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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

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by Philip Gowman on 25 January, 2010

in Bae Doo-na, Bloggers and newspeople, Celebs, Film, Film reviews and comment, Food & Drink, Foreigners in Korea, Fusion music, Geek stuff, History & heritage, Jeju-do, K-pop rock and indie, Koreans in UK, New York, Park Chan-wook, Sport, Twitter Tweets, Western classical music

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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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-04

4 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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DPRK “suspended due to strange activity”. If only it was that easy! @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active. Shame. I was trying to find the New Year Joint Editorial | 8:36 PM Jan 3rd from web
Top 10 ROK Drop Stories of 2009 http://bit.ly/7KiEV6 and ROK Drop’s pick of the decade http://bit.ly/7aYjGm. Good memory refreshers [...]

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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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LKL featured in Weekly Donga

6 December 2009 About LKL
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LKL was featured in a one-page interview in the Donga Weekly dated 1 December 2009. I had a quick email interview with a reporter based in Glasgow about my views on Korean film, Korean food, and the promotion of Korean culture abroad, plus the normal questions about how I got mixed up with Korean stuff [...]

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Recent highlights on LKL

30 November 2009 About LKL
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I hope you don’t mind a bit of trumpet-blowing to thank some new contributors to London Korean Links. Some of them may be one-off, others more long-lasting; all are welcome. Elizabeth Grace covered Stephen Epstein’s recent talk in Cambridge, while Eunjung Shin has written an appreciation of the Moon Jar in the British Museum. Darren [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-11-23

23 November 2009 About LKL
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S. Korea v Serbia at Fulham on Wednesday. With luck, LKL’s sports correspondent Aashish Gadhvi will have access to the Korean team. Yay! #
Four new contributors in one month! Colette on Bong Joon-ho, Elizabeth on Epstein. Soon, Eunjung on art history and Darren on Jejudo. Fab! And let’s not forget another recent joiner, Alud on [...]

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Thanks to VANK, KTO and Samsung: LKL’s blogging prize arrives

14 October 2009 About LKL
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LKL yesterday received its prize in the Blog Korea Visit Korea competition, generously sponsored by Samsung and organised by VANK and the Korean Tourism Organisation. There were 100 winners – 5 first prize winners including New York based Maangchi (awarded an LG X12 Netbook), 15 second prize winners including LKL, and 80 third prize winners [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-12

12 October 2009 About LKL
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Appropriately, Park Chan-wook cast a blood-red shadow as he answered questions after the screening of Thirst yesterday. #
Soju and tornadoes at Corean Chilli with the KAA. This is the way to plan a gig! #
Photo taken with Park Chan-wook. All's right with the world. #
Why do Koreans think it's so macho to drink Soju? Beats [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-10

10 August 2009 Boryeong Mudfest
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Check out Urban Sketchers Seoul. It’s what it says on the tin. Great sketches and watercolours, constantly refreshed: http://bit.ly/rVVyF #
Feeling guilty that I don’t read Anna’s blog enough. Check out Dringe Augh’s track from July’s Music Alliance Pact: http://bit.ly/v6CYl #
Does Epik High have the same language coach as the Wonder Girls? “-t you” ≠ “choo” [...]

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Meet Mr Kim (and LKL) on YTN

7 March 2009 About LKL
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Details of a TV feature on Jennifer Barclay’s book, Meeting Mr Kim

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Celebs, Pit bulls and hairdos

26 January 2009 2008 year-end posts
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A round-up of what people like reading on London Korean Links: a summary of 2008 statistics

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Credit crunch latest: LKL reports record deficit

25 January 2009 2008 year-end posts
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How much does it cost to keep London Korean Links going? This article will tell you.

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Welcome to LKL 4.2

18 September 2008 Geek stuff
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Welcome to LKL 4.2. Regular readers will have noticed the design change I made over the weekend, which I’ve been playing with on my test site for a while.
In the past I’ve consciously kept the LKL front page as boring-looking as possible: when I launch the front page at work I don’t want to be [...]

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Another tweak

19 August 2008 Geek stuff
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So soon after the release of v4, here’s 4.1. My brain has been unable to stop fretting over getting better navigability on this site, including encouraging people to read more than the one article they land on when they google-search for a pic of Super Junior. First came the related post list a few days [...]

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Welcome to LKL v4

17 August 2008 Geek stuff
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It may not look like a big change, but it’s been exercising my mind for a few weeks.
The underlying change is an upgrade of my blog templates to take advantage of all the latest functionality of WP2.6. LKL’s look and feel is based on Scott Wallick’s plaintxt templates. Scott faithfully upgrades his templates to keep [...]

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