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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

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by Philip Gowman on 1 February, 2010

in Business, Celebs, Food & Drink, General book news, Humour, In the news, KCCUK, Lee Byung-hun, Motoring, Photography, Politics, Sport, Tabloid, Twitter Tweets

I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-28

28 December 2009 About LKL
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Top 10 Reasons We Can’t Wait to Close 2009: A gloomy look at the past 12 months in the Korea Times http://bit.ly/7kctSh. 6:44 PM Dec 22nd from bit.ly
Just watched Haeundae on R2 DVD. What was the fuss about? Dull, dull, dull. Maybe the domestic cut was better (17 mins longer). 9:14 PM [...]

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Photo Essay: Yin and Yang in Korean Dance

12 December 2009 Dance
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Jo Seong-hee captures Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho in rehearsal with some stunning images. Text by the editor.
In a carefully-planned and stimulating collaboration at Roehampton, Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho presented an evening of balances and contrasts, explicitly referencing Yin and Yang on several layers.
Most obviously, we had a male and a female performer, [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-11-23

23 November 2009 About LKL
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S. Korea v Serbia at Fulham on Wednesday. With luck, LKL’s sports correspondent Aashish Gadhvi will have access to the Korean team. Yay! #
Four new contributors in one month! Colette on Bong Joon-ho, Elizabeth on Epstein. Soon, Eunjung on art history and Darren on Jejudo. Fab! And let’s not forget another recent joiner, Alud on [...]

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Uncertain States: a second look

22 November 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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Peter Corbishley also pays a visit to the photographic show in Commercial Road
Alerted by LKL, it was a pleasant surprise, on my way back from eating Korean food in New Malden, to pop into Photo Space at the bottom of the road where I live. Two Korean photographers, Jo Seong-hee and Park Ju-young, are [...]

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Korean photographers in Uncertain States

16 November 2009 Events news
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Two Korean photographers, Jo Seong-hee and Park Ju-young, are currently participating in Uncertain States, a group show at Photo-Space Gallery, 530 Commercial Road, London E1 0HY (Near Limehouse DLR).
Jo Seong-hee has been loitering in the City and Canary Wharf taking night time photographs of the cityscape, pasting them together in what initially seems a normal [...]

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Atta Kim’s melting moments

7 November 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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The Dorsoduro, Venice’s south-western quarter, has a completely different atmosphere from the hustle and bustle of the tourist areas around St Mark’s across the Grand Canal. It’s busy around the Peggy Guggenheim museum, but further west, beyond the Campo Santa Margherita, the crowds thin out. Here, alongside a narrow waterway on the Fondamenta del Soccorso [...]

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An evening with the Korean Artists Association – event report

24 October 2009 Dance
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Last summer, the Korean Artists Association put on an evening of performances at the Korean cultural centre. The evening was well attended and popular, but somehow you felt that they could do better. They came back 15 months later and did just that.
Recognising that the visual artists did not get much of a look-in last [...]

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Environmental protest goes mainstream

17 October 2009 Earth Alert
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Over the past few years, environmentalists have been protesting about the massive land reclamation project at Saemangeum on the west coast of Korea. As well as being an environmental tragedy, it has also been a minor irritation in UK-ROK relations: prominent among the campaigners have been British naturalists protesting about the scheme’s impact on the [...]

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Earth Alert: Photographic Responses to Climate Change

13 October 2009 Events news
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Last year the KCC ran a stimulating exhibition Blight and Hope – Poverty through the Lens, featuring the response of international photographers to a particular issue. A follow-up exhibition opens on 13 October 2009:
Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK,
Ground Floor, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW
Exhibition Dates : 13 October 2009 – 28 [...]

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Crossfields – Korean Artists and Designers at the KCC

25 July 2009 Crossfields
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A notice of the next exhibition at the KCC, commencing 30 July:

The Korean Cultural Centre UK is proud to launch that the forthcoming exhibition ‘Crossfields’, an exhibition of 23 artists based in London. The exhibition will take place between 30 July and 12 September 2009.
Crossfields brings together a broad range of artists from across the [...]

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Distinctively Korean sales at Christie’s

28 June 2009 Back Seung-woo
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Coinciding with the interest in Korean art being generated by the Korean Eye: Moon Generation exhibition in the Saatchi gallery, Christie’s are holding an auction of contemporary photography on 1 July, in a sale which includes several Koreans who have featured on the pages of LKL.
Probably the most eminent of the photographers represented is Bae [...]

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Blight, Hope and Photoshop

25 October 2008 Blight and Hope
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“This is not a Korean exhibition” announced Lee Chan-Buom, Director of the Cultural Cooperation Division of Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as he introduced the panellists at a fascinating discussion to coincide with the “Blight and Hope” exhibition at the KCC.
With sponsorship from the British Council and the UNDP, there was to plenty [...]

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Chris Steele Perkins: Comfort Women photos at the Festival Hall

19 October 2008 Event reports and reviews
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Overlapping nicely with the photographic exhibition at the KCC (Poverty seen through the Lens) is Disposable People, an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall on a related theme: modern day slavery.

Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins spent some time talking with some of the last surviving sex slaves from the Pacific War – the Korean Comfort [...]

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“Poverty Seen through the Lens” at KCC

18 October 2008 Blight and Hope
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Notice of the upcoming show at the KCC, featuring Korean and non-Korean photographers
An international photography exhibition on the topic of global poverty will be held at the Korean Cultural Centre UK, from 21 October to 4 November 2008, under the title of “Blight and Hope: Poverty Seen Through the Lens,” hosted by the Korean Ministry [...]

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