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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-04

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by Philip Gowman on 4 January, 2010

in 2009 year-end posts, Business, Celebs, DPRK, Geek stuff, Ha Ji-won, Seoul, Twitter Tweets, Wonder Girls

DPRK “suspended due to strange activity”. If only it was that easy! @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active. Shame. I was trying to find the New Year Joint Editorial | 8:36 PM Jan 3rd from web
Top 10 ROK Drop Stories of 2009 http://bit.ly/7KiEV6 and ROK Drop’s pick of the decade http://bit.ly/7aYjGm. Good memory refreshers [...]

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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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Visit Korea, experience the Cold War

30 August 2009 Event reports and reviews
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Coming to the Travel Channel this autumn is a new travel documentary on Korea. At the Korea Tourism evening at the KCC last week we were given a preview. It was refreshing: a Korean tourism documentary, but from a Westerner’s perspective. Yes, we were told that the KTO assisted in the film’s production, but the [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-10

10 August 2009 Boryeong Mudfest
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Check out Urban Sketchers Seoul. It’s what it says on the tin. Great sketches and watercolours, constantly refreshed: http://bit.ly/rVVyF #
Feeling guilty that I don’t read Anna’s blog enough. Check out Dringe Augh’s track from July’s Music Alliance Pact: http://bit.ly/v6CYl #
Does Epik High have the same language coach as the Wonder Girls? “-t you” ≠ “choo” [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 9: Hails and farewells

8 August 2009 Seoul
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Thursday 23 / Friday 24 July
I’ve left it rather too late to do my LKL-related networking, and I’ve been up too late most nights trying to do on my netbook what I could do in a quarter of the time at home, so I have little energy today – despite all the Korean food I [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 8: Galleries old and new

5 August 2009 I-MYU
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Wednesday 22 July

A pleasant late start to the morning. Im Jeongae from London’s I-MYU gallery happens to be in town, looking after the show of British artists at the Total Museum. We cruise the Samcheong-dong galleries together as the heat of the day becomes slightly cooler, and the daylight light becomes milkier. People are staring [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 7: Korea House

3 August 2009 Korean traditional music
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Tuesday 21 July
A slowish start to the day. Too much alcohol and food (and salt?) the previous evening, plus the heat and humidity of the Busan weather, meant that sleep did not come easily. A brief tube ride to Busan Station to the KTX for Seoul. On the Busan subway, a whim makes me buy [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 4: Recuperation and the Kilburn Art Space

26 July 2009 Lee, Bum
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Saturday 18 July.

Lee Seung-yeon relaxes in the Kilburn Art Space in Kim Ki-duk’s 3 Iron (빈집)

I think the activity of the previous two days, combined with the time difference, has finally caught up with me. After a slow start to the day I consult the helpful tourist information people in Insadong how best to get [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 3: 20th century art and history

24 July 2009 Gyeonggi-do
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Friday 17 July
Today I elect to revisit the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon (국립 현대 미술관). Very easy to get to: Seoul Grand Park subway stop on Line 4. Get out at exit 4 and get the free shuttle bus which leaves every 20 minutes. There’s a great Manhwa exhibition on at [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 1: Arrival

22 July 2009 Seoul
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Wednesday 15 July
Unaccustomed to long-distance standard class travel, I arrive in Seoul a little tired. All the previous times I’ve been to Korea, I’ve been in the area on company business, and this is the first time I’ve had to pay my own way: hence the downgrade in comfort. The evening bibimbap is fine, and [...]

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Remembering the Forgotten War

21 July 2009 History & heritage
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“Freedom is not Free”, we are reminded by the inscription on the monument commemorating the Korean War. In the bustle of our daily lives, we can forget the sacrifices made by previous generations to secure our freedoms.
I have come to the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul to meet General Paik Sun Yup, the now-retired [...]

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Yeah Seoul! – the FC Seoul theme tune

31 May 2009 LKL.tv
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For those who were disappointed, on reading Ash’s recent corker of an article on Korean Soccer Wars, that they could not find the FC Seoul theme tune on the FC Seoul website, we’ve managed to find a copy of it for your delectation. It’s a catchy little number, complete with lyrics for you to follow.
Enjoy.

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Mayor Boris in Seoul

22 May 2009 In the news
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The most bizarre (at least initially) news item on the BBC a couple of days ago was (a) Bill Clinton praising a building project in (b) London’s dowdy Elephant and Castle area (c) while in Seoul. What was the former president doing in Korea talking about one of London’s least loved tube stations?
We discover that [...]

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The Gwanghwamun and its many rebirths

29 March 2009 Conference reports
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A feature on the great gate of the Gyeongbukgung in Seoul

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Cambridge-based Man U fan wins trip to Seoul

24 February 2009 Manchester
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Seoul is “Official Destination Partner” of Manchester United. Recently they gave away a free holiday to a Man U supporter.

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