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

Korean Traditional P’ansori Concert: Song of Simch’ŏng

The Korea Society proudly presents renowned p’ansori singer, Kim Sumi, in a rare New York performance of Korean traditional opera. P’ansori is a storytelling genre

Holiday Teas and Sweets from Korea

Chef Haelin Lee returns to The Korea Society for a special holiday cooking demonstration and hands-on workshop on seasonal teas and Korean sweets. We’ll brew

Kimchi and Wine: Where Fermentation Roads Meet

Lauryn Chun, founder of Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi, launches her new book, The Kimchi Cookbook: 60 Traditional and Modern Ways to Make and Eat Kimchi, at The Korea

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Choked

Youn-ho, who is about to be engaged to a longtime girlfriend, discovers that his mother has run away. Soon a loan shark comes calling. Now

A Drop of Chinese Blood Release with James Church

James Church’s Inspector O novels have been hailed as “crackling good” (The Washington Post) and “tremendously clever” (Tampa Tribune), with Church himself embraced by critics

Traces of Life interpreted through Korean Poetry

Dr. David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University, reveals the unique correlation between 20th century Korean photographs and modern Korean

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Juilliard @ The Korea Society with Mina Um, Solo Violin

Share in a musical global journey with virtuoso Mina Um, who took first at the Seventh Annual New York Music Competition and performed after at

Black Flower Release with Young-ha Kim

Join literary lion Young-ha Kim as he discusses the release of Black Flower. This powerful drama creates fiction from a little-known historical moment when a

Wan-deuk-i (Punch)

Seventeen-year-old Wan-deuk has every reason to be a rebellious and troubled student. Though he has a disabled father, a runaway mother, and comes from a

Members’ Free Film Night: Epitaph

If you haven’t seen K-Horror, then you don’t know what scary is! To set the mood for Halloween, we will be screening Epitaph, a Korean