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FTA brings new opportunities for British companies in Korea

by Peter Corbishley on 18 March, 2010

in Business, Foreigners in Korea

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Monday 15th March 2010 was the first public UK speech of the new ambassador Choo Kyu Ho, which he made before 150 business people at the launch of the UKTI report “South Korea Open for Business – 100 Opportunities for UK Companies in South Korea following the EU–South Korea Free Trade Agreement.” The agreement, though [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-31

31 August 2009 Business
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Korean designer Choi Min-kyu fixes UK clunky plugs. Cool. http://bit.ly/4kvvIb #
N Koreans labouring in Russia's timber camps: the UK connection, on Newsnight tonight: http://bit.ly/3wAaFJ #
Many hearts broken: Lee Young-ae married http://bit.ly/1HzXO6 #
North Korean loggers in Russia: the full video here http://bit.ly/s6YvM #
Ha Ji-won's Busan accent takes Haeundae over the 10 million mark http://bit.ly/yNbyp [...]

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Ernest Bethell in Korea

18 May 2009 Foreigners in Korea
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The ambassador’s blog reminds us that it is 100 years since the death of Ernest T Bethell, “a name all but unknown in his homeland”.
Bethell merits half a page in Don Clark’s Living Dangerously in Korea – the Western Experience 1900-1950, but occupies the first (very brief) chapter in Don Kirk and Choe Sang-hun’s fascinating [...]

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The ambassador’s blog

20 March 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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An introduction to the blog published by Martin Uden, The UK’s ambassador to the Republic of Korea

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Candle Night exhibition in Kilburn Art Space

20 December 2008 Conservation
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British tea-merchant and art-lover David Kilburn launches his Art Space in Kahoidong, Seoul

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100 years of the Salvation Army in Korea

23 November 2008 DPRK
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Michael Rank on a fascinating connection between an East London cemetery and Korea’s history

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Suzannah Clarke’s musical diplomacy

4 November 2007 DPRK
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A while ago I posted about Jason Carter’s trip to Pyongyang to participate in the annual Friendship Festival. While in Pyongyang, Carter met up with Middlesborough opera diva Suzannah Clarke, who has been performing at the Friendship Festival every year since 2003.
Clarke’s North Korean connection is through football. She’s had a long association with the [...]

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DPRK travellers’ tales

15 September 2007 DPRK
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Two travel accounts have recently been highlighted in the BAKS list. First, a long account by guitarist Jason Carter of his 10-day trip to Pyongyang earlier this year to perform in a spring music festival. Like many DPRK travel accounts, we find the author having moments of frustration with the minders as well as appreciating [...]

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British designer boosted by degree faker

8 September 2007 Business

Alexander McQueen’s tops have been flying off the shelves of a trendy Apgujeong department store (at $200 a time) ever since Shin Jeong-ah was papped in JFK wearing this:

McQ can be bought at HANDSOME-SPACE MUE, 93-6 Chungdam-dong, Kangnam, if you’re quick.
Source: Chosun
Links: Alexander McQueen website

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Saemangeum update

14 May 2007 Conservation

Birds Korea and the Australasian Wader Studies Group have just completed part of their monitoring programme of migrating birds at Saemangeum. A key conclusion:
many Great Knot have been displaced by the Saemangeum reclamation, and have subsequently failed to stage through the remainder of the spring at either Gomso Bay or the Geum Estuary — contradicting [...]

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British-owned culture cafe opens in Bucheon

30 March 2007 Food & Drink

Thanks to Peter Orange for letting me know about an interesting new venture in Bucheon (부천): Cafe Nicolia, run by British / Korean couple Nicholas and Lia Young. From their website, it looks like a version of Seoul Selection, but obviously with more food and, I’m guessing, fewer books. On my rare visits to Seoul [...]

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The Irish Contribution to Joseon Korea

18 March 2007 Foreigners in Korea

Another post in honour of St Patrick: OhMyNews has a piece on the Irish contribution to Korea’s early modern history
Arguably the first Irishman to live in Korea arrived in Seoul in the mid 1890s. His name was John McLeavy Brown, and he was a lawyer by trade, but was employed with the Imperial Chinese Maritime [...]

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The Spirit of Kahoidong

31 January 2007 Conservation
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Bukchon, (북촌) a genuine old part of Seoul, a haven of peace preserved between the two major palaces. A little bit of old Seoul carefully preserved and nurtured, saved from the twenty-first century metropolis below.
Stroll around the quaint streets of Kahoedong, one of the most protected parts of Bukchon, and if you’re not looking terribly [...]

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Seoul’s hanoks

21 October 2006 Conservation

There was a feature in FT a couple of weeks ago on the Bukchon district of Seoul. It’s a place as far as you can get from Apgujeong in terms of style of living. It’s the sort of place where Kim Ki-duk might be caught filming traditional housing as seen in 3-Iron, and is inhabited [...]

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