Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of Chicago’s MacLean Collection, examines Korean maps in a variety of formats, the challenges faced by cartographers, and the formation of multiple identities in Korea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The MacLean Collection, housed in a private museum outside Chicago, focuses on the cultures of Korea, China, […]
The Korea Society, the nation’s premiere non-profit dedicated to enhanced understanding between the peoples of the United States and Korea, presents its next Korea Day March 16 in Pittsburgh. Following on its national outreach effort in Atlanta, The Korea Society identified Pittsburgh given its emergence as a top-ten U.S. growth city, center for research and […]
In conjunction with the gallery exhibition 10,000 Threads, acclaimed author Spike Gillespie explores the diversity and common threads of quilting in Korea, its neighbors, and lands beyond. Gillespie takes the listener on a global journey of the art, approaches, and techniques of quilt making. Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Asia Week 2011 Gallery Talk10,000 […]
Dr. John Park, formerly of Goldman Sachs and now director of the Korea Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace, explores North Korea’s leadership transition in the context of Chinese and North Korean party connections. Dr. Park addresses the impact of recent events and Chinese foreign policy toward the Peninsula for media and business […]
Minji Park explores late autumn’s grasp and the onset of winter through a program of traditional six-string kǒmun’go. The evening’s selections pay tribute to the late season and highlight the masculine, deep sounds of one of Korea’s oldest native instruments. A winner at the 2010 World Korean Traditional Performing Arts Competition in New York, Minji […]
Through November and December, 2009, The Korea Society is screening episodes from Korean Ghost Stories, KBS’ popular and long-running television series. Known in Korea as Hometown of Legend, the series has thrilled Korean audiences with tales of the supernatural since it began airing in 1977. Often drawn from ancient folklore, these tales of tortured ghosts […]
