From South Korea with love

NZ launched its inaugural South Korean Film Festival in Auckland on October 22. Actresses Chang Mi-hee and Park Sol-mi, directors Kang Je-gyu and Kwak Jae-yong, and critic Yu Gi-na attended the week long event, which featured such films as Tae Guk Ki, Yopkijogin Kunyo and Untold Scandal. NZ will also host its first major Korean art exhibition at the Waikato Museum of Art and History next year. Entitled ‘Poetics of Line and Color: Korean textiles and costumes of the Choson Dynasty,’ the show focuses on traditional Korean wrapping cloths (bojagi).