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Ninja Assassin: Could Stephen Colbert do this?

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by Philip Gowman on 21 January, 2010

in Events news, Film, Rain

Yes, it’s the UK release of Ninja Assassin, starring Colbert’s nemesis, Rain.
Hollywood.com gave it 1 out of 10. “It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a decent ninja flick,” starts the review, before explaining why it is that we’re still waiting. But the review is reasonably complementary about Rain, reserving its main criticism for [...]

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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 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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Post-olympics celebrity and trivia round-up

31 August 2008 Celebs
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It’s been so long since I did a round-up of celebrity news, and nowadays my knowledge of what’s hot in the celebrity world is derived from looking at my site’s statistics where I can identify the google search terms which have landing people on my blog. [1] So here is a collection of random stories [...]

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Easter celebrity round-up

22 March 2008 Celebs
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It’s been a while since I rounded up some of the celebrity news as an excuse for posting some pictures, so here’s some recent items:
First – Brits with Korean connections:
Korea Beat has a translation of an interview with David Beckham, recently in Korea with LA Galaxy

Kate Moss gets an advertising contract with Korean fashion brand [...]

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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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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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The beauty of particular body parts

6 August 2007 Beauty
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Browsing through the celebrity rags the other day I came across a report of a survey which struck me as rather distasteful: the actress with the most beautiful chest. I’m not sure why it struck me as distasteful, seeing as in the UK we have a light-hearted annual survey as to which female celebrity has [...]

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How many Koreans have never heard of Rain?

20 July 2007 Celebs
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I don’t know the answer to that question. Maybe a reader can help. But seeing as I’m over in the States visiting my US co-workers right now, I thought I’d do a bit of market research.
We had a team-building dinner yesterday. And on an impulse, I asked the person sitting next to me: so how [...]

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Stateside celeb update

23 May 2007 Celebs
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Avid blogwatchers will find this particular post surplus to requirements. This post is for my own benefit, just in case I lose the various links which are hot at the moment but which may soon cool off.
Rain’s ongoing efforts to achieve the unprecedented feat of winning LKL Man of the Year two years running continue, [...]

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Park’s gong

27 February 2007 Film

So what exactly is the Alfred Bauer prize? We know that Park Chan-wook was awarded it at the recent Berlin Film Festival for I’m a Cyborg, because there’s this picture on the BBC website to prove it. Yet you read the various blogs and news websites and you get the impression that the prize is [...]

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Cyborg in Berlin

11 February 2007 Celebs

For a youtube of Rain at the Berlin film festival, visit PopSeoul. Just for once, he’s sporting a sensible hairstyle. But I didn’t realise he was so tall (or, alternatively, Park Chan-wook so short).

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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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A date with Rain? I’d rather have my hair done

7 January 2007 2006 year-end posts

“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, [...]

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The London Korean Links Awards 2006

31 December 2006 2006 year-end posts
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In the year-end spirit of reviewing the highlights and lowlights of 2006, here are the winners of the first LKL Awards – a personal and unscientific selection. The awards are in the following categories:

Man of the Year
Woman of the Year
Best cultural promotion: Briton in Korea
Best cultural promotion: Korean in Britain
Best cultural promotion: Non-Korean in Britain
Best [...]

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