Past Events

A Korean Actor on the World Stage: Ahn Sung-ki

A Discussion   with Ahn Sung-ki   moderated by Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia.   Wednesday, August 27, 6:30PM 6:00 PM-7:00 PM ♦ Registration and

Cinema Korea: The Past, Present and Future of Korean Films

  WithChristine Choy, Film DirectorJung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYUJina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith

North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge

    Exhibition September 9 – December 12, 2008 Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Korea Society presents, for the first time ever in the United

Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People

  Screening And A ConversationWith Filmmaker Y. David Chung And Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen “Koryo Saram” (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells

Crossing The Line

  WithNicholas Bonner, Producer of Crossing the Line In the 1960s, four U.S. soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone crossed the most heavily fortified border on

Power and Beauty: KBS’s ‘Hwang Jin Yi’

    The blockbuster TV Drama from KoreaMonthly Screening Series In an age when women were treated as if they were invisible, Hwang Jin Yi,

Cabaret Cinema: Kim Ki-duk’s ‘The Bow’

Presented with the Korea Society Friday, November 28, 2008 | 9:30 PM Rubin Museum of Art150 West 17th StreetNew York, NY 10011   THE BOW (90

Korea’s Future: The Role of President Lee Myung-Bak’s Administration

Lee Jae Oh is a distinguished politician in South Korea and has devoted his life’s work to the democratization of Korean society. After a short

Encountering North Korea Through Its Art

Gallery Talk with   Jane PortalMatsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thursday, December 4, 2008

Korean Films Made During the Japanese Occupation

  The Korea Society and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are proud to present seven films from one of the earliest, and most complex, periods of