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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-07

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by Philip Gowman on 7 March, 2010

in Celebs, DPRK, General academia, Girls Generation, Han, Debbie, Humour, Jang Dong-gun, Jang Yoon-jeong, KAAUK, Kim Yu-na, Ko So-young, Lee Eun-ju, Nah Youn Sun, Statistics and league tables, Super Junior, TVXQ, Twitter Tweets, VoDs

Girls Generation latest album “Oh!” gets a trashing in the JoongAng Ilbo: http://bit.ly/cdKGL5 10:28 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

TchmilFan: @lklinks You can even get SNSD/Girls Gen “Oh!” on iTunes UK now! http://bit.ly/cVOel7 (Look out for the Oh! areia remix on youtube) 1:28 PM Feb 23rd via Seesmic

You thought Korea [...]

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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

28 August 2007 Bada
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It’s a while since I did a round-up of celebrity news, which means that I’ve almost forgotten all the things I was going to mention, and lost most of the links that I was going to use. So before things get completely out of hand, here’s one of my not-so-regular posts shamelessly plundering the celebrity [...]

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Cute videos featuring brotherly love

13 August 2007 K-pop rock and indie

I couldn’t resist posting these videos. Read the Party Pooper’s commentary on them here, with links to more SuJu vids.
First, Super Junior – stranded on the road to Busan, only 21 dollars between them, and having to share a room for the night. Sweet.
And now TVXQ / DBSK
Read Rowan Pease’s commentary on cute Korean boys [...]

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July statistics and site updates

9 August 2007 Readership statistics

Traffic
Not much changes month on month now. Whatever set of statistics you look at, my growth period seems to have come to an end. Just as well given the problem reported last month regarding my using too much CPU. The site isn’t taken offline quite so frequently any more, but maybe that’s just because the [...]

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BoA’s aching feet and other celebrity updates

4 May 2007 BoA
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I’m conscious that I haven’t posted any celebrity pics for a while, so here’s an update.

The relentless rise of Kim Yun-jin
MSN’s recognition of Kim Yun-jin isn’t quite the kiss of death that I thought it was going to be. She’s now made it into the Stuff’s top 100 babes. A peculiar computer-enhanced photo of her [...]

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Super Junior T: Rokkuko

30 April 2007 CD reviews
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(Released February 2007)

Every now and then in my somewhat random purchases of Korean pop music I hit upon a gem. By the law of averages, every now and then I have to come across a dud. This is one of them.
I’ve started investigating Trot, and perversely thought I’d start with its latest reincarnation and work [...]

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Trot makes a comeback

21 February 2007 Jang Yoon-jeong

To be perfectly accurate, I don’t think Trot ever really went away. Rather, like many trends in popular culture, its fanbase was getting older and there would come a point when no-one was listening to it any more. But when Trot compilations are selling millions through street vendors (see chapter 7 of Keith Howard’s book), [...]

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Korea’s cute and funky cultural exports

22 December 2006 Chatham House
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Chatham House Korea Discussion Group
China’s ‘Korea Wave’: National Branding, Piracy, Idols and Fans
Speaker: Dr Rowan Pease, 6 December 2006, 1:15pm
If ever you get the chance to hear Rowan Pease talk on her chosen subject of the hallyu in China, drop everything and go to it. Even if you’ve heard some of her material before, there [...]

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