteurs and mavericks. The new New York Korean Film Festival wants to serve as your road map for the best in contemporary Korean cinema.
All films in Korean with English subtitles.
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20-NOVEMBER 23, 2014
BAM Rose Cinema
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
(718) 636-4100 x 1
BAM
| Thursday, November 20 | 7:15 PM GYEONGJU | with Q&A with director Zhang Lu | |
| Friday, November 21 | 7:00 PM THE ATTORNEY | 9:30 PM A HARD DAY | |
| Saturday, November 22 | 7:00 PM THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS | 9:30 PM MAN ON HIGH HEELS | |
| Sunday, November 23 | 5:00 PM THE PIRATES | 8:00 PM FUTURELESS THINGS |
GYEONGJU (경주) 2014^
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 7:15 PM
US Premiere
Director Zhang Lu will be in attendance.
2014, 145 min. DCP
Directed by Zhang Lu
Cast: Park Hae-Il, Shin Min-A, Yoon Jin-Seo, Kim Tae-Hoon, Shin So-Yul, Baek Hyun-Jin, Ryoo Seung-Wan
An “existential ghost story” (Variety) and a poetic, sentimental journey in the vein of Hong Sang-soo’s best films, Zhang Lu’s new film follows the wanderings of Peking University professor Choi-Hyun (WAR OF ARROWS’ Park Hae-Il) as he returns to the city of Gyeongju to attend a friend’s funeral. Spurred by the memory of an obscene picture he saw seven years ago on the wall of a teahouse, he proceeds to go on a strangely aimless quest, fumbling between tantalizing possibilities of erotic satisfaction or perhaps something of a more spiritual nature.
THE ATTORNEY (변호인) 2013^
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 7:00 PM
2013, 127 min, Blu-ray
Director: Yang Woo-Seok
Cast: Song Kang-Ho, Kim Young-Ae, Oh Dal-Su, Kwak Do-Won, Siwan 2013, 127 min, Blu-ray
Based on the life of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun, THE ATTORNEY was this year’s most controversial box office hit, with over 10 million admissions. Set during the days of the military dictatorship, it follows the moral transformation of a pragmatic, mercenary and a tad shady attorney-at-law Song Woo-Seok (star Song Kang-Ho), who only got into the legal profession for the money. But everything changes one day, when he decides to take on the country’s National Security Law by accepting as his client the student activist Jin-Woo (Lim Si-wan), who has been unfairly arrested and tortured by the government.
A HARD DAY (끝까지 간다) 2014^
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 9:30 PM
2014, 111 min, DCP
Directed by Kim Seong-hun
Cast: Lee Sun-Kyun, Cho Jin-Woong, Jeong Man-Sik, Shin Jung-Keun, Kim Dong-Young, Joo Suk-Tae
A selection of the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes film festival, A HARD DAY is a slick police thriller that follows detective Ko Gun-Soo (Lee Sun-Kyun, both a Hong Sang-Soo regular and a blockbuster frequent flyer) on a lung-bursting race against karma and all sorts of odds and (deadly) ends, as he runs over a stranger on an otherwise deserted, dark highway. Hastily shoving the dead body in his trunk in a moment of wild panic, the detective has just bought himself a world of trouble. What follows is a super-charged mixture of bone-crushing action, chases, black humor, and social satire, proving once again that no one makes smart genre films the way Korea does.
THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS (명량 – 회오리 바다다) 2014^
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 7:00 PM
2014, 128 min, DCP
Directed by Kim Han-Min
Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Cho Jin-Woong, Jin Goo, Lee Jung-Hyun
The blockbuster to sink all blockbusters (17.6 million admissions and counting), THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS is a massive sea epic that depicts the 1597 Battle of Myeongryang, when a formidable Japanese fleet threatened the very existence of the peaceful peninsula. In a desperate, defiant last stand, Korea’s most celebrated historical hero, Admiral Yi Sun-Shin, portrayed by Choi Min-sik (Besson’s LUCY, Park Chan Wook’s OLDBOY) tries to save his homeland from a dire fate, with only a dozen ships at his command and his fierce determination not to go down without a good fight.
MAN ON HIGH HEELS (하이힐) 2014^
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 9:30 PM
2014, 125 min, Digibeta
Directed by Jang Jin
Cast: Cha Seung-won, Oh Jeong-se, Esom, Ko Kyeong-pyo, Ahn Kil-kang, Lee Eon-jeong
After a three-year hiatus, Jang Jin (WELCOME TO DONGMAKGOL), one of Korea’s most inventive writer-directors, is back to subvert the tough-guy detective genre and established notions of Korean masculinity. Detective Ji-wook (Cha Seung-won) is the most bad-ass cop in town, never missing an opportunity to beat the crap out of the bad guys. But deep inside, despite his uber masculine good looks, Ji-wook is tired of being a tough boy. Tortured by the unavowable desire to be a woman, he decides to get a sex change. Things get messy when a gang that Ji-wook had busted starts hurting people close to him: time to prove that, even in high heels, he can still kick some ass.
THE PIRATES (해적: 바다로 간 산적) 2014^
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 5:30 PM
2014, 130 min, Blu-ray
Directed by Lee Suk-Hoon
Cast: Kim Nam-Gil, Son Ye-Jin, Yu Hae-Jin, Lee Kyoung-Young, Kim Tae-Woo
Korea’s answer to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a family-friendly, Hollywood-style swashbuckling period comedy, powered by an even-keeled ensemble cast, including Son Ye-Jin (WHITE NIGHT, MY WIFE GOT MARRIED) as a lady pirate and Kim Nam-Gil as the unshaven beau. Set in the 14th century during a crucial period in Korean history, the film follows four rival parties of pirates, bandits, and soldiers, as they collide on a search for a grey whale that swallowed a royal seal of great importance. Enter hard-ass sea wenches, a bad guy with an eyepatch, slapstick aplenty, and an impressive display of special effects. A perfect summer popcorn blockbuster that delivers the fun in spades. Arrrrr!
FUTURELESS THINGS (이것이 우리의 끝이다적) 2014^
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 8:00 PM
North American Premiere
2014, 107 min, DCP
Dir. Kim Kyung-Mook
Cast: Kim Su-hyeon, Yoo Yeong, Jeong Hye-in, Gong Myeong, Shin Jae-ha
An affectionate and delightful comedy of manners, structured in 13 episodes, FUTURELESS THINGS chronicles 24 hours in the intertwined lives of young clerks working at the same convenience store, and brings into the spotlight the private joys and tears of usually invisible people. What’s revealed is that there’s nothing ordinary about ordinary existence as we’re thrusted into a fascinating world of part-timers, college dropouts, North Korean defectors, gays and lesbians and other social outcasts, eking out a living in the interstices of ultra consumerist South Korea.
Celebrate Korea as a center of excellence for classical arts with Juilliard violinist Jiwon Kim. Ms. Kim recently premiered Roberto Sierra’s Duo Concertante for violin and viola as part of the Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall and with the New Juilliard Ensemble, Juilliard Orchestra, and Sejon Soloists. Ms. Kim performs works by Bach (Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003), Ysaÿe (Violin Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 27, No. 4 “Fritz Kreisler”) and Corigliano (The Red Violin Caprices). Jiwon and sister Hyewon Kim, a cellist, perform together Gliere’s Huit Morceaux for violin and cello, Op. 39.
$10 Members, $20 Guests
Explorer/ YPN and above attend this program for FREE with Registration
5:30 PM | Registration
6:00 PM | Performance
This Halloween, we’re exploring the dark corners of Korean cinema with a selection of six genre-bending titles that will transport you to the world of gut-wrenching fear! The world of ghosts, wicked stepmothers, psychopathic serial killers, and webtoons that predict murder! The nihilistic and violent world where revenge is the only purpose of existence and a dish best served often with copious amounts of blood! Featuring canonical thrillers of Korea’s top auteurs Park Chan-wook (STOKER) and Kim Jee-woon (THE LAST STAND) and the pure horror films of directors Kim Yong-gyun and the Jung brothers, this program puts the spotlight on a generation of filmmakers with a taste for intense.
Curated by Subway Cinema and co-presented with The Korea Society.
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 2, 2014
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
The Museum of the Moving Image
Directions:
From Midtown, 10 min. taxi from The Korea Society or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue
| Thursday, October 30 | 7:00 KILLER TOON | ||
| Friday October 31 | 7:00 I SAW THE DEVIL | ||
| Saturday November 1 | 2:30 LADY VENGEANCE | ||
| Sunday November 2 | 2:30 EPITAPH | 5:00 SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE | 8:00 A TALE OF TWO SISTERS |
KILLER TOON (104 min) 2013
더 웹툰 : 예고살인
Thursday, October 30 | 7:00 PM
Redstone Theater
South Korea. Dir. Kim Yong-gyun. 2013, 104 mins. With Lee Si-young, Um Ki- joo. A blockbuster hit in South Korea, this pulse-pounding thrill ride follows a successful web-comic artist (Lee Si-young) who becomes a prime suspect when her cartoons start to prefigure a series of gruesome real life murders. Bursting with out-of-left-field plot twists and imaginative visual flourishes—including dazzlingly inventive transitions from manga-style animations to flesh-and-blood crime scenes—Killer Toon is Korean horror at its most creepily atmospheric.
I SAW THE DEVIL (120 min) 2003
악마를 보았다
Friday, October 31 | 7:00 PM
Redstone Theater
South Korea. Dir. Kim Jee-woon. 2010, 141 mins. With Choi Min-sik, Lee Byung-hun. Splatter maestro Kim Jee-woon pushes K-horror to its limits in this shock-to-the-senses thriller. Hell bent on revenge, a government intelligence agent (Lee Byung-hun) hunts down the psychopath (Oldboy star Choi Min-sik) who murdered his pregnant wife—only instead of killing him outright, instigates a grisly game of cat and mouse, which drags them both through the darkest realms of depravity. This utterly berserk chamber of horrors is leavened by Kim’s wickedly twisted sense of humor and cool, ultra-stylish eye for violence.
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (112 min) 2003
친절한 금자씨
Saturday, November 1 | 2:30 PM
Redstone Theater
Dir. Park Chan-wook. 2005, 112 mins. 35mm. With Lee Yeong-ae, Choi Min-sik, Kim Shi-hoo, Kwon Yea-young. The third and final film of Park’s Vengeance Trilogy, Lady Vengeance follows the story of Lee Geum-ja, a woman imprisoned for a crime she did not commit. Lee seeks revenge on the true murderer, who blackmailed her to take the blame for his crime and kidnapped her daughter. Lady Vengeance features a breakout performance by Lee Yeong-ae in the title role (an American remake starring Charlize Theron has been announced).
Sunday, November 2 | 2:30 PM
Redstone Theater
South Korea. Dir. Jung Beom-sik and Jung Sik. 2007, 98 mins. With Jin Goo, Kim Tae-woo, Kim Bo-kyung. Three bewitching tales of ghosts, medical horrors, and necrophilia comprise this uniquely unnerving horror anthology. Set in 1942, it chronicles mysterious goings-on at a hospital, where a young doctor falls in love with a corpse, a girl is haunted by spirits, and physicians are involved in a series of murders. Packed with breathtaking imagery (including a recurring, creepy crawly motif involving snails), this elegantly moody omnibus film from up-and-coming auteurs the Jung brothers is a supernatural brainteaser that maintains a carefully controlled sense of unease.
SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (129 min) 2002
복수는 나의 것
Sunday, November 2 | 5:00 PM
Redstone Theater
Dir. Park Chan-wook. 2002, 129 mins. 35mm. With Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona, Lim Ji-Eun. The first film in Park’s Vengeance Trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance trails a punky deaf-mute who desperately attempts to secure money for a kidney transplant his ailing sister badly needs. Because his blood type is incompatible and no donors are available, he turns to a group of black-market organ dealers who offer to find a matching kidney in return for one of his, plus ten million won. When the dealers rip him off, Ryu conspires with his girlfriend, a political activist, to kidnap his former boss’ young daughter and ransom her for the ten million won.
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (115 min) 2003
장화, 홍련
Sunday, November 2 | 8:00 PM
Redstone Theater
South Korea. Dir. Kim Jee-woon. 2003, 115 mins. With Im Soo-jung, Moon Geun-young, Yeom Jeong-ah. This harrowing psychological thriller set a new standard for Korean horror in its hauntingly dreamlike evocation of sustained dread. Based on a Korean folktale, it follows two teenage sisters, just released from a mental institution, whose dysfunctional relationship with their icy stepmother manifests itself in a series of horrific incidents, which blur the line between fantasy and reality. The highest grossing K-horror film of all time, A Tale of Two Sisters unleashes a nonstop torrent of blood-splattered, retina-searingly surreal imagery up until the final twist.
This retrospective is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Author Euny Hong discusses, with The Wall Street Journal Online’s columnist Jeffrey Yang, her first nonfiction book, The Birth of Korean Cool, which mixes stories from her childhood in Korea with in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews with government officials and cultural icons. The result is an entertaining look at how South Korea made an unprecedented leap into the 21st century to become a global leader in business, technology, education, and pop culture. The book will be available for sale and a reception and book signing will follow.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | 6:30 PM
Explorers and Above: Free
Members and Students: $10
Nonmembers: $20
Contemporary Culture programs are generously sponsored by CJ
Lea Sneider has a passion for folk art: the ceramics, woodwork, paintings, and sculpture used and enjoyed in everyday life. While accompanying her husband, Richard L. Sneider, to his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Korea in 1974, Mrs. Sneider became an avid explorer of the art galleries and museums of Seoul, Daegu, and Busan. She sought out scholars of the rich tradition of Korean folk art, a field largely unexplored in the West at the time.
After returning to the United States, Mrs. Sneider became an art dealer, curator, and influential mentor, as three of her former assistants went on to become East Asian art teachers in leading US universities: Princeton, Chicago and Brigham Young. Sneider, together with Robert Moes, former Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, produced the first-ever exhibition of Korean folk art in the West, Auspicious Spirits: Korean Folk Paintings and Related Objects, which opened in New York in 1983 and traveled across the country. “The work in Auspicious Spirits has the magic that has come to be expected from Asian art of the first quality,” wrote the New York Times.
This exhibition pays tribute to Lea Sneider, a great patron of Korean art and longtime board member of The Korea Society, with pieces from her personal collection.
October 14—November 21, 2014
Gallery Reception
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | 5-7 PM
The Korea Society Gallery
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
