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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-08

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by Philip Gowman on 8 February, 2010

in Bloggers and newspeople, Celebs, DPRK, General book news, Hallyu, Hong Sang-soo, Jang Dong-gun, Kangta, Statistics and league tables, Twitter Tweets, Wonder Girls

I never understand the Korean celebrity system: Jang Dong-gun reveals when it is that he will reveal his wedding plans with Ko So-young. How about spilling the beans now? http://bit.ly/9JCqtB #
Another story demonstrating the popularity of Japanese fiction in Korea: Murakami dislodged from #1 slot after 19 weeks http://bit.ly/cqOrVm #
Bibimbap as funeral food: how not [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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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 is offline [...]

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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 Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-26

26 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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I find I’ve won a prize in a B-boy competition, without even entering. Bet you never knew I was a top popper #
@tawalker A final polish, and another 140 words, and it will probably scrape a 2:2. I've sent it in now. Too late to do anything more. in reply to tawalker #
Don't forget the [...]

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The Indieful ROK MySpace Directory

11 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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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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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-05

5 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Blogging brings many pleasures and privileges. Meeting fellow bloggers is one of them. Nice dinner with @maangchi in NY K-town. #
Aigoo. My favourite CD shop, AM Records in 32nd St, is now a tattoo parlour. And Koryo Books now has even fewer books. New York K-town is going downhill. #
@youneelondon Good luck with the BBC [...]

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A meeting with Maangchi in Manhattan

2 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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It was LKL’s first transatlantic trip for about two years, and I was keen to see what had changed in Manhattan’s Koreatown. In addition, I was keen to meet up with Maangchi, one of the winners of the first prize in the KTO’s Blog Korea, Visit Korea competition. I had been aware of Maangchi’s work [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-09-28

28 September 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Oh dear. I just agreed to do that talk on Korean art in London. They wanted 30 mins but I whittled them down. Now to figure out what to say #
Looking forward to a transatlantic K-blog meetup with @maangchi next week! #
Congratulations to LKL’s favourite jazz singer, Nah Youn Sun, on her upcoming award from [...]

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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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Twitter explodes into the Klogosphere

27 August 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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From nowhere, Twitter has come to be an established part of anyone’s presence on the web. First people used static websites, then it was blogs. In parallel, discussion forums and bulletin boards sprung up. Social networking sites followed, and finally came Twitter, the microblogging platform. All represent different ways to reach and interact with different [...]

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The ambassador’s blog

20 March 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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An introduction to the blog published by Martin Uden, The UK’s ambassador to the Republic of Korea

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Why are the Brits such pains?

16 March 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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The Korean press thinks the FT and other British newspapers are negative about Korea.

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Who’s Who Two

11 February 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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An update on some of the latest blogs about Korea

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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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Farewell, Anna Fifield

9 August 2008 Bloggers and newspeople
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As the world’s attention was focused on Beijing yesterday evening for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, in a small hanok in Bukcheon another celebration was taking place. Anna Fifield, the FT’s Seoul bureau chief, was having a farewell party to mark the end of her four years in the Land of Morning Calm.
I’m told [...]

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