The 2024 Milwaukee Korea Day Celebration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will take place at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 4, from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. The event is hosted by the Korean American Faculty and Staff Association at UWM and the Korean American Association of Milwaukee.

The event will kick off at 4:30 p.m. with a variety of activities, including K-Pop dance performances, a show-and-tell about Korea by students and community members, and Taekwondo demonstrations by a local community group. At 6:00 p.m., there will be Korean food tastings, paper folding, and traditional Korean games. Admission is free.

The main event, the 2024 Korea Day Concert, will begin at 7:30 p.m. The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Prof. Jun Kim, will perform. Internationally acclaimed pianist HaeSun Paik, Prize winner of Tchaikovsky & Queen Elizabeth International Competitions
and the Music Award from the Korean National Academy of Arts in 2019, will be the guest soloist. On this evening, she will perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. This concert is a ticketed event.

Additionally, the American Geographical Society Library, located on the 3rd Floor East Wing of the UWM Golda Meir Library, will feature an exhibition of the Korean national treasure, the DaeDong Yeojido (대동여지도), or “Map of the Great East.” This large-scale map of Korea, created by Joseon dynasty cartographer and geologist Kim Jeong-ho in 1861, will be on display on October 4 and October 7, with viewing hours from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.