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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club – the tweets

posted updated 9 Apr 2025 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read

It’s not often that Twitter is alive with Tweets about a documentary on BBC4, but Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club was special. Here are some of them. LKL: Game for a laugh? Don’t forget Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club tonight, BBC4, 10pm http://bit.ly/bT9eZE # LKL: Wow this documentary is bizarre!! # Alex_Hoban: @lklinks you’re telling me…! Alex_Hoban: … [Read More]

Jang Na-ra’s ten years as an undergraduate

posted updated 31 Mar 2013 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Jang Na-ra is about to graduate from university after 10 years as an undergraduate. Is that a record? “Her career in Korea and China delayed her studies,” explains the Chosun Ilbo. She started at the Department of Theater in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chungang University in March 2000 – so just think of … [Read More]

A pizza shovel for the Dear Leader: was he amused by “Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club”?

posted updated 31 Jan 2025 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read

Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club is a Danish documentary which follows the two-week visit to North Korea by a Danish comedy double-act who had received permission to perform in Pyongyang’s National Theatre. The documentary is fascinating on many levels. First, the two comedians are ethnic Korean adoptees, born in South Korea but brought up in Denmark, … [Read More]

Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club on BBC4

event date Mon 08 Feb 2010 posted

Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to figuring out what this is all about, but BBC Four has a one-hour documentary on Monday 8 February at 10pm. Time Out has selected it as Pick of the Day. Looks like it’s seriously worth a look. Here is Gabriel Tate’s commentary from Time … [Read More]

Pleasure Squad defector tells all

posted updated 16 Jun 2021 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

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]

On glamorous advertising

posted updated 25 Jan 2025 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Could you imagine hot Hollywood stars modeling for an air conditioner? Han Ye-seul & Song Seung-heon earn their fees – from an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily (article no longer on their website). 11:35 PM Jan 9th from bit.ly JamesTurnbull: @lklinks See what Londoner Bruce Haines says to understand why (is head of Korea’s … [Read More]

Lampard lampooned in Kara video

posted updated 19 Nov 2017 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Frank Lampard scores chart-topping single in South Korea, says the Daily Star http://bit.ly/6nmuPb. Can anyone find it? 12:03 AM Jan 9th from bit.ly JamesTurnbull: @lklinks Try here http://ow.ly/Updr 12:07 AM Jan 9th from HootSuite in reply to lklinks @JamesTurnbull Thanks for the link James – but they’ve already taken the video down 🙁 12:12 AM … [Read More]

A belated look back at 2009

posted updated 10 Apr 2022 by Philip Gowman 6 minute read

For the past 3 years LKL has concocted a quiz of the year as a way of gathering together some of the news stories which have most caught our eye. This year, as I came to draw up the list in mid December I found it hard to think of anything amusing or diverting: most … [Read More]