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Minhwa: Korean Folk Painting Workshop

    Minhwa commonly refers to a genre of Korean folk art from the late Chosŏn era (17th–19th C.). Based on Shamanic, Buddhist, or Confucian

Mapping Identity: Antiquarian Korean Maps of the MacLean Collection

    Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of Chicago’s MacLean Collection, examines Korean maps in a variety of formats, the challenges faced by cartographers, and

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10,000 Threads Around the World

    In conjunction with the gallery exhibition 10,000 Threads, acclaimed author Spike Gillespie explores the diversity and common threads of quilting in Korea, its

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Korean Masked Dance-Drama: Enchanted Fertility Rite and Social Satire

Join us as Theresa Ki-ja Kim, professor emeritus of theater arts at SUNY Stony Brook, discusses how Korea’s unique tradition of masked dance-dramas masterfully blended

The Religious Revolution in Modern Korean History

On May 5, 2009, Don Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, spoke about the history of

Author Talks: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

  “How can black and white drawings do this, you might ask. But maybe only black and white drawings can do this—Gendry-Kim offers us here

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Author Talks: Kyung-Ran Jo

Author Photo © Park Jae-hong “A memorable existential tale.” —Publishers Weekly An atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by

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