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Our Homeland

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2013 07 27 OurHomeland webiconDirected by Yang Yong-hi. With Sakura Ando, Arata Iura, and Yang Ik-joon. The Korea Society and Asian American International Film Festival co-present this politically profound film made by Japanese Korean director, Yong Yong-hi. Her father was a patriotic Korean living in Japan, sympathetic to North Korea. He  sent his three Japanese-born sons to North Korea by ‘Repatriation program’, believing the promise of a paradise. This movie starts after 25 years when Sungho, one of her brothers, is finally allowed to return to Japan for three months to get medical treatments. This film intertwines agony of her, and her family and hurt one another based on ideology, nationality and ethnicity but realize within the boundaries of family anything can be overcome gracefully. 2012, 100 mins. Followed by director’s Q & A with audiences.

 

Co-presented with Asian American International Film Festival @ Asia Society

Our Homeland (Ga-zok-ui Na-ra)
(100 mins, 2012)
Directed by Yang Yong-hi
Cast: Sakura Ando, Arata Iura, Yang Ik-joon

 

Saturday, August 3, 2013 
7 PM

 

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

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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.

 

Mama O’s Premium Kimchi

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2013 07 2027 Kimchi at AMNH TV-screen iconThe American Museum of Natural History’s current exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture explores the complex and intricate food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork. In sections devoted to growing, transporting, cooking, eating, tasting, and celebrating, the exhibition looks at the many ways that food is produced and moved throughout the world. A working kitchen at the museum, featuring cooking demonstrations and food samples based on a different theme every two weeks, enhances the experience of food and flavor for visitors to the exhibit. For two Saturdays in July, during the two week pickling theme beginning on July 15, The Korea Society brings Kimchi to the museum!

 

 

Saturday, July 20; 12:00 to 4:00 PM                                                

Mama O’s Premium Kimchi @ The American Museum of Natural History

Kheedim Oh, the founder of Mama O’s and his mother will demonstrate how to make kimchi, from the beginning to the end.

 

Saturday, July 27; 10:30 to 5:30 PM                                                

Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi @ The American Museum of Natural History

Learn how fun, easy, and seasonal kimchi making can be for kids and the entire family with Lauryn Chun, founder of Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi and author of The Kimchi Cookbook.

 

Journey to North and South Korea

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2013 07 18 MarkEdwardHarris GalleryTalk iconIn commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has published North Korea and South Korea, books that capture the two drastically different realities of the divided peninsula.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

 

6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments
6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A

Journey to North and South Korea 

with Mark Edward Harris
Photographer

 

 

International Film Premiere of Secretly Greatly

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The Korea Society’s Young Professionals’ Network is invited to the New York Asian Film Festival 2013’s closing night presentation of Secretly Greatly. Based on the webtoon series “Covertness,” Secretly Greatly stars three of Korea’s hottest young TV stars (Kim Soo-Hyun, Lee Hyun-Woo, Park Ki-Woong) as a trio of elite North Korean sleeper agents who have lived undercover in South Korea for so long that they now believe their own cover stories as an average joe, a wannabe singer and a high school student. Finally they get their first mission: kill each other. If they don’t get the job done, Pyongyang will send a hit team to take care of things. Secretly Greatly broke the Korean box-office record for most ticket sales by a Korean film in its first day of release earlier this month.


Join us with the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s New Wave members (under 40 film supporters) for this entertaining action-comedy and, following the film, an audience Q&A with the film’s director, Jang Cheol-Soo. The YPN’s discounted ticket price of $10 also includes popcorn and soda!

Thursday, July 11, 2013 | 8:40 PM*

*Film starts at 8:40 PM, Please allow 15 minutes to check in.

 

Young Professionals’ Night
An Evening with the Film Society at Lincoln Center:
the International Film Premiere of Secretly Greatly

 

Walter Reade Theater

VIP Check-in
165 W. 65th St.
Lincoln Center

Advanced ticket purchase through The Korea Society is required to receive discounted tickets. Space is limited. At the theater, please proceed to the New Wave/Korea Society VIP registration desk for check in.

 

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 Young Professionals’ programs are generously sponsored by SK.

 

The House

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2013 06 29 TheHouse webiconThe Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new  contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series 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. Korean with English subtitles.

 

The House(Jip)
2010, 82 min

Ga-yeong, who lives in a shabby district that hasn’t kept pace with modernization and industrialization, discovers a spirit shares her house.

Directed by Park Mi-sun, Park Eun-young, Ban Joo-young, Lee Jae-ho, Lee Hyun-jin

Cast: Kim Kkot-bi, Ha Jae-sook, Choi Jung-ho, Choi Ha-na

*Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2011)

*Busan International Film Festival – Wide Angle (2011)

 

Saturday, June 29, 2013 
1 PM

 

The Museum of the Moving Image

35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria

From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train Outbound to 36th Avenue

 
Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image (www.movingimage.us)

 

 

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Made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

 

 

 

Green Days

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2013 06 22 GreenDays webiconThe Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new  contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series 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. Korean with English subtitles.

 

Green Days (Sojunghan narui kkum) 
2011, 98 min

After falling at a race, Yi-rang fears losing, but recovers her stride with the help of classmate Chul-Soo. This warm-hearted animation encourages one to have hope and courage in the face of dreams.

Directed by Ahn Jae-Hoon, Han Hye-Jin
Cast: Park Shin-Hye, Song Chang-Eui, Oh Yeon-Seo

 

*Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2011)

*London Korean Film Festival (2010)

*Busan International Film Festival – Wide Angle (2011)

 

Saturday, June 22, 2013 
1 PM

 

The Museum of the Moving Image

35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria

From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train Outbound to 36th Avenue

 
Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image (www.movingimage.us)

 

 

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Made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

 

 

 

The Hidden Beauty of Korea Captured by Five Artists from Abroad 1920s-1950s

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The exhibition features the etchings and woodblock prints produced by five artists from abroad: Kawase Hasui (1883–1957, Japan), Paul Jacoulet (1896–1960, France), Elizabeth Keith (1887–1956, Scotland), Lilian May Miller (1895–1943, America) and Willy Seiler (1903–Unknown, Germany) at the turn of twentieth century. The exhibit presents the redefining of the beauty of Korea through people, things, and scenes that charmed artists from different cultures.

June 20– August 31, 2013

 

Gallery Opening
 Thursday, June 20, 2013
6 PM

 

The Korea Society

Gallery Open Daily, M-F, 10 AM-5 PM

 

 

All About K-Pop

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2013 05 22 KpopTalk icon

The Korea Society examines the growth of K-Pop and the landmarks for Korean wave in the United States, such as Psy starring in a Super Bowl ad, Girls Generation performing at Madison Square Garden, and 2NE1’s Best New Band award from MTV Iggy.

 

All About K-Pop

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

6:00 PM | Reception and Registration
6:30 PM | Discussion

Admission fee: $20 (non-members) & $10 (members)

with

Nicole Curry, Contestant at ‘K-Pop Star 2’
Christina Love Lee, Contestant at ‘Super Star K 3’
Johnny Noh, Founder & CEO, Allkpop.com & Tokyohive.com
Jeff Benjamin, Journalist, Billboard.com

Moderated by Jeff Yang, Columnist, Wall Street Journal

 

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

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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 of Korean realists who played a pivotal role in the development and enrichment of Korean photography as an art form. The exhibition marks the first time these original black and white photographs have been mounted in the United States and fills a chasm not only in the visual archive of modern Korean photography but also in the visual vernacular of the period.

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Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992 reveals everyday life through exuberant visual diversity and documents anthropologically important aspects of Korea’s nearly forgotten recent past. The photographs offer a counter-narrative of ordinary lives during this turbulent period of Korean history. These photographs are documentary, but at the same time aesthetically charged, illustrating and illuminating the traces and trails of Korean life as seen through Korean eyes.

The selected photographs are on loan from one of the first public photography museums in Korea, Dong-Gang Museum of Photography, and from several of the photographers and their estates. The thirteen photographers represented in the exhibition are Koo Wangsam, Lim Eungsik, Lee Haesun, Lee Hyungrok, Kim Hanyong, Han Youngsoo, Chung Bumtae, Choi Minsik, Joo Myungduk, Hong Suntae, Yuk Myungshim, Kim Kichan, and Kim Soonam.

This exhibition is the product of a joint effort between The Korea Society and an independent curator, Chang Jae Lee. Traces of Life will be on view in the Korea Society Gallery from September 19 through January 31, 2013. This exhibition, along with other exhibitions created by The Korea Society, is available for loan to universities and museums and other qualifying institutions in the United States. Please click below for booking information or contact Jinyoung Jin.

September 19-January 31, 2013

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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.

Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992 Catalogue Available:
Edited by Chang Jae Lee
Published by Noonbit Publishing Co., September 2012
pp. 136 (in English 110 pp. including 54 plates, in Korean 26 pp.)
Foreword by Jinyoung Jin (TKS Gallery Director), introduction by David R. McCann (Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University), contributing essay by Sun Il (Curator of the Seoul National University Museum), and curatorial essay and afterword by Chang Jae Lee (Curator of Traces of Life).

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950 Third Avenue@57th Street

K-Town Up Close

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K-town up close What makes K-Town one of the most vibrant cultural neighborhoods in New York City?

Mother and daughter Hae Wha Pak and Christina Jang, owners of the popular K-Town restaurants Kunjip and New Wonjo, respectively, share the history, successes, and challenges that have transformed 32nd Street from a one restaurant neighborhood in 1979 to the densest restaurant block in NYC today (with thirty-three restaurants!). These two generations of K-Town restaurateurs provide an up-close and personal look at K-Town. They will be joined by Dr. Jinbae Park, designer and business consultant to numerous restaurants and the Korean Cuisine Globalization Committee, who first visited K-Town in 1990 while a student at Pratt.

Elaine Louie, a writer for the New York Times’ Dining, Home and Styles sections and a past James Beard Journalism Awardee for a series of stories on ethnic foods, will be guiding our conversation on Korea Town.

 

A sampling of some of the street’s specialties concludes the evening!

The ticket price includes the new Korean Restaurant Guide New York.

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@ The Korea Society

950 Third Avenue@57th Street


Presented in collaboration with The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program’s 29th Social Research conference titled Food and Immigrant Life.