Dinner and a movie– it’s a classic combination. Join us to watch the 2010 Korean film The Recipe (된장), which follows a television producer searching for the chef and recipe of a soybean paste stew (doenjang jjigae), while dining on doenjang jjigae! We’ll also demonstrate how to prepare the stew, so you can […]
The French have bouillabaisse, Italians have zuppa di pesce, and Koreans have maeuntang! Learn how to make this wonderful, spicy seafood stew in a hands-on workshop led by Chef Walter Rhee. He’ll complete the meal by demonstrating how to make the perfect accompanying appetizers, Korean seafood pancakes (pajeon) and candied anchovies (myul chi bokkum). Trained […]
Celebrate Korea’s handicrafts and artistic traditions with adoptive parents Debbi Kent and Joan Suwalsky in a talk about their new book, 100 Thimbles in a Box: The Spirit and Beauty of Korean Handicrafts . The authors will share their experiences in researching and writing this beautiful book of nearly 500 photographs illustrating 44 traditional arts, […]
What Subway Cinema started in 2001 with When Korean Cinema Attacks! – New York Korean Film Festival, and what has known many incarnations and iterations since then, is back in the funky and freaky curatorial hands of the festival’s original creators, now joining forces with BAMCinematek and The Korea Society to bring you the […]
The New York Korean film festival is back in business! That’s right. What Subway Cinema started in 2001 with When Korean Cinema Attacks! – New York Korean Film Festival, and what has known many incarnations and iterations since then, is back in the funky and freaky curatorial hands of the festival’s original creators, now […]
Arranged introductions have long been part of Korean culture, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Kang sisters would merge technology and dating to pioneer an innovative but surprisingly simple on-line dating service, Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB). Join us for an evening with the founders as they share, with Wework’s Christina Choi, their experiences […]
Daniel Sneider, Associate Director of Stanford’s Asia-Pacific Research Center, talks about his family’s long engagement with Korea. Lea Sneider has a passion for folk art: the ceramics, woodwork, paintings, and sculpture used and enjoyed in everyday life. While accompanying her husband, Richard L. Sneider, to his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Korea in 1974, Mrs. […]
KAFFNY (Korean American Film Festival New York), in partnership with The Korea Society, will open its 8th annual film festival with an opening-night party that features the artwork of Rostarr . The artist’s film, Kill the Ego, produced in collaboration with Soundwalk Collective, will be screened at the Wythe Hotel’s cinema. Afterwards, guests may […]
This Halloween, we’re exploring the dark corners of Korean cinema with a selection of six genre-bending titles that will transport you to the world of gut-wrenching fear! The world of ghosts, wicked stepmothers, psychopathic serial killers, and webtoons that predict murder! The nihilistic and violent world where revenge is the only purpose of existence and […]
The Korea Society partners with the University of Minnesota and All That Story America to present an afternoon of Korean culture in the Twin Cities, including an introduction to Sijo, Korean poetry, and performances by the National Orchestra of Korea and Hanyang Traditional Performing Arts. Friday, October 31, 2014 | 1 – 5:30 PM […]
