Saharial reviews Stranger than Paradise

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by Saharial on 8 February, 2010

in TV drama

Story:
No Yoon Jae (Lee Sung-Jae) was adopted as a child and taken to Canada and now, at age 33 has been looking for his parents for some time. A successful lawyer with a love for coffee and his girlfriend he travels to Korea to meet once more with disappointment. Kang Son Ho (Uhm Tae Woong) [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-08

8 February 2010 Twitter Tweets

I never understand the Korean celebrity system: Jang Dong-gun reveals when it is that he will reveal his wedding plans: http://bit.ly/9JCqtB #
Another story demonstrating the popularity of Japanese fiction in Korea: Murakami dislodged from #1 slot after 19 weeks http://bit.ly/cqOrVm #
Bibimbap as funeral food: how not to globalize Korean cuisine (and how not to transliterate [...]

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60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue

7 February 2010 Events news
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News of an interesting half-day seminar in Cambridge:
This is an invitation to the seminar “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue” which will take place in Cambridge on Saturday the 20th of February 2010.

Ever since the Korean War Armistice in 1953, almost 200,000 Korean children have been adopted to more than [...]

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Barbara Demick talks about her book Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

7 February 2010 DPRK
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In her new book Nothing to Envy – Real Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick uncovers the secrets of the world’s most secretive country, through the stories of six North Koreans. Covering illicit love affairs, party loyalty and crippling poverty, the stories are the result of tenacious investigations and interviews in a country not connected [...]

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Take Off screens at the KCC

6 February 2010 Events news
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News of next Thursday’s screening at the KCC
The 37th Korean Film Night at The Korean Cultural Centre UK
Film title: Take Off (Gukgadaepyo), 2009, 137mins
Director: Kim Yong Hwa
Cast: Ha Jung-Woo
Venue: KCC, Multi-purpose Hall
Time: Thursday, 11th Feb, 7:00pm
In 1996 a small Korean town is undergoing a large-scale construction in preparation for the Winter Olympics bid. In [...]

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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club on BBC4

5 February 2010 DPRK
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Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to figuring out what this is all about, but BBC Four has a one-hour documentary on Monday 8 February at 10pm. Time Out has selected it as Pick of the Day. Looks like it’s seriously worth a look. Here is Gabriel Tate’s commentary from Time [...]

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Sulki Yu with the Thames Philharmonic

5 February 2010 Events news
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The Thames Philharmonic and Sulki Yu at the Landmark in Teddington on
Saturday 20 February 2010 at 7:30pm
Liszt: Les Preludes
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy Op 46
Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C major Op 52
Conductor: Byung-yun Yu
Landmark Arts Centre: Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN
Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £20 (Family: 2 adults and 2 children under 16)
Online: http://www.wegottickets.com/
Box office: at [...]

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Korean pensioners buy in to London

4 February 2010 Business
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At a total cost £1,040.5m, the National Pension Service of South Korea, the fifth biggest pension fund in the world, has bought three properties in London. These are half of a six storey commercial building in Grosvenor place, followed by a tower at 88 Wood Street in the heart of the City. But the [...]

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Korea’s Ancient Culture and Art, and Modern Economy

4 February 2010 Events news
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An invitation to an informational event at the Korean Cultural Centre on 10 February, from the Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project.

We would like to invite you to a series of short films on Korea’s artistic and cultural treasures, and the remarkable economic growth of the past 30 years.
The films will cover, amongst others, Tripitaka [...]

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North Korean human rights and money laundering discussed in the Lords

3 February 2010 DPRK
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A transcript of the discussion in the House of Lords earlier this week
North Korea: Human Rights
Question
2.57 pm Tuesday February 2nd 2010
Tabled by Lord Alton of Liverpool
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of alleged human rights violations in North Korea following the publication of the report by the National Human Rights Commission in [...]

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A glimpse of a Confucian scholar’s intimacy

3 February 2010 Events news
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More details of this Friday’s free seminar at SOAS
Friday, February 5th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Isabelle Sancho, EHESS
“A glimpse of Confucian scholar’s intimacy: the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584)”
Abstract:
The talk will focus on the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584), one of the most outstanding Confucian scholars of the first half of Chosŏn [...]

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“Ways of Seeing” gallery talk at I-MYU

3 February 2010 Events news
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Some of the Korean artists participating in the group exhibition “Ways of Seeing” at I-MYU will be talking about their work at a gallery talk in the gallery on Thursday evening, 4 February at 7pm. This is part of I-MYU’s regular programme of talks about contemporary art.
Admission free. Well worth a visit.
I-MYU is based at
1st [...]

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Koreans shine in London College of Fashion MA show

2 February 2010 Koreans in UK
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The stars of the fashion world were out in force at the V&A last Thursday to witness the catwalk show for the London College of Fashion MA candidates. A quick name-check of the fashion students taking the MA this year indicates a fair number of Koreans. Two of the highest profile students in the LCF [...]

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February events

1 February 2010 Monthly events updates
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Featured event

It’s the biggest group show of the year: SASAPARI | 4482 makes another appearance at the Bargehouse, with more than 50 Korean artists, 25-27/8 February

Other exhibitions

Supervisions continues at the KCC until 6 February
Ways of Seeing part 2 continues at I-MYU until 20 February, with a gallery talk on 4 February.

Social events

Celebrating new year a [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

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