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Film Comment Selects: Intruders

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The Korea Society teams up with The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the New York Asian Film Festival to present the New York premiere of the horror/comedy Intruders, and its director, Noh Young-seok.

 

A twisty blackly comic suspense thriller from South Korea, where sometimes it seems like they do this sort of thing better than anyone else. Looking for peace and quiet, a screenwriter rents a winter cabin in a remote country backwater to concentrate on his latest project. On the bus he does his best to rebuff a talkative character fresh out of prison, who unfortunately gets off at the same destination. Throw in a group of obnoxious kids on a ski vacation in the cabin next door, a pair of menacing game hunters who turn out to be related to the ex-con, and a shifty cop and you can see where things are headed, right? Maybe, maybe not. In his second effort, indie director Noh Young-seok shows he’s a talent to watch out for. 

 

Director Noh Young-seok in person on February 20 !

Thursday, February 20, 2014  |  6:30 PM
Thursday, February 27, 2014  |  4:15 PM

 

Film Society Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
(212) 875-5600

 

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

Daytime Drinking

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On February 21st, 2014, The Korea Society hosted a public screening of Daytime Drinking, Director Noh Young-seok’s breakthrough first film, at the New York Film Academy’s Battery Place Campus. After the film, the director answered questions for the audience on his career, filmmaking techniques, and plans for future projects.

 

 

Friday, February 21, 2014 | 9 AM

 

If you have any questions, please contact Estefanía Lee  or (212) 759-7525, ext. 313.

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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Gallery Talk: Korean Contemporary Ceramics

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Fresh from participating in the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, artist Young-mi Kim reports on her three-month journey to kilns, studios, and ceramic heritage sites throughout Korea.

 

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 | 6 PM

 

This program is now FREE to all guest, but please RSVP. Limited seats available.

 

 

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

Divided Families

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Join us for a private screening of Divided Families, a recently completed documentary about Korean Americans’ search for lost relatives in North Korea, 60 years after Korea became a divided nation. During the Korean War and its aftermath, hundreds and thousands of family members were separated in the chaos of the war, and then by the border that was drawn establishing North and South Korea. More than half a century later, there are an estimated 100,000 first generation Korean Americans with immediate family members in North Korea. This documentary is their urgent story, as time is running out for this generation to reunite with their family and loved ones.

Directors Jason Ahn, Eugene Chung, and producer Jieun Baek will be present to introduce and discuss the making of this documentary which involved dozens of production crew filming in three countries over four years.

 

(50 minutes, 2013)
Directed by Jason Ahn and Eugene Chung
Produced by Jieun Baek, Evangel Fung, and Jennifer Tsay

 

 

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | 6:30 PM

 

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, 8th floor
New York, NY 10022

 

 

 

Co-presented with KoreanAmericanStory.org

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

 Contemporary Culture programs are generously sponsored by CJ

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Confucian Personalities: Yi Hwang- one of two pillars of Neo-Confucianism during the Choson period–a scholar, educator, and strict interpreter of Zhu Xi.

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Yi Hwang: one of two pillars of Neo-Confucianism during the Chosŏn period–a scholar, educator, and strict interpreter of Zhu Xi.

 

 

The Kayagŭm Virtuoso Kim Gye-Ok

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Known as the national instrument of Korea, the kayagŭm is played in many vocal and instrumental genres. Maestro Kim will perform both 25-string and 33-string kayagŭm and present the distinctively different virtuosic folk music from different provinces in Korea. The performance will be accompanied by one of  Maestro Kim’s most well known pupils, Ramie Seo.

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | 6:30 PM

If you have any questions, please contact Estefanía Lee or (212) 759-7525, ext. 313.

 

Members $10

Non-members $20

Students $5

 

 

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Made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

 

Global Korea: Juilliard @ TKS with Caroline M. Johnston

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Performing viola and cello selections from Danzi, Beethoven, Clarke, Hindemith and Piston, violinist Caroline Johnston  wows our holiday audience. Johnston, a Korean American adoptee, toured Korea as a young adult to widespread media acclaim. She has performed since across Asia, Europe and the United States, from Victoria Hall to Carnegie Hall, Alice Tulley, Kitara, and Symphony Hall Boston. Cellist Hamilton Berry, who has taught and performed from Sao Paolo’s favelas to Carnegie Hall, accompanies Johnston.

 

 

 

$10 Members, $20 Guests, $5 Students

Explorer/ YPN and above attend this program for FREE with Registration

5:30 PM | Registration

6:00 PM | Performance

 

K-Literature Book Discussion Group

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2013 10 01 KLitBookClub icon3Lovers of literature and history are invited to join a book discussion group reading three novels by some of Korea’s best known writers, each about a different time period in Korea’s modern history: the Japanese Occupation, the Korean War, and the post-War period.

 

October 1 | Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim
October 29 | The Rainy Spell by Heung-gil Yun, translated by Ji Moon Suh
December 3 | Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim

 

Dr. Jin Young Choi, a translator and former professor of English literature, will guide our informal discussions of these novels, sharing her first-hand experiences during these turbulent and transformative times and providing a valuable historical and cultural context to our discussions. Snacks will be served.

All books are available in paperback and online at Amazon.com.

 

Tuesdays, October 1, October 29, and December 3 @ 6:30 PM

Advanced registration or ticket purchase required for this event. Space is limited.

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About the BooksAbout Dr. Jin Young Choi

About the Books

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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim

Celebrated novelist, essayist, documentary filmmaker, and professor of literature Richard E. Kim follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire.

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The Rainy Spell by Yun Heung-gil  (Translated by Suh Ji Moon)

The Rainy Spell examines the horrors of the Korean War through the eyes of a child living with his two grandmothers who have sons on opposing sides of the war.

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Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)

Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, Please Look After Mom is about a family’s search for their mother after she is separated from her husband in the Seoul subway station. It is both a picture of contemporary life in Korea as well as a universal story of family love.

Dr. Jin Young Choi was a professor of American literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul for twenty-seven years. She also taught at a college in North Carolina for several years following her graduate studies in the U.S. Dr. Choi has been teaching Korean literature and culture at TKS for several years.

She has translated several Korean literary works, including Kim Won-Il’s The Wind and the River, as well as short stories and children’s tales. A graduate of Seoul National University, Ms. Choi received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Seoul National University.

 

Elegance and Tradition in Korean Furniture

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Dr. Lyndel King, Director and Chief Curator at the University of Minnesota’s Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, introduces traditional Korean furniture with photos from the museum’s collection of Korean furniture, the largest in the world with over 200 pieces. Her presentation explores the traditional Korean home and interior furniture, highlighting its craftsmanship, many specialized uses, and regional differences.


Dr. King first became interested in Korean traditional furniture when she met Dr. Edward Wright in the early 1980s. Dr. Wright had built an extensive collection of traditional Korean furniture, ceramics, and screens during his long service as an administrator of the Korean-American Educational (Fulbright) Commission in Seoul between 1967 and 1979. Following his bequest of the collection to the museum in 1988, Dr. King curated several exhibitions of the Weisman’s collection of Korean furniture.


Thursday, November 21, 2013 | 6:30 PM

 

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YPNs, Explorers, and above |  Free

Members | $10

Non-members | $20

 

Gallery Talk

Elegance and Tradition in Korean Furniture

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Lyndel King, Director and Chief Curator of Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

 

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This program and the accompanying exhibit is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

K-Art: Splendors from Silla to Seoul

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The Korea Society, in collaboration with The College Group at the Met, invites undergraduate and graduate students to kick off the weekend with a fun and festive evening exploring the treasures of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s special exhibition Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom. Enjoy performances and activities featuring both traditional and K-pop music.

Advanced registration required. RSVP to metcollegegroup@metmuseum.org. Space is limited; first come, first served. This event is free with museum admission and a valid student I.D.

 

Friday, November 15, 2013

6:30 – 9:00 PM

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Please use the Fifth Avenue and Eighty-First Entrance and the event will take place at the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education Show location on map

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Above: Crown (detail), second half of 5th century. Korea; Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.–A.D. 935). Gold and jade; H. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm). Gyeongju National Museum, National Treasure 191

 

Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom is made possible by Samsung.

Additional support is provided by the Korea Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Korea, and Gyeongju National Museum, Korea.