Past Events

Video Introductions to Korea

A series of videos that gives a brief introduction to Korea in aspects of history and culture.  

Video: Introduction to Chuseok

An introduction to Chuseok, a Korean Thanksgiving with Professor Charles K. Armstrong, Professor Tae Yang Kwak, and Lauren Kendall.            

Video: Introduction to King Sejong

An introduction to King Sejong with Professor Mark Peterson of BYU.        

Video: Introduction to Traditional Korean Weddings

An introduction to traditional Korean weddings with Dr. Kendall of the Natural Museum of History        

Video: Introduction to Korean Art

An introduction to korean art with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Soyoung Lee.        

Video: Introduction to Korean Printing

An introduction to korean print making techniques.        

Video: Introduction to Modern Korean Weddings

An introduction to modern Korean weddings with Dr. Kendall and Andrew Nestor        

Korea’s Economic Outlook

Korea’s Economic Outlook $10 Members | $20 Guests | Explorer and YPN Members are FREE but must register with Charles Kimball Managing Director, Korea Center

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Kimbap for a Spring Picnic

Welcome Spring by filling a Korean lunchbox (dosirak) with tasty foodto take on a picnic! Learn how to prepare kimbap, theseaweed rice rolls at the

Literature in Late Colonial Korea

Interweaving cultural, intellectual, and literary history, Professor Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, looks at Korean