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It has been a while since one of these press releases was circulated from the DPRK embassy in London. This was distributed today.
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday in connection with the stumbling block laid by the United States in the way of settling ...
What is aural image is conjured up when you hear of a Civic Chorale? Perhaps a worthy amateur choral society, used to performing madrigals with rather too many singers and too much vibrato, plodding through an annual Messiah at Easter time? Think again when it comes to the Suwon Civic ...
Earlier this week the Suwon Civic Chorale were participating in the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in Lincoln. Friday night saw a gala concert in the cathedral including other world-class choral groups such as the Orlando Consort.
Tonight the Suwon choir come to All Saints Parish Church in ...
It’s now more than a year since the somewhat controversial launch of the Korea, Sparkling tourism brand. As I suspected at the time, people would get used to it in due course, and now the logo has become a familiar feature on the various tourist literature available.
The branding, together with ...
I've already told you about the films this Saturday. Take your pick between The Chaser at 4:40 in Leicester Square and Seven Days in Brunswick Square at 6:30.
How about making a whole day of it?
Turn up at the Korean Cultural Centre earlier in the day and browse the DVD / ...
This Friday's screening at the KCC is the Jeong Brothers' Epitaph (2007). Synopsis as follows:
“In a modern hospital in 1941, doctors witness weird events and learn DEATH is the sole healer.” In 1979, Dr. PARK receives an old photo album from his twenties in 1941 when mysterious things befell him ...
When I went to the Free Words exhibition at Mayfair Public Library it was a grey Friday evening, and consequently did not see the works at their best. It was the last day of the main show, and the artwork seemed to have been forgotten in a rather drab-feeling, unloved ...
So soon after the release of v4, here's 4.1. My brain has been unable to stop fretting over getting better navigability on this site, including encouraging people to read more than the one article they land on when they google-search for a pic of Super Junior. First came the related ...
For sports fans, admirers of spectacle and connoisseurs of lipsynching techniques, the footage of the Olympics opening ceremony has been released on DVD. I didn't see the ceremony, but can imagine that aspects of it must be rather like Pyongyang's mass games.
It may not look like a big change, but it's been exercising my mind for a few weeks.
The underlying change is an upgrade of my blog templates to take advantage of all the latest functionality of WP2.6. LKL's look and feel is based on Scott Wallick's plaintxt templates. Scott faithfully ...
Thanks to David Gomez for writing in with an answer to a question which lots of people have asked: where to buy Korean books in London. Not books about Korea, not books about how to learn Korean, but books written in Korean.
My standard answer is that I haven’t the foggiest ...
Lucien Brown has been leading the beginners' Korean Language class at the KCC with infinite patience and good humour for the past eight weeks. Some of us are still struggling with telling the time in Korean but we still come back for more.
We’ll be getting an extra dose of our ...
News of a three-week exhibition at the New Days Gallery in New Malden:
The reflection
Artist: Dok Hi Kim
Open to public: 16th (Sat) Aug – 6th (Sat) Sep 08
Opening time: 10am-5pm, Tue-Sat (Closed on Sun & Mon)
Venue: Newdays Gallery London
2 Alric Ave, New Malden, KT3 4JN
Enquiry: 0208 286 1335 / 07894 ...
Asia House's first film festival contains one of the big Korean hits from last year, but also has enough to tempt you to try out films from other countries. 5 films, 5 UK premieres.
Everyone's favourite castaway Kim Yun-jin (above) stars in Seven Days directed by Won Shin-yeon:
Jiyeon (Kim Yun-jin) is ...
The KCC's exhibition for August and September is a juxtaposition of work by British and Korean ceramicists.
Vessels: Ceramicists from Korea & UK
Exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK
12 August – 25 September 2008
Participating Artists (in alphabetical order):
Felicity Aylieff | Sena Gu | Jeong Yong Han | Chris Keenan | Sun ...
Jeon Sung-min recently interviewed LKL’s blogger-in-chief for an article in the Euro Journal. The interview was conducted in English, and he translated it into Korean for publication in the newspaper. Here’s a slightly polished-up transcript of the interview, published with Jeon Sung-min’s kind permission.
Euro Journal: How and when did you ...
As the world’s attention was focused on Beijing yesterday evening, in a small hanok in Bukcheon another celebration was taking place. Anna Fifield, the FT’s Seoul bureau chief, was having a farewell party to mark the end of her four years in the Land of Morning Calm.
I’m told that the ...
When did a Korean barbeque last blow up in YOUR face? We live in dangerous times, and fortunately there are people whose job it is to protect us.
A couple of weeks ago my big brother was staying with me, and I thought I’d introduce him to Korean food. So I ...
A reminder of the upcoming BAKS conference, The Koreas at sixty: Looking Forward / Looking Back, to be held in Cambrige 8-10 September. Full details of the cost, and how to book, are on the BAKS website here. You don't need to be a BAKS member to come along. The ...
This week’s screening at the KCC is Kim Ji-woon’s (김지운) stylish suspense / horror flick Tale of Two Sisters (2003). (7 August, 7pm)
Kim’s filmography is varied and of a high quality. He started with comedy - the macabre Quiet Family (1998) and the hugely fun Foul King (2000), and now ...
A bargain three-day conference begins at SOAS this Thursday.
Full details here.
A bit beyond me I'm afraid. I'm still struggling with my counting words.
We have all received garbage emails from dodgy people in dodgy countries giving us a sob story explaining how they’ve managed to end up with several million dollars and need help getting it out of the country. They started in Nigeria but have now spread to other countries as well. ...
T-Entertainment, March 2006
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Rollercoaster's fifth album was released in 2006, after a gap of 2 years since the almost flawless fourth. Gone is the sense of rhythmic drive, of energy, of joie de vivre. Instead we have something a bit more laid back, less characterful. I had been warned that the ...
Every now and then a visitor to this site asks whether there are any North Koreans in the UK, apart from at the DPRK embassy. Journalist Michael Rank keeps his eyes open for evidence, particularly on the parliamentary website, and shares his findings with the BAKS list - little snippets ...
Fluxus Music, June 2008
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As a fan of Clazziquai, I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the first solo outing of one of its members, the male vocalist Alex. On the plus side, he has a mellow, well-controlled voice, very pleasant to listen to. And he has a reasonably distinguished ...
