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

K-pop Confidential with Stephan Lee

In K-pop Confidential, the YA novel from journalist Stephan Lee, a Korean-American girl plunges into the complex world of an idol factory and K-pop trainees

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Cold War Cosmopolitan: Han Hyung-Mo & Korean Cinema of the 1950s

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the

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A Conversation with David Yoon

  When David Yoon’s debut novel Frankly In Love hit shelves last year, it was an instant New York Times bestseller and a William C.

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K-Drama Fever: Global TV in the US

Television as we know it has transformed in the last two decades, away from network television mainly produced in the form of sitcoms, police procedurals,

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Korean-American Directors: A Roundtable

After the success of Crazy Rich Asians and Parasite, the demand for representation of Asians and Asian-Americans on screen is rising. But what about behind

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Artist Talk: Soonchoel Byun

Soonchoel Byun‘s solo exhibition at the Korea Society Gallery, his first one in New York in two decades, showcases nine photographs from his 2015 series

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Korean Art from 1953

Korean Art From 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction is a richly illustrated book containing fourteen essays written by leading Korean art historians and scholars, topics range

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A Sacred Emblem: Trefoil in Early Korean Metalwork and Beyond with Dr. Minjee Kim

Photo credit: Ruth Hogben for ABT Trefoil or “three-leaved plant” is a stylized form found in artifacts and architecture across culture and time. Dr. Minjee

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A Conversation with Hee Seo

Photo credit: Ruth Hogben for ABT Listen to our conversation with Hee Seo, the first Asian ballerina to be named principal dancer – ballet’s highest

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East Goes West: Younghill Kang, His Life and Works

Drawing by Karl Stevens for the New York Review of Books What if the finest, funniest, craziest, sanest, most cheerfully depressing Korean-American novel was also one

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