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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-14

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by Philip Gowman on 14 March, 2010

in BoA, DPRK, Food & Drink, General book news, Hallyu, Koreans elsewhere, Twitter Tweets, VoDs, Younee

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
RT @rjkoehler New blog posting, [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-08

8 February 2010 Bloggers and newspeople
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I never understand the Korean celebrity system: Jang Dong-gun reveals when it is that he will reveal his wedding plans with Ko So-young. How about spilling the beans now? 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 [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

9 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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For the past 3 years LKL has concocted a quiz of the year as a way of gathering together some of the news stories which have most caught our eye. This year, as I came to draw up the list in mid December I found it hard to think of anything amusing or diverting: most [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-07

7 December 2009 Autumn K-film 2009
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FT: Samsung feels the heat from iPhone. http://bit.ly/702azK #
North Korean jeans on sale in Sweden. A snip at $215! The brand name? "NoKo". http://bit.ly/8fc6jI #
AWNtv: Trixter breaks down its vfx work from "Ninja Assassin." (HT – Saharial) http://bit.ly/7VXjAe #
Bong Joon-ho "Mother" Q&A with Tony Rayns: BFI have put an edited version of 14 November's event [...]

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“Asia! Asia!” – Stephen Epstein at SOAS

15 November 2009 Conference reports
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Stephen Epstein had a busy week last week giving lectures in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He is on a lecture tour of Europe, using the trip as an opportunity to test various chapters from his forthcoming book with a critical audience. Friday’s lecture at SOAS focused on the portrayal of some of Korea’s Asian neighbours [...]

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The Axis of Vaudeville: Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture

6 November 2009 Conference reports
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Elizabeth Grace reports on Dr Stephen Epstein’s talk at Cambridge earlier this week
We are all too familiar with the Western media’s portrayal of North Korea as a rogue communist state, complete with an evil dictator whose regime is seen as an unrepentant member of the “axis of evil.” Although these one-sided portrayals are increasingly the [...]

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The wave that never was?

8 February 2009 Book reviews: Business & economy
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Mark Russell’s book is a fun and informative account of the Korean entertainment industry. Read a full-length review.

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Korean wave: growing or receding?

6 December 2008 Conference reports
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An account of a somewhat disappointing talk by Kim Shin Dong on Korean popular culture

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Pansori and bibimbap – fusion in Korea’s cultural content

3 October 2008 Conference reports
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By Peter Corbishley
Last Thursday and Friday 24-25th September an itinerant band of Pansori sellers displayed their wares at the Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The main event was Yonsei University’s (Institute of Media Art) Jeong Taeg Lim and Jung A Huh’s talk on ‘The Aesthetic modernity of [...]

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Rain 8 – Colbert 4 (Cowell 6)

14 February 2008 Celebs
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Devoted followers of Korean popular culture will remember the Rain v Colbert battle in Time magazine last year.
The much smaller population of devoted LKL readers will remember that I did a straw poll of my US co-workers last year: how many out of an unrepresentative sample of US bank regulatory specialists had heard of the [...]

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Us and Them in Kenkanryu

2 December 2007 Conference reports
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Wednesday’s talk on the Japanese manga Kenkanryu was packed to overflowing — a strong contrast with the generally much sparser attendance at the Centre for Korean Studies seminars. Whether that’s a reflection of the greater number of people enrolled in Japanese Studies courses, or the popular culture subject matter I don’t know.
In these few paragraphs [...]

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The Japanese anti-Korean wave

27 November 2007 Events news

Although this is a bit last minute, readers might be interested in tomorrow’s Japan Research Centre Seminar, which concerns the nationalist manga phenomenon ‘Kenkanryu’ and the so-called ‘Anti-Korean Wave’ in Japan.
Wednesday 28 November, 5pm, SOAS main buildings G51
“Surfing the neo-nationalist wave: a case study of the manga Kenkanryu”
Dr Nicola Liscutin (Birkbeck College)

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The Grand Culture Project

22 August 2007 Business
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At the SOAS / AKS conference on 26 June, the talk by Kim Hyeon, Associate Professor of Cultural Informatics at the Academy of Korean Studies, had the title “the Korean Wave, Cultural Content and Cultural Informatics”.
“What on earth is Cultural Informatics?” I hear you ask. You would not be alone. But read on.
The premise of [...]

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The Japanese counter-wave

29 March 2007 Hallyu

March’s edition of Seoul magazine has an interesting article discussing how cultural waves do not travel in just one direction.
Supporters of Korean culture are keen to point out the unstoppability of the hallyu: Rain in the Philippines, BoA in Japan, Super Junior in China, TV Dramas everywhere (except the UK it seems). Back home, though, [...]

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Hallyu and nationalism stories

13 February 2007 Hallyu

A brief round-up of recent hallyu and nationalism stories.

Rain’s producer, Park Jin-young, says the word “Korean” should be removed from “Korean Wave”.

“I don’t understand why the Korean wave is taken as the rah-rah material,” Mr. Park said. “Now is the time to overcome nationalism, but instead we are intensifying that sentiment.”

Park has a similar message [...]

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