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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

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by Philip Gowman on 1 February, 2010

in Business, Celebs, Food & Drink, General book news, Humour, In the news, KCCUK, Lee Byung-hun, Motoring, Photography, Politics, Sport, Tabloid, Twitter Tweets

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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Rent-a-loo

20 October 2007 Humour
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The Korean Toilet Association makes it into the news again.
If you’re looking for an innovative public-hygiene-themed mini-break in Korea you could do worse than rent a toilet-shaped house for the night. All proceeds will go to support that splendid and worthwhile organisation.
HT to Jim Hoare.
Links:

World’s first toilet house to be built in Korea, Building.co.uk, 18 [...]

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Another industry in which Korea leads the world

7 October 2007 Statistics and league tables
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We all knew Korea had some world-beating industries: ships, chips, LCD screens. Add to that the manufacture of condoms, where three Korean companies – Unidus, Dongkuk Trading and Hankook Latex – account for 30% of the global market, according to the Chosun. Maybe there’s a big domestic demand – for example for high school field [...]

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Banish your Monday blues

3 September 2007 Lee Hyolee
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Two little items to brighten your Monday.
First, if ever you thought the TV in your particular country was trashy, just be thankful they haven’t plumbed the depths of “Racing Model Billiard Championship”.

“This is a sport I really would like to see catch on,” comments the Party Pooper [1]. “Some geniuses over at the Xports channel [...]

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International Toilet Rescue

17 August 2007 Humour
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Revealing my schoolboy sense of humour, I couldn’t resist posting this link to an article about the Korea-based World Toilet Association “racing to rescue Cambodia”
Toilets are no longer a space for excretion only; they are becoming the central place in our daily lives where cleanness, relaxation, and aesthetics are important.
Read on at expat-advisory.com. It was, [...]

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Cleanliness is next to godliness

21 May 2007 Fruit Chan
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A post by Mark Russell over at Korea Pop Wars about a particular piece of junk mail he got recently – the first issue of Toilet World – prompts me to link to two other toilet-related articles which I’ve had in my inbox for a while.
Links:

Korea Poop Wars – Mark Russell at Korea Pop Wars, [...]

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Cosmetic surgery to get tax breaks

25 February 2007 Business

As if there wasn’t enough plastic surgery in Korea already, the Government has just made it tax deductible. According to the Chosun:
The costs of plastic surgery, cosmetic tooth reshaping, corrective laser eye surgery, and “boyak”, or traditional Korean health supplements, will be eligible for income deductions in the year-end tax adjustment from this year. Costs [...]

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