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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-14

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by Philip Gowman on 14 March, 2010

in BoA, DPRK, Food & Drink, General book news, Hallyu, Koreans elsewhere, Twitter Tweets, VoDs, Younee

BoA is back, with an upcoming Korean album: is she giving up on the US? http://bit.ly/auBVVD Meanwhile, the growth in Korean entertainment exports is slowing: http://bit.ly/8ZHrNU #
RT @GIKorea: New blog post: Have Korean Researchers Discovered Alcohol That Doesn’t Give You A Hangover? http://bit.ly/doANrW 11:17 PM Mar 5th via Twitter Tools
RT @rjkoehler New blog posting, [...]

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Arirang sells French Connection

10 March 2010 Business
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“This is The Woman,” opens a new ad for French Connection. “The Woman of All Women.” The voiceover is rather reminiscent of British children’s TV programming from the 1960’s (Watch with Mother). The footage is in black and white, adding to the slightly dated feel. And in the background, we hear, as if in the [...]

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Aashish interviews Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo

8 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Aashish Gadhvi managed to interview two key members of the South Korean world cup squad after the match with Ivory Coast last week: Lee Young-pyo, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur:
and probably Korea’s best known player, Park Ji-sung:
No subtitles this time: both interviews are in English.
This wraps up LKL’s coverage of the South Korea – Ivory Coast [...]

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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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Biuret to play in Southampton

6 March 2010 Biuret
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Good news for K-rock fans near Southampton. Biuret, the overall SUTASI Pan Asian winner 2009, will be performing at The Brook, Sunday March 14th at 9.20pm. They’ve also been invited to perform at the International Live Music Conference in London on 12 March. After their Southampton gig they’re off to Vietnam to perform in Ho [...]

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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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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-09-21

21 September 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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FT.com / UK – The next big things: The pick of the crop. Korean jewellers take Goldsmiths Fair by storm: http://bit.ly/wcjnE #
Nice to know that the BBC reads the best Korean blogs – their detail on Yoon Bok-hee could only have been sourced from LKL. Korean Kittens covering the Beatles on BBC is worth a [...]

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Stairway to Heaven: over-rated?

5 September 2009 Choi Ji-woo
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Saharial’s first Korea TV drama review – and she has her doubts about one of the most popular ones.
I am a busy gal and simply do NOT have time to waste on a drama that doesn’t push all the right buttons for me. I have been lucky though, that in all this time there have [...]

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Crossfields: Young Korean artists at the KCC

6 August 2009 Crossfields
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Claire O’Connell was among the crowds at the opening of Crossfields: the KCC’s latest show.
This was the launch of “Crossfields”, a new exhibition at the KCC showcasing the work of 23 young Koreans who are all promising artists, architects, illustrators, photographers and designers. All the artists have studied in London at some point and were [...]

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A celebration of food, fashion and music

13 July 2009 Event reports and reviews
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Outside the Banqueting House, two Choson dynasty guards in colourful robes stood to attention to welcome the hundreds of guests. Inside, Han Style and Korean hospitality was waiting. It was in this prestigious venue that the Embassy and Cultural Centre had chosen to launch the Korean food offensive in the UK, in an evening entitled [...]

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Meehyun Ahn at the Wigmore

8 July 2009 Events news
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Notice of a sparkling piano recital by Korean pianist Meehyun Ahn, this Sunday 12 July at the Wigmore Hall at 7:30pm.
Meehyun Ahn (안미현) has been described as one of the leading pianists of her generation “with skilled and artistic excellence” who has been influenced by the traditional Russian school of pianism. Her solid and confident [...]

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Tomi Kita – In Dreamz

4 June 2009 CD reviews
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Review by Saharial
Tomi Kita: In Dreamz
Pony Canyon Records, 2008

Having seen them perform at ‘The Peel’ and the Dano festival last year I succumbed to the temptation of buying the one album available at Yesasia.com. ‘In Dreamz’, released in February 2008, is Tomi Kita’s third album and consists of 14 tracks all composed and written by [...]

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Bichunmoo meets Buffy: Jeon Ji-hyun’s Hollywood debut

16 April 2009 Film
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The gorgeous Jeon Ji-hyun (Gianna Jun) will be coming to the big screen very soon.

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FT hails New Malden parakeets, and other recent London Korean stories

5 February 2009 DPRK
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A round-up of recent London Korea-related stories: SOAS’s Keith Howard featured in the Korean Press, and the FT looks at the Korean community in New Malden

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Kim Kwang Seok – a folk singer still much loved today

12 January 2009 CD reviews
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LKL’s K-pop correspondent enthuses about a popular singer from the 1980s and 1990s

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