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Sculpted Voices | Kyungmin Park & Jinsik Yoo

Hong Seon Jang | Minor Landscaping

September 10-December 5, 2025 | Opening Exhibition: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 5-7 PM |Image courtesy of the Artist | With his installations, Hong Seon Jang transforms industrial products and found objects in order to explore the usually recognizable surroundings. As their conventional function and values are reinterpreted, distorted, and subverted, Jang investigates opposing concepts and contrasting ideas, such as...

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2025 Fall Language Course

2025 FALL TERM Fall Term Registration | August 18th - September 28th | Fall Term Course DatesSeptember 29th - December 13th Meet once a week for 10 weeksMode: Most courses are offered online.Classes meet 2 hours or 2.5 hours per session📆 ANNUAL CALENDAR TKS Membership Discounts The Korea Society members at the individual level and above receive a 10% discount for each term. Click here to see how...

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K-Quick with Judy Joo

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Tuesday, September 23 , 2025 | 6:30 PM
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  Chef, restaurateur, writer, and connoisseur of Korean fried chicken, Judy Joo has gained widespread acclaim for her vibrant approach to Korean cuisine. Now, she presents her latest collection of fresh, exciting recipes in K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less.K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less focuses on recipes that blend creative flair with accessibility, ensuring every mealtime is a success....

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Korea's Compressed Modernity and Its Risks

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Wednesday, October 08 , 2025 | 8:00 AM
Join us for our second conversation with Seoul National University sociology Professor Chang Kyung-Sup who will discuss various challenges posed by South Korea’s “compressed modernity.” He writes that the same strategies and conditions that enabled explosive development and modernization in South Korea and other Asian societies also produced “existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and...

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Revisiting the Jones Act: From Protectionism to Partnership

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Wednesday, October 08 , 2025 | 6:00 PM
The United States and Korea are entering a pivotal phase of maritime cooperation. Since the start of the Trump 2.0 administration, South Korean shipbuilders have been courted as key partners in reviving the U.S. shipbuilding industry, with Seoul pledging $150 billion under the “Make America Shipbuilding Great Again” initiative to modernize naval capacity, expand commercial shipyards, and strengthen allied supply...

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Ed Park: An Oral History of Atlantis with Mira Jacob

Author Talks: You-Jeong Jeong

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Thursday, October 09 , 2025 | 5:00 PM
Author Photo © Hong Jinwhan From master of crime and suspense fiction You-Jeong Jeong comes Perfect Happiness, a thrilling domestic nightmare.Everyone in Yuna’s life is desperate to keep her happy: her partners, parents, and terrified six-year-old daughter. Even when she’s not blaming or hitting, the threat of her mood keeps her family from bonding, touching, or even speaking long enough to realize she’s playing them...

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