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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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Contributions sought for adoptee anthology

14 February 2010 Classifieds
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A message just received from Perlita Harris for the British Association of Adoption and Fostering.
We are editing an anthology of writing and poetry by adopted adults who were adopted in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland including adoptees born in another country (e.g. Korea) and raised by their adoptive family in the UK. This collection will [...]

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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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Barbara Demick talks about her book Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

7 February 2010 DPRK
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In her new book Nothing to Envy – Real Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick uncovers the secrets of the world’s most secretive country, through the stories of six North Koreans. Covering illicit love affairs, party loyalty and crippling poverty, the stories are the result of tenacious investigations and interviews in a country not connected [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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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, 2009-10-05

5 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Blogging brings many pleasures and privileges. Meeting fellow bloggers is one of them. Nice dinner with @maangchi in NY K-town. #
Aigoo. My favourite CD shop, AM Records in 32nd St, is now a tattoo parlour. And Koryo Books now has even fewer books. New York K-town is going downhill. #
@youneelondon Good luck with the BBC [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-09-14

14 September 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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LKL is among the many winners in the Blog Korea, Visit Korea competition run by the KTO. Congrats to the other winners. Go visit Korea! #
Anglo-Korean Society members: last chance to reserve your places for you and your guests at the #Chuseok dinner next week. See you there #
Andrei Lankov on extra-marital hanky-panky in North [...]

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Escaping North Korea book launch

17 March 2009 Book reviews: DPRK
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An account of the book launch of Mike Kim’s “Escaping North Korea” held at SOAS in March 2009

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Escaping North Korea

9 March 2009 DPRK
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A reminder of the book launch events in Oxford and London this week. Mike Kim talks about his new book, Escaping North Korea

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Meet Mr Kim (and LKL) on YTN

7 March 2009 About LKL
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Details of a TV feature on Jennifer Barclay’s book, Meeting Mr Kim

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Books for your Christmas shopping list

14 December 2008 2008 year-end posts
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For those pondering what to buy your loved ones for Christmas, a few suggestions from the many books published this year

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Korea Yearbook 2009 Call for Papers

29 September 2008 Calls for Papers
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The editors of the Korea Yearbook – Politics, Economy, Society, published since 2007 by Brill (Leiden and Boston), are now calling for papers for the 2009 edition of the yearbook. The Korea Yearbook consists, on the one hand, of four concise overviews of domestic and external affairs of the two Koreas and, on the other [...]

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Korean bookshop in New Malden

16 August 2008 Book stores
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Thanks to David Gomez for writing in with an answer to a question which lots of people have asked: where to buy Korean books in London. Not books about Korea, not books about how to learn Korean, but books written in Korean.
My standard answer is that I haven’t the foggiest idea, but that if you’re [...]

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Meet Mister Kim. Now.

22 July 2008 General book news
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It’s the publishing event of 2008. More hotly anticipated than the latest Harry Potter, and certainly more entertaining, Jennifer Barclay’s Meeting Mr Kim, or How I went to Korea and learned to love kimchi, is in the shops now, priced at just £7.99.

Jen’s trip to Korea was actually back in 2000, so this little baby [...]

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Jennifer Barclay featured on BBC Radio 4

12 July 2008 General book news
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LKL contributor Jennifer Barclay (left) was on Sandi Toksvig’s Excess Baggage this morning, talking about kimchi, modern Korean history, and living and traveling in Korea. She was joined by Julian Appleby, who has recently returned from a stint of English language teaching there.
As ever with these programmes, there was an ulterior motive involved: Jennifer’s book, [...]

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