Date: Wednesday 11 October, 7.30pm Venue: Kings Place, Hall One Tickets from £9.50 Kings Place/Korean Sounds Universally and in all ages, music has been a messenger of love and so in October 2017, Korean Sounds: East Meets West at Kings Place presents the fourth concert in this series and...

Dates: 26 September – 4 November 2017 Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK, 1-3 Strand, London, WC2N 5BW Spike Island, Bristol and the Korean Cultural Centre UK, London announce two exhibitions from Korean artist Kim Yong-Ik (b. 1947), marking his first solo presentation in Europe. Kim’s...

Date: 26 September – 4 November 2017 Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Spike Island, Bristol and the Korean Cultural Centre UK, London announce two exhibitions from Korean artist Kim Yong-Ik (b. 1947), marking his first solo presentation in Europe. Kim’s 40 year career as an artist, activist...

K-Music is back this autumn with a stunning programme of music from Korea, reflecting the country’s ancient traditional culture and its highly innovative and dynamic music scene – one that draws on the past, explores the borders of tradition and modernity and intertwines old and...

Date: 24 August, 7:00pm Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD La Vie en Rose feels like a Tarantino movie set in a comic book shop. It’s a film that works over many genres, ranging from martial arts to vengeance, from coming-of-age to finding your...

Date/Time: Tuesday 25 July, 7pm Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK ARTISTS: Halcyon Quartet Claudia Fuller violin I Leidy Sinclair violin II Nathalie Green-Buckley viola HeeYeon Cho violoncello PROGRAMME Haydn Op.77 No.2 in F Major Moeran No.1 in A minor Interval Borodin No.2 in D Major Formed...

Produced during the ‘golden age’ of Korean cinema, It’s Not Her Sin tells the story of Seong-hui, wife of the diplomat Baek Sang-ho. After shooting at her husband’s mistress, Yeong-suk, Seong-hui is arrested by the police. With the media reporting a love triangle between the three,...

As part of Korea/UK 2017-18 the London Korean Festival offers breath-taking stage performances from Korea’s oldest traditions to the latest K-Pop hits.

DATE: Tues 27 June, 7pm VENUE: Korean Cultural Centre UK ARTIST: Samson Tsoy Choi piano Pianist SAMSON TSOY, described as “the most promising” by BBC Music Magazine, was named Laureate of the prestigious 2012 Santander International Piano Competition. At the invitation of...

Korean Cultural Centre UK, 1-3 Strand, London, WC2N 5BW Dates: 27 June – 19 August, 2017 The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is pleased to announce Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive running from 27 June – 19 August 2017, as part of the 2017-2018 Korea/UK...

Bandhobi is a story about the crossover between two different cultures and the friendship it can spark. As the title suggests, “female friend” in Bengali, the film follows the evolving relationship between Min-seo, a 17-year old rebellious Korean girl, and Karim, a 29-year old Muslim...

The Korean Craft and Design Foundation (KCDF) presents ‘Between Serenity and Dynamism; Korean Ceramics’, an exhibition that explores the beauty and heritage of Korean ceramics, and the contrast and harmony between the traditional and more contemporary forms of the craft that exists in...

In the industrial suburb of Masoek we find three foreign workers sharing a prefab hut built on their factory’s rooftop. This documentary offers a gaze into their lives, shifting its focus away from issues often associated with immigrants, taking a look at their personalities and everyday...

Designed to support UK based Korean musicians, the KCC House Concert is a new performing arts programme at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK). Throughout 2017 this programme will showcase the impressive talents of Korean musicians presently within the UK’s classical scene by offering...

A special LKFF screening of E Oni’s gripping new thriller. The director utilises powerful performances from her lead actresses to address a variety of topical issues affecting two women at very different ends of the social spectrum. Returning home one day to find that her 18-month old...

The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) presents Jeongwon Eom’s first solo show in the UK entitled 1:60. As the finalist of the KCCUK’s 2017 Open Call Exhibition, Eom explores how one individual can use a series of self-measurements to creatively envisage their environment and make the...

The directorial debut of oh In-chun, Mourning Grave is a contemporary reinvention of the traditional Korean ghost story that is as much a romantic drama as it is a horror story. a young boy, In-soo (Kang Ha-neul), who possesses the ability to see ghosts, transfers to a new school, after...

The directorial debut of Pang Eun-jin, Princess Aurora is a female take on the one of the most feted of all Korean genres: the revenge film. Vengeance, bloody and violent, here is meted out by Jung Soon-jung (Uhm Jung-hwa), a mother grieving the horrific death of her young daughter, at the...

The 11th London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) will run from 3-17 November in London followed by a tour around in the UK (Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow & Belfast) until 27 November, with over 60 films across features and shorts, a host of UK & European Premieres, Hits,...

Actor Ha Jung-woo’s debut feature as a film director, Fasten Your Seatbelt is set inside the business class cabin on a Bobby Airlines flight from Tokyo to Seoul. This plane is full of absurd character, both crew members and passengers such as a businessman, a monk and a paparazzo. The main...

Choreographer Kim Jae-Duk and his group of dancer/musicians take hold of Korean traditional dance and hotwire it with thrilling live music inspired by ancient Korean song (“poomba”) – a sense of reshaping the past to explore the future defines Modern Table’s powerful performance...

Named after the well-known French drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano Agency is a special consultancy for people who lack dating skills. Staff members of the agency create real-life backdrops and situations to help their “clients” win the love of their dreams. The agency...

The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is pleased to announce Riptide, a new exhibition from their 2016 ‘Artist of the Year’, Koo Jeong A. Running from 7 October – 19 November 2016, the artist presents 20 large-scale line drawings recontextualised from her book project Koo Jeong-A: R...

Geum-soon (Bae Doo-na), once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a housewife with a six-month-old daughter and a trouble-making husband. When her husband goes to work, Geum-soon sometimes visits the volleyball stadium where she meets many of her old colleagues and starts to reminiscence...