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The LKL long weekend in Seoul and Busan

27-Feb-08
A sketchy account of LKL's recent trip to the land of morning calm. Thursday night: arrive at Incheon, sail through immigration and customs, no wait for baggage or mobile phone rental, and buy a 14,000 Won ticket for the shuttle bus to a hotel in the City Hall area. Someone makes sure I'm queuing in the right place, and before I know it I'm at the Lotte Hotel. Get into a taxi. The driver doesn't know where my hotel is, and can't understand the map I have carefully printed off. We improvise our way to the Insadong Fraser Suites. Friday morning: as I have made absolutely no arrangements for the weekend other than organising a hotel and sending tentative emails to a ...
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Busan, hub city?

15-Oct-07
OK, so I didn't make it to PIFF this year. I don't think I'm ever likely to: time away from work is precious, and to be spent with one's beloved. If one's beloved isn't in to sitting in a darkened movie theatre straining to read the subtitles for days on end (and I'm not sure that I am, either), then a week at a film festival is not a good way to use up valuable vacation time. Besides, I have two festivals in London in the comings weeks to look forward to. Of course, Busan is on my mind at this time of the year because of the festival, but I also have fond feelings towards the place because one or ...
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UK-trained beauty expert opens Busan Academy

24-Jun-07
My dear friend Nam-hee Kim (김남희) has just taken the bold step of opening her own Beauty Academy in Busan: the Michae Beauty Academy (미채 뷰티 아카데미): www.mcbeauty.co.kr. Nam-hee studied at the London College of Fashion, part of University of the Arts, London -- and part of her course was theatrical make-up and design. I remember chatting to her about the relative merits of the prosthetic make-up on different Doctor Who monsters while she cut my hair in a salon off Oxford Street -- but I digress. Nam-hee also trained at the Vidal Sassoon hair academy, but her skill goes beyond what you find in the average Vidal Sassoon salon. Speaking from personal experience, my wife's hair has never looked better ...
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