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Saharial reviews Stranger than Paradise

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by Saharial on 8 February, 2010

in TV drama

Story:
No Yoon Jae (Lee Sung-Jae) was adopted as a child and taken to Canada and now, at age 33 has been looking for his parents for some time. A successful lawyer with a love for coffee and his girlfriend he travels to Korea to meet once more with disappointment. Kang Son Ho (Uhm Tae Woong) [...]

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Saharial reviews Beethoven Virus

20 January 2010 Film reviews and comment
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Story:
Ru Mi, a violinist for 17 years has had little or no luck playing in orchestras, they all seem to disband or fall apart. Now working as a copywriter, she comes up with an idea to make Sukwon, where she lives, a capital for classical music. Her luck has not changed though and the initial [...]

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Stairway to Heaven: over-rated?

5 September 2009 Choi Ji-woo
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Saharial’s first Korea TV drama review – and she has her doubts about one of the most popular ones.
I am a busy gal and simply do NOT have time to waste on a drama that doesn’t push all the right buttons for me. I have been lucky though, that in all this time there have [...]

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Saharial’s guide to Korean TV Drama

4 August 2009 TV drama
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There are currently 20 dramas airing on Korean TV, all vying for recognition, ratings and cult status. Some are filmed in advance, some are still being filmed even as they are starting to be aired, all having press conferences, on-set interviews, and mass produced replicas of special items from the story, not to mention the [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-03

3 August 2009 Beauty
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Just heard the Kingston Korean Festival is happening on 15 Aug. Trying to get confirmation. #
Listening to the memorial album for President Roh. Just arrived from Mr Kwang. Nice mellow music. #
Never thought I would enjoy listening to gugak fusion. But actually Ccotbyel playing haegeum isn’t bad. #
Yup, a couple of independent sources confirm the [...]

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Fun summer language classes

5 July 2009 Events news
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Notice of some innovative language classes this summer at the Cultural Centre. Particularly fun is “Korean through TV Dramas”, which will take an episode of a Korean soap and walk you through the key colloquialisms and vocabulary. Both of the courses will be very popular, so get your application in soon.
SEJONG INSTITUTE
Summer Special Courses
(세종학당)
Application [...]

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Sandglass the best TV drama ever?

12 February 2009 Retail Therapy
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A run-down of the top Korean TV dramas, as voted on by the experts.

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DVD bargains to be had

24 January 2009 Film
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A quick post to tell people about the YesAsia end-of-year sale

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The Grand Culture Project

22 August 2007 Business
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At the SOAS / AKS conference on 26 June, the talk by Kim Hyeon, Associate Professor of Cultural Informatics at the Academy of Korean Studies, had the title “the Korean Wave, Cultural Content and Cultural Informatics”.
“What on earth is Cultural Informatics?” I hear you ask. You would not be alone. But read on.
The premise of [...]

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Dae Jang Geum musical needs translator

8 August 2007 Classifieds

From this week’s Seoul Selection newsletter
Seoul Selection is looking for translators to translate the libretto of the musical “Dae Jang Geum” produced by PMC Production. The translation — approximately 30 pages (A4) — needs to be done rather quickly, with the deadline for the translation being Aug 18. You should have plenty of time [...]

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Your help requested. And, some people have all the luck

28 June 2007 Ask an expert

A reader at ukfan’s DJG Comic Relief forum is doing a research project on Dae Jang Geum. He’s a PhD researcher at Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University. As part of this he needs your help to perfect a cultural survey. The survey can be found here. Please email it to [...]

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Jumong a bright spot in media industry gloom

13 April 2007 Business

The Chosun recently reported a gloomy picture of the earnings of the Korean film industry. As Jon Pais speculated over at Twitch in November last year,
Even if production costs stabilized, as the number of films increases, decreased profitability is inevitable. But production costs are soaring and don’t show any signs of slowing down. In the [...]

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Dae Jang Geum survey

3 April 2007 Ask an expert

A request for assistance from a PhD researcher.
Hello,
I’m a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. I am interested in studying popular cultural phenomena in or related to East Asia.
I’m currently working on a research project about viewer’s perceptions and opinions of Korean TV dramas. I would greatly appreciate it [...]

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Visit the Dae Jang Geum campaign sites

29 December 2006 Humour

Pay a visit to ukfan’s DJG comic relief discussion board. There’s a sample of his work below. And if you haven’t done so already, sign Alice’s petition to get DJG shown on the BBC, and visit her blog.

Productions: Dae Jang Geum

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Of Ostriches and Royal Warrants

18 December 2006 Business
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Why is it newsworthy to call someone an ostrich? The obvious answer, particularly when the person who’s being called an ostrich agrees, is that it isn’t. But when it’s heart-throb Jung Woo Sung calling TV soap princess Kim Tae-hee an ostrich, it’s an excuse to publish their photos and mention their upcoming film “Joongchun” or [...]

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