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Dinner and a Movie

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | 6:00 PM

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Dinner and a movie-- it’s a classic combination. Join us to watch the 2010 Korean film The Recipe (된장), which follows a television producer searching for the chef and recipe of a soybean paste stew (doenjang jjigae), while dining on doenjang jjigae! We’ll also demonstrate how to prepare the stew, so you can make this Korean comfort food throughout the cold winter. The Dinner Doenjang jjigae is a staple meal in Korean homes. The earthy flavor of soybean paste is fused with hearty vegetables like Korean radish... Read More

Maeuntang and Cooking with Seafood

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 | 6:00 PM

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Event Link: Walter Rhee is a Korean native who currently teaches cooking science (à la  Alton Brown and Bill Nye) at the University of Hawaii food science department. Walter received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell in marine biology and a Master's degree in food science from the University of Hawaii. He has taught for 20 years.
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The French have bouillabaisse, Italians have zuppa di pesce, and Koreans have maeuntang! Learn how to make this wonderful, spicy seafood stew in a hands-on workshop led by Chef Walter Rhee. He’ll complete the meal by demonstrating how to make the perfect accompanying appetizers, Korean seafood pancakes (pajeon) and candied anchovies (myul chi bokkum). Trained as a marine biologist before pursuing his culinary passions, Walter will also share tips on how to buy, cut, and make healthy seafood dishes. Korea... Read More

An Evening with Coffee Meets Bagels

Thursday, November 20, 2014 | 6:30 PM

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Arranged introductions have long been part of Korean culture, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Kang sisters would merge technology and dating to pioneer an innovative but surprisingly simple on-line dating service, Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB). Join us for an evening with the founders as they share, with Wework’s Christina Choi, their experiences starting CMB and using technology, social media, and marketing research in a people business. Thursday, November 20, 2014 | 6:30 PM The Korea Society950 Third... Read More

Opening Night with Rostarr

Friday, November 14, 2014 | 8:00 PM

KAFFNY (Korean American Film Festival New York), in partnership with The Korea Society, will open its 8th annual film festival with an opening-night party that features the artwork of Rostarr . The artist’s film, Kill the Ego, produced in collaboration with Soundwalk Collective, will be screened at the Wythe Hotel’s cinema. Afterwards, guests may enjoy a one-hour open bar and party and view the exhibit of Rostarr’s art in the private dining room, which will be open throughout the festival weekend. The Korea... Read More

Story of Korea @ Minneapolis

Friday, October 31, 2014 | 1:00 PM

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The Korea Society partners with the University of Minnesota and All That Story America to present an afternoon of Korean culture in the Twin Cities, including an introduction to Sijo, Korean poetry, and performances by the National Orchestra of Korea and Hanyang Traditional Performing Arts. Friday, October 31, 2014 | 1 - 5:30 PM Cultural Outreach Story of Korea @ Minneapolis Read More

An Evening with 16 HANDLES’ Solomon Choi

Thursday, September 18, 2014 | 6:30 PM

Interested in how you identify a market opportunity, launch a start-up company, or build a recognizable brand? or maybe you just love fro-yo (frozen yogurt)? Then join us for an evening with Solomon Choi, the entrepreneur and marketing genius behind 16 HANDLES, a rapidly expanding self-serve frozen yogurt franchise business on the East Coast. In 2008, Solomon founded 16 HANDLES, taking on Korea’s Red Mango and Pinkberry frozen yogurt brands. Since then he has grown the business from a single frozen yogurt shop in the... Read More

Holiday Rice Cakes for Chuseok

Thursday, September 4, 2014 | 6:00 PM

On Chuseok, Korea’s Thanksgiving Day, families gather to celebrate the fall harvest and give thanks to their ancestors. The day includes a sumptuous feast, topped off with songpyeon, sesame and honey-filled rice cakes. Learn how to make these rice cakes from scratch in a hands-on workshop led by culinary instructor Shin Kim. She’ll also demonstrate how to make another popular holiday dish, japchae (glass noodles with vegetables), as well as shikhye, a delicious rice dessert drink. Thursday, September 4, 2014 |... Read More

------CANCELLED------Telling a Korean Family History

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 | 6:30 PM

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Event Link:   Professor Eugene Y. Park specializes in the sociopolitical history of Korea, especially from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. He is currently working on his third monograph, Fallen Royals: The Kaesŏng Wang in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910 (title tentative), which examines positions occupied by the descendants of Koryŏ dynasty in Chosŏn politics and society. Besides analyzing the 1394 massacre of hundreds, if not thousands, of former royals by the Chosŏn government from various angles, Park traces the plight of survivors and their descendants as they assumed roles as state-appointed ritual heirs of the Koryŏ royal house, scholar-officials, local aristocrats, physicians, soldiers, and merchants. More than just a study of dynastic change in late medieval Eurasia and its repercussion in the early modern era, this book will also narrate a story of human interest. In more general terms, much of Park’s research concerns the continuities and breaks of Korea’s experience across the conventionally recognized divide of the Open Port period. He is especially interested in the institutions that organized and gave meaning to early modern society and how they changed during the encounter with Western imperialism. He has published two monographs, <a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22981">A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)</a> and <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674025028">Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600–1894 (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007)</a>. Park has also published a dozen refereed articles and edited volume chapters, including “Old Status Trappings in a New World: The ‘Middle People’ (Chungin) and Genealogies in Modern Korea” (Journal of Family History, 2013) and “Status and ‘Defunct’ Offices in Early Modern Korea: The Case of Five Guards Generals (Owijang), 1864–1910” (Journal of Social History, 2008). Overall fascinated by origins, connections, and representations, he also has a longstanding interest in genetics, primatology, genealogy, and portraiture. Park was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in southern California. After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles as a History major (1991), he studied at Harvard University where he received his M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia (1993) and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (1999). He taught at the University of California, Irvine from 2000 to 2009 before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2009 and serving as the director of James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies. He has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Korea Foundation, Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, and Yale University Council on East Asian Studies. Each year, he also teaches as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Seoul National University’s International Summer Institute.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control, this program has been cancelled.We apologize for the inconvenience. Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and, long before there was ancestry.com, many Koreans kept detailed records of their ancestral lineages in their family jokbo. Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Eugene Y. Park, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, set out to find his... Read More

Korea’s Taste of Summer

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | 6:00 PM

Explore the tastes of summertime in Korea in this cooking demonstration and hands on workshop led by culinary instructor and food writer, Shin Kim. Learn to prepare bibim guksu (spicy noodle salad), aehobak jeon (pan-fried summer squash), oi naengguk (chilled cucumber soup), and patbingsu (shaved ice with sweet red beans), all dishes that Koreans love to eat during the rainy season and summer heat. Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | 6 PM Advanced ticket purchase required for this event. Space is limited. $25 Members / $40... Read More

Summer Jazz Night with Sangmin Lee

Thursday, July 17, 2014 | 6:30 PM

Join us for a cool summer night of inventive jazz fusion with the Sangmin Lee Group, led by renowned Korean jazz artist, drummer, and composer Sangmin Lee. Sit back and listen as the group performs Sangmin Lee’s non-traditional and eclectic original compositions. Lee provides introductions to each arrangement, and will explain his inspirations, musical influences, and technique. After the performance, Lee, one of Korea’s most sought-after session drummers, will share his experiences playing with Rain and many other... Read More

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