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 […]
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 […]
Knitted Together: The Korean Lives of Richard and Joan Rutt Oriental Museum, Durham 28th September 2024 – 4th May 2025 Free entry, no booking required A new exhibition of South Korean objects and photographs from the 1950s – 1970s donated by Richard Rutt, also known […]
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London Hallyu Festival 4th – 12th October Hallyu Festival 5 October, 11am – 4pm, Jubilee Square, New Malden Art Exhibition 4th – 12th October, 11am – 5pm 7th October, 2pm, talk with artists Hanmi Gallery, 30 Maple Street, London Talk Session 6th […]
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