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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-08

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by Philip Gowman on 8 February, 2010

in Bloggers and newspeople, Celebs, DPRK, General book news, Hallyu, Hong Sang-soo, Jang Dong-gun, Kangta, Statistics and league tables, Twitter Tweets, Wonder Girls

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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LKL’s top 10 K-films of the noughties

26 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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Mark Russell over at Korea Pop Wars led the way with his fascinating list of films of the decade – in which the biggest shock was that there was no Park Chan-wook. GI Korea also has a list, which redresses the balance somewhat. So here is mine.
Over the years I’ve been reasonably diligent in giving [...]

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Korean Connections at the 53rd BFI London Film Festival

6 October 2009 Autumn K-film 2009
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Colin Bartlett has overcome the shortcomings of the London Film Festival website search engine by diligently reading the 100 page festival brochure for films with Korean connections. Here are the results of his labours.
First, the two main films we already know about:

Hong Sang-soo’s Like you know it all (18, 19 Oct) www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/433
Bong Joon-ho’s Mother (22, [...]

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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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Night and Day: Hong Sang Soo in Paris

7 November 2008 Autumn K-Film 2008
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Claire O’Connell reviews Hong Sang Soo’s latest film, Night and Day, screened last week at the BFI London Film Festival

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The big, the small, and the predictable

13 September 2008 Autumn K-Film 2008
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Is it a reflection on the current state of the Korean film industry that the films to be shown at the 52nd BFI London Film Festival don’t really surprise me? In previous years the organisers have managed to select films which are out of the ordinary, maybe one or two that I hadn’t heard of. [...]

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A feeble contribution to the Oh! Soojung blogathon

21 March 2007 Film reviews and comment

Today is the Virgin Stripped Bare blogathon, when anyone who cares about the work of Hong Sang-soo is meant to be writing about his third film — to coincide with a screening of the film in the San Francisco Bay area as part of a retrospective. A splendid idea, provided you have anything to say [...]

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Oh Soojung Blogathon

19 February 2007 Events news

To coincide with another retrospective of the complete oeuvre of Hong Sang-soo, Hell on Frisco Bay has announced a Blog-a-thon on the subject of A Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors on March 21 this year.
I gather that what this means is that anyone who runs a blog and who is interested can write an [...]

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Report on new Hong Sang-soo film

26 April 2006 Film

I haven’t been lurking at koreanfilm.org recently, which is why I missed a post from atom there. Here’s a link which he provided to a report on Hong’s latest, written by X at twitchfilm.net.

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