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Private Tour of An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese & Korean Art @ Christie’s

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Members of The Korea Society were invited to an exclusive private tour of an exhibition that showcased works from renowned private, American, Asian-art collections. Exquisite pieces such as porcelain bottle vases, hanging scrolls, and panel screens from the Silla Dynasty (5th century) through the Joseon Dynasty (19th century) were presented. The highlight of the exhibition was “A Blue-and-white Porcelain Jar with Autumn Grasses” from the first half of the 18th century, one of the finest delicately embellished Korean porcelain jars.

The tour was led by Dr. Young Yang Chung, Chair of the Program Committee at The Korea Society, and Takaaki Murakami, Head of Sale at Christie’s. 

 

Private Tour of An Inquiring Mind:
American Collecting of Japanese & Korean Art

@ Christie’s New York  
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020

 

Monday, April 24, 2017 | 12:30 PM

 

K-Beauty Trends for 2017 with Glow Recipe

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Step into the exclusive and discerningly curated world of Korean beauty at Glow Recipe! Glow Recipe co-founders, Christine Chang and Sarah Lee, recently appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank and their company has received extensive press coverage in outlets such as Vogue, Forbes, Fortune, and Chosun Ilbo. In recognition of their market leadership in beauty content and education, Glow Recipe was also cited by InStyle as one of the “Best Online Sources for Beauty.” Worth Global Style Network, WGSN, dubbed their site as one of its “Top 5 Beauty Blogs to Watch.”

The event will take place at Glow Recipe’s first ever pop-up store, Glow Studio Downtown, in the heart of Soho. Co-founders and beauty industry veterans, Christine and Sarah, will introduce the top K-beauty trends for 2017. After the talk, guests will enjoy a private shopping experience with exclusive discounts, samples and “gifts with purchase.”

All attendees will receive a gift bag!

 

K-Beauty Trends for 2017 with Glow Recipe

Thursday, March 23, 2017 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

@ Glow Studio Downtown
452 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012

 

FREE for The Korea Society Fellow, Patron, and Corporate members with RSVP

Members $15

Non-Members $25

 Join our membership program here!

 If you have any questions, please contact Kloe Byun or (212) 759-7525, ext. 321.

More about the Company

Sarah Lee and Christine Chang co-founded Glow Recipe in November 2014, with the mission to make curated Korean beauty innovations easily accessible to beauty-forward women around the world. In addition to being one of the fastest growing Korean beauty e-commerce sites, Glow Recipe uniquely functions as a brand incubator, helping to foster K-beauty brand partnerships with key US retailers such as Sephora and QVC.

 

 

Young Masters in Concert: Winners of the Onnara Gugak Competition

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The winners of the prestigious Onnara Gugak Competition visit The Korea Society for a special concert of traditional Korean music. The young masters will perform gayageum sanjo, p’iri sangnyeongsanpuri, jeongga suyangsanga, and the famous Arirang medley. The concert also features chunaengjeonon, a court dance inspired by singing nightingales on a fine spring day.

Young Masters in Concert:
Winners of the Onnara Gugak Competition     

 

 

Tickets:
Free for Supporter, Fellow & Patron Members
$10 Individual Members
$20 Non-members

Supporter, Fellow & Patron Members Register Here

 

ARTISTS     
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P’iri – TaeHoon Choi
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Jeongga – SeungRan Kim
Gold Medal, 2016 Onnara Gugak Competition
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Gayageum – JeeHyun Cho
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Dance – SolBee Oh
Gold Medal, 2016 Onnara Gugak Competition

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This performance is presented in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York and the National Gugak Center.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Luz Lanzot or (212) 759-7525, ext. 309.

 

ABOUT THE NATIONAL GUGAK CENTER

Gugak, or traditional Korean music, has been passed down through the ages and represents the breath of Korean history and culture. The National Gugak Center is the principal institution engaged in producing and disseminating traditional Korean music and dance. The Center’s Court Music Orchestra, Folk Music Group, Traditional Dance Theater, and Contemporary Gugak Orchestra actively perform to preserve and develop gugak. Also, the Gugak Research Office was established for academic research on Korea n music.

In addition to performance and research, the Center is engaged in education, and provides lectures for teachers, families, and foreign residents in Korea.

The Center’s museum exhibits 5,000 items representing the history of Korean music. The Namwon National Gugak Center for Changgeuk, the Jindo National Gugak Center (known for its training programs), and the Busan National Gugak Center are affiliated branches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Buddhist Arts of Korea with Dr. Robert Mowry

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This illustrated slide lecture will introduce Korean Buddhist art, focusing on the late Three Kingdoms period (traditionally, 57 BC – AD 668), the Unified Silla period (668–935), and the Koryŏ period (918–1392). Buddhism reached Korea from China in the fourth century; by the Unified Silla period, most members of the royal family were Buddhists, and the royal court patronized the religion, building temples and commissioning sculptures; by the Koryŏ period, the nation had espoused Buddhism as the state religion. Thus, during the millennium from the fourth through the fourteenth century (and the end of the Koryŏ dynasty), Buddhism flourished, as did Buddhist art, so that this era was the golden age of Buddhism in Korea. This lecture will pay particular attention to the sculpture of the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods, to the magnificent temple architecture of the Unified Silla period (including Pulguk-sa and Sŏkkuram in Kyŏngju), and to the refined paintings and sumptuous sutras of the Koryŏ era. The lecture will explore the nature of Chinese influence on Korean Buddhist art, just as it will touch on Korean influence on Japanese Buddhist art.

 

The Buddhist Arts of Korea

Asia Week Lecture by Robert D. Mowry  

 

Thursday, March 16, 2017 | 6:30 PM

FREE Supporter [Formerly Explorer, YPN, Contributor], Fellow & Patron Members

Agenda

6:00 PM | Registration  
6:30 PM | Lecture

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$10 Individual Members
$15 Non-members

 

If you have any questions, please contact Jahee Yu  or (212) 759-7525 ext 301.

Space is Limited. Early Registration Requested.

 

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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.

About the Speaker

2016 03 17 gallery-talk speakerRecently retired after more than 25 years as a senior curator at the Harvard Art Museums (H/AM), Robert D. Mowry was also the university’s Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art (2000-2013) and Head of the Department of Asian Art (1991-2013). He continues to serve as Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Under his stewardship, Harvard added numerous and very significant works to what already was one of the finest collections of Asian art in the Western world. Mowry was instrumental in acquiring several renowned collections as well as important endowments for the H/AM, over and above annual fundraising efforts for specific acquisitions and exhibitions. The National Museum of Korea has named Robert Mowry its Senior International Fellow for 2013, and he is also senior editor of its scholarly journal, The Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology.  

 

Mowry’s passion for Asian art and culture was sparked by his two-year service in the Peace Corps in Korea more than 40 years ago (1967-1969). He taught English at Seoul National University, before returning to the University of Kansas, where he completed his graduate work with Chu-tsing Li and Laurence Sickman, taking his degrees with honors. Fluent in Mandarin, he spent two years as a curatorial assistant and translator in the Department of Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum, Taipei (1975-1977). His career is distinguished with many pioneering leadership roles and ground-breaking scholarship. He was founding Curator of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at The Asia Society, New York (1980-1986), and, before that, Assistant Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum (1977-1980).

Mowry is a popular speaker, consultant and author in his many areas of expertise, which include Chinese and Korean ceramics, Chinese painting of the Song, Yuan and Ming periods, Chinese jade, Chinese scholar’s materials, and Korean paintings. Among his many articles, catalogues, textbooks and books, perhaps his best known is Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400 (Harvard University Art Museums, 1996), the catalogue for an exhibition that he curated and that opened at Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum in December 1995 and then toured nationally in 1996. He also is the curator of and principal catalogue author for Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars’ Rocks (1997), another exhibition he organized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gallery Opening: Finding Dignity The Art of Hyong Nam Ahn

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An award-winning sculptor and installation artist, Ahn incorporates lights, sounds, and movement into his work and seeks to find the human spirit within the results of mankind’s experiments with Utopia.

 

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Dongwha Cultural Foundation.

 

February 2 – April 28, 2017


Gallery Opening

Thursday, February 2, 2017 | 6 PM

 

FREE with RSVP

The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022 (Corner of 57th & 3rd)

Gallery Hours: M-F, 10 AM-5 PM

 

 For more information, please contact Jahee Yu or call at 212-759-7525 ext. 301.

 

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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.

 

 

K-Beauty Guru: Charlotte Cho from SOKO GLAM

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Dive deep into the K-Beauty world with Soko Glam co-founders Charlotte and Dave Cho. The evening will begin with a panel discussion led by Vogue editor Monica Kim about Chos’ journey with Soko Glam and The Klog, and how their company has become the destination for everything K-Beauty.

The first thirty to register for the event will receive a goodie bag with Korean beauty products and a discount code to use on SOKO GLAM .

Three lucky guests win a signed copy of Charlotte’s book, The Little Book of Skin Care: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin.

K-Beauty Guru: Charlotte Cho from SOKO GLAM

Thursday, November 17, 2016 | 6 PM

 

About the Speakers

Charlotte Cho
An expert on all things Korean skin care, Charlotte Cho is the board-certified esthetician behind Soko Glam, a beauty and lifestyle shop that offers the best Korean beauty products. Charlotte has been featured in national and international publications including the New York Times, Vogue, Allure, Marie Claire, Into the Gloss, and Refinery29. She is the author of The Little Book of Skincare: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin (HarperCollins). With Korean beauty culture exploding in popularity, Charlotte has been sought out for her expert advice and insight on the tenets of Korean skin care. She writes for publications such as Elle.com and has partnered with companies such as Sephora, Birchbox, Urban Outfitters, and AmorePacific as their K-beauty expert.

 

Dave Cho
Dave Cho is Co-Founder and CEO of Soko Glam, a lifestyle brand and ecommerce beauty destination that offers the best selection of Korean beauty products and content. A military veteran with over a decade of experience building and leading teams, Dave spent more than eight years on active duty in the U.S. Army, including a deployment to Iraq. Dave is a graduate of Columbia Business School, TechStars Patriot Bootcamp, and was selected as a 2015 Lang Fund venture.

 

14th Annual New York Korean Film Festival

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The 14th Annual New York Korean Film Festival Announces Upcoming Program for November 11th to November 13th, 2016 at the Museum of the Moving Image.

 

 

(New York, October 26, 2016) The Korea Society’s New York Korean Film Festival returns to New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image on November 11 to 13 for its yearly celebration of the best in Korean cinema. This 14th edition of the Festival focuses on the family, as moms, dads, children, and grandparents struggle to survive the zombie apocalypse, law school exams, ambitious aristocrats, and secret societies. South Korea’s 2016 Oscar submission and American premieres make for a not-to-be-missed showcase of one of the world’s most dynamic national cinemas.

 

 

 

ALL SCREENINGS HELD AT

THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

The Museum is located at 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY, 11106

 

 

 

OPENING NIGHT

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Train to Busan (부산행)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 | 7 PM
Korea, Dir. Yeon Sang-ho, 2016, 118min, With Gong Yoo, Kim Soo-An, Jeong Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok

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The Map against the World (고산자: 대동여지도)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 2 PM
Korea, Dir. Kang Woo-Suk, 2016, 129 min, With Cha Seung-Won, You Jun-Sang, Kim In-Kwon, Nam Ji-Hyun

 

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2014 11 20 BAM TICKETS

Phantom Detective (탐정 홍길동: 사라진마을)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 4:30 PM
Korea, Dir. Jo Sung-hee, 2016, 125 min, With Lee Je-hoon, Go Ara, Kim Seong-Gyoon

 

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2014 11 20 BAM TICKETS

Sori: Voice from the Heart (로봇, 소리)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 7 PM
New York Premiere
Korea, Dir. Lee Ho-Jae, 2016, 117 min, With Lee Sung-Min, Lee Hee-Jun, Lee Honey

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2014 11 20 BAM TICKETS

Familyhood (굿바이 싱글)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 2 PM
New York Premiere
Korea, 2016, Dir. Kim Tae-Gon, 119 mins, With Kim Hye-Soo, Ma Dong-Seok

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The Queen of Crime (범죄의 여왕)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 4:30 PM
North America Premiere
Korea, 2016, 130 mins, Dir. Lee Yo-Sup, With Park Ji-Young, Jo Bok-Rae, Kim Dae-Hyeon

 

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The Age of Shadows (밀정)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 7 PM
Korea, Dir. Kim Jee-Woon, 2016, 140min, with Song Kang-Ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-Min

 

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ABOUT THE KOREA SOCIETY

The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea.

 

 

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ABOUT MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

Museum of the Moving Image (movingimage.us) advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. In its stunning facilities—acclaimed for both its accessibility and bold design—the Museum presents exhibitions; screenings of significant works; discussion programs featuring actors, directors, craftspeople, and business leaders; and education programs which serve more than 50,000 students each year. The Museum also houses a significant collection of moving-image artifacts.

 

 

 

Major support provided by the Korea Foundation.

 

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

 

 

 

 

Lucite Tokki @ TKS

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Seoul-based female pop duo Lucite Tokki returns to The Korea Society to perform selections from their new album, L+.

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with
Sun Young Kim and  Ye Jin Cho      

 

Tickets: $10 for Members, $20 for Guests

Explorer Level and YPN Members Register Here

 

6:00 PM | Registration
6:30 PM | Performance

 

If you have any questions, please contact Luz Lanzot or (212) 759-7525, ext. 309.

 

 

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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.

 

About the Artists

Lucite Tokki  is a Seoul-based female pop duo formed in 2005. The group consists of Sun Young Kim and Ye Jin Cho. They first met in college during a music-writing course. Over a decade later, they have released four full albums and six EPs, and have a worldwide following.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prometheus: The Art of Tchah Sup Kim

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Tchah Sup Kim has experimented with a wide variety of genres and methods, including pop art, geometric abstraction, mail art, readymade objects, environmental art, and minimalism. Although the styles and materials have changed over time, Kim’s artwork always expresses a quest for the transcendent—as well as a critique of the Western-centric perspective.

Born in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kim and his family moved to Gyeongju, Korea, in 1944.  He graduated from Seoul National University in 1963 and represented Korea at the Biennale de Paris in 1966. In 1974, a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the Pratt Institute in New York.

Kim’s work was exhibited in the National Print Exhibition, 20th Biennial: 30 Years of American Printmaking at the The Brooklyn Museum (1976), Prints: Acquisitions, 1973-1976 at the Museum of Modern Art (1977), and Six Artists from Korea at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery (1995). The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwachon, Korea, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cincinnati Art Museum all include Kim’s work in their permanent collections.

 

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Dongwha Cultural Foundation.

 

October 13, 2016 – January 6, 2017


Gallery Opening

Thursday, October 13, 2016 | 6 PM

 

FREE with RSVP

The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022 (Corner of 57th & 3rd)

Gallery Hours: M-F, 10 AM-5 PM

 

 For more information, please contact Jahee Yu or call at 212-759-7525 ext. 301.

 

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SYMPOSIUM FOR KOREAN ART CURATORS

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The Korea Society and the Korea Foundation organized the Symposium for Korean Art Curators from Friday, September 30, to Saturday, October 1, on the theme of “Challenges in Presenting Korean Arts and Culture at Museums in the United States.” The event consisted of a one-day conference and a one-day field trip to Korean arts and culture events around the New York City area.

This symposium examined ongoing challenges and rewards in presenting Korean arts in the United States and strengthen networks among Korean art curators and relevant scholars. 

 

 

SYMPOSIUM FOR KOREAN ART CURATORS

SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 1, 2016

 

Day 1: Friday, September 30

9:00 AM | Opening Ceremony

10:00-12:00 PM | Acquisition: Sustainable Korean Arts and Culture: Share examples of the acquisition of Korean artworks of high quality and exchange opinions on assuring the presence and sustainability of Korean arts and culture at U.S. museums 

Session Chair: Soyoung Lee (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Presenters: Joan Cummins (Brookyln Museum), Sooa McCormick (Cleveland Museum of Art), Daisy Y. Wang (Peabody Essex Museum)

2:00-4:00 PM | Exhibition and Education: Creative Ways to Promote Korean Arts and Culture Share experiences about recent exhibitions and educational programs/ Exchange ideas on more effective ways to introduce Korean arts and culture to local audiences 

Session Chair: J. Keith Wilson (Freer and Sackler Galleries)

Presenters: Hyonjeong Kim Han (Asian Art Museum), Ann R. Kitagawa (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), Thomas R. Vick (Freer and Sackler Galleries), Souyeon Woo (The National Museum of Korea)

Day 2: Saturday, October 1 Field Trips

The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens (Chaekgeori) at Charles B. Wang Center of Stony Brook University

New exhibition at Korean Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art


 

 If you have any questions, please contact Kloe Byun or (212) 759-7525, ext. 352.

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