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Koreans elsewhere

BoA is back, with an upcoming Korean album: is she giving up on the US? http://bit.ly/auBVVD Meanwhile, the growth in Korean entertainment exports is slowing: http://bit.ly/8ZHrNU #
RT @GIKorea: New blog post: Have Korean Researchers Discovered Alcohol That Doesn’t Give You A Hangover? http://bit.ly/doANrW 11:17 PM Mar 5th via Twitter Tools
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Life as a banana – Korean adoptees speak at Cambridge

25 February 2010 Conference reports
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LKL reports from last Saturday’s half-day conference at Cambridge: “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue”.

What is it like to be yellow on the outside but white on the inside? Adoptees freely joke about the banana analogy. But simply being a white person in a yellow skin is only part of [...]

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A view of Korea from Bangladesh

22 November 2009 Koreans elsewhere
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Peter Corbishley has just returned from a trip to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where the Koreans are also active.

In 2009 South Korea is putting some $320m investment into the Bangladeshi economy and nearly 160 companies are working there, including a third of all companies operating in the export processing zones. In addition in 2006, for example, [...]

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Korea’s got talent

2 June 2009 Koreans elsewhere
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While Britons were focused on their own domestic talent competition last week, Korea was demonstrating the depth of its classical music talent at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels. The venue was the Palais des Beaux Arts, where earlier this year the Smile of Buddha exhibition was held.
The Queen Elisabeth competition traces its [...]

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Unfortunate headline of the week…

18 April 2007 Bloggers and newspeople

…goes to the Chosun for
Korean Hurt in Virginia College Massacre (timed at 8:39 KST, 17 April)
I guess it’s the pitfalls of reporting news as it happens. The next Chosun article on the topic reads:
Virginia Tech Shooter Was Korean (timed at 7:48 KST, 18 April).
In due course I’ll update this post with links to various news [...]

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