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LKL 2008 Quiz of the year – the answers

by Philip Gowman on 1 January, 2009

in 2008 year-end posts, Bada, Bae Doo-na, Celebs, Choi Ji-woo, In the news, Inter-Korea etc, Jang Dong-gun, Kim Ji-woon, Lee Byung-hun, Rain, Wonder Girls

LKL’s annual quiz about the year’s events in Korea, including plenty of celebrity trivia.

Tagged as: Best of LKL, Condoms, Ticker

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Bada #3: Made in Sea

29 December 2007 Bada
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(CJ Music, January 2006)

After her lively second album, Bada’s third is a big let-down. Gone are the catchy pop tunes which show off her vocal range and bring a smile to the face. Instead we are faced with a run-of-the-mill R&B and dance collection, which could have been put together by anyone. The voice is [...]

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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

28 August 2007 Bada
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It’s a while since I did a round-up of celebrity news, which means that I’ve almost forgotten all the things I was going to mention, and lost most of the links that I was going to use. So before things get completely out of hand, here’s one of my not-so-regular posts shamelessly plundering the celebrity [...]

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In defence of Bada

13 June 2007 Bada
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Monitoring my traffic statistics recently I noticed that Bada is surging in the popularity rankings. I approve of that, because her second album is my favourite mainstream K-pop album of all time (or, at least, in my rather small collection). So, in my semi-regular round-up of celebrity news and pictures which have caught my eye [...]

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S. Korea’s birth rate inches up

16 May 2007 Bada

Whether it’s the auspicious influence of the year of the Golden Pig, the outcome of Bada’s awareness-raising concert, the result of Shin Dong-jin’s efforts as head of the birth-boosting campaign, or a combination of all the above, Yonhap announces an increase in the birthrate in 2006. KBS gets all technical about the potential astrological reasons:
2006 [...]

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New! Celebrity BlogWatch

28 January 2007 Bada

Knowing that many of you visit my site looking for celebrity coverage, and knowing that I don’t really satisfy your needs, I’ve been thinking about what to do about that.
Also, I know that there’is a lot of English-language blogs out there which cover Asian celebrities, and it is almost a full-time job looking through them [...]

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Rain #1: Bad Guy

11 November 2006 Bada
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Rain’s first album displays his vocal qualities (it’s a good voice), and the range of stuff he’s prepared to sing.
There’s a problem though. The music isn’t really distinctive. The ballads he sings are the sort of ballads which lots of K-pop stars are singing. The same key-shifts, the same use of that infuriating tingly bit [...]

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Bada #2: Aurora

5 November 2006 Bada
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(Released: September 2004)

A ridiculously good album. Pop perfection. This is the sort of unpretentious music which has me bopping around the kitchen as I cook.
If I were to have a criticism, there’s rather too much synthesizer and computer-generated beats – particularly in the numbers produced by the Japanese team – and not enough human intervention. [...]

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Bada and the birthrate

29 July 2006 Bada

I wish I was in Seoul today.
I recently posted about Anna Fifield’s article on Korean family planning, and in particular the government’s plan to spend $30 billion over the next 5 years to try to boost the birthrate.
Here’s a story about how some of that $30 billion is going to be spent: a live gig [...]

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