The Center for Korean Studies is one of several local organizations joining in sponsorship of The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment October 8, 2009, at Kennedy Theatre.
The program of chants, drum and cymbal dances, and the elegantly costumed “Butterfly Dance” from the sacred Young San Ceremony will be presented in concert by [...]

The Halla Huhm Korean Dance Studio will hold its 15th memorial concert Saturday, August 8, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at Mamiya Theater (Saint Louis Center for the Arts, 3142 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu).
The program will feature thirty-five students ranging in age from four to seventy-four and will include many dances choreographed by the late Halla Huhm. [...]

The Center for Korean Studies will host a presentation of the documentary film Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People and three illustrated lectures on aspects of Korean art on Monday, January 5, 2009, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
The program is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Traces and Trajectories: Current Works by Ten Korean American Artists, [...]

The Second Aspiration for Unification Exhibition will be on display in the Koa Gallery at Kapiolani Community College from January 4 to January 10, 2009. The exhibition opening reception will take place January 5 at 5:00 p.m.
The works of invited artists Byung-Kwan Choi, Young-Joong Kim, and Young-Moon Kim are featured in the exhibition. Gallery hours [...]

The rich Korean heritage of Hawaii will be celebrated at Hawaii’s Plantation Village in Waipahu Cultural Garden Park Saturday, August 2, 2008.
Activities will last from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and will include traditional Korean games, Kite making, mask painting, story writing, contests with prizes, and kimchee making.
The event is sponsored by Hawaii’s Plantation [...]

The East-West Center Seminar on Politics, Governance, and Security will feature Professor C. Kenneth Quinones of Akita International University in a program titled “The U.S. Army’s Return to North Korea” on March 14, 2008, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM in John A. Burns Hall, Room 3012.
Currently on a POSCO Fellowship at the East-West Center, [...]

The Center for Korean Studies is co-sponsor with the University of Hawaii at Manoa English Department of a reading and book signing featuring novelist Chang-rae Lee on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the UH Manoa Art Auditorium.
Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft [...]

Hawai’i Pacific University, the East-West Center, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, and Pacific Forum CSIS will present a panel discussion on “Northeast Asian Security Issues” with a group of Korea experts on Monday, March 3, 2008, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. in the East-West Center Art Gallery in John A. Burns Hall. The [...]

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Global Studies Focus Group Colloquium will present a discussion by Mark Selden of Cornell University titled “U.S. Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq” on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. The colloquium, sponsored by the UH Department of [...]

The University of Hawai’i Academy for Creative Media and the Korean Film Council (Yŏnghwa ChinhÅ­ng Wiwŏnhoe) will present a special master class on the Korean film industry Friday, August 31, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in Crawford Hall 115 on the UH Mānoa campus. The event is open to all.
The program will feature Jonathan H. Kim, [...]