LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-05-23

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by Philip Gowman on 23 May, 2010

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Preparing dinner, G&T in hand, listening to Fly to the Sky's "No Limitations". Corny but comforting. # Been listening to the tapes of all the interviews I did in Korea. So much to write up # "A novel of desire and displacement that is brilliantly flawed". Simon Schama reviews Changrae Lee's The Surrendered in the [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-05-16

by Philip Gowman 16 May 2010
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Back in London, and a massive backlog of blogging to do. No time for anything. # Bolton names Lee Chung-yong player of the year, and he's in the Times top 20 rookies of the year: Chosun Ilbo http://bit.ly/bdfGJe # Dazza Muswell: every time I see him play he is their best player! Bulgogi on Harvard's [...]

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Will the Samsung NX10 become LKL’s official camera?

by Philip Gowman 4 April 2010
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In the all-too-distant days of my youth, I had a budget SLR camera with a couple of lenses and a collection of filters, and I like to think that I took a few good snaps with it. Life moves on, and priorities change, and after a while I found that instead of taking the SLR [...]

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Samsung now the biggest technology company in the world

by Matthew Jackson 30 January 2010
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‘All hail Samsung Electronics’ says the Lex column in the Financial Times on the 28th of January. The news (reported fully here) that Samsung Electronics has overtaken Hewlett Packard as the world’s largest technology company may come as a surprise, especially to those who regard Samsung as a poor relation of the erstwhile dominant Japanese [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

by Philip Gowman 9 January 2010
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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, 2010-01-04

by Philip Gowman 4 January 2010
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DPRK “suspended due to strange activity”. If only it was that easy! @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active. Shame. I was trying to find the New Year Joint Editorial | 8:36 PM Jan 3rd from web Top 10 ROK Drop Stories of 2009 http://bit.ly/7KiEV6 and ROK Drop’s pick of the decade http://bit.ly/7aYjGm. Good memory [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-07

by Philip Gowman 7 December 2009
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FT: Samsung feels the heat from iPhone. http://bit.ly/702azK # North Korean jeans on sale in Sweden. A snip at $215! The brand name? "NoKo". http://bit.ly/8fc6jI # AWNtv: Trixter breaks down its vfx work from "Ninja Assassin." (HT – Saharial) http://bit.ly/7VXjAe # Bong Joon-ho "Mother" Q&A with Tony Rayns: BFI have put an edited version of [...]

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Developed Market status and other recent business stories

by Philip Gowman 21 September 2008
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In a week when the most developed market in the world has not particularly covered itself in glory, after years in the waiting room it was announced this week that Korea would be admitted into the FTSE club of developed markets. According to the FT (South Korea wins developed-country status, 18 Sept 2008), this could [...]

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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

by Philip Gowman 28 August 2007
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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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Round-up of recent business stories

by Philip Gowman 10 July 2007

Some recent stories I don’t want to lose. Mercer’s annual cost of living survey for expats has recently been published. Seoul, last year’s number 2, has been pushed to number 3 by London. Moscow stays top of the list. Tokyo is fourth. Korea is also slipping in the GDP rankings. Bank of Korea data shows [...]

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An answer to Samsung’s profit woes

by Philip Gowman 19 April 2007

Samsung recently reported lower than anticipated profits for the first quarter of 2007. “While operating profit came in slightly below market consensus, this shortfall was limited to weaker than expected performance in the semiconductor business,” said Lee Keonhyok of Samsung’s investor relations department in a telephone conference call. “While not making any excuses, it’s fair [...]

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The London Korean Links Awards 2006

by Philip Gowman 31 December 2006
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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 [...]

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Samsung chief visits his favourite football club

by Philip Gowman 6 October 2006

The boss was over from Korea, so there was a Samsung management team outing to see Chelsea draw 1-1 with Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge last Saturday, according to the JoongAng Daily. Lee Kun-hee used the occasion to compare a successful business with a successful football club. “The premier league is where the best athletes [...]

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Celeb news digest

by Philip Gowman 1 October 2006

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, [...]

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Samsung’s $800 million apology

by Philip Gowman 18 August 2006

A recent editorial in the Chosun talked about the donation of 800 billion won by the Samsung Group, in penance for past avoidance of inheritance tax, and makes for an interesting read. Here’s an extract: After the Samsung Group in May handed the Education Ministry a W800-billion (US$1=W965) scholarship fund, the foundation’s entire board resigned [...]

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