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Younee returns for her second UK tour

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by Philip Gowman on 15 March, 2010

in Events news, K-pop rock and indie, Younee

After the success of her 2009 UK tour, Younee is back for two months and a series of concerts. LKL will be meeting her this week to talk about her plans. In the meanwhile, here are some dates for your diaries:

19 Mar 2010
20:15
BBC Three Counties Radio ‘Sue Marchant Programme’
Cambridge

26 Mar 2010
19:45
Nachtleben Club Frankfurt, [...]

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A meeting with Biuret

13 March 2010 Biuret
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LKL meets the energetic Korean rock band Biuret, the overall winners of Sutasi 2009, during their brief visit to London.

I’ve come to the Royal Garden Hotel overlooking Kensington Gardens to meet Biuret, one of the latest Korean bands to win international recognition. The foyer is packed with music industry types, because this is the venue [...]

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Biuret to play in Southampton

6 March 2010 Biuret
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Good news for K-rock fans near Southampton. Biuret, the overall SUTASI Pan Asian winner 2009, will be performing at The Brook, Sunday March 14th at 9.20pm. They’ve also been invited to perform at the International Live Music Conference in London on 12 March. After their Southampton gig they’re off to Vietnam to perform in Ho [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

9 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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For the past 3 years LKL has concocted a quiz of the year as a way of gathering together some of the news stories which have most caught our eye. This year, as I came to draw up the list in mid December I found it hard to think of anything amusing or diverting: most [...]

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The Indieful ROK MySpace Directory

11 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Anna over at Indieful ROK has done us all a great service. Ever wanted to explore new Korean indie music? Never figured out how lastFM works? MySpace is a good place to sample new music for free. The problem is, where are all the cool Korean musicians?
In the course of her blogging on Korean [...]

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Yoon Bok-hee comes to Kingston

13 June 2009 Events news
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Koreans seem to keep some of their favourite stars well hidden from the West. Google singer Yoon Bok-hee in English, and you don’t find much. The Kpopwiki is able to provide a discography but no biography, while the occasional article in the Korea Times mention her only in passing: recently for performing the role of [...]

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Happy music, Happy people

28 April 2009 K-pop rock and indie
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Over the past few years, Happy Robot has become one of the finest indie labels in Korea. Nina Lee from Happy Robot talks to Anna Lindgren from Indieful RoK.

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Recent music award winners

12 April 2009 K-pop rock and indie
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March was a month in which two separate music awards were announced. Here are the winners.

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The biggest independent music awards in the world

5 March 2009 K-pop rock and indie
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Details of the Asia Voice Independent Music Awards

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According to Gallup, my favourite singer should be Jang Yoon Jeong

8 January 2009 Jang Yoon-jeong
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A summary of a recent poll about Korea’s favourite musicians. Youngsters prefer the Wonder Girls, oldsters like the Trot singers.

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Saharial gets it spot-on

30 December 2008 2008 year-end posts
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LKL’s K-pop pundit Saharial led the way; MBC followed. Shinhwa’s Jun Jin is artiste of the year.

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Indieful ROK joins the Music Alliance Pact

17 December 2008 K-pop rock and indie
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Details of Indieful ROK’s participation in a monthly web-based effort to promote indie music

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A nomination for Artiste of the Year 2008

10 December 2008 2008 year-end posts
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Saharial highlights a performer whose star has been rising this year

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Can BoA eat up the U.S. of A.?

18 September 2008 BoA
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Despite the hallyu’s success in Asia, today’s Korean pop stars have yet to make it big in the States. Yes, we’ve seen a Korean or two in a Hollywood film or on Comedy Central, but concerts have been fairly localised, and the high-profile tour by Rain never got off the ground. And we’ve yet to [...]

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