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Beautiful Young Korean Girl…On Ice!

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by Aashish Gadhvi on 12 March, 2010

in Celebs, Kim Yu-na, Sport

Aashish Gadhvi reviews the figure skating juggernaut that is Kim Yu-na
At the recent South Korea v Ivory Coast match I managed to speak to many Korean journalists from television and from print media. Many of the journalists there only seem to have one thing to talk about. No, it wasn’t Park Ji-sung or Lee Chung-yong, [...]

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Aashish interviews Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo

8 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Aashish Gadhvi managed to interview two key members of the South Korean world cup squad after the match with Ivory Coast last week: Lee Young-pyo, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur:
and probably Korea’s best known player, Park Ji-sung:
No subtitles this time: both interviews are in English.
This wraps up LKL’s coverage of the South Korea – Ivory Coast [...]

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Ivory Coasted!

4 March 2010 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews South Korea’s resounding 2-0 victory over the Ivory Coast. With photos by Aashish and Saharial.
Have you ever had a dream that was so perfect that the moment you wake up you try your very best to go back to sleep and experience it all over again? Well I had one of those [...]

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Team Korea’s Training Day: the Video

3 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Earlier this week, Aashish Gadhvi joined the South Korean squad at their training day at the Bank of England Sports Club in Roehampton – the only non-Korean journalist present. Here’s his video of the proceedings.
Check out his article, including an interview with Celtic’s Ki Sung-yong, here.

South Korea meet Ivory Coast at Loftus Road this afternoon, [...]

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South Korea’s Training Day in South London

2 March 2010 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi catches up with Team Korea in preparation for Wednesday’s friendly.

The South Korean national football team are back in town folks, and I caught up with our favourite red shirted devils to check out the team on their one day of training here in London. In a leafy and somewhat swanky end of South [...]

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Exclusive interviews with the Korean team

5 December 2009 Interviews and features
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Aashish Gadhvi gets up close and personal with Kim Nam Il and Lee Chung Yong
South Korea were recently in London to play Serbia, and thanks to the help of many people who I am very grateful to, I was able to interview two members of the team. Firstly I just want to say a very [...]

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Are you being Serbed?

21 November 2009 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews Korea v Serbia at Craven Cottage on 18 November

Two years ago Fulham’s Craven Cottage played host to a friendly match on a chilly winter evening between Korea and Greece, which went down a success. The stadium was full of crazy Korean fans singing and chanting throughout the match as Korea walked away [...]

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The curious case of Jong Tae-se

13 November 2009 DPRK
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Aashish Gadhvi analyses the so-called defector in the Northern ranks.

North Korea’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup has brought about many questions in international football. Not least of all, the desire for more information about the team. Most of all, who are these guys? The mystery surrounding the team is pretty much the same level [...]

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World Cup 2010 Qualifiers: A Tale of Two Koreas

29 July 2009 Sport
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by Aashish Gadhvi
World Cup 2010 is just around the corner people, and I for one can’t wait! Another magnificent summer of the beautiful game is only a year away, which means that the first batch of teams have qualified. The way that the Asian Qualifiers are structured means that often the Asian teams are the [...]

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Blue Blood v Red Blood: the K-League 2008 Finals

25 May 2009 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi dishes up a sporting treat for your Bank Holiday Monday.
Something is a-brewing in the world of K-League football. Think of the great club football rivalries, Man United v Liverpool, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Celtic v Rangers, AC Milan v Inter Milan, Roma v Lazio, Boca Juniors v River Plate, the list goes on! [...]

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KFA 75th Birthday – Top 5 Moments in Korean Football History

8 December 2008 Interviews and features
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Aashish Gadhvi celebrates some of the biggest events in Korean football history

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KFA 75th Birthday – Top 5 People in Korean Football History

19 November 2008 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi on the top personalities in Korean football history

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Korea at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

5 September 2008 Sport
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by Aashish Gadhvi
The Beijing Olympics was a fortnight of sporting gold, a plethora of the world’s top athletes going head to head in the greatest show on Earth. This year’s Olympics was always going to be major headlines, not just for the sports but also for the tirade of anti-Chinese media which preceded it (Tibet, [...]

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New Kim on the block

17 June 2008 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi introduces Kim Do-Heon, the new Korean star in the Premier League.

After an impressive season, West Bromich Albion were great contenders to be beamed up Star Trek style to the Premiership, and by the end of the year they were crowned champions of a very tight, highly competitive Coca-Cola Football League. Whatever can be [...]

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The Return of the King

3 May 2008 Manchester
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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 in Old Trafford. Upon visiting [...]

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