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Aashish Gadhvi managed to interview two key members of the South Korean world cup squad after the match with Ivory Coast last week: Lee Young-pyo, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur:
and probably Korea’s best known player, Park Ji-sung:
No subtitles this time: both interviews are in English.
This wraps up LKL’s coverage of the South Korea – Ivory Coast [...]

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Ivory Coasted!

4 March 2010 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews South Korea’s resounding 2-0 victory over the Ivory Coast. With photos by Aashish and Saharial.
Have you ever had a dream that was so perfect that the moment you wake up you try your very best to go back to sleep and experience it all over again? Well I had one of those [...]

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South Korea 2 – 0 Ivory Coast: the photos

4 March 2010 Pictures
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Saharial took some great action shots at the international friendly at Loftus Road yesterday. Shame there weren’t more spectators there to see the action:

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Team Korea’s Training Day: the Video

3 March 2010 LKL.tv
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Earlier this week, Aashish Gadhvi joined the South Korean squad at their training day at the Bank of England Sports Club in Roehampton – the only non-Korean journalist present. Here’s his video of the proceedings.
Check out his article, including an interview with Celtic’s Ki Sung-yong, here.

South Korea meet Ivory Coast at Loftus Road this afternoon, [...]

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South Korea’s Training Day in South London

2 March 2010 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi catches up with Team Korea in preparation for Wednesday’s friendly.

The South Korean national football team are back in town folks, and I caught up with our favourite red shirted devils to check out the team on their one day of training here in London. In a leafy and somewhat swanky end of South [...]

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South Korea play Ivory Coast at Loftus Road

28 February 2010 Events news
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South Korea will take on Ivory Coast in a friendly International football fixture at Loftus Road, the home of Queens Park Rangers, on Wednesday 3rd March 2010 – kick-off 2.30pm.
Both nations are keen to bring their football to London to entertain the estimated 20,000 Koreans and 10,000 Ivoriens that live in and around the city.
The [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-01

1 February 2010 Business
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I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? #
Park Ji-sung scores in Man U's 3-1 rout of Arsenal. http://bit.ly/dgCYoK #
President Lee promotes Korean food at Davos (and pays his wife a nice compliment) http://bit.ly/9yiX5u #
A whole month has gone by without an events notice [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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Exclusive interviews with the Korean team

5 December 2009 Interviews and features
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Aashish Gadhvi gets up close and personal with Kim Nam Il and Lee Chung Yong
South Korea were recently in London to play Serbia, and thanks to the help of many people who I am very grateful to, I was able to interview two members of the team. Firstly I just want to say a very [...]

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Are you being Serbed?

21 November 2009 Event reports and reviews
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Aashish Gadhvi reviews Korea v Serbia at Craven Cottage on 18 November

Two years ago Fulham’s Craven Cottage played host to a friendly match on a chilly winter evening between Korea and Greece, which went down a success. The stadium was full of crazy Korean fans singing and chanting throughout the match as Korea walked away [...]

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The curious case of Jong Tae-se

13 November 2009 DPRK
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Aashish Gadhvi analyses the so-called defector in the Northern ranks.

North Korea’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup has brought about many questions in international football. Not least of all, the desire for more information about the team. Most of all, who are these guys? The mystery surrounding the team is pretty much the same level [...]

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World Cup 2010 Qualifiers: A Tale of Two Koreas

29 July 2009 Sport
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by Aashish Gadhvi
World Cup 2010 is just around the corner people, and I for one can’t wait! Another magnificent summer of the beautiful game is only a year away, which means that the first batch of teams have qualified. The way that the Asian Qualifiers are structured means that often the Asian teams are the [...]

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Yeah Seoul! – the FC Seoul theme tune

31 May 2009 LKL.tv
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For those who were disappointed, on reading Ash’s recent corker of an article on Korean Soccer Wars, that they could not find the FC Seoul theme tune on the FC Seoul website, we’ve managed to find a copy of it for your delectation. It’s a catchy little number, complete with lyrics for you to follow.
Enjoy.

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Blue Blood v Red Blood: the K-League 2008 Finals

25 May 2009 Sport
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Aashish Gadhvi dishes up a sporting treat for your Bank Holiday Monday.
Something is a-brewing in the world of K-League football. Think of the great club football rivalries, Man United v Liverpool, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Celtic v Rangers, AC Milan v Inter Milan, Roma v Lazio, Boca Juniors v River Plate, the list goes on! [...]

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KFA 75th Birthday – Top 5 Moments in Korean Football History

8 December 2008 Interviews and features
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Aashish Gadhvi celebrates some of the biggest events in Korean football history

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