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Lee Myung Bak: Korea's CEO President
Seoul Selection, 2008
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When their country has pulled itself up from nothing in the space of fifty years, and a man has risen from poverty to the highest office in the same period, Koreans have every right to feel proud of themselves and their country. That ...
I had been planning on giving Lee Dong-wook the honour of being LKL's second celeb of the month. But Chinese netizens had other ideas. A massive spike in interest in BoA during the month resulted in certain posts about her getting ten times as many visits as any other ...
Korean Cultural Centre, 1 Northumberland Avenue, through 16 May 2008. Free Admission
Review by Grace Kim
Korean Contemporary Art has become something of a recent phenomenon in the western art world, despite developing in Korea with influences from abroad for over 40-50 years. The Korean War, its aftermath, national reconstruction and economic ...
The scheduled Dano Festival 2008 in Trafalgar Square is one month away: Sunday 8 June.
To whet the appetite, here's the official video (10 minutes) from last year's event:
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Min-Jin Lee: Free Food for Millionaires
(Random House, 2007)
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I hesitated before packing this two-inch thick paperback into my suitcase for a week's holiday. The cover design doesn't give much away -- a black top hat and slightly messy collection of different typefaces spelling out a title which leaves a lot to ...
Anna Lindgren continues her series of interviews with interesting musicians
When only a few days remained of 2006, Korea's most distinguished indie folk duo said "goodbye" with the release of their second full album. We were many that didn't quite want to believe it - of course there were other ...
Aashish Gadhvi deconstructs the return of Park Ji-sung
In case you don’t know, my birthday’s coming up, and what I want is a Man United shirt, with printed number 13, ‘J.S. Park’ on the back. The reason I ask is because the damn shirt doesn’t even exist in Manchester United’s Megastore ...
LKL is now providing articles for The East, the monthly English-language East Asian business & culture newspaper published in London. LKL’s remit for The East is, for the moment, pretty much undefined, which means I can write whatever I like. And Editor Lee can reject it if he doesn’t like ...
This post is likely to be incomplete as it was written a while ago, before I went on holiday. In particular, it is likely to omit one or two events at the KCC. If you know of anything to be added, please leave a comment below.
KCC Film nights
This month the ...
The KCC's theme for its two film screenings in May is the family. The first of the films, The Way Home (집으로...) was the surprise low-budget hit of 2002.
This is director Lee Jeong-hyang's second film, her first being the gentle rom-com Art Museum by the Zoo, whose draw was the ...
One of my minor complaints with Seoul Magazine is their slapdash approach to visual material. Particularly in their events listings they splatter pictures around the page with no description of what the image depicts and what article or event it relates to. We bloggers have a partial excuse for not ...
Anna Lindgren explores some music from north of the DMZ
Two years ago, I found myself browsing the homepage of Seattle-based label Sublime Frequencies. They offer some really interesting CDs and DVDs, but with my interest in most things related Korea the CD called "Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop ...
Courtesy of Arirang TV, a 15 minute video about the attractions of Korea as a tourist destination and about Han Style. Korea's ancient and modern culture is highlighted.
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Beccy Kennedy reports
Britain’s first Triennial of Asian Art launched earlier this month, when a gaggle of global art goers gathered in the grandiose foyer and atrium of Manchester Art Gallery to preview the outstanding art installations from Korea. Of the five Asian countries selected by galleries in Manchester: China, India, ...
Not to be confused with the SOAS / AKS post-graduate bursary. That particular AKS is the Academy of Korean Studies. This post is about the Anglo-Korean Society's bursary, administered by BAKS. Having sorted out that little confusion, read on...
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies ...
News of an upcoming event organised by the Anglo Korean Society:
AN EVENING WITH WARWICK MORRIS
FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
WEDNESDAY 7th MAY 2008
6.30 pm
KOREAN CULTURAL CENTRE UK
Grand Buildings, 1 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5EJ
Warwick Morris (right) retired from the British Diplomatic Service in February of this year, after ...
One of two accounts of the recent Anglo-Korean Society evening at the KCC - this one by new contributor Béatrice Colbrant
What a cheerful and pleasant evening at the Korean Cultural Centre, organised on 10 April 2008 by indefatigable and always enthusiastic Sylvia Park, social events secretary of the Anglo Korean ...
One of two accounts of the recent Anglo-Korean Society evening at the KCC - this one by Matthew Jackson
The forces of the AKS, KTO and KCC were combined to good effect at the Cultural Evening on Thursday, 10 April. Walking around the packed Cultural Centre, it felt as though things ...
Today we have two accounts of the AKS evening of Korean culture on 10 April (one of them unsolicited by me). Both of them are favourable and rightly appreciative of the efforts of Sylvia Park of the AKS in organising the event. So I feel justified in presenting another angle.
The ...
To coincide with the launch of David Heather's book on DPRK propaganda art at the end of this month, Foyles is to be decorated with some examples of DPRK posters from David's collection.
The book, entitled North Korean Posters, comes from Prestel Publishing, and will be launched at Foyles next week. ...
If you're free this Friday afternoon it'll be well worth going along to the KCC to hear Dr Lee Sook-Kyung talk about the current exhibition of works from the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. Dr Lee previously worked as an assistant curator at the museum and is now ...
JUMP! Yegam Theatre at Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre, till 10 May 2008
Winner 'Comedy Award' at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2006
Korean National Assembly 'Grand Prize for Drama & Musical,' 2006
BBC TV 'The Royal Variety Performance,' December 2006
Review by Grace Kim
To start with what everyone already knows, it's pretty much impossible ...
Ko Un (고은), one of Korea’s most prominent living poets, will be giving his first ever UK poetry reading at the Korean Cultural Centre, London on Tuesday, 29 April at 7.00-8.30pm.
“It is very striking to see the kind of tuning fork [Ko Un] has been, re-inventing himself in every decade ...
The fourth film night at the Korean Cultural Centre on 24 April is the surprise hit of last year, 200 Pound Beauty.
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Hanna is a lip sync vocalist for Ammy, the famous Korean pop singer. Even though she is always ignored because of her appearance, she has been a bright and ...
SOAS is pleased to announce a second postgraduate Korean Studies scholarship for the academic year 2008-9. In addition to the previously announced Sochon Foundation Scholarship, SOAS will also be offering, in conjunction with the Academy of Korean Studies, the AKS Postgraduate Bursary. The bursary is worth £4,090 and can only ...
