The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York […]
The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York […]
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has published North Korea and South Korea, books that capture the two drastically different realities of the divided peninsula. Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A Journey […]
Famed scholar Robert D. Mowry introduces the development of Korean Buddhist art from its formative phase in the late Three Kingdoms (57BC–668AD) and Unified Silla (668–935) periods through its maturation in the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), emphasizing architecture and sculpture in the earlier periods and paintings and illuminated sutras in the later periods. In tracing the […]
The American Museum of Natural History’s current exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture explores the complex and intricate food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork. In sections devoted to growing, transporting, cooking, eating, tasting, and celebrating, the exhibition looks at the many ways that food is produced and moved throughout […]
Directed by Yang Yong-hi. With Sakura Ando, Arata Iura, and Yang Ik-joon. The Korea Society and Asian American International Film Festival co-present this politically profound film made by Japanese Korean director, Yong Yong-hi. Her father was a patriotic Korean living in Japan, sympathetic to North Korea. He sent his three Japanese-born sons to North Korea […]
‘ContemporAsian: Focus on Korea’@ MoMA Monday, August 5 to Sunday, August 11, 2013 Asian cinema is fast becoming a cinema without borders. Digital filmmaking and international coproductions are rapidly transforming an industry in which the transnational flow of talent and resources, even between the U.S. and Asia, has become the norm. In the monthly exhibition […]
Korean sinawi music originally accompanied propitiatory rites presided over by a female shaman, or mudang. The word sinawi is also synonymous with musical improvisation based on various rhythmic and melodic devices–the most important characteristic of this genre. This group of sinawi performed by five performers and varying instrumentation evokes the otherworldly sonic space of the […]
Combine two of life’s great pleasures: Korean dramas and food! Come watch an episode of one of last year’s most popular K-Dramas, Kimchi Family, a heartwarming story about a family that owns a traditional Korean restaurant with each episode centered on the preparation of a different type of delicious kimchi. Shin Kim, culinary instructor and […]
The exhibition features wooden furniture made in the Choson Dynasty (1392-1910) and includes furniture of a variety of functions and designs. Even though Korea is a relatively small country, each province has a distinctively different furniture design and decoration style. The exhibit will examine not only cultural characteristics, but also the different aesthetics and […]
