Now that the weather is cooling, The Collective hosts a Summer Rooftop Party on top of Emu Artspace, located next to Gyeonghui Palace on the edge of downtown Seoul.
The Collective seeks to bring underrepresented artists from different fields together and give life to their work in a spirit of intersectional collaboration.
The event features DJs Ligrye, Monika, Mike Bond and StrangeHer, as well as live performances by singer Samia XI, Machine II the Moon, Jiyo Yu and Earthling.
Proceeds go toward The Collective's first main stage show, "Romeo and Juliet."
The event starts at noon and entry costs 20,000 won. Visit discoverthecollective.com for more information.
The local "punkish" band Machines has its final show this Saturday, as guitarist Michael Travers is moving back to Ireland.
It was a short but productive run. Earlier this month the band released the six-song album "Micro," a music video for the song "Everything's Fine" and toured China.
The final show is at GBN Live House in Mullae-dong, southwestern Seoul. Joining them are some of the scuzziest bands of the Korean underground: the Kitsches, Victim Kit, Full Garage and Leper Temple. Entry costs 10,000 won.
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The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RASKB) returns after a summer break with the first lecture of the season. Mark Peterson will give a lecture titled "Rewriting Korean History: How Korea got its History Wrong."
"The Korea of the 21st century, though still divided, is no longer the poverty-stricken, beaten-up country it once was," Peterson wrote on the event invitation. "And, as an observer would anticipate, its history is getting a re-write from a more up-to-date, positive, and self-confident perspective."
Peterson has been involved in the RASKB since the 1970s and is a Korea Times contributor. He will lecture on Monday, Sept. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of Somerset Palace in downtown Seoul. All are welcome. Non-members pay 10,000 won and students pay 5,000 won. Visit