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Environmental protest goes mainstream

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by Philip Gowman on 17 October, 2009

in Earth Alert, Exhibition reviews and comment, KCCUK, Photography

Over the past few years, environmentalists have been protesting about the massive land reclamation project at Saemangeum on the west coast of Korea. As well as being an environmental tragedy, it has also been a minor irritation in UK-ROK relations: prominent among the campaigners have been British naturalists protesting about the scheme’s impact on the [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-09-28

28 September 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Oh dear. I just agreed to do that talk on Korean art in London. They wanted 30 mins but I whittled them down. Now to figure out what to say #
Looking forward to a transatlantic K-blog meetup with @maangchi next week! #
Congratulations to LKL’s favourite jazz singer, Nah Youn Sun, on her upcoming award from [...]

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Why are the Brits such pains?

16 March 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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The Korean press thinks the FT and other British newspapers are negative about Korea.

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The London Korean Links Awards 2007

31 December 2007 2007 year-end posts
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Following the success of last year’s equivalent post here are the winners and losers of the second annual LKL Awards. Again, a personal and unscientific selection.
Man of the Year
Last year there was a clear winner: a man who had been in the press all year with little but positive coverage. This year started promisingly for [...]

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Saemangeum update

14 May 2007 Conservation

Birds Korea and the Australasian Wader Studies Group have just completed part of their monitoring programme of migrating birds at Saemangeum. A key conclusion:
many Great Knot have been displaced by the Saemangeum reclamation, and have subsequently failed to stage through the remainder of the spring at either Gomso Bay or the Geum Estuary — contradicting [...]

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British birdman fights for Korean environment

13 October 2006 Conservation

A recent article in the Hankyoreh, forwarded by Tom Coyner, highlighted another Korean environmental issue which I hadn’t come across before: the destruction of an important mudflat area at Saemangeum on the Byeonsan peninsula on the West of Korea in order to build – well, they’re not quite sure what. But reclaiming 99,000 acres of [...]

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