The Royal Asiatic Society Korea will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of June (and final one of the season) this coming Tuesday the 26th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple. All in English, open to the public (small donation requested from non-members, w5,000 recommended), as always, more info: 763-9483 and www.raskb.com (includes location-map).
This one should be interesting to those of us who enjoy Korea’s early-20th-Century culture and history: Professor Song Young-dahl (Yonsei, U of Georgia, and U of Pennsylvania; retired as a professor emeritus from East Carolina University will speak on “Elizabeth Keith and
Korea. He has long been a collector of Keith’s art (paintings of Korea and more) and researcher / translator of her writings (including her “Old Korea” from 1946). Born in Scotland, Keith visited Korea in 1919 and several times thereafter, while becoming a famous artist of East Asian motifs. This lecture will include slides of her paintings, and discuss her life.
