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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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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, 2009-08-17

17 August 2009 BoA
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Great Daily Mail piece on the two Korean American journalists recently released by North Korea: http://bit.ly/13N7xN #
RT @kcna_dprk kcna-online-tv: about the real life in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea http://tinyurl.com/mtztrc #
Tonite's Goldsmiths gig: if I'd been playing Beethoven in a bin bag on such a sultry evening, I'd have been stressed too http://bit.ly/jyQ9i #
Unsuk [...]

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Can BoA eat up the U.S. of A.?

18 September 2008 BoA
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Despite the hallyu’s success in Asia, today’s Korean pop stars have yet to make it big in the States. Yes, we’ve seen a Korean or two in a Hollywood film or on Comedy Central, but concerts have been fairly localised, and the high-profile tour by Rain never got off the ground. And we’ve yet to [...]

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LKL celeb of the month #2: BoA

11 May 2008 BoA
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I had been planning on giving Lee Dong-wook the honour of being LKL’s second celeb of the month. But Chinese netizens had other ideas. A massive spike in interest in BoA during the month resulted in certain posts about her getting ten times as many visits as any other page on this blog. So, [...]

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Welcome down my local any day

18 January 2008 BoA
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BoA advertises Hite
A still to go with this current TV commercial:
The rather unrefined drinking mannerism brings to mind the classic Boddingtons commercial from the 1990s:
and while we’re on the subject, the one featuring Melanie Sykes:
Of course, it’s the spokesmodel rather than the product that would be welcome in the local boozer. The general consensus is [...]

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BoA’s aching feet and other celebrity updates

4 May 2007 BoA
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I’m conscious that I haven’t posted any celebrity pics for a while, so here’s an update.

The relentless rise of Kim Yun-jin
MSN’s recognition of Kim Yun-jin isn’t quite the kiss of death that I thought it was going to be. She’s now made it into the Stuff’s top 100 babes. A peculiar computer-enhanced photo of her [...]

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Celebrity news round-up: January 07

9 February 2007 BoA
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Rain, LKL’s man of the year 2006 has started 2007 on a low-note with a speeding ticket in Hong Kong at the start of his gruelling tour. He also underwhelmed one reporter at a Singapore press conference who found him just a little dull. This wasn’t a reflection on his performance on-stage (and I’ve yet [...]

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BoA #5: Girls on top

19 November 2006 BoA
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(2005)

BoA’s 5th Korean album is leagues ahead of her 2nd, (No 1). Since then, she’s worked on her voice, and her managers have hired some decent songwriters and pushed the music in a more international direction.
Let’s get the final track, 가을 편지, out of the way first, as it’s atypical. It comes as a bit [...]

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BoA #2: No.1

18 November 2006 BoA
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(January 2002)

With the emphasis on electronic sounds rather than compositional inspiration, this is not a recommendable album. The robotic drum machine, brainless key shifts and silly noises do not make for engaging listening. BoA’s voice is nothing remarkable, a bit nasal – though not unpleasant. Perhaps the video is worth watching, but I’m not going [...]

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Jeon Ji-hyun’s smooth thighs

24 August 2006 BoA
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As regular visitors to this site will know, once in a while I like to lower the tone with an unnecessary post. This post is one of them.
I’m not sure how the Chosun can tell from looking at the video of the cosmetic commercial in question, but
On stage, [Jeon Ji-hyun] shows off her singing ability [...]

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BoA not quite top of the world pops

7 March 2006 BoA
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Again, I’m a little slow on the uptake, but megastar BoA managed to make it to number 2 in the worldwide pop charts last week with her new Japanese release “Outgrow”. Others are better qualified than me to comment on the workings of the global pop music industry, but the charts seem to be dominated [...]

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