Koreans expressed their passion and fear through masked dance for hundreds of years. The dance-drama dates back to shamanic ritual aimed at warding off malevolent spirits and grew into a form of popular entertainment that poked fun at the establishment. March 4—April 25, 2010 Free and Open to the Public. The Korea Society Gallery950 Third […]
Shown for the first time in the United States, the collection features a rare collection of locks, latches and key charms, from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910), beautifully designed metal and wood objects executed in myriad shapes. This exhibition features a rare collection of locks, latches and key charms, from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910). The items […]
The arrival of the first Western missionaries in Korea in the late 19th century was a pivotal moment in the history of Christianity in Korea and the history of Korea as a whole. The missionaries established new religious identities and stoked early culture clashes. They also documented their mission and the society around […]
The Korea Society and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are proud to present seven films from one of the earliest, and most complex, periods of Korean cinema. Recently discovered in a Chinese warehouse and restored by The Korean Film Archive, the films date from the 1930s and ’40s, a period when Korea was dominated by […]
Gallery Talk with Jane PortalMatsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thursday, December 4, 2008 We might think that we know about North Korea – it has been so much in the news recently, presenting a nuclear threat to the region. But in fact we […]
Presented with the Korea Society Friday, November 28, 2008 | 9:30 PM Rubin Museum of Art150 West 17th StreetNew York, NY 10011 THE BOW (90 min) 2005활 Dir. Kim Ki-duk. Starring Jeon Sung-Hwan, Han Yeo-Reum, Seo Ji-Seok. With a bow and arrow, a sixty-year old man protects the young girl he plans to marry when she turns […]
The blockbuster TV Drama from KoreaMonthly Screening Series In an age when women were treated as if they were invisible, Hwang Jin Yi, the celebrated Korean courtesan-singer-poet of the 16th century, was larger than life. Her beauty, wit and intellect propelled her from obscurity into the company of Korea’s most powerful aristocrats. The […]
WithNicholas Bonner, Producer of Crossing the Line In the 1960s, four U.S. soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone crossed the most heavily fortified border on earth and defected to Communist North Korea. Trapped in the most secretive country on earth, their life was hidden from the outside world for 40 years. Not even the U.S. […]
Screening And A ConversationWith Filmmaker Y. David Chung And Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen “Koryo Saram” (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an […]
Exhibition September 9 – December 12, 2008 Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Korea Society presents, for the first time ever in the United States, the art of North Korean woodblock printing. In an exhibition spanning the last three decades of North Korean artistry, North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge features 24 prints from […]
