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FTA brings new opportunities for British companies in Korea

by Peter Corbishley on 18 March, 2010

in Business, Foreigners in Korea

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Monday 15th March 2010 was the first public UK speech of the new ambassador Choo Kyu Ho, which he made before 150 business people at the launch of the UKTI report “South Korea Open for Business – 100 Opportunities for UK Companies in South Korea following the EU–South Korea Free Trade Agreement.” The agreement, though [...]

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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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Korean pensioners buy in to London

4 February 2010 Business
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At a total cost £1,040.5m, the National Pension Service of South Korea, the fifth biggest pension fund in the world, has bought three properties in London. These are half of a six storey commercial building in Grosvenor place, followed by a tower at 88 Wood Street in the heart of the City. But the [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

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Samsung now the biggest technology company in the world

30 January 2010 Business
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‘All hail Samsung Electronics’ says the Lex column in the Financial Times on the 28th of January. The news (reported fully here) that Samsung Electronics has overtaken Hewlett Packard as the world’s largest technology company may come as a surprise, especially to those who regard Samsung as a poor relation of the erstwhile dominant Japanese [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

9 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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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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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-04

4 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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DPRK “suspended due to strange activity”. If only it was that easy! @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active. Shame. I was trying to find the New Year Joint Editorial | 8:36 PM Jan 3rd from web
Top 10 ROK Drop Stories of 2009 http://bit.ly/7KiEV6 and ROK Drop’s pick of the decade http://bit.ly/7aYjGm. Good memory refreshers [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-07

7 December 2009 Autumn K-film 2009
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FT: Samsung feels the heat from iPhone. http://bit.ly/702azK #
North Korean jeans on sale in Sweden. A snip at $215! The brand name? "NoKo". http://bit.ly/8fc6jI #
AWNtv: Trixter breaks down its vfx work from "Ninja Assassin." (HT – Saharial) http://bit.ly/7VXjAe #
Bong Joon-ho "Mother" Q&A with Tony Rayns: BFI have put an edited version of 14 November's event [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-11-30

30 November 2009 Business
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How weird is this? The curious case of Notts County, their former adviser and a North Korean bigwig | The Guardian http://bit.ly/4HeQGS #
Farewell Ambassador Chun, congrats on the promotion! #
Aiding North Korea defectors: A high-stakes spy mission | LA Times: http://bit.ly/8alWaQ #
Haven't posted any trash for ages: Chosun Ilbo: Girls' Generation Gig Sells Out in [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-11-16

16 November 2009 Autumn K-film 2009
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Insadong Scandal is like Thomas Crown Affair, only slicker and with more twists. Highly recommended #
Don't forget Yu Hyun-mok retrospective tonight, with introduction by Daniel Martin. “Aimless Bullet” one of the best K-films ever. #
Aigoo! Is Yu Hyun-mok the most depressing director ever? I don't want to see any more of his films. Kim's Daughters [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-31

31 August 2009 Business
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Korean designer Choi Min-kyu fixes UK clunky plugs. Cool. http://bit.ly/4kvvIb #
N Koreans labouring in Russia's timber camps: the UK connection, on Newsnight tonight: http://bit.ly/3wAaFJ #
Many hearts broken: Lee Young-ae married http://bit.ly/1HzXO6 #
North Korean loggers in Russia: the full video here http://bit.ly/s6YvM #
Ha Ji-won's Busan accent takes Haeundae over the 10 million mark http://bit.ly/yNbyp [...]

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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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Kaesong: ancient book-keepers, modern traders

30 November 2008 Business
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It was a very tantalising lecture. Dr Lewis and his co-authors had been given jpeg images of 18th-century accounting records from Kaesong by a shadowy intermediary. The agent hoped that having seen some quality goods, representing a very small portion of a set of books and records, the academics would fork out hard cash for [...]

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Capitalism in old Kaesong

26 November 2008 Business
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A report on James Lewis’s lecture on the accounting records of a Choson dynasty merchant

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A week is a long time in … Korean economics

20 October 2008 Business
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By Peter Corbishley
Given the present economic world order, last week was an opportune time for an update on Korean peninsular economics. First Aidan Foster Carter tells BAKS that in August President Lee Myung-bak’s military banned “Bad Samaritans,” by Chang Ha-joon, an economics professor at the University of Cambridge, for being un-Korean. Then on the same [...]

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