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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-14

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by Philip Gowman on 14 March, 2010

in BoA, DPRK, Food & Drink, General book news, Hallyu, Koreans elsewhere, Twitter Tweets, VoDs, Younee

BoA is back, with an upcoming Korean album: is she giving up on the US? http://bit.ly/auBVVD Meanwhile, the growth in Korean entertainment exports is slowing: http://bit.ly/8ZHrNU #
RT @GIKorea: New blog post: Have Korean Researchers Discovered Alcohol That Doesn’t Give You A Hangover? http://bit.ly/doANrW 11:17 PM Mar 5th via Twitter Tools
RT @rjkoehler New blog posting, [...]

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Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea

9 March 2010 Events news
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This Friday’s lecture at SOAS looks like a must-see.
See you all there.
Friday, March 12th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University
Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea
Abstract:
In this talk, I will introduce my forthcoming book Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food and Eating in Twentieth Century Korea. The key [...]

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Belated New Year celebrations at Pacific Plaza

26 February 2010 Events news
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Pacific Plaza is a new Asian mall by Wembley Stadium, including a supermarket and a Korean food outlet. They’re having a belated celebration of the New Year this Saturday, with all sorts of fun events. The festivities start at 12:30pm and continue till around 6:30. Korean cultural interest is scheduled for 2:15pm, 4pm and 5pm, [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-22

22 February 2010 Film
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Kick a man when he’s down: steal his shoes from the funeral parlour. Sole searching in the JoongAng Daily http://bit.ly/adnzyI #
Biggest mass wedding in a decade: 14,000 are spliced in Unification Church ceremony: http://bit.ly/bFouGw #
New Product Approval Bill expected to be passed 26 Feb. Unnecessary intervention or saving bankers from themselves? http://bit.ly/c9Mk2s #
Good interview with [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

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Kimchipedia Part 2 – Obesity, Cancer and Global Pandemics

29 January 2010 Food & Drink
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Kimchi’s anti-cancer properties are a focus of growing interest. Professor Park of Pusan University injected a Kimchi extract into mice with cancer cell transplants. After one month, the control set had an average tumor weight of 4.3 grams, whereas the group that were fed with Kimchi extract had an average tumor weight of 2.0 grams. [...]

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January cooking with Kiejo

26 January 2010 Events news
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The next date for cooking with Kiejo is this Saturday, 30 January.

Menu:
Tteokbokki (Rice cake and Vegetables with Spicy sauce)
Galbi Gui (Grilled short rib of beef)
Miyuk and cucumber salad (Seaweed and cucumber salad)
Time: 11 AM — 2 PM.
Venue: The Chalfonts
Contact: kiejosarsfield at hotmail dot co dot uk

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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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Kimchipedia Part 1 – Everything you wanted to know about Kimchi, but were too polite to ask

18 January 2010 Food & Drink
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Introduction
Kimchi has been eaten in the Korean peninsula for over 2,000 years. The modern Korean consumes about 30 kilograms of it per annum. It is credited with keeping obesity at bay in the country, and is believed to combat stress and to slow the ageing process, as well as fighting cancer and a wide variety [...]

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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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More cooking with Kiejo – and her Belly Pork Bulgogi recipe

6 January 2010 Events news
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Kiejo Sarsfield is running another of her cookery classes this month. 11am – 2pm on 23 January, up in the Chalfonts. Recipes this time are Bindaetteok, Japche, and Kimchi Jjigae. Cost is, I think, £30, which is great value. Contact kiejosarsfield [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk to reserve your place. In the meanwhile, here’s [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-28

28 December 2009 About LKL
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Top 10 Reasons We Can’t Wait to Close 2009: A gloomy look at the past 12 months in the Korea Times http://bit.ly/7kctSh. 6:44 PM Dec 22nd from bit.ly
Just watched Haeundae on R2 DVD. What was the fuss about? Dull, dull, dull. Maybe the domestic cut was better (17 mins longer). 9:14 PM [...]

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Korean restaurant in Time Out pick of the Year

23 December 2009 2009 year-end posts
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It’s not often you see a Korean restaurant featured in Time Out, still less one that’s not in Central London. But in the Christmas double-issue a New Malden eatery gets singled out: Jee Cee Neh (지씨네), 74 Burlington Road, New Malden, Surrey, New Malden, KT3 4NU, 020 8942 0682.
Our bowl of yukkaejang (a rich, chilli-infused [...]

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November Cooking with Kiejo

8 November 2009 Events news
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Details of Kiejo Sarsfield’s classes for November:
14th November.

Menu :
1. Haemul pajeon (seafood pancake)
2. Bibimbab (Mixed vegetables, beef, rice with spicy sauce)
3. Korean Miso Soup with tofu

Time :
11 AM —2 PM

Cost :
£30

This menu [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-05

5 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Blogging brings many pleasures and privileges. Meeting fellow bloggers is one of them. Nice dinner with @maangchi in NY K-town. #
Aigoo. My favourite CD shop, AM Records in 32nd St, is now a tattoo parlour. And Koryo Books now has even fewer books. New York K-town is going downhill. #
@youneelondon Good luck with the BBC [...]

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