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    New York Korean Film Festival 2010 @ MoMA and BAM

    Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 8:15 PM
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    The NYKFF 2010 Opening Reception will be held at The Korea Society on Thursday, 23 September 2010. The event will feature special remarks by Directors Im Sang-Soo (The Housemaid) and Boo Ji-Young (Sisters on the Road). We invite you to join us as we launch an amazing festival. The New York Korean Film Festival--the longest-running showcase of its kind in North America—is a true celebration of Korean cinema, with its auteurs, exciting screenings at MoMA and BAM Rose Cinema, and director discussions at The... Read More

  • The Fabulous Kim Sisters

    Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 6:30 PM
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      The year is 1960, and The Kim Sisters have set the Vegas Strip afire with rich harmonies and an ability to play dozens of instruments. The sisters had been in the United States only two short years at the legendary Thunderbird—after singing for American GIs during and after the Korean War. From there, they became a staple of Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, booking clubs across the United States and appearing a record 22 times on the Ed Sullivan Show. Join us as we trace the meteoric rise of The Kim... Read More
  • Director Bong Joon-Ho

    Director Bong Joon-Ho

      Korean Film in Focus: A Conversation with Director Bong Joon-ho | Long before he swept the Oscars with Parasite, Director Bong Joon Ho visited The Korea Society to talk about his career and films in February 2010. Listen to the highlights from his conversation with Michael Atkinson.       Read More

  • Korean Ghost Stories

    Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 6:30 PM
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    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 and supernatural curses have a uniquely Korean feel, and as such, provide a look into how Korean culture views issues of justice, revenge, and the role of... Read More
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    The Korea Society Interviews Park Chan-wook

    Friday, July 24, 2009 | 12:00 PM
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    South Korean star director Park Chan-wook (JSA, Old Boy), has thrilled both critics and audiences in his native country for a decade. His "vengeance" trilogy brought international recognition, including a Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize (2008) and a Jury Prize (2009), and established Park as a virtuoso filmmaker with a thoroughly original artistic vision. On July 24, 2009, The Korea Society recorded a special interview with the director in which he spoke about his influences, his meteoric ascension into the... Read More

  • Korean Films Made During the Japanese Occupation

    Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | 6:00 PM
      The Korea Society and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are proud to present seven films from one of the earliest, and most complex, periods of Korean cinema. Recently discovered in a Chinese warehouse and restored by The Korean Film Archive, the films date from the 1930s and '40s, a period when Korea was dominated by the dictates of Japanese colonialists. These dramas are thus uncomfortably pro-Japanese. Yet simultaneously, their rich aesthetics and formal experimentation reach beyond imperial Japanese ideology to... Read More

  • Cabaret Cinema: Kim Ki-duk's 'The Bow'

    Friday, November 28, 2008 | 9:30 PM
    Presented with the Korea Society Friday, November 28, 2008 | 9:30 PM Rubin Museum of Art150 West 17th StreetNew York, NY 10011   THE BOW (90 min) 2005활 Dir. Kim Ki-duk. Starring Jeon Sung-Hwan, Han Yeo-Reum, Seo Ji-Seok. With a bow and arrow, a sixty-year old man protects the young girl he plans to marry when she turns seventeen. She’s content with their life on a fishing boat until a young man arrives and changes everything.  The Bow illustrates the Bhutanese proverb: “The arrow of divine beings with... Read More

  • Power and Beauty: KBS's 'Hwang Jin Yi'

    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 6:30 PM
        The blockbuster TV Drama from KoreaMonthly Screening Series In an age when women were treated as if they were invisible, Hwang Jin Yi, the celebrated Korean courtesan-singer-poet of the 16th century, was larger than life. Her beauty, wit and intellect propelled her from obscurity into the company of Korea’s most powerful aristocrats. The defining romance of her life broke across Korea’s rigid class lines and was in turn shattered by tragedy. A symbol of art and individuality, the subject of countless novels,... Read More

  • Crossing The Line

    Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | 6:00 PM
      WithNicholas Bonner, Producer of Crossing the Line In the 1960s, four U.S. soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone crossed the most heavily fortified border on earth and defected to Communist North Korea. Trapped in the most secretive country on earth, their life was hidden from the outside world for 40 years. Not even the U.S. government knew their fate. James Joseph Dresnok, one of these four American defectors, is the only one who remains in North Korea today. The Korea Society... Read More

  • Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People

    Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 6:30 PM
      Screening And A ConversationWith Filmmaker Y. David Chung And Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen "Koryo Saram" (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees’ history of integrating into the Soviet system while... Read More

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