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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club is back: bigger, better and under a new name

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by Philip Gowman on 11 March, 2010

in DPRK, Documentaries, Events news, Humour

For those who missed this excellent documentary when it showed on the BBC recently, it’s returning to cinemas this month under its theatrical name, The Red Chapel. It’s also a slightly longer cut, 87 minutes as opposed to the hour that the BBC gave it. The screenings are part of the Human Rights Watch film [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-07

7 March 2010 Celebs
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Girls Generation latest album “Oh!” gets a trashing in the JoongAng Ilbo: http://bit.ly/cdKGL5 10:28 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

TchmilFan: @lklinks You can even get SNSD/Girls Gen “Oh!” on iTunes UK now! http://bit.ly/cVOel7 (Look out for the Oh! areia remix on youtube) 1:28 PM Feb 23rd via Seesmic

You thought Korea [...]

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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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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club – the tweets

15 February 2010 DPRK
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It’s not often that Twitter is alive with Tweets about a documentary on BBC4, but Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club was special. Here are some of them.

LKL: Game for a laugh? Don’t forget Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club tonight, BBC4, 10pm http://bit.ly/bT9eZE #
LKL: Wow this documentary is bizarre!! #

Alex_Hoban: @lklinks you’re telling me…!

Alex_Hoban: EVERYONE WATCH BBC4 NOW, [...]

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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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A pizza shovel for the Dear Leader: was he amused by “Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club”?

9 February 2010 DPRK
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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club is a Danish documentary which follows the two-week visit to North Korea by a Danish comedy double-act who had received permission to perform in Pyongyang’s National Theatre. The documentary is fascinating on many levels. First, the two comedians are ethnic Korean adoptees, born in South Korea but brought up in Denmark, [...]

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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club on BBC4

5 February 2010 DPRK
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Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to figuring out what this is all about, but BBC Four has a one-hour documentary on Monday 8 February at 10pm. Time Out has selected it as Pick of the Day. Looks like it’s seriously worth a look. Here is Gabriel Tate’s commentary from Time [...]

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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, 2009-11-09

9 November 2009 Design
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Best wishes to @youneelondon for her album launch gig tonight at Pizza Express Dean St. http://bit.ly/3TddQd #
@indiefulrok Welcome home after your travels! in reply to indiefulrok #
David Kilburn, friend to Korean traditional arts – and KAA UK – in ill health. Get well soon David. http://bit.ly/2NpuxL #
Bong Jong-ho Mother screening and Q&A now moved to [...]

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Have I got Nanta for you

29 October 2009 Humour
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Sharp-eyed fans of the BBC TV comedy news quiz Have I Got News For You will have spotted a still from Nanta just before the closing credits in the show which aired on 17 October.
Just after the final “caption competition”, the presenter is allowed two final illustrated one-liners. And the show’s researchers had unearthed a [...]

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Kim Jong Il in Photoshop Friday

8 November 2008 DPRK
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Photo-editing fun with North Korea’s Dear Leader

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Advance fee frauds – the Korean connection

5 August 2008 Humour

We have all received garbage emails from dodgy people in dodgy countries giving us a sob story explaining how they’ve managed to end up with several million dollars and need help getting it out of the country. They started in Nigeria but have now spread to other countries as well. Two recent ones have come [...]

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North-South Korea b-boy battle

10 June 2008 B-boys
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Someone’s been having a bit of fun creating a spoof b-boy battle at Panmunjom. Enjoy.
You have to wait 60 seconds for the real action to start. HT to Tom Coyner.

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The Seoul Magazine photo challenge

29 April 2008 Humour
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One of my minor complaints with Seoul Magazine is their slapdash approach to visual material. Particularly in their events listings they splatter pictures around the page with no description of what the image depicts and what article or event it relates to. We bloggers have a partial excuse for not putting captions under pictures, because [...]

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Park Jin, man of many faces

9 April 2008 Humour

From the Korea Times, illustrating an article entitled “Seven Candidates Score Dramatic, Sweet Victories”:

Will the real Park Jin step forward?
HT to Aidan Foster-Carter.
Update: in case you were wondering which one was really Park Jin, the KT has now corrected the captions:

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