To celebrate the sixth anniversary of its opening, the KF Cultural Center presents two concerts featuring Baramgot, a traditional Korean music ensemble, saxophonist Danny Jung and jazz vocalist Malo, on the theme of “New Approach”


DateSeptember 1-2
VenueKF Cultural Center Gallery
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

At the invitation of the Brazilian art festival, “Cena Contemporanea,” the traditional Korean music ensemble, Dulsori, tours Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre. They also plan to perform in Montevideo, Uruguay.


DateSeptember 1-27
VenueBrasilia, Sao Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre in Brazil; and Montevideo in Uruguay
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

Journalists and journalism professors from Korea and Japan get together to discuss ways to further strengthen Korea-Japan relations. The gathering is part of the efforts to enhance mutual understanding between the two countries.


DateSeptember 4-7
VenueInternational Cultural Center in Tokyo, Japan
ContactPublic Diplomacy Department (82-2) 2046-8562/yrjeong@kf.or.kr

The Korean non-verbal martial arts performing group, Jump, performs at the Manizales International Theater Festival, and Medellin and Bogota in Colombia.


DateSeptember 5-22
VenueTeatro Fundador in Manizales, Thatro Pablo Toban in Medellin, Los Andes University in Bogota
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

The exhibition includes 50 original drawings, project cases, and graphic works by the Alchimia Studio, a design group of Italy.


DateSeptember 6-19
VenueKF Cultural Center Gallery
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

The Cheong Bae traditional performing arts troupe performs its folk percussion repertoire in Tehran to introduce traditional Korean music. The repertoire includes “Daechwita” (military band music), “Binari” (shaman music), “Gimcheon Drum Dance,” “Seungmu” (Buddhist dance), and “Pannoreum” (field play).


DateSeptember 7-13
VenueTehran, Iran
ContactCulture & Arts Department, (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

Dominique Wolton, research director of the French National Center for Scientific Research and author of the best-selling book, “Informer N’est Pas Communiquer” (Informing Is Not Communicating), presents a special lecture on “Communication Between Cultures: a Key for Our Globalized World.”


DateSeptember 7
VenueMeeting Room I, JW Marriott Hotel
ContactPublic Diplomacy Department (82-2) 2046-8637/-8528/ kfforum@kf.or.kr

The fusion-style gugak (traditional Korean music) group, Haegeum Plus stages a series of performances in the United States, as well as Dominica and Honduras.


DateSeptember 7-22
VenueFord Theater, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Teatro Manuel Bonilla, Honduras; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Dominica
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

As the third program of its regular cultural lecture series, which seeks to enhance understanding of international affairs among the Korean public and to introduce various foreign cultures to Korea, the KF Cultural Center presents a 12-lecture series on Greece, under the title of “Story of Greece.”


DateSeptember 8-November 24, 7:00-9:00 p.m. every Thursday
Venue KF Cultural Center Seminar Room
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

The Korea Foundation sponsors a special exhibition, “Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art,” jointly organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art.


DateSeptember 16, 2011-January 8, 2012
VenueAsian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

In conjunction with the Buncheong ceramics exhibition at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Korea Foundation hosts a “Korea Foundation Day” event at the museum. The event includes a gallery tour, artists’ demonstrations, fusion-style traditional Korean music performance, and hands-on activities.


DateSeptember 17
VenueAsian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

Korean artist Tim Lee exhibits his works at the 12th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey.


DateSeptember 17-November 13
VenueIstanbul, Turkey
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

The exhibition features 50 photographs of prominent Brazilian photo artist Joao Paulo Barbosa, taken over the past 15 years, on such themes as the nature, culture, ethnic diversity, tradition, and religion of Brazil.


DateSeptember 22-29
VenueKF Cultural Center Gallery
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

Korean artists Rhee Ki-bong, Zin Ki-jong, and Oh Yong-seok display their works at the fourth Moscow Biennale.


DateSeptember 22-October 30
VenueArtplay Design Center, TSUM Art Foundation, Russia
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

Korean artist Park Chan-kyong exhibits art works, “Sets” (2000) and “Power Passage” (2004), at the Second Worlds Exhibition, organized by WHW (What, How & for Whom), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote visual culture.


DateSeptember 22-October 3
VenueGalene Zimmerman Kratochwill, Austria
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/cultural@kf.or.kr

Social studies teachers of Japan’s middle and high schools visit Korea to attend lectures on a broad range of topics, including Korean politics, economy, society, and culture. They also have an opportunity to increase their understanding of and familiarity with Korea through visits to Korean schools for a comparison of Korean and Japanese educational systems.


DateSeptember 26-October 9
VenueInstitute for Japanese Studies at Seoul National University
ContactKorean Studies Department (82-2) 2046-8541/studies@kf.or.kr

The KF Cultural Center offers a lecture series for foreign residents in Korea to help increase their understanding of Korean culture through the country’s classical films. The program includes the showing of six movies and six discussion sessions led by Prof. Earl Jackson, Jr., a lecturer at Korea National University of Arts and co-director of TRANS-Asia Screen Cultures Institute.


DateSeptember 26 - December 12, 12:30-2:30 p.m. every other Monday
VenueKF Cultural Center Seminar Room
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6520/kfcenter@kf.or.kr

The Korea Foundation supports setting up a Korean information center at the educational hall of the National Museum of Mongolia and hosts a workshop on Korean cultural education for Mongolian elementary, middle, and high school teachers and museum officials.


DateSeptember 28-29
VenueNational Museum of Mongolia
ContactCulture & Arts Department (82-2) 2151-6531/cultural@kf.or.kr