YEOL, Society for Korean Cultural Heritage, is pleased to announce its eighth annual lecture series in association with the Seoul Museum of History.
On April 6, Brother Anthony, a graduate of the Queen's College, Oxford University, and currently professor emeritus in the English Department of Sogang University, will present the Korean Way of Tea: Past and Present.
Brother Anthony was born in England and came to Korea in 1980. He has published many volumes of translations of Korean poetry and fiction into English and is the author of "The Korean Way of Tea" published by Seoul Selection in 2007.
His lecture will include a tea serving demonstration by tea-master Hong Kyeong-hee and cover topics such as the history of tea, how tea is served and the complex early history of Korean tea.
The lectures are on Tuesdays and will be held on April 6, May 4, June 1, Sept. 7, Oct. 5 and Nov. 2. The sessions run from 10.30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and cost 10,000 won each or 50,000 won for the whole series. The lectures are held at the seminar room (2nd floor) of the Seoul Museum of History.
To register, send your name and contact details to
and payment can be made to Hana Bank, account number 145-910001-76804 (YEOL) or at the door.
Meditation instructions in English and a meditation session takes place every Saturday, led by a Korean-American monk ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, every Saturday from April 3 at 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Guiding teacher Ven. Yongsoo, a student of HH Dalai Lama, Mingyur Rinpoche and Dzongsar Kyentse Rinpoche, will lead the free sessions at the Buddhist English Library.
To get there, come out exit #6 of Anguk subway station, make a U-turn, walking away from Insa-dong. When you pass the police station, you will see a yellow building with a white sign for the Buddhist English Library of Seoul. For more information, call 02-730-0173 or email
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Traditional Drink & Rice Cake, Gyeongju, will host the Korean Traditional Drink & Rice Cake Festival featuring Korea's traditional liquor and rice cakes.
Visitors can sample and shop for delicacies not only from Gyeongju but also from various other regions in Korea.
The festival will run from April 18 to April 23 at Hwangseong Park, Gyeongju. Admission is free.
The Korea Foundation Cultural Gallery Center will be showcasing a large exhibition of Indonesian batik.
It will feature more than 120 pieces of batik cloth from the collection of one of Indonesia's leading batik creators and enthusiasts, Josephine Komara.
It will explore batik as an art form and the special connection it has in the lives of Indonesians, especially as a form of wearable art.
The exhibition will open on April 1 at 6 p.m. and run from April 2 to 21, Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.
The artist will conduct a free one-hour English gallery tour of her works on April 5, at 11 p.m.