Korean Culture Center in New York

Sign Up Ends Today 📓✍🏻💡🇰🇷
Today (4/24)Is the last day to sign up for KCCNYC Spring Session!
이번 학기 등록 오늘 마감합니다!

We kicked off this Monday and we want to say a special welcome to our new students.

Registration for Saturday classes remains open until 8PM today – tap the link in bio for more information.

See you in class! 곧 수업에서 만나요!

For APRIL- our bookclub DOSAN HAKDANG has been reading “The Second Chance Convenience Store” (불편한 편의점) by Kim Ho Yeon and translated by . 🍙🥤🏪

In the book, “a millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.”

The book centers around a convenience store owner and a homeless man that finds her wallet, the return of which prompts her to offer the man a meal.  The Second Chance convenience Store has been called a moving and joyful story about a woman fighting for her community and a man who has lost everything, except the will to try again.

It’s a quick read, so you still have time to grab a copy and join us on this Sunday April 26th, 2026 at 2PM Eastern to share a heartwarming story with KCCNYC community!
Link to register for the book discussion at our link in bio ⬆️📚

   
#불편한편의점  KCCNYC

Ready for some spring K-dramas? 🍃🍀🌼
From KCCNYC Monthly Vol. 23

By Sharon Stern

April is a packed month in dramaland!  Plot lines all over the place and lots and lots to sample.  Here’s hoping for something amazing!

Read the full article & watch the trailers on our blog at the link in bio!

April is Disability Awareness Month, and it’s a good time to pause and ask a question that doesn’t come up often enough in adoptee spaces: who is not in the room, and why? 👩‍🦼‍➡️🇰🇷🇺🇸

Read the full article by on our blog by clicking the link in bio!

📚Book images:
1 In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family by .reunion

2 Famous Adopted People by

3 The language of blood by Jane Jeong Trenka

📚Dosan Hakdang Book Club Report:
Han Kang’s We Do Not Part & the Jeju 4.3 Massacre

Today we remember and commemorate the victims of the Jeju 4.3 Massacre, also known as the Jeju 4.3 Uprising.

For March 2026, KCCNYC read Han Kang’s We Do Not Part - a Nobel Prize winning novel, that explores the generational wound of the 4.3 Massacre.

We were honored that Professor Hur Sang Soo of Korea joined the March 29 Dosan Hakdang Book Club for a discussion of Han Kang’s US National Book Critics Circle Award winning novel We Do Not Part, which painfully explores the Jeju 4.3 massacre, started in April of 1948.

Read the full article in our upcoming April Newsletter!

How about a Sunday afternoon with some KDrama? ☕️

By Sharon Stern
There is a little bit of everything going on in dramaland this month. We have silly, we have rom-com, we have revenge and thriller and legal with psychological twists. It’s a good month to try out a number of different styles, a number of different streaming sources and see whose storytelling is the most captivating.

Join our Dosan Hakdang Book Club on March 29 to discuss this month’s selection — WE DO NOT PART by Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris — which uses dreamlike imagery to look deeply at generational trauma and the Jeju uprising of 1948.

Our discussion will also include the history of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising - and we look forward to talking about the book with all of you. Sign up at the link in bio.

KCCNYC Gala 2026 Photobook Part 3 🎉📸💗

On Feb 19, our community gathered for a wonderful night of Art, Food, Music, and Fun! Thank you to everyone who made the night so special.

Check out a full recap of the evening and full gallery on our blog at the link in bio ⬆️ and stay tuned for more photos and videos of the evening!

Our sincerest gratitude to the artists, sponsors, supporters, volunteers, and Gala Committee team for helping make it a truly memorable night ✨

All photos by .y_

KCCNYC Gala 2026 Photobook Part 2 🌺✨📸

On Feb 19, our community gathered for a wonderful night of Art, Food, Music, and Fun! Thank you to everyone who made the night so special.

Check out a full recap of the evening and full gallery on our blog at the link in bio ⬆️ and stay tuned for more photos and videos of the evening!

Our sincerest gratitude to the artists, sponsors, supporters, volunteers, and Gala Committee team for helping make it a truly memorable night ✨

All photos by .y_

KCCNYC Gala 2026 Photobook Part 1 📸🎉🌺

On Feb 19, our community gathered for a wonderful night of Art, Food, Music, and Fun! Thank you to everyone who made the night so special. Check out a full recap of the evening and full gallery on our blog at the link in bio and stay tuned for more photos and videos of the evening!

Our sincerest gratitude to the artists, sponsors, supporters, volunteers, and Gala Committee team for helping make it a truly memorable night ✨

All photos by .y_