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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

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by Philip Gowman on 1 February, 2010

in Business, Celebs, Food & Drink, General book news, Humour, In the news, KCCUK, Lee Byung-hun, Motoring, Photography, Politics, Sport, Tabloid, Twitter Tweets

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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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, 2009-12-28

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, 2009-08-24

24 August 2009 Bong Joon-ho
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Congratulations to Yang Yong-eun on winning the US PGA golf championship http://bit.ly/2Jw6M #. “It’s not like you’re in an octagon where you’re fighting against Tiger and he’s going to bite you, or swing at you with his 9-iron,” Yang said through an interpreter. “The worst that I could do was just lose to Tiger. So [...]

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LKL 2008 Quiz of the year – the answers

1 January 2009 2008 year-end posts
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LKL’s annual quiz about the year’s events in Korea, including plenty of celebrity trivia.

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Lee Byung-hun on being the bad guy

11 November 2008 Autumn K-Film 2008
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A report on Lee Byung-hun’s visit to London, including the Q and A session with Tony Rayns.

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Stars launch Korean Film Festival

8 November 2008 Autumn K-Film 2008
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Kim Ji-woon and Lee Byung-hun were brought to London to introduce the flagship film of the festival, The Good the Bad and the Weird.

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Rain 8 – Colbert 4 (Cowell 6)

14 February 2008 Celebs
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Devoted followers of Korean popular culture will remember the Rain v Colbert battle in Time magazine last year.
The much smaller population of devoted LKL readers will remember that I did a straw poll of my US co-workers last year: how many out of an unrepresentative sample of US bank regulatory specialists had heard of the [...]

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