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A Taste of The Kimchi Chronicles: Korean Cooking for an American Kitchen

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The Korea Society welcomes Marja Vongerichten, star of the new PBS series Kimchi Chonicles and wife of famed chef Jean-Georges, as she cooks and shares recipes from her newly released cookbook, The Kimchi Chronicles: Korean Cooking for an American Kitchen. The cookbook, available at the event, includes a recipe for every dish featured in the documentary as well as original dishes with a lighter, modern flair, revealing how the flavors of the Korean table can be readily integrated into any meal. Marja shares her thoughts on creating and adapting recipes and how The Kimchi Chronicles series inspired her to craft this beautiful new cookbook, which includes mouth-watering photos alongside her observations of Korean culinary culture.

Following Marja’s kitchen demonstration and author talk, guests at this exciting downtown event (Astor Center, 399 Lafayette) sampled her delicious creations and had the opportunity to meet the television host and author at the special signing of her new release. The Korea Society thanks publisher Rodale books for its support of this lovely summer’s evening of cuisine and conversation.

 

Thursday, August 4

Astor Center
399 Lafayette Street

 

Event Co-sponsors:

RODALE

PULMUONE

KOKO Living

 

Kimchi Chronicles website

Kimchi Chronicles Facebook Page

The Good, The Bad, The Weird

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Join The Korea Society and the Museum of The Moving Image for a cinematic wild ride from director Kim Jee-woon’s. Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet on a train: a bounty hunter, the leader of a gang of bandits, and a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers chase across Manchuria to take possession of a valuable map. In Korean with subtitles.

Special Screening @ The Museum of the Moving Image
(Part of Outdoor Cinema 2011 at Socrates Sculpture Park)

 

Wednesday, July 27th | 7 PM

Free Admission through the Museum of the Moving Image

 

Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City
N or Q train to Broadway, eight blocks west at Vernon Boulevard and the East River
8-10 minutes by taxi from The Korea Society 

 

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (139 min) 2008
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

 Dir. Kim Jee-woon. In the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet on a train: a bounty hunter, the leader of a gang of bandits, and a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a wild chase across Manchuria to take possession of a valuable map. In Korean with subtitles.

 

 

 

 

Special Screening of I Saw the Devil @ The Museum of the Moving Image

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Director Kim Ji-woon’s latest film follows a bloody cycle of catch-and-release as the protagonist inflicts “equal sorrow” on his fiancée’s killer. Kim casts a distinctive mark in each of his films, and is known for the best “genre films” in Korean cinema. Kim Ji-woon made his directorial debut with The Quiet Family, a film hailed by critics and audiences for its unique styling. Kim went on to direct The Foul King (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), A Bittersweet Life (2005), and The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2008). This screening of his latest release is part of the Korean Cinema Now showcase presented by the Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society. The museum recently reopened after a $67 million expansion, with dynamic new architecture by Thomas Leeser, capturing, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times, “in a building, the essence of a world in which images proliferate all around us.”

Due to depictions of violence and adult content, parental guidance is strongly advised.

 

Sunday, July 17, 2011 | 7 PM

 

Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria 
From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue 


Tickets $10 at The Museum of the Moving Image and include museum admission for exhibition viewing before 5 PM that day.

 

 

I Saw the Devil (141 min) 2010
악마를 보았다 

Dir. Kim Jee-woon. It’s hard to imagine the revenge thriller being pushed to greater extremes than this: Lee Byung-hun stars as a cop who ensnares the maniac that murdered his pregnant girlfriend in a brutal game of cat and mouse, and director Kim Jee-woon spares not a drop of blood in conceiving this extended bath in humanity at its most debased. Courtesy of Museum of the Moving Image.

 

 

 

Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum)

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Enjoy a meditative hour of stringed kayagum set to p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of our spring/summer performance series. The Korea Society here presents p’ungnyuin its chul-p’ungnyu(stringed-instrument) form. P’ungnyu also refers to a state of leisure when one is elevated from the mundane to better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Park Yoon-suk, founder and president of the twenty-year-old Korean Traditional Music and Dance Institute of New York, opens with a Kayagum sanjo. Before her arrival in the United States, Park spent more than two and a half decades studying kayagum, p’ansori, and dance with many of Korea’s leading artists. Ms. Park won numerous awards and performed over 1,800 concerts across Asia and the United States, including a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. This performance is presented with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

$5 Members/Members Guest; $10 Guests
Explore Korea card holders attend this program for free with REGISTRATION

 


Thursday, June 30, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance


Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum)

with

Park Yoon-suk

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

 

 

The Writings of Lee UFan

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The Korea Society presents the writings of celebrated artist, poet, and philosopher Lee UFan, in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective exhibition, Lee UFan: Marking Infinity (June 24-September 28, 2011). Born in Korea in 1936, Lee has been an artistic and intellectual force in Korea, Japan, and Europe for more than four decades, articulating a unique aesthetic and philosophical stance grounded in modernity critique and Post-Minimalist practice. Lee, the author of seventeen books, has written seminal essays on contemporary art, Asian culture, and democracy that offer a powerful voice to our current cultural discourse. The Korea Society’s summer exhibition will present photographs and work with Lee’s poetry, criticism, and essays.

The Martyred Re-Released

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In marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War, The Korea Society salutes the late Richard Kim, as Penguin Classics re-releases his National Book Award-nominated The Martyred. Kim’s first novel is a critically acclaimed bestseller about the Korean War, and was later made into a play, opera, and film.

Book Cafe: The Martyred Re-Released

Thursday, June 23

with

Susan Choi
Author
A Person of Interest, American Woman

Book Café: The Women Divers of Jeju Island

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Award-winning author, editor and photojournalist Brenda Paik Sunoo presents images from Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies and the Sea. Jeju Island’s sea women, or haenyeo, scour the sea floor as their maternal ancestors did, harvesting seaweed, octopus, sea urchins, turban shells, and abalone. Driven by economics, these women divers plunge more than 20 meters underwater, hold their breath for over two minutes, and labor well into their 80s. Their numbers have dwindled from fifteen thousand in the 1970s to just over five thousand today. Photo excerpts from the book received the International Museum of Women’s Community Choice Award.

 

Ms. Sunoo’s presentation will be preceded by a screening of Liz Chae’s short documentary film, The Last Mermaids, the story of the women of Jeju Province in Korea who have used the ocean to give them life, shield them from war, and educate their daughters for more than 2,000 years.

 

Thursday, June 2
Book Café: The Women Divers of Jeju Island

Contemplative Traditional Music Series: P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

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2011 05 19 Changgo iconEnjoy a meditative performance of changgo, a traditional hour-glass drum, adapted for p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of The Korea Society’s 2011 traditional music series. P’ungnyu also refers to an elevated state of leisure in which one can better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Percussionist Lee Chun-seung performs a solo Suljanggu, followed by a Samulnori and Binari featuring three additional percussion instruments, the kkwaengguari, buk, and jing, and finishes with Modeumbuk. Lee appeared at the 2002 World Cup Opening Ceremony and on the KBS Open Concert series. He has performed in Russia, Japan, China, and the United States, and is director and conductor of the acclaimed New York-based, non-profit Korean Traditional Marching Band. This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

 

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Contemplative Traditional Music Series:
P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

with

Lee Chun-seung

 

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LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Contemplative Traditional Music Series: P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

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2011 05 19 Changgo icon

Enjoy a meditative performance of changgo, a traditional hour-glass drum, adapted for p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of The Korea Society’s 2011 traditional music series. P’ungnyu also refers to an elevated state of leisure in which one can better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Percussionist Lee Chun-seung performs a solo Suljanggu, followed by a Samulnori and Binari featuring three additional percussion instruments, the kkwaengguari, buk, and jing, and finishes with Modeumbuk. Lee appeared at the 2002 World Cup Opening Ceremony and on the KBS Open Concert series. He has performed in Russia, Japan, China, and the United States, and is director and conductor of the acclaimed New York-based, non-profit Korean Traditional Marching Band. This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.


Thursday, May 19, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance

Contemplative Traditional Music Series:

P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

with

Lee Chun-seung

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
 

 

 

My Korean Deli

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Ben Ryder Howe, formerly of The Paris Review and a contributor to The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, discusses his recently published memoir, My Korean Deli. Howe describes the trials and triumphs of his Korean-born wife’s decision to repay her parents’ self-sacrifice by buying them a store. My Korean Deli follows the store’s tumultuous life, and paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership among characters from Brooklyn, Seoul, and Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience as the family struggles to salvage the original gift—and family harmony—while sorting out issues of values, work, and identity.

 

Thursday, May 12

Book Cafe: My Korean Deli

with

Ben Ryder Howe
Author, My Korean Deli

and discussant

Laura Vanderkam
Journalist
USA Today’s Board of Contributors