It doesn’t seem possible: Kyung-wha Chung has had 40 years in the recording industry. One of her best was the Walton Violin Concerto. After jointly winning a major competition with Pinkas Zukerman, her early concert success was in London, so it’s appropriate that she’s marking the anniversary with a concert with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. Source: … [Read More]
Year: 2010 (page 35)
Biuret to play in Southampton
Good news for K-rock fans near Southampton. Biuret, the overall SUTASI Pan Asian winner 2009, will be performing at The Brook, Sunday March 14th at 9.20pm. They’ve also been invited to perform at the International Live Music Conference in London on 12 March. After their Southampton gig they’re off to Vietnam to perform in Ho … [Read More]
Daytime Drinking screens at the KCC
News of next Thursday’s screening at the KCC. A Korean film expert at Cambridge tells me: “Daytime Drinking is very good. A young person’s film that even old geezers can appreciate, I found.” Film title: Daytime Drinking, 116mins Director: Noh Young-seok Cast: Song Sam-dong Genre: Drama / Comedy Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, The Korean Cultural Centre, … [Read More]
Ivory Coasted!
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 … [Read More]
Debbie Han interviewed in the Korea Times
Good to see a feature on Debbie Han, a regular in the London Korean Art scene, in the Korea Times: # I had a vision, a strong desire to document what was happening in Korea and Asia at this moment, through my own eyes. I grew up in the U.S., and when I came to … [Read More]
South Korea 2 – 0 Ivory Coast: the photos
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: [Read More]
The upcoming wedding of the year
Jang Dong-gun and Ko So-young: enough already. http://bit.ly/8ZI8Kf , http://bit.ly/c6JJhH, and just about everywhere else # [Read More]
Team Korea’s Training Day: the Video
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 … [Read More]
Yeon Lee ‘Re-use Me’ at the Jerwood Space
News of an unusual installation at the Jerwood Space: Yeon Lee: Re-use me (curated by Gyeyeon Park) Project Space, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN Exhibition: 1 March – 6 April 2010 Open: Monday – Friday 9 – 5pm, Saturday 11 – 3pm Admission: Free ‘Re-use me’ is an installation of new work … [Read More]
South Korea’s Training Day in South London
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 … [Read More]
No longer the underdog? The FT talks up Korea
While Kim Yu-na’s victory – now celebrated across every media – still hung in the balance, an unusual article about Korea appeared in the Financial Times. Written by the Asia editor David Pilling, it was distinguishable from most articles about Korea in that a) it did not primarily concern the situation in the North and … [Read More]
March events 2010
Featured events South Korea play the Ivory Coast at QPR football club, 3 March A one-day seminar at SOAS and the British Museum on Korean Court Painting, 29 March Nah Youn Sun, responsible for LKL’s Live Performance of the Year 2009, performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 15 March Exhibitions Kim Yeon’s work will … [Read More]
South Korea play Ivory Coast at Loftus Road
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 … [Read More]
Dating a Korean American woman…
Korean-American girls are tough to date, says You Offend Me You Offend My Family in a great article entitled How To Survive A Date with A Korean American Woman, from August last year. Maybe because Koreans most materialistic people in the world, according to a survey reported in the Chosun Ilbo [Read More]
Why LKL said nothing about Kim Yu-na. Until now.
“Right now the biggest thing in Korea is the Olympic skater Kim Yu-na. It’s a mania for us Koreans,” was a message left via the LKL contact form by a UK-based correspondent, shortly before the free skating element of the women’s figure skating event in the wee small hours this morning. I think I knew … [Read More]
Kim Yu-na’s record-breaking gold
Congratulations to Kim Yu-na on record-breaking gold at Vancouver 2010. According to the BBC: It will go down as one of the greatest performances in figure skating history, and is South Korea’s first medal at the Winter Olympics in a sport other than speed skating. A couple of days ago the Chosun Ilbo was trying … [Read More]