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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-06-06

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by Philip Gowman on 6 June, 2010

in Celebs,Events news,Food & Drink,Horticulture,K-pop rock and indie,Language,Sport,Twitter Tweets,VoDs

The History of Taste: Korean philatelist wins London expo prize for stamp collection showing development of epicurism. http://bit.ly/bVlObu # For those, such as me, who have doubted Korea's gardening pedigree, this article is well worth a read. Nice pics too. http://bit.ly/9jFO2f # UK's intelligent music mag The Wire features the experimental / improv scene in [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-04-25

by Philip Gowman 25 April 2010
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Will the 30 April Indieful RoK / LKL meetup in Seoul happen? IRoK 18 April: Growing more concerned over Eyjafjallajökull for every day. That ash cloud better be gone by Thursday. LKL 18 April: I’m equally concerned. I’m almost resigned to not getting to Korea this time IRok 19 April: Newspapers here are saying things’ll [...]

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Tablo interviewed by CNN

by Saharial 23 April 2010
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by Saharial The dark jumper and checked shirt might not be the average wear by hip hop artistes, but then Tablo of the group Epik High is not your average hip hop star. Well spoken, Stanford educated, he was interviewed on a number of topics by CNN earlier this week including the censorship of his [...]

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Concert review: The Rock and Jazz sides of Younee

by Philip Gowman 18 April 2010
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LKL reports from Younee’s two recent London gigs: The Rock Side of Younee a the 100 Club, 7 April; and Younee with Alex Hutton at the Steinway Piano Festival at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, 17 April 2010. Younee is in London to show off the many sides to her musicianship. As a classically [...]

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A meeting with Noeazy

by Anna Lindgren 14 April 2010
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Anna Lindgren of Indieful ROK meets with the up and coming Korean metalcore band Noeazy One of my very first evenings in Seoul, I found myself at Club FF checking out a bunch of hardcore bands. Although I had a pretty good idea of what the roster would treat me to, one band in particular [...]

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The Korean Music Awards

by Philip Gowman 5 April 2010
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The winners of the Korean Music Awards were announced on 30 March. Anna over at Indieful ROK has the complete list. A couple of the winning acts were highlighted by LKL contributors as leading lights of 2009. First, Anna herself voted Apollo 18′s Red Album as her Album of the Year: “the most amazing post-rock [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-04-04

by Philip Gowman 4 April 2010
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A touching profile of a Vietnamese UK adoptee (adopted during the Vietnam War) returning to her native country: BBC. http://bit.ly/bZrFzl # Did DPRK underwater suicide bomber sink South Korean naval vessel? (Chosun) Defector testimony is sometimes suspect. http://bit.ly/dslhxz # Perk up your boring business meetings: hold them in a royal palace. Changdeokgung room for hire. [...]

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The many sides of Younee

by Philip Gowman 24 March 2010
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Younee is back in the UK for a punishing schedule of live gigs, radio interviews and broadcasts. LKL is her first interview, two days after landing at Heathrow. We meet, together with her manager, Anthony Steinberg, at the now familiar rooftop bar at the St George’s Hotel, next to All Soul’s Langham Place. Last time [...]

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Younee returns for her second UK tour

by Philip Gowman 15 March 2010
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After the success of her 2009 UK tour, Younee is back for two months and a series of concerts. LKL will be meeting her this week to talk about her plans. In the meanwhile, here are some dates for your diaries: 19 Mar 2010 20:15 BBC Three Counties Radio ‘Sue Marchant Programme’ Cambridge 26 Mar [...]

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A meeting with Biuret

by Philip Gowman 13 March 2010
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LKL meets the energetic Korean rock band Biuret, the overall winners of Sutasi 2009, during their brief visit to London. I’ve come to the Royal Garden Hotel overlooking Kensington Gardens to meet Biuret, one of the latest Korean bands to win international recognition. The foyer is packed with music industry types, because this is the [...]

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Biuret to play in Southampton

by Philip Gowman 6 March 2010
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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, 2010-01-25

by Philip Gowman 25 January 2010
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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 [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

by Philip Gowman 9 January 2010
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For the past 3 years LKL has concocted a quiz of the year as a way of gathering together some of the news stories which have most caught our eye. This year, as I came to draw up the list in mid December I found it hard to think of anything amusing or diverting: most [...]

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The Indieful ROK MySpace Directory

by Philip Gowman 11 October 2009
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Anna over at Indieful ROK has done us all a great service. Ever wanted to explore new Korean indie music? Never figured out how lastFM works? MySpace is a good place to sample new music for free. The problem is, where are all the cool Korean musicians? In the course of her blogging on Korean [...]

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Yoon Bok-hee comes to Kingston

by Philip Gowman 13 June 2009
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Koreans seem to keep some of their favourite stars well hidden from the West. Google singer Yoon Bok-hee in English, and you don’t find much. The Kpopwiki is able to provide a discography but no biography, while the occasional article in the Korea Times mention her only in passing: recently for performing the role of [...]

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