Contemporary Korea

2026 Gala

2026 Annual Gala

2026 Van Fleet Award Honoree
JENSEN HUANG
Founder & CEO
NVIDIA

This year, the Korea Society is honored to announce the 2026 Van Fleet Award recipient is Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in recognition

Sun & Ssukgat: The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness, and Longevity Michelle Jungmin Bang with Kathleen Kim

Author Photo © Phoebe Miu As a Korean-American, Michelle Jungmin Bang grew up in a family of doctors, then spent years traveling, researching, and training

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Author Talks: Kim Suhyun & Anton Hur

In a world where it can seem impossible to feel you are ever good enough, and where it’s easy to judge yourself by the unrealistic

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Maybe Happy Ending: A New Broadway Musical

Image credit: MurphyMade |  Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver lives a happily quiet life, listening to jazz records and caring

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The Rise of Korean Contemporary Art with Peter Kahng

Join us for an engaging discussion with Peter Kahng, an expert on the intersection of global art markets and contemporary Korean art. As a lecturer

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Hallyu! The Korean Wave: The Curatorial Roundtable

Image Credit: © MFA BOSTON |       Today, South Korea is a cultural superpower—a global trendsetter producing award-winning films like Parasite, riveting dramas like Squid

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Zero Waste

IMAGE CREDIT: Docu+ Zero Waste is a timely documentary film that explores the current recycling efforts in South Korea through the personal stories of six

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Author Talks: Yun Ko-eun with Lizzie Buehler

  “Weirdly wonderful and wonderfully weird.”— Kirkus Reviews In the first short-story collection of hers to be translated into and published in English, South Korean

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The Korean Wave: Where did it come from, and where is it going?

The world is captivated by Korean culture. This fascination and popular interest, once focused on K-drama and K-pop, have now extended into fashion, food, fine

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Dress History of Korea

Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation

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Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-style with Fiona Bae

K-pop, K-fashion, K-drama, K-beauty: over the past decade, K-style has exploded onto the global scene. What is behind this phenomenon? Where does K-style go from

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