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Pictures

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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The view from above

8 January 2010 Pictures
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Two satellite photos taken of Great Britain and the Korean peninsula in the last couple of days:

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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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Photo Essay: Yin and Yang in Korean Dance

12 December 2009 Dance
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Jo Seong-hee captures Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho in rehearsal with some stunning images. Text by the editor.
In a carefully-planned and stimulating collaboration at Roehampton, Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho presented an evening of balances and contrasts, explicitly referencing Yin and Yang on several layers.
Most obviously, we had a male and a female performer, [...]

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Meeting more Mr Kims: CoolstuffKorea on Cheju Island

27 September 2009 Events news
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Jennifer Barclay, LKL contributor and author of Meeting Mr Kim, has landed herself a dream assignment for the Korean Tourism Organisation: tweet about Korea, travel round Korea, write about Korea on Facebook, generally do things we’d all like to be doing, and maybe earn a little bit of pocket money as well. Nice one, Jen. [...]

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Photos from the Thames Festival

12 September 2009 Event reports and reviews
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It was a perfect day in More London, by Tower Bridge, and the crowds were out in large numbers to enjoy the Thames Festival. The Korean contingent had taken possession of The Scoop for the weekend, and over 70 performers had come over from Korea to entertain the festival-goers.

Reflecting the current marketing push to promote [...]

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Photos from the Festival

22 August 2009 Event reports and reviews
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In the past, there’s always been some reason why I couldn’t get to the Korean Festival in Kingston. This year the way things panned out I could only manage to spend an hour there over lunchtime, but it’s a fun day out.
A tip: there are two reasons not to go there by car. (1) In [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 – reflections

10 August 2009 Pictures
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My quick break in Korea was a bit of a last-minute affair. I seized an opportunity which presented itself – a five-week break between jobs – and I really had no time to plan anything beforehand. Sylvia Park of Park Air Travel (15 Hanover Square, 0207 495 2525) fixed my flights with Korean Air at [...]

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Four Ambassadors – the official photos

4 April 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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Photos from the historic meeting of ambassadors to and from North and South Korea, in the Houses of Parliament

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Happy holidays

24 December 2008 2008 year-end posts
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Some seasonal pictures to give the editor from writing any material over the Christmas period.

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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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Boston Globe’s Big Picture: North Korea

22 September 2008 DPRK
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The Boston Globe website has a section called the Big Picture which has some great images. Last week they posted 32 photos of North Korea. Many of them are from news agencies, taking snaps across the border from China with long lenses, but the core of the collection is from Eric Lafforgue, who has recently [...]

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Official photos from the Dano festival

17 July 2008 Dano 2008
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Justina Jang of the Korean Cultural Promotion Agency, the organisers of the Dano Festival in Trafalgar Square, has kindly sent me some of the official photos of the event, which I have now uploaded to Flickr.

Some good photos of the very entertaining Noridan (above), some great crowd scenes which really convey the atmosphere of the [...]

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More photos from the Square

9 June 2008 Dano 2008
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Here’s a selection of Jennifer Barclay’s pics. Jennifer’s article will be up soon.

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Photos from Trafalgar Square

8 June 2008 Dano 2008
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I seem to have mislaid my camera, and am therefore dependent on my phone for pictures at the moment. Hence the snaps I took in Trafalgar Square this afternoon are very poor.
Please feel free to send in any photos you’re particularly proud of (my email address is philip at this website’s URL), or upload them [...]

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