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Lee Young-ae

LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-31

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by Philip Gowman on 31 August, 2009

in Business, DPRK, Design, Food & Drink, Foreigners in Korea, Ha Ji-won, KCCUK, Koreans in UK, Lee Young-ae, Restaurants, Twitter Tweets

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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Inshalla – Detente in the Desert

19 December 2008 Film reviews and comment
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A discussion of the first film featuring one of Korea’s most popular actresses, Lee Young-ae. Set in North Africa, the film was a failure.

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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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The redemptive power of Lee Young-ae

13 January 2008 Humour

As we all know, Jewel in the Palace is a hit in many countries. It’s watched all around the world. Including in Indian jails.
A convict in India has sent a letter of gratitude to a top Korean network for airing the historical drama “Jewel in the Palace,” or “Daejanggeum” in Korean.
Narendra Kumar Sharma, an inmate [...]

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Some Lee Young-ae videos

22 December 2007 Lee Young-ae

I’ve been feeling guilty about not meeting the needs of all those people who come to this site looking for articles about the lovely Lee Young-ae and not finding very much.
Having done a few searches on YouTube I’m amazed at the dedication of fans who create tributes to their favourite star. Here’s a small selection [...]

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Chuseok at the BM — part sprint, part marathon

26 September 2007 British Museum
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It is a commonplace observation that Korea is caught between two larger neighbours. Similarly, in marketing terms, the Korean events at the British Museum last Saturday were dwarfed by the blitzkrieg advertising for the Chinese “First Emperor” and the Japanese modern design exhibitions, both also at the British Museum at the same time. But although [...]

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Some pictures of Insadong

23 January 2007 B-boys

As I’ve been on a plane for what feels like the last 24 hours, a lazy post today.
Insadong on a Sunday morning, before it gets busy:

One of the products for sale:

Question: If the diary is designed for the Japanese market, why is the writing in English?
And a British style icon somehow perching on a slanting [...]

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Alternative takes on Independence Day

17 August 2006 Bloggers and newspeople

The Chosun provides some interesting alternative takes on Independence Day. It’s not just the day that Koizumi visited the Yasukuni shrine again, or when Koreans held anti-American demonstrations.
First, the event was marked in Japan, as it has for the past 16 years, by a “Concert for Peace” given by the Tokyo Phil, this year conducted [...]

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Celeb watch

10 May 2006 Celebs

A couple of items from today’s Chosun which I didn’t want to lose:
(1) Lee Young-ae’s Japanese fans tell her she looks as if she’s 61 years old
(2) Rain confirmed in Time 100 as one of the world’s most influential entertainers. The KBS site has a rather more fetching photo of the star (right). Celebrity is [...]

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