London Korean Links

Covering things Korean in London and beyond since 2006

September site statistics

A brief round-up of site traffic, more for my own interest than anything else Popular searches As predicted, all I have to do to improve my hit rate is to have a post on Lee Sabi. She’s the top search phrase which results in people coming up with my site. 59 visits in September. However, … [Read More]

July site statistics update

I thought I’d summarise some of my blog statistics for July. My main source of hits was, as ever, google. What would we do without it? Thanks, though, to Alice, Max, Jenny, Aidan and Jase for voluntarily providing links to me. The hit rate is as follows: Alice 33 Max 18 Jenny 5 Aidan 4 … [Read More]

Update to events page

I’m still exploring how to get WordPress to do a sensible calendar / events list, and in the meantime I’m still maintaining my steam-driven listing on my Microsoft Publisher platform. Browsing the Korean Embassy’s Think Korea site just now I saw they’ve been updating their events page (including giving details of events which occurred before … [Read More]

Yoko Ono at St Pauls

I was trying to find an excuse to plug an event put on by a charity I’m involved with. It’s an installation of two of Yoko Ono’s works, at St Paul’s Cathedral as part of the City of London Festival. The major piece is Morning Beams, installed in the north transept, modelled by the artist … [Read More]

Thanks for the mention – but you missed someone

Every City worker, or at least every sensible one I’ve come across, whether they be lawyer, accountant, banker or whatever, longs to be involved in non-City things. Most of them, given the chance, would give it up and take up garden design, travel the world, do something arty, charitable, anything so long as it involved … [Read More]

Thanks for visiting

I’ve just been looking at the website traffic statistics for May. Average visits 110 per day; average hits 1,245 per day. Total number of unique visitors in the month: 1,922. Given that this site started only 10 weeks ago, more as a personal scrapbook than anything else, I’m grateful that people find it worth a … [Read More]

The cost of news

I thought I might investigate the cost of a subscription to the Yonhap News service. I’m a bit stingy when it comes to paying for things on the web, and would never consider paying for FT.com; but if it’s going to be cheap then I might consider it. So I shoot off an email to … [Read More]