Why does this not surprise me one iota? Via allkpop: Rigged music charts shock the industry, as an administrator for a broadcasting station is charged with manipulating their music chart. http://bit.ly/ru7zlC # [Read More]
Month: July 2011 (page 2)
Hada Contemporary Summer Show 2011
News of an upcoming group exhibition featuring five young Korean artists: Hada Contemporary downstairs at Albermarle Gallery. Meanwhile upstairs at the Albemarle is their annual Summer Collective which includes Korean artists and Albemarle regulars Kim Yeon and Lee Jaehyo. Hada Contemporary Summer Show 2011 Kim Hyuenjun | Lee Horyon | Park Jihye | Yoon Byungwoon … [Read More]
Another K-pop flashmob in London
Will there be another Trafalgar Square flashmob on 30 July? Dreamstage Korea: Global Flashmob Day http://on.fb.me/qdjZQc # [Read More]
Hyori’s former composer pays up for plagiarism
Lee Hyori’s former composer Bahnus ordered to pay Mnet $255,000 for H.Logic plagiarized material – 10 times what he got paid for the songs (via @AllKpop) [Read More]
The Changdeokgung’s Injeong Hall – Welcome to the Rock Show!
When I visited Changdeok Palace in Seoul, my attention was naturally focussed mainly on the buildings themselves. One of these buildings is the Injeong Hall (Injeongjeon), which was used for important celebrations and ceremonies. The unassuming forecourt one walks through to enter the hall was been designed with great care, but for the unsuspecting observer … [Read More]
Soon Yul Kang at Art in Action 2011
Soon Yul Kang demonstrates her tapestry weaving techniques and exhibits her hand woven tapestries at Art in Action, 21-24 July 2011. She will be showing her own unique style of weaving which is based on subtlety of colour. Her solo exhibition at the Artspace gallery in Maddox Street was on LKL’s shortlist of notable exhibitions … [Read More]
Not drugs, but musk deer medicine, say North Koreans
Five North Korean players have now tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid at the Women’s World Cup in Germany. The excuse: they were treated with traditional medicine from musk deer glands to treat injuries from a lightning strike. You couldn’t make it up. The last doping case at a World Cup was when Diego … [Read More]
The Beauty of Traditional Korean Furniture at Gallery Han
News of an exhibition coming up later on this week down in New Malden, which is an interesting counterpoint to the current A Room exhibition at the KCC in the centre of town: Gallery Han Summer Exhibition The Beauty of Traditional Korean Furniture 21 – 27 July Korea was generally known as the “Hermit Kingdom” … [Read More]
Debut novel from Samuel Park
Korean American author Samuel Park debuts with This Burns My Heart – a love story set in post-war Korea. Out now. #. There’s a nice interview feature with him in Good Reads. [Read More]
North Korean Defectors Flock to U.K.
James Bond 007 lures DPRK defectors to UK – that and the favourable regime for asylum seekers http://bit.ly/oob3f6 #. 581 North Korean defectors have been given asylum in the United Kingdom, says the Chosun Ilbo. [Read More]
OK, you CAN get good food in 32nd Street
When I travel abroad, if I have the opportunity I’ll usually try out the quality of the local Korean restaurants. Often, as when I was in Germany in May, the Korean menus are easier to understand than those in the local restaurants, and I’m always on the look-out for opportunities to initiate colleagues into the … [Read More]
Francesca Cho in Dolphin Square group show
News of an upcoming group exhibition featuring a former chairman of the Korean Artists Association: Hidden behind the walls of the beautiful 1930s apartments of Dolphin Square in Pimlico lies a hidden gem – the exquisitely kept Moroccan Gardens. To mark the relaunch of the gardens Collective Studios has invited artists from across ACAVA studios … [Read More]
International Crisis Group report on North Korean refugees in South Korea
Strangers at Home: North Koreans in the South is the latest report from the International Crisis Group, draws attention to the difficulties South Korea is facing in absorbing North Korean defectors. The full report is available here: http://bit.ly/pNZeR7. [Read More]
Match-fixing in Korean football league endemic
“Match-fixing in Korean football league endemic” – the other sports story from South Korea last week (Choe Sang-hun) (apart from Pyeongchang winning the 2018 Winter Olympics). http://nyti.ms/mUgcac #. At least 10 players have been banned for life. [Read More]
Schwarzenegger to appear in Kim Ji-woon’s Hollywood debut
Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed for Kim Ji-woon’s Hollywood film The Last Stand. Here’s hoping Kim does a better job for Arnie than he did for Choi Min-sik in I Saw the Devil. [Read More]
Cosy Korean Cooking with Kie-jo
For over a decade now our little group of UK based Korean adoptees have hoped that we could find someone to teach us how to make our favourite Korean dishes. We love meeting up and eating at our generously sponsored lunches but in the weeks between our lunches, and if we can’t make it that … [Read More]