Tag: film

The Illusion of Pastness:
Hanbok on Screen

Korean visual entertainment—including films, K-dramas, and K-pop music videos—is the result of highly sophisticated planning and production. These productions captivate a global audience by synthesizing

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Andrew Ahn: A Director’s Talk

Photo by Janice Chung This spring, from director Andrew Ahn comes The Wedding Banquet, a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the

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Songs of Love from Hawai‘i: Screening and a Director’s Talk

  Embark on a captivating musical journey weaving three compelling stories from Hawai‘i’s Korean diaspora with performances by remarkable musicians, including the Grammy Award-winning violist

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The South Korean Film Industry with Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Jason Bechervaise

South Korea’s film industry is producing movies and original series eagerly anticipated by the global audience, and it is now arguably considered one of the

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TAKE ME HOME

The Korea Society is thrilled to sponsor the screening of the award-winning short film Take Me Home, followed by a Q+A with director Liz Sargent

The Films of Kim Ki-young

World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. When Yuh-Jung

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Specially Processed American Me

Specially Processed American Me, an autobiographical performance by Jaime Sunwoo, delves into her Asian-American upbringing and her family’s encounters with the Korean War through the

K-Content on the World Stage: Emergence, Explosion, and Staying Power with Steve Chung

From music to film to television and streaming series to food, K-content is dominating the world stage. With remarkable achievements across several artistic disciplines and

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

The Korean-born, German-educated, life-long New Yorker, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) coined the phrase “the electronic superhighway” long before the Internet was born. A consummate shape-shifter

Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema with Karen Han

Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by culture writer and screenwriter Karen Han is the first definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award–winning South

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