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Lee Eon-jeong can’t seem to escape her past

15-Jul-07

Lee Eon-jeong can’t seem to escape her past

I've noticed that every six months or so, a 3-year old article in the Chosun gets into the list of the Chosun's top five most-read stories. And that article has been in the ascendant this last week or so. The article in question is the one which started off as an innocent enough piece about the return home of Lee Sabi (real name Lee Eon-jeong), Korea's first Playboy model. But at some later date someone pasted some Playboy pictures on top of the article, obscuring some of the text. Although the pictures are nudes, the naughty bits are covered, otherwise I'm sure the Chosun would take action -- but right now it's generating the traffic for them, so why change anything? ...
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April Statistics

08-May-07
Search terms The natural order of things was restored in April, with Lee Sabi back as easily the most popular search term. BoA's Nike contract is slipping down the rankings. Rain and Baek Ji-young are number two and three. In March the wildcard search term was the Monochrome Movement. This month it seems that a teacher somewhere has set his students to write an essay on the story of Blind Man Shim and his filial daughter - the pansori tale which features so prominently in Im Kwon-taek's Sopyonje. At one point this month the Shimchong-ga was even more popular than Lee Sabi. I hope that visitors went off and bought this book, which is well worth a read. Cheju-do's Love Land is still ...
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March statistics

10-Apr-07
The Move Another objective for the year ticked off: March saw the successful move from EasySpace to Bluehost. No thanks to EZsitemove.com. They came recommended by Bluehost as people who could help move your stuff over. I thought it would be a nice insurance policy to have some outside help in case anything went wrong, but it was a big mistake. If you want the full gory details, email me, but briefly stated, I did all the work and they did nothing, and they refused to answer my support calls. And they charged me the move fee even though they hadn't sorted out the final bug which I had reported to them. So if you're moving websites, don't use EZsitemove.com. Still, thus ...
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Photos keep celebs in the news

26-Mar-07
Our lives would be so much more drab without the occasional celebrity pic to cheer us up. So thanks are due to the paparazzi, the lads mags, the celebrity bloggers and, not least, the celebs' own PR teams, for adding spice to our daily fare. Here's some recent and not-so-recent pics. 1 Kim Yun-jin: Spot the difference Kim Jun-jin's photos from Arena last year have been recycled into March's Maxim magazine. I hope she got the fee twice over. I must say that she looks more comfortable in Maxim. Given the fact that photographers seem to think that models look better if they're put in a wind tunnel, the blue tones on the Arena cover make you think she's going to ...
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January statistics

04-Feb-07
It's the end of January and I've already hit some of my objectives for the year. From here the only way is down. So what happened in January? A link from the Marmot, firstly in a post following that Korea Times piece, and now I've made it into his blogroll. Visitor numbers were looking good following the interest over my LKL Awards post, occasionally hitting the high 900s per day. They then tailed off. Then suddenly, 1,024 visits on 24 January, coinciding with the first post by -- a new occasional contributor (another objective for the year), Peter Corbishley. What caused the visitor spike? Maybe it was Peter's account of the Korean Business Reception hosted by Red Ken; maybe it was a swarm of ...
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More 2006 statistics: theme parks and military thighs

10-Jan-07
First, some boring stuff December was a record month for advertising revenue: the princely sum of $11.17, making my life-to-date total $24.32. But if it stays at December's levels I'll be happy: that more than pays for webhosting. And something I get lots of, and wish I got less: my life-to-date spam comment count (as of the time of writing) is a staggering 34,000 Now this For those not hunting for celebrity news, or details of bookshops or restaurants in London, a very popular generator of traffic in 2006 was Chejudo Love Land theme park (100 visits to my site). The most work-safe image is above (credit: Matthias Streitz at Der Spiegl). There are links to less work-safe images in my original post here. Less ...
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A date with Rain? I’d rather have my hair done

07-Jan-07
"Sorry, I'm washing my hair that night" is the familiar put-down you get when the girl of your dreams doesn't fancy a date with you. But it's also true of LKL visitors. They're much more interested in finding the best Korean hairdressers in London, or reading about the techniques involved in a "Magic Straight" perm, than in perusing articles about the biggest male celebrity in Korea (and LKL Man of the Year 2006). I've been trawling the site statistics for the second half of 2006, and here are some of the shock facts: Lee Sabi continues to be the most popular Korean in the known universe (or at least on my site) In the battle of the Samsung babes, Hyolee is twice as ...
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Of Ostriches and Royal Warrants

18-Dec-06

Of Ostriches and Royal Warrants

Why is it newsworthy to call someone an ostrich? The obvious answer, particularly when the person who's being called an ostrich agrees, is that it isn't. But when it's heart-throb Jung Woo Sung calling TV soap princess Kim Tae-hee an ostrich, it's an excuse to publish their photos and mention their upcoming film "Joongchun" or "Midheaven", in which Jung plays an exorcist and Lee his phantom love interest. The Chosun duly obliged, and so shall I: And in another article this week the Chosun highlighted the number of models who are making it as TV actresses. Cue another opportunity to show some nice pictures. The model actresses concerned are Kim Seon-ah, Song Seon-Mi, Han Go-eun, Han Ye-seul, Han Ji-hye, Hyun Young, ...
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Celeb news digest

01-Oct-06
By way of a Sunday colour supplement, here's a quick catch-up on some of the celeb news. In a sure sign that her modeling career is coming to an end, Lee Sabi (left) is now doing diet videos, which are selling like hot cakes in Japan. Cashing in on the success of Dae Jang Geum, another period costume drama is being made, featuring Ha Ji-won (right) as the kisaeng Hwang Jin-i. Ha finds the heavy wigs a pain in the neck. To keep up her strength, she is eating eels, which are believed to be good for stamina. Zhang Ziyi (left) has made a commercial for what appears to be Korean mineral water. She didn't need to learn many lines for it. You ...
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Couldn’t resist a Lee Sabi post

29-Jan-04
Some pics of Korea's Playboy model are available in the Chosun. Except that it looks like some hackers have put in some racier pics than the Chosun intended. Bitmaps rather than the usual jpegs, and they cover up some of the links... Anyway, here's some links to some more Lee Sabi pics in the Chosun: here and here. A sample is below. Links: Lee Eon-jeong can't seem to escape her past, LKL 15 July 2007 Related posts:Lee Eon-jeong can’t seem to escape her past I’ve noticed that every six months or so, a 3-year...Photos keep celebs in the news Our lives would be so much more drab without the...An unnecessary post, but it will brighten your day An excuse for a picture of Jeon ...
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