KCP COMMUNITY NEWS - October 2026

By KCCNYC Monthly Team

Events from our Friends in NYC

Kpop Nara x KOOM Live 2026

Thanks to KPOP NARA we can offer 5 tickets to our community for the show at Terminal 5 this Friday Oct 16. Want to go? Just fill out this form and winners will be decided by random draw.

Deadline to submit is Tues, Oct 13th at 12pm. Winners will be contacted by Tues at 6pm. Registration form is here.

*General admission · Ages 16+

KOOM LIVE 2026: XngHan&Xoul, Santos Bravos, Dayoung, WAYF BOYS, 1VERSE

• 📅 Date: Oct 16, 2026

• ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM Eastern (Doors open 6:30PM)

• 📍 Location: 610 West 56th Street, New York, NY, 10019

KOOM LIVE 2026 is the flagship evening concert of KOOM Week 2026, presented by United Korean Founders (UKF), a nonprofit organization connecting Korean and Korean-American founders, investors, and business leaders across New York, Silicon Valley, and Seoul. Taking place at Terminal 5 on October 16, KOOM LIVE brings together an exciting lineup of artists, including Santos Bravos, XngHan&Xoul, DAYOUNG, WAYF BOYS, and 1VERSE.

Earlier in the day, Terminal 5 will host KOOM STAGE, a daytime conference featuring keynote speakers, panels, and conversations with founders, creators, and industry leaders.

Guests can choose from Day, Night, or All Day tickets. A limited number of VIP tickets are also available, offering all-day access to both KOOM STAGE & KOOM LIVE, early access to venue for KOOM LIVE, and preferred balcony viewing for KOOM LIVE.

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Upcoming Events in NYC

K-Pop Dance Classes at Gotham Park

• 📅 Date: Date: Fridays, weather permitting

• ⏰ Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM,

  Please arrive 10 minutes before class begins

• 📍 Location: 1 Rose Street and Avenue of the Finest (Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan)

  Get ready for K-Pop dance classes at Gotham Park - a free class for all ages and abilities happening every Friday from 6-7pm!

Min Jin Lee with Aidan Flax-Clark: American Hagwon

• 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• ⏰ Time: 19:00

• 📍 Location: Celeste Bartos Forum
  (476 5th Avenue, New York, NY)

  Min Jin Lee’s first novel since the bestselling Pachinko follows one family across decades and continents as they search in schools, jobs, churches, and beyond for meaning and success. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo, DH, and Mido—find their fortunes twisted and their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures.

Moon Country Korean Poetry

• 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• ⏰ Time: 18:30

• 📍 Location: Poets House (10 River Terrace, New York, NY)

Join Black Ocean and Poets House for an evening of readings and conversation celebrating the Moon Country Korean Poetry series, which brings contemporary Korean poetry into English translation.

The program will explore the poems themselves as well as the intimate, collaborative work of carrying voice, image, rhythm, and cultural context across languages. Through readings and discussion, the participants will offer a glimpse into the choices, discoveries, and productive tensions that shape poetry in translation. The evening will be moderated by Black Ocean founder and publisher Janaka Stucky.

Hangul Hang (Queer Korean Social Meetup)

• 📅 Date: 🌈THURSDAY, Oct 15th, 2026 for queer Koreans

• ⏰ Time: 19:30

• 📍 Location: Tiger Box (169 Park Avenue, Brooklyn, NY)

Come socialize, eat Korean food, and study/speak Korean every month! 감사합니다!