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A belated look back at 2009

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by Philip Gowman on 9 January, 2010

in 2009 year-end posts, BoA, Business, Celebs, Conservation, Film, Food & Drink, Hallyu, History & heritage, Jeon Ji-hyun, K-pop rock and indie, Korea Sparkling, Lee Byung-hun, Rain, Wonder Girls, Younee

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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Tagged as: Entertainment industry, Financial Regulation, Hanok, Suicide, UNESCO

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-04

4 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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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 @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active.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 refreshers [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-12-28

28 December 2009 About LKL
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Top 10 Reasons We Can’t Wait to Close 2009: A gloomy look at the past 12 months in the Korea Times http://bit.ly/7kctSh. 6:44 PM Dec 22nd from bit.ly
Just watched Haeundae on R2 DVD. What was the fuss about? Dull, dull, dull. Maybe the domestic cut was better (17 mins longer). 9:14 PM [...]

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Roh Moo Hyun RIP

24 May 2009 In the news
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One of the sad things about ex-President Roh’s death is the lack of news coverage it has received in the UK. The sad event was on Saturday morning 23 May, Korea time. Reuters, with the advantage of the date line on their side, managed a 22 May report. To their credit, the BBC has had [...]

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Sleepless in Seoul

6 May 2009 In the news
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The French spend more time sleeping than anyone else in OECD countries. They also devote more time to eating than anyone else and nearly double that of Americans, Canadians or Mexicans. The Japanese sleep nearly an hour less every night than the French and also spend longer at work and commuting than they do indulging [...]

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Things that just make me so sad

4 October 2008 Celebs
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By Saharial
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me, even as a distant overseas observer of the Korean Entertainment industry, that something is going seriously wrong. This morning seemed to sum up far too many of the ills for, when I woke up, the news had broken that there had been yet another suicide, making 2008 [...]

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Suicide Notes

28 November 2007 Korean literature in translation
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Kim Young-ha: I have the right to destroy myself
Originally published 1996
Translation by Kim Chi-young, Harcourt, 2007

An entertaining book to read, but somehow difficult to distill and digest. The narrator, who makes a macabre living as a self-employed suicide counselor, bizarrely seeks out clients whose exits he facilitates. A small and eccentric cast of characters [...]

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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

28 August 2007 Bada
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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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Korea has OECD’s top suicide rate

2 October 2006 Lee Eun-ju

Korea’s National Statistics Office recent report was picked up by Yonhap and the Chosun.
“The high suicide rate in South Korea seems to reflect a surge in social conflicts, including feuds between the sexes, economic hardship and domestic violence,” an NSO official said
according to Yonhap. The Chosun article focuses on the “prolonged economic slump and loss [...]

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