WithChristine Choy, Film DirectorJung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYUJina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith College The Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its products and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the […]
Join us for an exciting week of film, shorts, panels and parties at the largest celebration of Korean cinema in the United States. The New York Korean Film Festival showcases dynamic and exciting currents in contemporary Korean cinema and this year looks back on the career of award-winning actor Ahn Sung-ki with a special retrospective. You […]
Exhibition Through Friday, August 15, 2008 Kyopo (교포) is a Korean term for people of Korean descent who reside permanently outside of the Korean Peninsula. The Kyopo Project is a collection of images created by photographer CYJO to highlight the diversity of the global kyopo community. Emigration from Korea to other countries in Asia […]
South Korean films continue to set box-office records across Asia and win laurels in international film festivals. Meanwhile, little attention is given to the cinema from the other half of the peninsula. From May 12 to 14, 2008, three films from the DPRK’s canon will be screened as a special presentation in the Classic […]
With Director Lee Chang-Dong and Actress Moon So-ri. Wednesday, May 5, 2008 | 7:00 PM Asia Society725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)New York, NY 10021 Admission:$10 Members / $12 Non-members OASIS (133 min) 2002오아시스 Lead actress Moon So-ri will join director Lee for audience Q&A after the screening. Jong-du Hong (Sol Kyung-gu) is just […]
Exhibition April 24–May 16, 2008 Opening Reception Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Korea Society is pleased to present Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, an exhibition of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris that document the concert by the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea […]
Exhibition January 31–April 18, 2008 Toys are always more meaningful than the simple playthings they appear to be. They can embody the fantasies, values, obsessions and anxieties of a generation. With Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood, The Korea Society put on display over 90 children’s toys from South Korea in the 1970s and […]
When Bruce Lee died, he left behind 12 minutes of footage from his final film. The upcoming movie Finishing the Game imagines what would have happened if bumbling studio executives had tried to find a passable stand-in for Lee to finish the film. The answer is hilarity. Starring Roger Fan (Better Luck Tomorrow), Sung Kang (The […]
Recent years have seen a wave of Korean pop culture—known as hallyu—sweep across Asia as consumers from Thailand to Japan became ardent fans of Korean TV dramas, movies and music acts. No pop culture phenomenon lasts forever, however, and recently released statistics suggest that exports from Korea’s entertainment industry are now declining. Is the Korean […]
Exhibition July 26, 2007 – December 18, 2007 “… eye-catching.” – New York Times Art Review, “Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People”, August 17, 2007 link “… the artifacts… are truly treasures.” – Japan Times Review, “Little Friends for the Other World”, October 11, 2007 link Death is an aspect of the human condition that […]
