If you are organizing a Korea-related event that you would like listed on this page, please contact John Grisafi at john.grisafi@yale.edu
Ongoing Events
Copying Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Practice
Exhibition of the works of Master Kyeongho Kim and hand-written sacred texts from Yale Library’s collection, representing Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
Monday, February 19, 2024, to Sunday, August 11, 2024 – Hanke Exhibition Gallery, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Upcoming Events
Korea: A New History of North and South
Lecture by: Victor Cha – Professor of Government, George Washington University; and Ramon Pacheco Pardo – Professor of International Relations, King’s College, London
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 – 12:00pm EDT – Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Stories of Defecting from North Korea: LiNK’s Advocacy Fellows
Conversation with Liberty in North Korea’s “Advocacy Fellows,” hosted by Baram
Monday, April 22, 2024 – 1:30pm EDT – Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
History, Politics of Time, and the Poetics of Remembrance
Park Memorial Lecture by: Namhee Lee – Professor of Modern Korean History and Director of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
2024 Yale Korean Language and Studies Student Research Symposium
Symposium of Korean Studies and Korean Language research presentations by Yale undergraduate and graduate students
Friday, May 3, 2024 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT – Location TBA
Past Events – 2024
Film Screening: Soup & Ideology
Film screening of Soup & Ideology (Yang Yong-hi, 2021)
Monday, April 8, 2024 – 7:00pm EDT – Room 250, Loria Center
Film Screening: Coming to You
Film screening of Coming to You (Gyu-ri Byun, 2021), followed by Q&A with director Gyu-ri Byun
Monday, April 1, 2024 – 6:00pm EDT – Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) and Lecture
Live sutra transcription and lecture by: Dagil Kim Kyeong-ho – Poet, calligrapher, artist
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 – 4:30pm to 7:00pm EST – Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Ancient Korea Lecture Series: “Managing Frontiers, Embracing Others” and “Formation of the Korean Bronze Age”
Lecture by: Stella Xu – John R. Turbyfill Endowed Chair & Professor of History, Roanoke College; and In Uk Kang – Associate Professor, Department of History, Kyunghee University
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Lecture Hall & Memoriabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Korean Program Lunar New Year (Seollal) Celebration 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 100, Dow Hall, 370 Temple Street
Past Events – 2023
Korea University Reception
Reception sponsored by Korea University
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm EST – Room 136, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
The Opportunities and Challenges of Korean Entertainment in the Global World
Lecture by: Ji Hoon Park – Professor of Media & Communication, Korea University
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Revenge Gone Newtro: Decolonizing Ressentiment in Korean Dramas on Retributive Justice
Lecture by: Haerin Shin – Associate Professor of Media & Communication, Korea University
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST – Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Special Lecture from President of Korea University
Lecture by: Dong-One Kim – President, Korea University
Monday, November 13, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale K-Pop Cover Dance Group: Yale Movement Fall 2023 Showcase
K-pop dance showcase by Yale Movement
Saturday, November 11, 2023 – Shows at 6:oopm and 9:00pm EST – Off-Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway
Yale Celebrates Korea: Food, Cultural Shows, Film Screening, and Talk by Joseph Juhn, Director of Chosen
Special event organized by KASY and Yale Office of International Affairs, also featuring performances from Yale Taekwondo, Yale Movement, and Worthington Hooker Elementary Korean Students
Saturday, November 11, 2023 – 3:00pm to 6:00pm EST – Lecture Hall/Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Minari
Film screening of Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020), organized by the Yale Film Archive at the Yale Library
Friday, November 10, 2023 – 7:00pm to 9:30pm EST – Room L02, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Offering Healing and Integration from “Arirang”: Performances and Lectures
Performance and Lecture by: Hyung Joon Won – Artistic Director, Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra; Toshiyuki Shimada – Music Director and Conductor, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Friday, November 10, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:30pm EST – Sudler Hall, 100 Wall Street
Saving Families After the Korean War: Faith-based Aid, Orphaned Children, and Widows in South Korea
Lecture by: Paul Cha – Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, University of Hong Kong
Thursday, November 9, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
Buddhism, Violence, and Modern ‘State-Protection’: Understanding the South Korean Buddhist Military Chaplaincy
Lecture by: Jonathan Feuer – Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Beyond the 38th Parallel: The Realities of North Korea and the Path to Free and Unified Korea
Lecture by: Seohyun Lee – Human Rights Advocate & Master of International Affairs Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Monday, November 6, 2023 – 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST – Room 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Japan & South Korea Relations
Lecture by: Michelle Ye Hee Lee – Tokyo/Seoul Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Monday, November 6, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Adopted Friends
Special event by Korean American Students at Yale (KASY)
Saturday, November 4, 2023 – 12:00pm to 4:00pm EDT – Asian American Cultural Center (AACC), 295 Crown Street
Vampires & Blood Whores: Media Voyeurism and Health Regulation in South Korea’s Black Markets for Blood
Lecture by: Inga Kim Diederich – Assistant Professor of History, Colby College
Friday, November 3, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
De-Normalizing and Regulating Smoking in Japan and Korea
Lecture by: Celeste Arrington – Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Monday, October 30, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Crossing the River of Fear: Lessons from the Life of a Korean Buddhist Nun
Lecture by: Venerable Jeongmok – Buddhist nun
Thursday, October 26, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Seoul, My Soul, Going Together With The World – Grappling With Polarization & Inclusive Growth
Special Lecture by: Se-hoon Oh – Mayor of Seoul
Thursday, September 21, 2023 – 5:00pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Tuskegee in Korea: Afro-Asian “Uplift” in the Age of Empire
Lecture by: Jang Wook Huh – Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
2023 Yale Korean Language and Studies Student Research Symposium
Symposium of Korean Studies and Korean Language research presentations by Yale undergraduate and graduate students
Friday, April 28, 2023 – 3:00pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
The Futures of Uri: Global Korean Screen Culture in Postsocialist China
Lecture by: Tian Li – Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Porous Media and Viscous Extractions
Kempf Fund Lecture by: Youngmin Choe – Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Thursday, April 20, 2023 – 3:30pm to 5:00pm EDT – Room 136, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Comparing Gods and Things: Looking At and Beyond Korea
Park Memorial Lecture by: Laurel Kendall – Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections, American Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Diplomacy in the Imjin War (1592-1598): Chosŏn Korea’s Steadfast Performance and its Survival
Lecture by: Nam-lin Hur – Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Transpacific Resonances: Writing Self and Speaking to Others in Pahk Induk’s Life Writings
Lecture by: Jina E. Kim – Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture, University of Oregon
Monday, April 10, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room, 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
The Making of North Korean Americans in the Afterlife of Cold War Cultural Politics
Lecture by: Na-rae Kim – Assistant Professor in Residence, Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Nature and Artifice: Korean Munbangdo Painting
Lecture by: Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun – Associate Curator for Korean Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, April 6, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Who was a “Refugee”?: Returnees, Northerners, and Relief Societies in Liberated South Korea, 1945-50
Lecture by: Alyssa Park – Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Iowa
Monday, April 3, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
The Importance of K-Pop to the Sociology of Asian Americans and Music
Lecture by: Grace Kao – IBM Professor of Sociology; Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University
Monday, March 27, 2023 – 1:30pm to 3:15pm EDT – Room 207, Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
Nanjido: (Un)covering the Trash Mountains
Lecture by: Se-mi Oh – Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Michigan
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Lecture and Korean Shamanic Ritual (Gut)
Lecture by: Helena Choi Soholm – Transpersonal Psychologist and Korean Shaman
Thursday, March 9, 2023 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Liberal International Norms and Restrictive Domestic Institutions: Politics of Refugee Reception in South Korea
Lecture by: Angela McClean – Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Sociology, Yale University
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Home Meals in Global Korea: Gendered Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism
Lecture by: Hyaeweol Choi – C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Decision to Leave Film Screening
Screening of: Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022, 139 mins). Presented by the Yale Film Society and the Yale Film Archive.
Saturday, February 25, 2023 – 7:00pm to 10:00pm EST – Room L01 (The Alice Cinema), Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
The Ancient Cultural Exchange of Korea and Eurasia
Lecture by: Myung chul Youn – Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Translation by: Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 17, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Thousands of Years of Korean History: Birth and Growth
Lecture by: Myung chul Youn – Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Translation by: Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 15, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Korean Program Lunar New Year (Seollal) Celebration
Friday, January 20, 2023 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm EST – Room 100, Dow Hall, 370 Temple Street