On February 7, 2008, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, delivered at lecture at The Korea Society entitled “Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity.” The lecture was in support of “Toy Stories: Souvenirs […]
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 […]
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 […]
A New, Monthly Series of Gallery Talk Programs May 24 – November 16, 2007 Exhibiting Korea, a new monthly series of presentations on the fine arts, film, fashion and photograph of the Korean Peninsula, is debuting in April 2007. Series programs will address contemporary trends in cultural expression in Korea, and take audiences back to […]
To mark the opening of an exhibition of Korean dragon paintings, author and folklore specialist Heinz Insu Fenkl, director of the Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY New Paltz, lectured on dragon symbolism in both the East and West. Due to its association with serpents in the Old Testament, he explained, the dragon was considered a […]
This program featured the screening of a documentary by award-winning producers Dan Gordon and John Battsek, which premiered on the PBS program, Wide Angle, on September 11, 2003. The documentary provides a rare, and surprising, glimpse into the individual and family life underneath the monolithic veneer of North Korean society. A Q&A session with […]
April 27 – June 30, 2004 Gallery Hours:11:00AM – 5:00PMTuesday through Friday Public Lecture A Bright Fascination: Korean Folk PaintingsBy Hyunsoo Woo Thursday, May 27, 2004 @ 6:30PMAdmission free, reservation required
