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Beautiful Young Korean Girl…On Ice!

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by Aashish Gadhvi on 12 March, 2010

in Celebs, Kim Yu-na, Sport

Aashish Gadhvi reviews the figure skating juggernaut that is Kim Yu-na
At the recent South Korea v Ivory Coast match I managed to speak to many Korean journalists from television and from print media. Many of the journalists there only seem to have one thing to talk about. No, it wasn’t Park Ji-sung or Lee Chung-yong, [...]

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Aashish interviews Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo

8 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Aashish Gadhvi managed to interview two key members of the South Korean world cup squad after the match with Ivory Coast last week: Lee Young-pyo, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur:
and probably Korea’s best known player, Park Ji-sung:
No subtitles this time: both interviews are in English.
This wraps up LKL’s coverage of the South Korea – Ivory Coast [...]

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Ivory Coasted!

4 March 2010 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews South Korea’s resounding 2-0 victory over the Ivory Coast. With photos by Aashish and Saharial.
Have you ever had a dream that was so perfect that the moment you wake up you try your very best to go back to sleep and experience it all over again? Well I had one of those [...]

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South Korea 2 – 0 Ivory Coast: the photos

4 March 2010 Pictures
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Saharial took some great action shots at the international friendly at Loftus Road yesterday. Shame there weren’t more spectators there to see the action:

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Team Korea’s Training Day: the Video

3 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Earlier this week, Aashish Gadhvi joined the South Korean squad at their training day at the Bank of England Sports Club in Roehampton – the only non-Korean journalist present. Here’s his video of the proceedings.
Check out his article, including an interview with Celtic’s Ki Sung-yong, here.

South Korea meet Ivory Coast at Loftus Road this afternoon, [...]

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South Korea’s Training Day in South London

2 March 2010 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi catches up with Team Korea in preparation for Wednesday’s friendly.

The South Korean national football team are back in town folks, and I caught up with our favourite red shirted devils to check out the team on their one day of training here in London. In a leafy and somewhat swanky end of South [...]

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South Korea play Ivory Coast at Loftus Road

28 February 2010 Events news
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South Korea will take on Ivory Coast in a friendly International football fixture at Loftus Road, the home of Queens Park Rangers, on Wednesday 3rd March 2010 – kick-off 2.30pm.
Both nations are keen to bring their football to London to entertain the estimated 20,000 Koreans and 10,000 Ivoriens that live in and around the city.
The [...]

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Why LKL said nothing about Kim Yu-na. Until now.

26 February 2010 In the news
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“Right now the biggest thing in Korea is the Olympic skater Kim Yu-na. It’s a mania for us Koreans,” was a message left via the LKL contact form by a UK-based correspondent, shortly before the free skating element of the women’s figure skating event in the wee small hours this morning.
I think I knew that. [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-15

15 February 2010 Celebs
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Game for a laugh? Don't forget Kim Jong-il's Comedy Club tonight, BBC4, 10pm http://bit.ly/bT9eZE #
Eternal Empire (1995) – a nice-looking costume drama about murder and court intrigue in the Yi dynasty soon after the death of Prince Sado. One of Darcy’s top 10 K-films of the 90s. Not one of mine, but well worth a [...]

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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 [...]

Companies:
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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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Exclusive interviews with the Korean team

5 December 2009 Interviews and features
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Aashish Gadhvi gets up close and personal with Kim Nam Il and Lee Chung Yong
South Korea were recently in London to play Serbia, and thanks to the help of many people who I am very grateful to, I was able to interview two members of the team. Firstly I just want to say a very [...]

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Are you being Serbed?

21 November 2009 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews Korea v Serbia at Craven Cottage on 18 November

Two years ago Fulham’s Craven Cottage played host to a friendly match on a chilly winter evening between Korea and Greece, which went down a success. The stadium was full of crazy Korean fans singing and chanting throughout the match as Korea walked away [...]

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The curious case of Jong Tae-se

13 November 2009 DPRK
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Aashish Gadhvi analyses the so-called defector in the Northern ranks.

North Korea’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup has brought about many questions in international football. Not least of all, the desire for more information about the team. Most of all, who are these guys? The mystery surrounding the team is pretty much the same level [...]

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Korean National Taekwondo demonstration team tours England

7 September 2009 Events news
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News of a Korean Taekwondo tour in England:

The Korean National University of Sport: Taekwondo Demonstration Team,
UK Tour – Bringing the best of Taekwondo to the UK’s Olympic hopefuls
Date: September 14th – 20th, 2009-09-04
Location: London and five cities in the UK
Presented by: The Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism
Hosted by: Korean Cultural Centre UK
Demonstration team: Korean [...]

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