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Korea, recharge your energy

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by Jennifer Barclay on 23 November, 2009

in Interviews and features, Korea Sparkling

In fifty years since the Korean War, South Korea was catapulted from being one of the poorest countries on the planet, on a par with Ethiopia and Bangladesh, to being one of the OECD countries with a GDP that hovers between 11th and 13th in the world, depending on exchange rates. Now Mr Charm Lee, [...]

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Margaret Drabble’s search for the Crown Princess

4 November 2009 Conference reports
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Jennifer Barclay, author of MEETING MR KIM: OR HOW I WENT TO KOREA AND LEARNED TO LOVE KIMCHI, reports from the Korean Cultural Centre on Dame Margaret Drabble’s lecture based on her novel THE RED QUEEN
Dame Margaret Drabble, CBE DBE, looks elegant with her hair in a natural bob and a touch of red lipstick. [...]

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Korean Musicians Win English Hearts

26 October 2009 Concert reviews
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Jennifer Barclay, author of Meeting Mr Kim, reviews Gong Myoung at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 12 October 2009
He enters the stage wearing an oversized orange hat and sunglasses, carrying a toolbox and a walking stick. From the toolbox he takes out a saw and a drill, saws off the end of the walking stick, drills [...]

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Summer cooking with Kiejo

19 August 2009 Food & Drink
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Jennifer Barclay, author of Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi, learns to cook traditional Korean food…
Kiejo Sarsfield stands in her Cath Kidston apron in a kitchen stuffed with cookery books in leafy Chalfont St Giles. Having left South Korea thirty years ago and lived all over the [...]

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The epic stand on the Imjin

11 July 2009 Book reviews: History
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Jennifer Barclay, author of Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi, looks at Andrew Salmon’s exciting new book on the battle of Imjin River: To The Last Round (Aurum Press, June 2009)
To the Last Round by Andrew Salmon gives the most exhaustive account to date of what he [...]

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A scientific look at ancient Korean art

22 June 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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Jennifer Barclay reports on the Anglo-Korean Society evening at the Korean Cultural Centre, 16 June 2009
Short documentaries on some of Korea’s ancient cultural artefacts were shown at the Korean Cultural Centre on 16 June, presented by members of the non-profit Korean Spirit and Cultural Promotion Project.
Matthew Jackson and Hang-Jin Chang, who graduated together from [...]

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Warrior at the Imjin

24 April 2009 BKVA
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Bob Warrior describes life as a prisoner of war in North Korea, over 55 years ago. Jennifer Barclay’s compelling interview.

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Cry Korea

23 April 2009 Book reviews: History
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Jennifer Barclay reviews a contemporary war reporter’s account of the Korean war, “Cry Korea” (Reginald Thompson)

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Dulsori gets Chichester jumping to the beat

31 January 2009 Concert reviews
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Jennifer Barclay meets Dulsori at their performance in Chichester’s Festival Theatre, 24 January 2009.

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A veteran remembers

27 July 2008 BKVA
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Today, 27 July, is the anniversary of the end of the Korean War in 1953 – a war in which millions died, and which only ended with a ceasefire, Korea remaining divided by a heavily guarded border for fifty-five years now. Jennifer Barclay marks the occasion.
Peter Poole served in the Korean War as a member [...]

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KFC – Korean Fried Chicken – and French Korean Links

15 July 2008 Event reports and reviews
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Jennifer Barclay reports from the Korean Food Festival, held in the garden of the Fountain Pub, New Malden, Saturday 12 July 2008
By 10.30 on Saturday morning, I’d already done my best to introduce millions of BBC Radio Four listeners to the delights of kimchi.
I’d been invited onto the travel show Excess Baggage to talk about [...]

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From Elgar to Shamans and Spicy Squid

30 June 2008 Event reports and reviews
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An Evening with UK-based Korean Artists, sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Centre, 27 June 2008
Report by Jennifer Barclay, with photos also by David Kilburn and Saharial
Let’s hope this is the first of many evenings devoted to young Korean artists living in the UK, because the Korean Cultural [...]

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Sun, percussion, and yang energy

11 June 2008 Dano 2008
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Jennifer Barclay celebrates her first anniversary with LKL with her report from the second Dano Korean Summer Festival
The sound of percussion crept around Trafalgar Square as a strange vehicle circled the fountains and wheeled into view: a tall Mad Max-style contraption with coloured flags waving from poles, people dressed in black and orange hanging off [...]

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More photos from the Square

9 June 2008 Dano 2008
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Here’s a selection of Jennifer Barclay’s pics. Jennifer’s article will be up soon.

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Dr Hyun-key Kim Hogarth: how to be an anthropologist of your own culture

24 May 2008 General academia
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Known to her neighbours in Kent as Kim Hogarth, Hyun-key left Korea in 1968 before she’d even learned to cook Korean food. Her CV says ‘Nationality: British’. But it’s her academic work on Korean shamanism that keeps her busy giving papers and publishing books. Jennifer Barclay met the social anthropologist in London to find out [...]

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