Just watched a Hong Sang-soo film (Like you know it all) and actually enjoyed it. Maybe I'm beginning to grow up. Now I must try rewatching the others. # [Read More]
Category: Formats (page 78)
Seoul is the place to go in 2010
According to the New York Times, Seoul is 3rd on the list of of 31 Places to Go in 2010. Design is the draw this year – World Design Capital 2010. http://nyti.ms/bR80vp # [Read More]
Farewell to Brian in Jeollanamdo
Farewell to Brian Deutsch, Korea’s angriest blogger (according to the Golden Klogs awards on the sadly defunct Korea Sparkle website) – and congratulations on the Korea Times coverage. http://bit.ly/9NQ1V7 # [Read More]
The Economist on the hallyu
“China is used to running a trade deficit with South Korea, but its deficit in the trade of cultural goods is ten times greater than in industrial goods.” The Economist has an interesting piece on the hallyu. http://bit.ly/dCQxvx # [Read More]
Korea Ranked 8th ‘Most Sinful Country’
"Korea spends more money on pornography than any other country" according to BBC Focus magazine, and is the world’s eighth most sinful country. http://bit.ly/aonQhv # [Read More]
Iran sends turtle into space
Iran sends a turtle into space, ten months after DPRK tries to send some patriotic songs up there. http://bit.ly/dbuoX3 # [Read More]
Kangta out of the military
Kangta, LKL’s favourite ex boy-band singer, is out of the military this month. Let’s have a new album soon, please. http://bit.ly/aqKot4 # [Read More]
Wonder Girls “Nobody”: video of the year
More Korean vote-stuffing (remember Rain v Colbert?), or is the US simply catching up with the rest of us? Wondergirls Nobody is video of the year http://bit.ly/bIMIoS # [Read More]
Murakami dominates Korean bestsellers list
Another story demonstrating the popularity of Japanese fiction in Korea: Murakami’s 1Q84 occupies the number one slot in the Korean bestseller list for 19 weeks – finally dislodged by historical novel about Princess Deokhye, the last Princess of Korea. http://bit.ly/cqOrVm # [Read More]
How not to globalise Korean food
Bibimbap as funeral food: how not to globalize Korean cuisine (and how not to transliterate 막걸리). The Korea Herald has a rant about food promotion. http://bit.ly/98YQDe # [Read More]
Jang Dong-gun & Ko So-young wedding plans
I never understand the Korean celebrity system: Jang Dong-gun reveals when it is that he will reveal his wedding plans with Ko So-young. How about spilling the beans now? http://bit.ly/9JCqtB # [Read More]
KIA gets plenty of quality airtime in Australian Open
I wonder how much KIA had to pay for all those advertising billboards at the Australian Open men's final? Whatever, they’re getting plenty of quality airtime. # [Read More]
Pleasure Squad defector tells all
Dear Leader’s Pleasure Squad defector tells all: “His favourite delicacy contains the reproductive organ of sharks.” Interesting article from Sunny Lee in The National. Pleasure Squad candidates over 165cm tall are excluded because Kim Jong Il is short, says the defector [Read More]
Showbiz agent to focus on indie music
“There’s no other place in the world as lacking in musical diversity as Korea” – says Jeon Do-yeon’s former agent Park Sung-hye, who plans to focus on indie music in the future: Source Chosun Ilbo [Read More]
Warming up for the first Korean Grand Prix
Warming up for the first Korean Grand Prix to be held in Jeollanamdo this Autumn: http://bit.ly/55QBp5. From JoongAng Ilbo [Read More]
Kim Jeong-ho’s Daedong Yeojido online
An amazingly detailed 1861 pictorial map of the Korean peninsula is now available online. Well worth a look. # The Daedong yeojido was produced by the great Korean geographer Kim Jeong-ho. The map is at a scale of about 1:162,000 and is a wood block print that includes two inset maps of Seoul, texts and … [Read More]