THE KOREA SOCIETY

is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization with individual and corporate members that is dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea. Learn more about us here.

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Monday, September 30, 2024 | 6:00 PM 
We invite you to join the 2024 Annual Dinner on Monday, September 30th at The Plaza Hotel. The ...
Monday, May 20, 2024 | 9:30 AM 
The Korea Society held its 33rd Annual Van Fleet Memorial Golf Tournament at the ...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 6:30 PM 
Welcome the Year of the Dragon! We are delighted to invite you to our Annual Membership Party on ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 6:30 PM 
The 2023 Annual Dinner was held on September 20 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Celebrating ...

Members’ Free Film Night: The Classic

 

The Classic, as delicate as it is unabashedly romantic, is a sentimental and refreshingly sincere valentine to the traditional Korean melodramas of old (famously satirized in director Kwak Jae-yong’s previous film, My Sassy Girl). It was a 2003 box-office blockbuster in Korea and all over Asia. Kwak has also made a film that, on a deeper level, poignantly illustrates the aspirations of parents for their children, as well as South Korea's development over two generations.

Beginning with a discovery of a secret box of letters, The Classic unfolds slowly and deliberately as it tells parallel tales of Ji-Hye and her mother and their respective romantic complications as they both fall in love with a man they cannot have.


Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:30 PM