Firstly, my apologies to Peter Corbishley for not welcoming him earlier. Peter kindly did the write-up of the Korea Business Reception while I was on my travels, and I hope he will contribute again in the future: he’s a loyal follower of the various Korean cultural events in London. And welcome to Anna Lindgren from … [Read More]
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January statistics
It’s the end of January and I’ve already hit some of my objectives for the year. From here the only way is down. So what happened in January? A link from the Marmot, firstly in a post following that Korea Times piece, and now I’ve made it into his blogroll. Visitor numbers were looking good … [Read More]
Kissed by the Devil
First the Iranians, now an Algerian. A gent (or maybe a gal – one shouldn’t be sexist about this) who goes by the name of cRu$ty paid me a visit and placed a picture of a skull with a very fetching blue rose, together with the above motto, where my home page should be. Have … [Read More]
Next week’s football
Next week’s friendly between Korea and Greece will be my first ever football match, would you believe. I know many of the Korean supporters will be behind the goal at the Putney end, but I’d rather get a better overview of the game and sit as near the half way mark as I can, and … [Read More]
Hacker and WordPress 2.1 update
I figured out that if I change the blog templates the hacker problem goes away. So maybe I’ve isolated where my Iranian friends have done their damage, and possibly I’m on the way to fixing it. In the meanwhile, please bear with the slight shortcomings in the visuals. Then it’s just a question of working … [Read More]
Hacked
If you click on any of the article category links, or monthly archive links, you will get a friendly message from some Iranian hackers. I’m working on remedying this, but in the meanwhile browsing through the site will be a bit more difficult. You can still use the search tool. [Read More]
LKL service may be sporadic over next 7 days
I’m off on a quick business trip (combined with hopefully a pleasurable weekend in Seoul) so posts over the next 7 days or so may be a bit hit-and-miss. I managed to maintain the daily posts while I was on a 3 week holiday last year by virtue of having a huge pile of CD … [Read More]
More 2006 statistics: theme parks and military thighs
First, some boring stuff December was a record month for advertising revenue: the princely sum of $11.17, making my life-to-date total $24.32. But if it stays at December’s levels I’ll be happy: that more than pays for webhosting. And something I get lots of, and wish I got less: my life-to-date spam comment count (as … [Read More]
A date with Rain? I’d rather have my hair done
“Sorry, I’m washing my hair that night” is the familiar put-down you get when the girl of your dreams doesn’t fancy a date with you. But it’s also true of LKL visitors. They’re much more interested in finding the best Korean hairdressers in London, or reading about the techniques involved in a “Magic Straight” perm, … [Read More]
And welcome to visitors from the Marmot’s Hole
Thanks to the Marmot for a quick plug on his website. Thanks for your kind words, Mr Koehler. The link in a few hours has provided more traffic (268 visits) than the Korea Times itself has in a couple of days (89 visits): that’s the power of the Marmot, king of the K-bloggers. Take a … [Read More]
Welcome to readers from the Korea Times
I should have realised something strange was going on when I noticed an uptick in the number of constructive comments being left on this site in the last day or so. Then yesterday came my first comment in Korean (1). I thus learned that I had been mentioned in the Korea Times. I assumed it … [Read More]
Think Korea 2006 draws to a close – with some free tickets
The closing event of Think Korea 2006 takes place on Wednesday 13th at the Fairfield Hall. Full details of the event are on the Think Korea website here. The event there earlier on this year was very well attended, so make sure you book. There are a few complimentary tickets for LKL readers who are … [Read More]
Welcome to a new contributor
I’d like to welcome a new contributor to this site. Beccy Kennedy first visited this site a few weeks ago asking to be put in touch with Korean artists in the UK and with Korean societies in Manchester. Once again daeguowl came up with the answers. But it didn’t take me long to spot that … [Read More]
November site statistics
Another brief round-up of site traffic, more for my own interest than anything else. Traffic The big news of November was the TV slot on YTN, a 24 hour news channel in Korea. I’m guessing that the news story started screening on 20 November, because that’s when my number of visitors jumped from around 500 … [Read More]
Fame at last?
Thanks to UK fan for letting me know that a (thankfully) heavily-edited version of my recent interview aired today on YTN as part of a bigger piece on the hallyu in the UK. The Times’s recent Korean supplement was featured, as were Korean footballers in the premier league. They also interviewed Mr Choi who will … [Read More]
My chance of media fame. Blown
At around 4:40pm on Monday afternoon I get a phone call on my mobile. It’s from the Chosun 24 hour TV channel. They had my card from the Typhoon screening a couple of weeks back, when they were interviewing anyone they could find. They wanted to do another interview. A ten minute one. But I … [Read More]