Featured Events in Seoul in January, 2025 (May Updated)

EduTec Korea 2024 is a career and education fair EduTec Korea is a career and education fair. The exhibition shows a selection of facilities, technologies, and achievements. The event provides materials for educational institutions, these maybe informative or technical. The event is an excellent platform for an exchange of knowledge and experience. The event aims at providing services and products to students, professionals, and parents to promote the education sector worldwide. The event aims at providing educational facilities at all corners and uses the latest technologies to enable the right to education to every individual. The event covers all forms of educational and co-curricular activities that enhance students overall personality development skills. Information Source: EXPORUM Inc. | expotobi

SHINSEGAE GALLERY CHEONGDAM IS DELIGHTED TO PRESENT 《GIVE A HAND, TAKE A HAND》, THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE SOLO EXHIBITION IN KOREA BY RENOWNED JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST YUSUKE HANAI. JOIN US AS WE KICK OFF THE NEW YEAR WITH THIS EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION, OPENING ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025. CELEBRATED AS A TOP WISHLIST ARTIST AMONG JAPANESE COLLECTORS, YUSUKE HANAI DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM SUBCULTURES SUCH AS THE BEATLES, HIPPIES, SURFERS, AND THE VIBRANT STREET CULTURE OF THE WEST COAST. HIS WORK SEAMLESSLY BLENDS ELEMENTS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN AESTHETICS, EARNING RECOGNITION IN MAJOR GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS ACROSS THE GLOBE. HANAI’S COLLABORATIONS WITH GLOBAL BRANDS LIKE NIKE, SACAI, VANS, AND BEAMS HAVE ALSO GARNERED WIDESPREAD ACCLAIM, BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ART AND COMMERCE AND SHOWCASING HIS INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC VISION TO A WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE.

Korean pop boy band SUPER JUNIOR member Yesung announced a solo concert tour 2025 YESUNG CONCERT [It's Complicated] Asia Tour! The tour will start in Seoul and then go to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Taipei, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur. The highly anticipated 2025 YESUNG CONCERT [It's Complicated] IN SEOULwill be held at YES24 LIVE in Seoul on January 18-19, 2025 HALL.

Korean pop boy band SUPER JUNIOR member Yesung announced a solo concert tour 2025 YESUNG CONCERT [It's Complicated] Asia Tour! The tour will start in Seoul and then go to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Taipei, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur. The highly anticipated 2025 YESUNG CONCERT [It's Complicated] IN SEOULwill be held at YES24 LIVE in Seoul on January 18-19, 2025 HALL.

The TOOL & SAFETY SHOW 2025 is set to be a pivotal event in the industry, taking place from January 22 to January 25 at the renowned COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea. This premier event will gather professionals from around the globe to explore the latest advancements in tools and safety equipment. With a focus on innovation and best practices, the TOOL & SAFETY SHOW 2025 promises to be an essential platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and discovering cutting-edge technologies. Attendees can expect a comprehensive showcase of products, insightful seminars, and hands-on demonstrations, all designed to enhance workplace safety and efficiency. Marking a significant milestone in the industry calendar, the TOOL & SAFETY SHOW 2025 is not to be missed by those committed to staying ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of tools and safety solutions.

Don’t miss our hilarious Comedy Dating Game! Watch contestants bring their wildest, wackiest personas to life. Expect ridiculous answers, bizarre talents, and non-stop laughs. 😂 Whether you want to participate or just watch, it's the perfect way to enjoy a night of unpredictable fun and great company. 🥳 ❤️ Doors open at 7:30pm Show starts at 8pm Information Source: Planet Hustle | eventbrite

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art preserves and manages more than 10,000 collections and displays works through various exhibitions. In addition, we strive not only to manage the collections but also to systematize auxiliary information related to the works. Information such as titles, specifications, and materials are located in the exhibition's proposition sheet and help to assist in understanding the works. In particular, the title is like a messenger between the artist, the work, and the audience. In fact, the name is also related to the birth of the museum. As art museums moved from private to public ownership, property rights became a necessary condition for managing and guiding works, and the technical standards and information systematization of collection works as public goods also became one of the important roles of art museums. The exhibition "The Art of Naming" aims to classify the titles in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art that visitors may find difficult, question their practicality, and clarify naming in the creative field. In works of art, titles directly affect the interpretation of the work more than other genres. In particular, the titles of modern art sometimes inspire philosophical thinking by becoming objects of suspicion rather than clearly expressing their meaning. The three types of titles for this exhibition (Untitled, Symbol, and Sentence) capture the characteristics of each era and medium, and examine the expansion of the function of titles in artistic phenomena. In addition, the participation program "Name Game" that allows visitors to change the title of the work will widely expand the experience of viewing the work. Through this exhibition, we hope to re-recognize the title of the work, which is considered to be auxiliary information of the work, and discover various relationships between the work and the title.

Public experience exhibition with Olympic sculpture as the theme

The exhibition "Lee Kang So: When the Wind Blows the Water" re-examines a unique series of works created over six decades by Lee Kang So (b. 1943), a seminal figure in the development of Korean contemporary art. As a leading artist in the Korean art scene, Lee Kang So has been conducting conceptual experiments on image perception and recognition. The exhibition title "When the Wind Blows the Water" is inspired by the work "Qing Ye Yin" by the Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianist Shao Yong (Shao Yong, 1011-1077). In his work, Shao Yong metaphorically describes a state of epiphany when encountering a new world. Shao Yong's title summarizes the oeuvre of Lee Kang So, who has long questioned the many different ways we see the world around us and continues to conduct conceptual experiments on perception in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and photography. Lee Kang So's artistic philosophy, as he himself described his work for the 1975 Paris Biennale, is described in this way. At the time he said: “I do not intend to depict images in a traditional way, away from the subject-object relationship, but rather to present an open structure that reveals the order and relationships in the universe that are usually invisible, making these invisible states naturally visible.” (“Participating in the 9th Paris Biennale”, Space, January 1976)

The exhibition "Lee Kang So: When the Wind Blows the Water" re-examines a unique series of works created over six decades by Lee Kang So (b. 1943), a seminal figure in the development of Korean contemporary art. As a leading artist in the Korean art scene, Lee Kang So has been conducting conceptual experiments on image perception and recognition. The exhibition title "When the Wind Blows the Water" is inspired by the work "Qing Ye Yin" by the Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianist Shao Yong (Shao Yong, 1011-1077). In his work, Shao Yong metaphorically describes a state of epiphany when encountering a new world. Shao Yong's title summarizes the oeuvre of Lee Kang So, who has long questioned the many different ways we see the world around us and continues to conduct conceptual experiments on perception in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and photography. Lee Kang So's artistic philosophy, as he himself described his work for the 1975 Paris Biennale, is described in this way. At the time he said: “I do not intend to depict images in a traditional way, away from the subject-object relationship, but rather to present an open structure that reveals the order and relationships in the universe that are usually invisible, making these invisible states naturally visible.” (“Participating in the 9th Paris Biennale”, Space, January 1976)

Special Exhibition of Seoul Urban Life Museum: Marriage Stories of Seoul Families Once seen as an obligation, marriage is now viewed as a choice. To explore the reasons behind this shift, the Seoul Urban Life Museum conducted a comprehensive survey and studied the marriage culture of Seoul's citizens across different eras last year. The findings are now presented in this year's special exhibition. Soon after the liberation in 1945, the country faced the Korean War. Still, Korean society has rapidly grown with the Miracle on the Hangang River, and marriage customs have evolved alongside this growth. Seoul's marriage culture, shaped by traditional values and foreign influences, continues to change. We invite you to reflect on Korean society's journey over the past 80 years after independence through the lens of Seoul's marriage culture to foster deeper generational understanding and empathy.

Barakat Contemporary presents Iranian-born American artist Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Someone is coming with a flower. The exhibition comprises three works created before the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the first public unveiling of over sixty monotypes on paper produced shortly after the artist's exile to Miami, US, in 1981.

Mak2 Mai Yingtong 2The first solo exhibition in Seoul, "Cows With Built-in Wi-Fi ”, this exhibition mainly consists of paintings, but also displays 3D printed sculptures and video installations

The Hermès Studio will host the solo exhibition "Paranoia Paradise" by the artist duo Nayoung Kim and Gregory Mars from November 22, 2024 to February 2, 2025. Since the beginning of their collaboration in 2004, the artists have expanded their awareness of artistic diversity and freedom through exhibitions at home and abroad for nearly 20 years, and in this exhibition they present their own extraordinary world of work with 60 new works. The artists, born in South Korea and Germany, met in France, a third country, and continue to live and work together, developing a world of work that eliminates the purity, hierarchy and norms of art based on mixed languages ​​and cultural experiences. . For them, the countless objects and images that exist in the world are interesting existences with cultural typicality in a specific time and space, and by being separated from their original purpose or context and handed over to the hands of the artists, they enter a new realm of artistic life. Through the strange combination of objects that the artists themselves call "Frankenstein", we go beyond clichés and enter a surprising and rich world of interpretation. At first glance, these works seem to be a collection of different objects, the product of "readymades" descended from Dadaism or Fluxus, trying to eliminate the gap between art and life, but in the case of Kim & Maas, they are "handmade" sculptures that require careful artistic adjustment, and they also have personality. The title of the exhibition, "Paranoid Paradise", is the superposition of two words with the same etymology but conflicting references, clearly revealing the world of the artist's work who likes tautology and contradictory puns. The combination of two or more objects often seems strange and inappropriate because it does not follow the standards of harmony or completeness, which inevitably involves the Korean society in which the artist currently lives, the contemporary hybrid imitation culture, and the shadow of art. Obsessed global capitalism has been covered up. In the representative work "Katie's Enlightenment" (2024), a large sculpture abandoned in a corner of the park was taken out and restored, and a cute expressionless icon and the father's hot air balloon regained their joyful and sad faces. It's like a halo attached, overcoming pain and entering nirvana. Nayoung Kim & Gregory Maas deal with objects and images without any limits, ranging from art history to kitsch and pop culture products, to daily necessities related to food, clothing, shelter and transportation, as well as leisure items suitable for people of all ages and genders. They coexist without hierarchy, just like the various parts and byproducts of the human body that maintain life through metabolism. The exhibition features modified works by Picasso and Henry Moore, as well as Minnie Mouse expressed in embroidery, screens written in English, and snot paintings. The artists' works are ironic and humorous, but never defined by a single meaning, bringing an experience that awakens a calm sense of reality, rather than entering the unconscious or surreal world through the "chance encounter" of objects.

The exhibition attempts at creating a map between the two territories-Korea and France. It is the second exhibition in an exchange program between Gallery Chosun and Le Wonder, a nonprofit organization and a collective studio run by and for artists in France. Part 3 of the exhibition will feature these 18 artists from Part 1 and Part 2, showcasing their works in France.

The term Taepyeongseongdae refers to an era of peace under the rule of a benevolent king. For those of us today, amidst news of conflict and division, such a time may seem like a distant utopia. Yet, throughout history, there have been periods remembered for their peace. In the Joseon Dynasty, the reigns of King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo stood out as such a time. This exhibition brings to life the vibrant 18th-century Seoul, often celebrated as a pinnacle of cultural and historical renaissance. Step into the Seoul of this peaceful era, shaped by two visionary rulers who embraced the “Magnificent Harmony” (Tangpyeong) ideology, striving for reforms that uplifted the lives of their people and left a legacy of lasting peace.

The Song-Eun Art Award is an art award held annually since 2001 to discover and support talented Korean contemporary artists.