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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-28

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by Philip Gowman on 28 December, 2009

in About LKL, Bloggers and newspeople, Celebs, Film, Food & Drink, Health, Jang Yoon-jeong, Jeollabuk-do, Jeollanam-do, Lee Byung-hun, Photography, Pictures, Statistics and league tables, Twitter Tweets, Yu Hyun-mok

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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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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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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The Euro Journal LKL interview

10 August 2008 About LKL
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Jeon Sung-min recently interviewed LKL’s blogger-in-chief for an article in the Euro Journal. The interview was conducted in English, and he translated it into Korean for publication in the newspaper. Here’s a slightly polished-up transcript of the interview, published with Jeon Sung-min’s kind permission.

Euro Journal: How and when did you get interested in Korea and [...]

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LKL featured in Euro Journal (유로저널)

25 July 2008 About LKL
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I recently had a heavy soju and singing session with Jeon Sung-min (below right), who as well has being one half of a well-known kayageum / guitar duo and nephew of the founder of 해바라기 (Sunflower) is also a feature writer at the Euro Journal (유로저널), a Korean language weekly newspaper distributed in Koreatowns in [...]

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The London Korean Links Facebook Group

16 February 2008 About LKL

Hi all
I’ve recently set up an LKL Facebook group. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it, but obviously it’s a place where you can meet other people who are LKL readers.
One thing I will be using it for, though, is to send out emails with notifications of Korea-related events in London [...]

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The LKL P&L

25 January 2008 2007 year-end posts

As one or two readers will know, in my work like I started, like Daeguowl and Jenny, as an accountant. So here is an entirely non-IFRS-compliant statement of LKL’s activities for 2007.

1 Revenues
As many readers may appreciate, the object of this website is not to make [...]

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Welcome to a new guest contributor

21 July 2007 About LKL

I’d like to thank Susan Pares for stepping into the breach today to report from the opening of the new exhibition of art from the DPRK. I wish I could have been there myself. Thank you, Susan, and also to Jim Hoare for some additional material

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Welcome to another new contributor

18 June 2007 About LKL

I’m very grateful to Jennifer Barclay for joining the ranks of distinguished LKL guest contributors. In what I hope will be the first of many contributions, she’s done a tremendous job of turning around a 1,000+ word article in a couple of hours to bring you a lively account of yesterday’s festival in Trafalgar Square. [...]

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LKL’s first birthday

9 April 2007 About LKL

Well, I’ve been going for slightly longer than a year, but 9 April 2006 was when I first tentatively launched the site on its current WordPress platform. The original idea came to me in early February, and I started writing the permanent pages on 16 February. After a brief trial in my personal webspace which [...]

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