Posted by: Cathy Kim | Posted on: 12th March 2019
The Alexander Whitley Dance Company applied for a BKS grant to attend the Performing Arts Market Seoul 7-10 October 2018 at the invitation of the British Council. A report of their visit is available here. “The support from the British Korean Society has helped AWDC […]
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Posted by: Cathy Kim | Posted on: 18th February 2019
From April – June 2018, Fabio Antinori participated in the International Artist in Residence Program at the MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Changdong, Seoul. As part of the program, participating artists were asked to make use of their time to produce […]
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Posted by: Cathy Kim | Posted on: 18th February 2019
As a researcher at Cambridge University the generous grant given by the British Korean Society allowed me to travel to Korea to further my work on the traditional ‘pojagi’ Korean textile. Whilst in Korea I was able to visit pojabi masters and observe their work and methods, […]
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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 […]
No CommentsPosted 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 […]
No CommentsPosted 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 […]
No CommentsPosted 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 […]
No CommentsPosted 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 […]
Exhibition: Circulation Metaphor Opening Reception Monday 22 July 2019, 5-8pm (Artist Talk from 7pm) Korean Cultural Centre UK Grand Buildings 1-3 Strand London WC2N 5BW A group exhibition featuring six artists and one collective, who through various forms of new media art explore […]
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Joint East Asian Studies Conference 2019 University of Edinburgh 4th to 6th September 2019 Panel and individual paper will discuss topics across the full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences that address topics related to Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, other […]
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