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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-07-04

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by Philip Gowman on 4 July, 2010

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Challenges Operatic and Dramatic: Koreans in Germany. Interesting article on Adam Cathcart's blog http://bit.ly/br3Mx7 # Well, I just finished this year's essay book (Park Wan-suh’s Who ate all the Shinga?) and it's even harder than last year. Nothing to get your teeth into. And that wasn’t meant to be a pun. But really… Last year’s [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

by Philip Gowman 1 February 2010
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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 [...]

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Kia Cee’d gets the thumbs up

by Philip Gowman 12 February 2007

The consensus among the motoring journalists is that Jeremy Clarkson might have to start revising his views on Korean cars [1]. Korean cars in the UK have the reputation of competing on price rather than quality. But all this seems to be changing with the Kia Cee’d. From the FT this weekend: This is the [...]

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Kia Cerato LX CRDi

by Philip Gowman 23 July 2006

Well, it’s not going to win any design awards, but it’s a perfectly OK car. It’s got one of those strange flaps on the boot, and a skirt below the radiator at the front. I think they’re meant to make the car go faster, but if you exit the petrol station too enthusiastically there’s a [...]

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Motoring supplement

by Philip Gowman 16 July 2006

Ever on the look-out for yet more subjects on which I am totally unqualified to speak, this time I’m trying my hand as motoring correspondent. I don’t have a car (I don’t need one in London), and on the rare occasions when I need a set of wheels I use the local rental shop, which [...]

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Korean driving

by Philip Gowman 24 May 2006

Anyone who has been in a taxi in Busan will understand completely how Korea can be second in the OECD car accident rankings. (The mystery is: why only second, and how come there are any cars left on the road?) It must be something in the blood. Thanks to Tom Coyner for circulating this image [...]

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