Arts & Culture Programs

2026 Gala

2026 Annual Gala

2026 Van Fleet Award Honoree
JENSEN HUANG
Founder & CEO
NVIDIA

This year, the Korea Society is honored to announce the 2026 Van Fleet Award recipient is Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in recognition

Minhwa: Korean Paintings of the People, by the People, and for the People

Tiger with Two Cubs and Two Magpies, Late Joseon Dynasty (18th or 19th Century), Mattielli Collection. Image courtesy of jstor.org |  In this lecture, Professor

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gamin & ensemble: Korean Music & Beyond

Robert Browning Associates, Lotus Music & Dance, and Roulette present in association with The Korea Society and the Korean Cultural Center New York: gamin &

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

Artist Talk: Seongmin Ahn with Eleanor Hyun

Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times: In Seongmin Ahn’s paintings, it is not our past we are looking at but our possible future. – John

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Han!

“[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness

The Korea Society & The Strand Present: Patricia Park

Join us for an in-person event with award-winning author, Patricia Park, for the release of her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of

Heinz Insu Fenkl – Skull Water

SKULL WATER is the story of Insu, the son of a Korean mother and a GI father in the U.S. Army, and the intertwined tale

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A Very Asian Guide to Korean Food

  Introduce children to Asian cuisine and the #VERYASIAN movement! Written by Michelle Li, A Very Asian Guide to Korean Food introduces young readers to

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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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Author Talks: Bora Chung

 Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the winner of a PEN/Heim Grant, Cursed Bunny  is the wildly original debut story collection from Bora Chung “Whether borrowing

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