Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 7th February 2019

Sarah Duffy was awarded a BKS grant in 2018 to support her stay in Korea during her Artists Residency at the Seoul Museum of Art. I am a Contemporary Artist with an interdisciplinary practice, spanning performance, writing, video, sound and installation. I was selected to […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 1st February 2019

Supported by our grants programme, Cranford Community College students made a visit to their partner school in Pohang, and have sent the following report: The award of a £1000 grant to Cranford Community College for their trip to South Korea in October 2018 meant that […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Philip Dobison is  Assistant Head Teacher at Cranford Community College near Hounslow.  The college has a partner school in Pohang, ROK, and is organising a student exchange with them, which will allow British students aged 16-18, who are learning Korean as part of an extended […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Dr Marc Vendrell, Principal Investigator at the University of Edinburgh, is organising a meeting there which will bring together specialists from the UK and South Korea in the field of chemical biology and molecular mapping.   It is planned that potential areas for collaborative work will […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori is a London-based artist who has had a number of solo exhibitions.   He has been offered the opportunity to be artist in residence at the Seoul Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from April – June 2018 where he will prepare a […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

2018: Charlotte Burrows is a PhD student of architecture at the University of Cambridge.   She will use the BKS grant to travel to Korea to study the techniques of masters of the textile craft pojagi to assess how it might be reinterpreted in the UK.  […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Hoon Song I was born in Seoul, South Korea and spent my school years in Busan. I entered Yonsei University in Seoul and studied Theology, which became my academic ground for a theological approach toward the unification of Korea. After my undergraduate school, I decided […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Mary Briggs Mary Briggs is currently pursuing an MA in Korean studies with a focus on Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interests centre on religiosity, particularly Christianity, modernity, and postmodernity in South Korea. Her dissertation […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Sangwon Shin I am a PhD student at the department of the languages and cultures of Japan and Korea at SOAS, University of London. I have pursued BA in History and Archaeology back at Inje University in Korea, and continued MA in History at SOAS. […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Milyung Son I am currently a PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Planning at University of Sheffield. I achieved MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Sheffield Hallam University. The subject of MA dissertation was “Evidence of social impacts by the UK inaugural City […]

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