Keyword index: welcome to LKL’s taxonomy archive

Want to find something on this site? Here’s a good place to start.

Below are all the keywords / tags we use on LKL, bucketed together into groups. The tags are sorted alphabetically within those groups. Names, both Korean and Western, are generally listed with their family name first.

The groupings are set out in the table below. Click on the taxonomy title to jump to the detailed listing lower down the page. Given that there are getting on for 4,000 keywords on this page, you might want to check out the lists of most popular keywords (artists, musicians etc) here.

You might also want to review the LKL Topic Index for more generic taxonomies.

Taxonomy title	Description
The people who feature in our posts
Artists	visual artists past and present, plus designers and architects
Directors	directors of movies, documentaries, animations and dramas
Musicians	classical and gugak performers, rock and pop groups, singers, composers. If you’re looking for your favourite K-pop star here, you might instead find them under Everyone Else
People in history	figures from the past: monarchs, scholars and other people you find in the history books.
Writers	novelists, poets, playwrights, scholars, critics, historians and other writers. Also, the translators who bring us their work in English, and the related publishers
Everyone else	celebrities, actors, dancers, sportsmen and women, and everyone else. If you can’t find a celeb in this list, it may be because they are included under Musicians, Artists or Directors
Culture, heritage and other things we write about
Events + Exhibitions	notices and reviews of some, but not all, events or exhibitions we have covered
Festivals	articles relating to annually recurring film, arts, design or other festivals.
Intangible Cultural Heritage	art forms, crafts and other items of intangible cultural heritage registered at National or Provincial level.
Performance groups	Theatrical and dance companies.
Temples	Buddhist temples and hermitages
Titles	titles of books, plays or films
UNESCO Heritage	items of tangible and intangible heritage that the Koreas have registered with UNESCO
Other taxonomies
Companies, organisations and societies	Korean chaebol and SMEs, and Western companies with Korean connections. Also organisations and societies who may be involved in organising events which we follow, but which don’t have a physical presence where they host such events.
Venues	galleries, museums and other venues for events that we report on
Places	cities and provinces in Korea, or indeed places elsewhere. Given the remit of this site, where so many articles are London-based, we haven’t bothered creating a “London” tag
Post series	Collections of posts on a particular theme
Other post tags	everything else – a pretty random collection of keywords