In what has got to be a contender for the Korean cultural event of the year, if only for rarity value, a varied collection of artworks has arrived from North Korea’s Mansudae studio for the exhibition later this month, Artists, Art and Culture of North Korea. Some of North Korea’s most famous art works will … [Read More]
LKL articles by Philip Gowman (page 203)
July events 2007
Here’s what I know about: Visual Arts The big news for July is the start of the exhibition Artists, Art and Culture of North Korea. Opens 18 July. Watch this site for further news on associated events Choi Jeong-hwa’s exhibition continues at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. More soon. Academia, discussions etc Two talks at Chatham … [Read More]
Enjoy the festival
Don’t be put off by the jaded travel professionals appearing in today’s more lengthy post. Go to Kingston tomorrow and have some fun. I hope the weather’s OK. As for the Trafalgar Square event, I’m afraid I’ve got to be elsewhere, so again can I ask you to take your digital cameras and send in … [Read More]
Korea, fizzling – a rather less than sparkling brand launch
An unruly mob of louts and freeloaders from the travel and journalism trade gathered on the top floor of New Zealand House yesterday evening to honour the launch of the “Korea, Sparkling” tourism brand. When it had been launched so successfully down below in Trafalgar Square not two weeks beforehand, some of us wondered why … [Read More]
A hallyu tourism research project in Leeds
A reader at ukfan’s DJG Comic Relief forum is doing a research project on Dae Jang Geum. He’s a PhD researcher at Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University. As part of this he needs your help to perfect a cultural survey. The survey can be found here. Please email it to … [Read More]
Support the SlowPokes
An enthusiastic team from the Korean embassy will be competing in the Standard Chartered Great City Race on 19 July. Calling themselves the Slowpokes, the all-female team are aiming to complete the arduous 5km road race in record time thanks to their kimchi-rich diet. They are also aiming to raise £2,500 for the Breakthrough Breast … [Read More]
A listing of Korean food stores
Update 12 December 2018. The current exhibition of Jeonju cuisine at the KCC has a handy “Korean Food Map” of London, listing out restaurants and food stores in the area. It seems pretty comprehensive, so I’ve rewritten this post, which was originally compiled in 2007, using data from that leaflet, at least for London and … [Read More]
UK-trained beauty expert opens Busan Academy
My dear friend Nam-hee Kim (김남희) has just taken the bold step of opening her own Beauty Academy in Busan: the Michae Beauty Academy (미채 뷰티 아카데미): www.mcbeauty.co.kr. Nam-hee studied at the London College of Fashion, part of University of the Arts, London — and part of her course was theatrical make-up and design. I … [Read More]
More pictures from the 2007 Dano festival in Trafalgar Square
Many thanks to Katie, Mark and Sung-min for letting me use their pictures of the Dano festival last Sunday. Mark has uploaded a full set of his photos over at the Korean Language Meetup site. Go visit the gallery – there are some other good photos over there too. I’ll also be asking people to … [Read More]
Sorry – now only registered users can post a comment
I know it’s a pain in the backside. But as I increase this site’s functionality and content I use more computing power at my webhost. And because I’m using the cheapest hosting package I can get, my webhost takes my site offline for a quick cooling-off period if I’m hogging the CPU too much. Looking … [Read More]
New report presents evidence of crimes against humanity
Christian Solidarity Worldwide yesterday launched a new report, seven years in the making, which concluded that there is a prima facie case that the DPRK regime is guilty of crimes against humanity. The report has had input from lawyers familiar with the international human rights regime and is based, inter alia, on interviews with 80 … [Read More]
Please send in your Dano photos – particularly b-boy action shots
As you may have gathered, I didn’t make it to the Dano event in Trafalgar Square on Sunday. But it would be great to get a flavour of what it all looked like. Jennifer’s great post yesterday helped, but it would be fun if you could send in any photos you have. I’ll decorate yesterday’s … [Read More]
Welcome to another new contributor
I’m very grateful to Jennifer Barclay for joining the ranks of distinguished LKL guest contributors. In what I hope will be the first of many contributions, she’s done a tremendous job of turning around a 1,000+ word article in a couple of hours to bring you a lively account of yesterday’s festival in Trafalgar Square. … [Read More]
Discover the secrets of Korean beauty at Selfridges
And no, this is not a post about plastic surgery. At an event organised by Christian Dior, a team of their best international make-up artists (called their beauty commando force) will be showing off their talents at Selfridges, Oxford Street, from 28 June to 4 July. Part of the hit squad is Seong Won Kim … [Read More]
Sejong Soloists at the Cadogan Hall: what live music is all about
Sejong Soloists: Three Moments in Time – Cadogan Hall, Sunday 10 June Go along to a standard orchestral concert, and what do you see? Ranks of musicians sitting inertly and gazing intently at their music stands. The baton is maybe a flash of white just visible in the corner of their eye, but from the … [Read More]
It seems I’m using too much CPU…
I just tried to access this site and received the error message from my webhost that I’d been using too much CPU and the site had been suspended. Looking at the error logs, I see that I can probably cut down on CPU usage if I discourage spam commenters a bit more (1). So is … [Read More]