The Korea Society and the Asian American Film Lab, working together to promote multi-cultural collaboration, are delighted to present Unfinished Works, a program that features performances and a video installation that showcase Korean and Korean-American stories, writers, and themes. The evening’s selections will feature works by finalists Jae-Ho Chang, Aimiende Negbenebor Sela, and Chelsea S. Kwon. Chang’s documentary, Ultimate Christian Wrestling, chronicles the struggles of a traveling pro-wrestling ministry as… Read More

Artist Chang-Jin Lee presents her artwork, Comfort Women Wanted, on the forgotten history of WWII-era Japanese military sex slaves, or  “comfort women” as they were euphemistically known. Since 2007, Chang-Jin Lee has traveled to 7 different countries throughout Asia to interview Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, as well as a former Japanese soldier, producing a video based on her interviews and creating a public art… Read More

The top Korean domestic film of 2000, Foul King is one of the earliest films of Kim Ji-woon, who most recently directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand. Starring Song Kang-Ho as an unproductive bank clerk suffering through the grind of his miserable 9 to 5 existence, he eventually finds an outlet for his frustrations by moonlighting as a professional wrestler. He is slowly transformed as he begins his second… Read More

‘ContemporAsian: Focus on Korea’@ MoMA Monday, August 5 to Sunday, August 11, 2013 Asian cinema is fast becoming a cinema without borders. Digital filmmaking and international coproductions are rapidly transforming an industry in which the transnational flow of talent and resources, even between the U.S. and Asia, has become the norm. In the monthly exhibition ContemporAsian, MoMA showcases films that get little exposure outside of their home countries or on… Read More

Directed by Yang Yong-hi. With Sakura Ando, Arata Iura, and Yang Ik-joon. The Korea Society and Asian American International Film Festival co-present this politically profound film made by Japanese Korean director, Yong Yong-hi. Her father was a patriotic Korean living in Japan, sympathetic to North Korea. He  sent his three Japanese-born sons to North Korea by ‘Repatriation program’, believing the promise of a paradise. This movie starts after 25 years… Read More

The Korea Society’s Young Professionals’ Network is invited to the New York Asian Film Festival 2013’s closing night presentation of Secretly Greatly. Based on the webtoon series “Covertness,” Secretly Greatly stars three of Korea’s hottest young TV stars (Kim Soo-Hyun, Lee Hyun-Woo, Park Ki-Woong) as a trio of elite North Korean sleeper agents who have lived undercover in South Korea for so long that they now believe their own cover… Read More

The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new  contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Korean with English subtitles.   The House(Jip)2010, 82 min Ga-yeong, who lives in… Read More

The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) have been presenting new  contemporary Korean cinema since 2011, and this season, we are proudly co-present Korean animation feature films. This series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Korean with English subtitles.   Green Days (Sojunghan narui kkum) 2011, 98 min After… Read More

Park Chan-wook is Korea’s leading filmmaker and the first Korean director to win the Grand Prix of The Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2004. Old Boy alone gathered more than 20 awards on the international film festival circuit. Park is a producer of Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming Snow Piercer. To celebrate Stoker, his Hollywood directorial debut, The Korea Society and MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image) proudly co-present a Park… Read More

The Korea Society presents the 11th New York Korean Film Festival (NYKFF) in its second year at BAM Rose Cinema & Cinematek. In cooperation with BAMcinématek, The New York Korean Film Festival (NYKFF) is the foremost North American festival dedicated to showcasing the most commercially successful mainstream Korean films of the year.   By Subway 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q to Atlantic Ave or D, M, N, R to… Read More