The 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
The 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
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.
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
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
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
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).
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.
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.
In celebration of Asia Week New York, acclaimed curator Jane Portal will speak at The Korea Society to introduce the newly renovated Korean Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which includes ceramics, metalwork, and paintings from the Bronze Age to the 20th century.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments 6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A
Korean Art at MFA Boston
with Jane Portal Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
Learn to create traditional Korean wedding Bojagi from artist Chunghie Lee. Chunghie Lee’s work integrates traditional Bojagi motifs into innovative designs with vivid color compositions. Participants in the workshop will learn how to apply auspicious symbols on wedding Bojagi while making two traditional Bojagi for wrapping wedding gifts and documents.
Evoking the artistic inspiration of the countless anonymous women who made Bojagi through the ages, Lee’s art retains a meaningful link to the past. Lee has been teaching at Rhode Island School of Design since 1999 and her works are in permanent collections in numerous museums, including Victoria ∓ Albert Museum, London, U.K. and the Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA. All levels welcome.
Session I: Friday March 15 12-4 PM
Session II: Saturday March 16 12-4 PM
$60 Members/ Per Session $80 Guests/ Per Session
$100 Members/ Both Sessions I & II $140 Guest/ Both Sessions I & II
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 exhibition features internationally recognized Korean textile artist Chunghie Lee’s contemporary Bojagi works. Once commonly employed in everyday life for carrying, covering and storing objects, Bojagi now has become one of the most widely recognized and appreciated of all traditional Korean textile arts. Chunghie Lee’s work integrates traditional Bojagi motifs into innovative designs with vivid color compositions. Evoking the artistic inspiration of the countless anonymous women who made Bojagi through the ages, Lee’s art retains a meaningful link to the past. Lee has been teaching at Rhode Island School of Design since 1999 and her works are in permanent collections in numerous museums, including Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K. and the Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA.
March 14 – May 31, 2013
Gallery Opening Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:30 PM
The Korea Society Gallery Open Daily, M-F, 10 AM-5 PM
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
Park Chan-wook is Korea’s leading filmmaker and the first Korean director to win the Grand Prix of The Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2004. Old Boy alone gathered more than 20 awards on the international film festival circuit. Park is a producer of Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming Snow Piercer. To celebrate Stoker, his Hollywood directorial debut, The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) proudly co-present a Park Chan-wook retrospective. We include the famous “Vengeance Trilogy,” ambitious short film projects, and his first international break: JSA: Joint Security Area. Korean with English subtitles.
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.
Courtesy of Fox Searchlight. With Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode. The eagerly awaited new film by director Park Chan-wook is an English-language thriller rife with the sort of style and atmosphere that makes his other movies nothing short of modern classics of the genre. In the film, India (Mia Wasikowska), upon the death of her father, finds herself sharing a Southern gothic mansion with her mother (Nicole Kidman) and her mysterious-yet-charming Uncle Charlie. This special screening, followed by a discussion with Park Chan-wook.
Old Boy (120 min) 2003
Friday, March 1 | 7:00 PM
With Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jung, Yu Ji-tae, and Oh Dal-soo. After 10 years when the original ‘Old Boy’ is made, Spike Lee’s another ‘Old Boy’ will be released October, 2013. The leading actor, Josh Brolin says that ‘We are just going to make a different version but have respect to the initial story and premise’. Old Boy tells the story of a man who is locked in a room for over decade without knowing the reason, and after released from the cell, he tries to find the answer. Since it alarmed people when it won ‘Grand Jury’ award at Cannes in 2004, it has been selected one of the best movies ever made by numerous prestigious film magazines and critics.
PARK CHAN-WOOK SHORTS PROGRAM
Saturday, March 2 | 3:00 PM
Never Ending Peace and Love (Mid-geo-na mal-geo-na chandra-ui gyungwoo) 2003, 28 min. With Ji-hyeon Lee, Dal-su Oh. This is part of the omnibus film series If You Were Me presented by National Human Rights Commision of Korea. Based on true story of an illegal foreign worker who was mistreated by people’s ignorance and indifference.
Three Monsters; Cut 2004, 30 min. With Kang Hye-jung, Lee Byeong-heon, Yeom Jung-Ah. He is rich, talented, and successful film director. Nothing lacks in his life and even he has beautiful pianist wife. One night, vicious intruder takes her hostage, and threatens him to cut his wife’s fingers if the director doesn’t kill the child. The director finds himself entangled in a horrific dilemma.
Night Fishing (Paranmanjang) 2011, 33min. With Lee Jung-hyun, Oh Kwang-rok. Ambitiously Park and his brother/co-director Chan-kyong shot this short film with iPhone4, and it won Best Short Film-Golden Bear Award at Berlin International Film Festival 2011, and Best Motion Picture (Noves Visions) at Sitges Film Festival 2011. The film set up is somewhat eerie and ghostly spiritual. It explores shamanistic ritual to reconnect the world of the dead. Actress Lee Jung-hyun plays multi roles, and her performance mesmerizes in the role.
J.S.A.:Joint Security Area (108 min) 2000
Saturday, March 2 | 6:00 PM
With Kim Myeong-su, Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho. This is his third feature films, and was one of the highest grossing films ever made in South Korea. By this success, he actually started to receive huge attention from critics and audiences. Based on the novel by Park Sang-yeon, Joint Security Area is considered one of the most well made films described the tension in the political and military affairs of North and South Korea through well constructed story. Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ). And major Sophie Jang was dispatched to investigate this case from Swiss. As political tensions rise at the Joint Security Area, the investigation begins to take some very intrigued turns.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (121 min) 2002
Sunday, March 3 | 3:00 PM
With Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doo-na. Park majored philosophy at the university, and he used to be quite reputational film critic before turning into filmmaker himself. He says he always wanted to create a hard-boiled Asian thriller in a darker, and realistic way, and this depressive, and brutally nihilistic psychological thriller is without any doubt, one of the best films made in Korea. As reflected his shrewd political point of view, the story satires dysfunctional system of law enforcement and public security. Desperate to pay for his sister’s kidney operation, Ryu kidnaps his wealthy boss’ daughter. Nothing goes according to plan, however, and what ought to have been easy money soon turns into blood money. After the kidnapping goes awry, Ryu and his girlfriend struggle to run away from the father of daughter, who’s determined to take vengeance.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (112 min) 2005
Sunday, March 3 | 6:00 PM
With Lee Young-ae, Choi Min-shik. Park casted his persona, Choi Min-shik (Old Boy) as the villain in the last episode of Vengeance trilogy. Oscar-winner Charlize Theron is set to step into Lee Yong-ae’s shoes as she takes on the titular character in a remake of this movie. At the age of 20, Geum-ja is imprisoned for thirteen years for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a six-year-old boy. For thirteen years, she is a model prisoner, earning nickname ‘Kind Geum-ja’, as she wins over her cell mates’ sympathies, helping them one by one until the day she is released. But from the very moment she walks away from prison, she begins her plan for vengeance, which she has been drawing up meticulously.
The 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 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.
What makes K-Town one of the most vibrant cultural neighborhoods in New York City?
In celebration of Asia Week New York, acclaimed curator Jane Portal will speak at The Korea Society to introduce the newly renovated Korean Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which includes ceramics, metalwork, and paintings from the Bronze Age to the 20th century.
Learn to create traditional Korean wedding Bojagi from artist Chunghie Lee. Chunghie Lee’s work integrates traditional Bojagi motifs into innovative designs with vivid color compositions. Participants in the workshop will learn how to apply auspicious symbols on wedding Bojagi while making two traditional Bojagi for wrapping wedding gifts and documents. 
Park Chan-wook is Korea’s leading filmmaker and the first Korean director to win the Grand Prix of The Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2004. Old Boy alone gathered more than 20 awards on the international film festival circuit. Park is a producer of Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming Snow Piercer. To celebrate Stoker, his Hollywood directorial debut, The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) proudly co-present a Park Chan-wook retrospective. We include the famous “Vengeance Trilogy,” ambitious short film projects, and his first international break: JSA: Joint Security Area. Korean with English subtitles. 
