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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-07

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by Philip Gowman on 7 March, 2010

in Celebs, DPRK, General academia, Girls Generation, Han, Debbie, Humour, Jang Dong-gun, Jang Yoon-jeong, KAAUK, Kim Yu-na, Ko So-young, Lee Eun-ju, Nah Youn Sun, Statistics and league tables, Super Junior, TVXQ, Twitter Tweets, VoDs

Girls Generation latest album “Oh!” gets a trashing in the JoongAng Ilbo: http://bit.ly/cdKGL5 10:28 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

TchmilFan: @lklinks You can even get SNSD/Girls Gen “Oh!” on iTunes UK now! http://bit.ly/cVOel7 (Look out for the Oh! areia remix on youtube) 1:28 PM Feb 23rd via Seesmic

You thought Korea [...]

Tagged as: Chung Kyung-wha, Financial Regulation, Plastic surgery

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-22

22 February 2010 Film
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Kick a man when he’s down: steal his shoes from the funeral parlour. Sole searching in the JoongAng Daily http://bit.ly/adnzyI #
Biggest mass wedding in a decade: 14,000 are spliced in Unification Church ceremony: http://bit.ly/bFouGw #
New Product Approval Bill expected to be passed 26 Feb. Unnecessary intervention or saving bankers from themselves? http://bit.ly/c9Mk2s #
Good interview with [...]

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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 Weekly Tweets, 2009-11-30

30 November 2009 Business
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How weird is this? The curious case of Notts County, their former adviser and a North Korean bigwig | The Guardian http://bit.ly/4HeQGS #
Farewell Ambassador Chun, congrats on the promotion! #
Aiding North Korea defectors: A high-stakes spy mission | LA Times: http://bit.ly/8alWaQ #
Haven't posted any trash for ages: Chosun Ilbo: Girls' Generation Gig Sells Out in [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-09-07

7 September 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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A first look at the monster from The Host 2 (prequel): looks like a comedy. Fortunately, nothing to do with Bong Joon-ho http://bit.ly/pnNAf #
Chelsea MA show PV a real struggle. A map would have been nice for starters, and best to bring your own beer to avoid the Q and the rain. #
Myungga was on [...]

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The financial sector as engine for growth

31 May 2008 Business
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There was no hope of applying the Chatham House rule at yesterday’s talk by HE Dr Jun Kwang-woo, chairman of Korea’s Financial Services Commission. With two TV cameras and numerous digital recorders on show, this meeting was firmly on the record.
Reflecting the more formal nature of this meeting, Dr Jun spoke from a prepared text, [...]

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Top banking watchdog in town. You too can quiz him

27 May 2008 Business

Dr Jun Kwang Woo, the Chairman of the Korean Financial Services Commission, is in Paris and London this week for a range of meetings, including the UK finance minister and the FSA.
He will also be speaking to the Korea Discussion Group at Chatham House on Friday afternoon at 4pm. His subject is Korea’s responses to [...]

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Chaebols owning banks: should we be concerned?

15 March 2008 Business

One of the ideas to surface in the run-up to the Korean elections was that chaebols should once more be permitted to invest in banks. The proposed revision in policy prompted KBS to try to do a brief survey of practices in various markets in relation to rules regarding ownership of banks by non-bank companies. [...]

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KEB blow by blow

23 August 2007 ...blow by blow

Reports of HSBC’s renewed interest in KEB have given me the impetus to resurrect a post which has been work-in-progress for a while. I’ve been periodically trying to google back in time to reconstruct the whole KEB saga, and yesterday’s FT coverage gave a very useful framework on which to build.
So here is another of [...]

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A regulatory nerd picks apart a Hankyoreh article

11 October 2006 Business

An interesting article (at least for that tiny population of amateur Koryologists whose day job involves bank regulatory capital ratios) in the Hankyoreh about Kookmin’s acquisition of Korea Exchange Bank. As usual though, one gets frustrated reading stories written by people who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about and which are not properly [...]

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Korea and foreign investment

30 March 2006 Business

Standard Chartered Bank chairman Brian Sanderson, in a recent meeting with Roh Moo-hyun, said SCB’s experience in Korea had been positive so far. It will be remembered that SCB bought Korea First Bank, South Korea’s eight-largest lender, from US private equity firm Newbridge Capital and the Korean government for around $3.2bn a year ago, sneaking [...]

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