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by Philip Gowman on 1 August, 2010

in DPRK,Film,Food & Drink,Manhwa,Motoring,Twitter Tweets,VoDs

Congrats to @maangchi for her TV appearance – Fox 9 Morning News, July 11 2010. Go Maangchi! http://bit.ly/aoZIFl # Korean manhwa Priest to get the Hollywood treatment. Derivative tosh? Looks fun though. HT @rjkoehler http://dai.ly/bfMlCj # I'm getting loads of spam from some idiot in Seoul who thinks I might want to buy 100kg of [...]

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Soon Yul’s Journey To Infinity: The Art Of Soon Yul Kang

by Paul O'Kane 22 July 2010
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by Paul O’Kane For London’s Artspace gallery, South Korean artist Soon Yul Kang exhibits a display of tapestries along with some paintings and collages. The works date from the mid-1990s to the present. The Artspace gallery has two rectangular floors, upstairs and downstairs, and on each of these Soon Yul and her curator have lined [...]

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Korean Eye: anything but ordinary

by Jennifer Barclay 14 July 2010
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Jennifer Barclay pays a quick visit to the varied exhibition of contemporary Korean art at the Saatchi Gallery Korean Eye was founded by David Ciclitira, who became a fan of contemporary Korean art when visiting South Korea on business, and decided to bring an exhibition to the UK for the first time last year. As [...]

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2010 Travel Diary #15: Korean Kites, Kim Ki-chan and Cho Se-hui’s Dwarf

by Philip Gowman 16 June 2010
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Tuesday 4 May 2010. Although I’m very proud of the organisation I work for – a multinational company with a long heritage – I try to keep my Korean hobby and my day job separate. But I thought that as I was in Seoul I ought to pay a visit to some of my local [...]

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Korean Art PhD: ‘Picturing Migration: Presenting Art Works By Artists From South Korea Working In Britain, 2006-2008’

by Beccy Kennedy 15 June 2010
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LKL contributor Dr Beccy Kennedy gives a flavour of what she has been working on for the past couple of years. ‘…memory organizes representations of the past into a structured sequence that produces a consciousness of an identity through time.’ [1] The visual and spoken cultural and social perspectives of South Korean artists living and [...]

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Korean ceramic tea bowls and tea culture

by Eunjung Shin 11 June 2010
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Eunjung Shin continues her series on themes from the past, inspired by objects in the British Museum’s Korea Gallery. One thousand years ago, drinking tea was an important social activity in Buddhist Korea. After Buddhism was introduced from China in the 4th century it flourished up until the end of the Koryo dynasty (935-1392) in [...]

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Christopher Barrett – SEOUL 2 B

by Philip Gowman 31 May 2010
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News of a Korea-related photographic exhibition in Commercial Road, starting this Thursday, 3 June: Christopher Barrett – SEOUL 2 B 03 Jun – 26 Jun 2010 photo-space gallery A visually powerful photographic journey of eastern intrigue across land and sea starting in South Korea with the desire to enter one of the most talked about, [...]

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2010 Travel Diary #5: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon

by Philip Gowman 28 May 2010
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Saturday 1 May 2010. It’s the weekend, and Seoul Grand Park is busy. The funfair rides are full of fun-seekers, and there’s a queue to get in. There’s even a queue to get in to the car park of the National Museum of Contemporary Art: not, I would have thought, the most popular destination. But [...]

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Park Chan-soo gives Buddhist art a new voice

by Philip Gowman 26 May 2010
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Most classic representations of Buddha, and indeed many items of Buddhist art more generally, are quiet and pensive. As they have come down to us, they are painted in subdued and muted colours, or left in simple undecorated stone or metal. At her lecture at the KCC last week, Park Young-sook pointed out that originally [...]

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2010 Travel Diary #3: Moon Vases and Kim Gun Mo

by Philip Gowman 25 May 2010
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Friday 30 April 2010. As usual, my arrival through Incheon Airport is swift and stress-free. Morgan, my interpreter, is there to meet me, my rental phone is ready for pickup at the SK Telecom desk, plus this time I have the added luxury of a driver (though the hotel limo-bus I usually take is also [...]

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KCC Lecture: Tradition and Innovation of Korean Buddhist Sculpture

by Philip Gowman 15 May 2010
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News of this month’s Global Korea lecture at the KCC: Tradition and Innovation of Korean Buddhist Sculpture By Professor Youngsook Pak (SOAS) Date & Time: Wednesday, 19th May 2010 6.30pm Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre UK Email to info@kccuk.org.uk or call +44(0)20 7004 2600 to reserve your place About the Talk As part of [...]

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True Stories: Koh Sang Woo Solo Exhibition at Sesame

by Philip Gowman 29 April 2010
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One of LKL’s favourite photographers has a solo show at Sesame Gallery in Islington, 6 May – 3 June 2010: Koh Sang Woo: True Stories Sesame Gallery 6 May – 3 June 2010 Koh Sang Woo has a taste for controversy. His images may look beautiful, but the stories beneath needle away at the unspoken [...]

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Exhibition review: Far East Fine Art at the Mall Galleries

by Philip Gowman 20 April 2010
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The debut exhibition by Far East Fine Art, a joint venture between a Brit experienced in the gallery market and a Korean with access to artists in South Korea, shows promise for the future. The choice of location was deliberate – central and high profile, and, for a start-up venture like this, offering the flexibility [...]

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The Sarangbang in the British Museum

by Eunjung Shin 8 April 2010
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Eunjung Shin continues her series of articles inspired by works on permanent display in the British Museum’s Korean gallery. I often see Korean tourist groups gather in the Korean gallery of the British Museum. One day I heard the museum staff shout “Don’t sit there!” I turned around to see an elderly Korean lady about [...]

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Joseon Dynasty Court Painting

by Philip Gowman 6 April 2010
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LKL reports from the one-day seminar on Joseon Dynasty Court Painting held at SOAS on 29 March 2010. Last year, SOAS in conjunction with the Academy of Korean Studies and the British Museum presented a one-day workshop on folk art. As a follow-up event, this year the workshop looked at work from the other end [...]

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