24th AKSE CONFERENCE 17—21 June 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS AND FIRST NOTICE The Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University, will host the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe from 17-21 June, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Leiden, The Netherlands. Submissions in all areas of Korean Studies are welcome. … [Read More]
Month: April 2008 (page 2)
LKL Celeb of the Month #1: Lee Da Hae
The first in a series – we select the celeb who’s come to our attention this month, often driven by the number of times readers have searched for the name. Lee Da Hae (이다해), real name Byun Da-hae (변다해), born April 19, 1984. Best known for her role in My Girl (right), a TV Drama … [Read More]
Become an LKL reviewer and win two free tickets to JUMP!
Yes, free tickets are potentially on offer to the hit martial arts comedy show, JUMP! which returns to the Peacock next week for a three-week run. Here’s the deal. I’m always looking for new talent to join the community of LKL guest contributors. And that includes volunteers to write reviews of particular events. Jump is … [Read More]
Jump Returns to the Peacock
The smash hit martial arts comedy Jump returns to the Peacock for the third year running. Expect lots of fun, virtuoso gymnastic solos, slick coordination, great visual humour and generally a good night out. But if you’re a shy retiring type don’t sit in an aisle seat near the front. Like many Korean stage shows, … [Read More]
Park Jin, man of many faces
From the Korea Times, illustrating an article entitled “Seven Candidates Score Dramatic, Sweet Victories”: Will the real Park Jin step forward? HT to Aidan Foster-Carter. Update: in case you were wondering which one was really Park Jin, the KT has now corrected the captions: [Read More]
Spring, Summer at the KCC
The KCC’s third film screening, on Friday 11 April at 7pm, is Kim Ki-duk’s Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring. From the KCC website: Synopsis Spring, a child monk audaciously stacks rocks on a frog’s back. Summer, a young boy falls in love with a girl who comes to the buddhist monastery to convalesce. … [Read More]
New books for the Spring
Three recent publications: First, a new book in the Korean Spirit and Culture series, produced by the aptly named Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project. This is their fourth, and is the first of two to explore Fifty Wonders of Korea. This volume covers Culture and Art, while the next one will cover Science and … [Read More]
Addicted (중독, 2002) review: love, identity and the aftermath of loss
After a tragic accident leaves one brother brain-dead and the other profoundly changed, Addicted explores whether love can survive death, doubt and fractured identity. Each of the characters becomes an unwilling victim of the love that they choose and each has to question whether to pay the high price which that love requires. [Read More]
I think we’re just about done
So I think I’ve now stabilised things at my new webhost. I can now start thinking about all the improvements I’ve been meaning to try, including: Improving the navigation with drop-down menus to make browsing easier. Maybe people might stay and have a look round once they’ve found their picture of Super Junior. Finding the … [Read More]
Optimise your website. Lose readers. Gain revenue
A lot was going on in LKL during March. I’ve been setting up test blogs on my server; I’ve been testing new plugins; I’ve been exporting my database and reimporting it every which way. I’ve been playing with different versions of WordPress. All this in preparation for the move. I also installed the All-in-one SEO … [Read More]
The LKL move, or, how I moved webhosts, changed my URI, cleaned up my database and upgraded my WordPress installation in ten not very easy steps
… and why I haven’t been posting much content over the past few weeks. It may seem strange to offer a “how-to-move-your-website” article when my own upgrade was less than seamless. Part of my trouble was that I was trying to do several things at once. Move webhost from a shared host to my own … [Read More]
Moving WordPress from a shared host to a VPS
Many of the lessons I learned moving to my new VPS could apply to moving between any shared webhosts. I’ve got a separate post on that here. This post is all about the additional lessons relevant to moving up a step on the webhosting ladder. First, an obvious lesson. It’s scary. In my first attempt, … [Read More]
A feast of Park Chan-wook
I’m a Cyborg, but that’s OK finally gets a UK theatrical release, prior to its release on Tartan DVD at the end of May. The film, which stars hallyu superstar Rain (Jeong Ji-hoon, 정지훈) and Im Soo-jeong (임수정), received its belated London premiere last year at the Korean Film Festival at the Barbican, and returns … [Read More]
Crazy First Love (첫사랑 사수 궐기대회, 2003) review: loud and illogical, unfunny and unromantic
In other hands, Crazy First Love could, perhaps, have been an engaging romantic comedy with some poignant moments but, sadly, what we end up with here is simply a collection of borrowed ideas from other superior movies, nailed together by annoying characters and illogical character motivations. [Read More]
Failan (파이란, 2001) review: an unlikely but poignant love story built on absence
An unconventional romance that rejects clichés by telling a love story between two people who never meet. In every aspect Failan is a ground breaking film, imaginatively conceived and expertly executed. Hollywood could never succeed in making a film which breaks your heart the way Failan does and let’s hope it never tries. [Read More]
Musical intermission
We apologise for the disruption in service. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. In the meanwhile, here’s Jeon Sung-min (Guitar) and Jung Ji-eun (Kayageum): http://londonkoreanlinks.net/wp-content/uploads/audio/Track05.mp3 Sung-min and Ji-eun will also be playing at the Anglo-Korean Society event on 10 April. Book your tickets now. [Read More]