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K-Quick with Judy Joo

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Chef, restaurateur, writer, and connoisseur of Korean fried chicken, Judy Joo has gained widespread acclaim for her vibrant approach to Korean cuisine. Now, she presents her latest collection of fresh, exciting recipes in K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less.

K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less focuses on recipes that blend creative flair with accessibility, ensuring every mealtime is a success. Showcasing a variety of quick-to-prepare dishes alongside a selection of traditional recipes, K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less offers a solution for the adventurous foodie who’s strapped for time, ensuring that there’s truly a dish for every mood. Each recipe features clear, time-specific instructions, and Judy Joo will guide you through the process as you create delicious Korean treats in under 30 minutes. With K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less, it’s never been this easy to bring the essence of Korean cuisine into your home.

In her conversation with Juju Chang, an Emmy® Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline,” Judy Joo will discuss her career and the latest book.

 

K-Quick with Judy Joo

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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About the Speaker:

 

As a Korean-American, French-trained chef based in London and New York, Judy Joo’s culinary expertise spans the globe. Joo is an expert in cooking and has specialties in pastry and Korean cuisine. She is also a renowned television star, an international restaurateur, a columnist for OK! Magazine and a cookbook author. As one of four UK Iron Chefs and the host of Cooking Channel’s ‘Korean Food Made Simple,’ (S1 & S2) J00 brings robust flavors from her Korean ancestry into home kitchens each week.
 

 

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Juju Chang is an Emmy® Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America” and “20/20.” Chang’s decades-long career has been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and Peabody awards. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards.

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Soju Party with Irene Yoo

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Drinking is an essential part of Korean culture, one that’s guided by a complex web of unspoken rules, deep tradition, and lots and lots of food.

With Soju Party, food writer, chef, and co-owner of Brooklyn’s Orion Bar Irene Yoo has written the book on drinking like a Korean. She introduces the classic Korean alcohols and how Koreans typically like to drink them and serves up unique cocktail recipes featuring Korean-inspired riffs and nostalgic twists. Of course, you can’t drink without eating, and there are plenty of recipes for tasty anju (drinking foods). In addition to recipes, Yoo explores the history of Korean drinking, with illustrations explaining proper serving and drinking etiquette, drinking games, food pairings, and more.

A book that promises late nights (don’t worry, there’s a section on hangovers!), this is a party on the page.

In her conversation with Christina Chaey, Irene Yoo discusses her career and the first book.

 

 

Soju Party with Irene Yoo

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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Irene Yoo is a food writer, recipe developer, creator (Yooeating), YouTube cohost (KA KA Studio), and the chef and co-owner of Orion Bar in Brooklyn. Raised in Los Angeles and Seoul, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and previously worked as a photo and video producer for Food Network. Her recipes and essays have appeared on foodnetwork.com, Food52, and Food & Wine, and she has spoken about Korean culinary history at The Korea Society and the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD). She has been featured in The New York Times, The Korea Times, and Bon Appétit.

 

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Christina Chaey is a recipe developer, home cook, and writer based in Brooklyn. She writes a popular Substack newsletter called Gentle Foods where she shares achievable recipes that inspire and essays that explore the intersection of cooking and mental health. She is currently writing her first cookbook, Gentle Foods, which will be published in 2026.

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An Evening of JeongGa

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Step into the world of JeongGa (正歌), the refined vocal art once cherished by scholars and nobles of Joseon Dynasty. Join us for an evening of lyrical elegance with ALeum Lee‘s resonant voice, accompanied by WooSung Jung on DaeGeum (flute) and HeeJung Han on HaeGeum (string instrument). Lee will also share thoughtful reflections on the origins and evolution of GaGok, Korean lyric song cycles, offering personal and refreshing insights into the meaning of Korean traditional vocal music today.

 

 

An Evening of JeongGa

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)

 

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ALeum Lee is a Korean traditional vocalist and creative artist, and Certified Practitioner of National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 30 (Gagok). With a deep understanding of the essence of traditional vocal music, she continuously explores the emotionality, vocal techniques, and structural elements of yeochang jeongga (female-sung jeongga), while engaging in experimental works rooted in this heritage.

Lee has received the KBS Korean Traditional Music Award for Vocal Music, and was selected as a Surim New Wave Artist (2023–2024) and a Fringe Artist at the 2023 Korean Improvised Music Festival, affirming her contribution to the contemporary expansion and creative potential of jeongga. She has also released several recordings, including the full-length albums Soil (2024), Space of Poetry (2021), and Areum Lee’s Jeongga (2019), along with numerous singles.

 


WooSung Jung is an accomplished musician who has inherited the Daegeum Jeongak, a Korean Intangible Cultural Heritage. He plays various wind instruments including the daegeum, sogeum, danso, and taepyeongso, as well as percussion instruments like the janggu and buk. He has worked as a traditional music performer and educator in Korea, China, and Chicago in the United States, where he has operated local ensembles such as the danso ensemble, instrumental ensemble, janggu ensemble, and military band (chwita).

Currently, Jung is active in the New York/New Jersey area, performing at various venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Jordan Hall. Additionally, he teaches a diverse group of students through online classes, reaching not only various regions within the United States but also Korea, China, Japan, and Australia.

 


HeeJung Han is a professional haegeum (two stringed fiddle) performer dedicated to promoting Korean music through recordings and concerts. Han graduated from Chu-Gye University of Art, and she was selected as the NYFA/NYSCA Fellow for two years in a row.

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Hong Seon Jang | Minor Landscaping

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Sculpted Voices | Kyungmin Park & Jinsik Yoo

Sculpted Voices | Kyungmin Park & Jinsik Yoo
September 10-December 5, 2025 | Opening Exhibition: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 5-7 PM |
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With his installations, Hong Seon Jang transforms industrial products and found objects in order to explore the usually recognizable surroundings. As their conventional function and values are reinterpreted, distorted, and subverted, Jang investigates opposing concepts and contrasting ideas, such as authority and subordination, internal and external dynamics, and the interplay between security and threat. Through his art, Jang invites viewers to re-examine how symbols acquire cultural and ideological significance, and how their meanings transform in displacement.

 

Opening Reception

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 5-7 PM

 

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Hong Seon Jang has widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Wellin Museum of Art, NY; SHCM Museum of Art, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Meet Factory, Czech Republic; Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA; Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, NY; the Cohen Gallery at Brown University, RI; Smack Mellon, NY; McColl Center for Visual Art, NC; The Soap Factory, MN; The Islip Art Museum, NY; Artspace, CT; Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, and Hangaram Art Museum, South Korea. His awards and residencies include:  ISCP Ground Floor Program, AHL-AAW Solo Exhibition Grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, NY; Art Council Korea Grant, Korea; MSA, LA; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; Tokyo Wonder Site, Artist-In-Residence, Japan; Percent for Art, Public School Art commission, NY; Djerassi, CA; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; Newark Museum, NJ; Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Residency, NY; Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Sculpture Space, NY; Bemis Art, NE; Abron Arts Center, NY; The Triangle Artists’ Workshop Program, NY; and Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship. He received his BFA from Dankook University, South Korea and earned his MFA in Imaging Art at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. 

Ed Park: An Oral History of Atlantis with Mira Jacob

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A deadpan, wildly imaginative collection of stories that slices clean through the mundanity and absurdity of modern life, An Oral History of Atlantis is the newest collection of short stories from Ed Park, the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams.

In this utterly original collection, characters question the fleetingness of youth and art, reckon with the consequences of the everyday, and find solace in the absurd, the beautiful, and the sublime. Throughout, Ed Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other. All together, these fifteen stories have much to say about the meaning—and transitory nature—of our lives. And they are proof positive that Ed Park is one of the most insightful and imaginative writers working today.

In this conversation with Mira Jacob, presented in collaboration with Yu & Me Books, Ed Park discusses his latest book.

 

Ed Park: An Oral History of Atlantis with Mira Jacob

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams. He is a founding editor of The Believer, and has worked in newspapers, book publishing, and academia. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family. 

 

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Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book. Her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick and named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe and Goodreads. She is a professor at The New School and a founding faculty member of the MFA in Writing at Randolph College.

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Author Talks: Cheon Seon-Ran

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Author Talks: Cheon Seon-Ran

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A bestseller in Korea, The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran is a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force dismiss the case as a series of unfortunate suicides due to the patients’ loneliness. But Su-Yeon doesn’t have the privilege of looking away: her dearest friend, Grandma Eun-Shim, lives on the sixth floor, and Su-Yeon is terrified that something will happen to her next.

As Su-Yeon begins her investigation alone, she runs into a mysterious woman named Violette at the crime scene. Violette claims to be a vampire hunter, searching for her ex-lover, Lily, and is insistent that a vampire is behind the mysterious deaths. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first, but when a fifth victim jumps from the window, her investigation reveals the body was completely drained of blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths, Su-Yeon considers Violette’s explanation-that something supernatural is involved.

A gripping mystery, The Midnight Shift overflows with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief, and the effects of marginalization.

In this episode of Author Talks, Cheon Seon-Ran discusses her career in Korea and the English translation of her novel.

 

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Author Talks: Cheon Seon-Ran

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 


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A lover of sci-fi always dreaming of the universe and waiting for aliens, Cheon Seon-Ran made her debut with Broken Bridges in 2019. She was awarded the Grand Prize in the 4th Korea Sci-Fi Literature Awards for her novel A Thousand Blues. 

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Julia Riew & Brad Riew @ The Strand

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Join us for an in-person event at The Strand with debut authors Julia Riew and Brad Riew for the release of their new novel The Last Tiger.

Inspired by true stories from the authors’ grandparents’ lives during one of the darkest periods in Korean history, The Last Tiger is a young adult fantasy novel about the power of love to give voice to a broken people.

In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens—Lee Seung, a servant yearning for freedom, and Choi Eunji, a noble girl defying tradition—join forces to try and reshape their respective fates.

But their relationship evolves from begrudging accomplices to bitter adversaries as they soon find themselves on opposite sides of a battle over the last tiger, a symbol of their people’s lost freedom and key to the liberation of their country. As the ties between Seung and Eunji are complicated by their conflicting loyalties, tensions rise—especially when a charming princeling of the empire begins to rival for Eunji’s affection.

In this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers story of forbidden romance, antagonists turned allies, oppression and liberation, neither Seung nor Eunji can abandon their mission—or each other. And as they embark on separate quests to find the elusive creature, each must also find the power within themselves to make their own destiny.

Joining Julia and Brad in conversation is critically acclaimed, bestselling author Chloe Gong.

 

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Julia Riew & Brad Riew @ The Strand

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 7 PM


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About the Speakers:

 

Julia Riew is a composer-lyricist, playwright, and novelist best known for her viral hit DIVE, a reimagining of the Korean folktale “Shimcheong,” which is currently being developed for the stage at the American Repertory Theater. In addition to winning the 2022 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theater Songwriting, Julia has been Playbill’s Featured Songwriter of the Month, a Woman to Watch on Broadway, and a Princess Grace Honoraria recipient. Julia was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2022 with a BA in theater and music.
 
 

Brad Riew is an MFA candidate in Fiction at New York University’s creative writing program. He graduated from Harvard College in 2018 with a degree in Psychology, where he won the Ecker Short Story Prize. The Last Tiger , co-written with his younger sister Julia Riew, is his first novel. Brad lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 

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Chloe Gong is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Secret Shanghai novels, as well as the Flesh and False Gods trilogy. Her books have been published in over twenty countries and have been featured in The New York Times, PEOPLE, Cosmopolitan, and more. She was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for 2024. Chloe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English and International Relations. Born in Shanghai and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, she is now located in New York City, pretending to be a real adult. Visit her online at thechloegong.com and on Instagram, X, and TikTok at @thechloegong.

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Author Talks: Kyung-Ran Jo

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“A memorable existential tale.” —Publishers Weekly

An atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish, Kyung-Ran Jo‘s Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. The narrative loosely approximates a love story, but this is no romance in the normal sense. For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman forestalls death and offers him a final chance. Through the conflicting impressions they have of one another, the characters look back on their lives; it is only the desire to create art that calls them back from death.

Evoking the heterogeneous urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner life of a woman contemplating her failures in love and art. Jo’s fierce will to write animates the novel; the lethal taste of blowfish, which one cannot help but eat even though one may die in doing so, approximates the inexorable pains of writing a novel.

In this episode of Author Talks, Jo discusses her career in Korea and the English translation of her novel.

 

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Author Talks: Kyung-Ran Jo

Tuesday, July 15, 2025


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Kyung-Ran Jo made her literary debut in 1996 when her short story “The French Optical” won the Dong-a Ilbo New Writer’s Contest. She is the author of five story collections and three novels. Her novel Tongue was published in English by Bloomsbury in 2009. She is also the recipient of the Hyundae Munhak Award and the Dongin Prize, among others.

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Artist Talk: Kyungmin Park & Jinsik Yoo

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Through figurative sculpture, two Korean-born artists transcend language and cultural barriers to tell their personal stories and express emotions that resonate universally. By sharing their unique perspectives and introspection, they offer alternative interpretations and an opportunity for a more comprehensive understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Kyungmin Park‘s artistic vision was inspired by her experience as an immigrant in the U.S., where she had to learn a new language and customs. This process of adaptation reminded her of the experience of being a child, which led her to explore a childlike state, characterized by freedom, creativity, and the ability to embrace new experiences without restraint. Park’s ceramic sculptures often feature childlike figures with expressive faces that convey a range of human emotions and experiences. Amorphous forms symbolize the boundless imagination of childhood, while the lines and colors represent the societal expectations and constraints of adulthood.

Jinsik Yoo works with clay to create abstract representations of bodily forms, sculptures that embody the layered nature of existence. Through his artistic practices, Yoo expands, alters, intensifies, and ambiguates features so that his sculptures resonate beyond the physical and depict social, emotional, and psychological complexity. Ambiguity in his sculptures  challenges viewers to engage with the art on a deeper level, prompting them to ask questions about themselves and their own inner worlds. Yoo’s artistic inquiry centers less on offering definitive conclusions and more on exploratory thinking and questioning. 

 

 

Artist Talk: Kyungmin Park & Jinsik Yoo

Tuesday, June 10, 2025


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From POW Camp to Muralist: The Untold Story of Lee Qoede

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Join Korean art historian and curator Jinyoung Jin as she reveals the fascinating life and art of Lee Qoede (1913–1965), a groundbreaking twentieth-century Korean painter shaped by the turbulent ideological battles of postliberation Korea. From surviving three years in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War to defecting to North Korea in 1953, Lee’s journey and artistry reflect a profound resilience. Jin will delve into his impactful contributions to twentieth-century social realism, uncovering the surprising and powerful influence of Mexican muralism on his work.

 

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From POW Camp to Muralist: The Untold Story of Lee Qoede

Thursday, June  5, 2025 | 6:30 PM


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Jinyoung Anna Jin, Ph.D., is the Director of Asian Art and Culture at the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University. Jin has organized critically acclaimed exhibitions including Korea: A Land of Hats (2019), The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens (2016), Comfort Women Wanted (2014), and Seas of Blue: Asian Indigo Dye (2014). Many of her curated exhibitions have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and PBS. Jin’s recent publication includes Art, War, and Exile in Modern Korea: Rethinking the Life and Work of Lee Qoede, Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined, and Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. Jin serves as a member of the community advisory board of PBS Thirteen/WLIW.

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