Category Archives: Sources

Pyongyang Goes Pop

Posted on 29 March 2011 by admin

Alex Hogan in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/pyongyang-goes-pop 29 March 2011: Despite there being no internet access in North Korea outside the offices of the few western companies (you can count them on one hand), Pyongyang’s embassy enclosure and a couple of … Continue reading →

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Protestants protest: South Korea’s church militant

Posted on 9 March 2011 by admin

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html Long ago, maybe around 1994, I took a slow train from Pusan – or Busan, if you insist – to Seoul. (No KTX bullet train in those days; though that’s been having its problems lately.) It was October, and … Continue reading →

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Korea’s own Renaissance Woman: Shin Saimdang

Posted on 5 February 2011 by admin

Shin Saimdang is recognised as the greatest female artist in Korean history. In an era demanding Confucian female values, Shin Saimdang developed her own world, and continues to be a source of inspiration to poets and artists throughout Korea. From … Continue reading →

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Doing business in London’s Little Korea

Posted on 23 January 2011 by admin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12170151 By Laurence Knight Business reporter, BBC News Ever heard of New Malden? A lot of Koreans have. The unobtrusive south-west London suburb contains the biggest population in Europe of natives of ths East Asian country. Around 20,000 Koreans by … Continue reading →

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The secrets of my brilliant Korea

Posted on 8 January 2011 by admin

Please respect FT.com’s ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ca8b7760-19e0-11e0-b921-00144feab49a.html Seoul greeted … Continue reading →

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US embassy cables: China ‘would accept’ Korean reunification

Posted on 1 December 2010 by admin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/249870 Monday, 22 February 2010, 09:32 S E C R E T SEOUL 000272 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 02/22/2034 TAGS PREL, PGOV, KNNP, ECON, SOCI, KS, KN, JA”>JA”>JA, CH SUBJECT: VFM CHUN YOUNG-WOO ON SINO-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS Classified By: AMB … Continue reading →

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US embassy cables: Kim Jong-il’s power weakens after stroke

Posted on 30 November 2010 by admin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/243031 Guardian 30 Nov 2010 Monday, 11 January 2010, 02:51 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 SHENYANG 000005 SIPDIS PASS TO EAP/CM, EAP/K, INR EO 12958 DECL: TEN YEARS AFTER KOREAN UNIFICATION TAGS CM, ECON, EFIN, … Continue reading →

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US embassy cables: China reiterates ‘red lines’

Posted on 29 November 2010 by admin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/204917 Thursday, 30 April 2009, 13:07 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 BEIJING 001176 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 04/30/2034 TAGS PREL, ECON, EFIN, PARM, PHUM, KUNR, CH, TW, KN, KS, JA”>JA”>JA, IR, PK, AF SUBJECT: VICE … Continue reading →

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US embassy cables: Former Singapore PM on ‘psychopathic’ North Koreans

Posted on 29 November 2010 by admin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/210110 (Flabby old chap) Thursday, 04 June 2009, 09:08 S E C R E T SINGAPORE 000529 EO 12958 DECL: 06/04/2029 TAGS OVIP”>OVIP (STEINBERG, JAMES B.), PREL, MNUC, ECON, SN, CH, KN SUBJECT: DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG’S MAY 30, 2009 CONVERSATION … Continue reading →

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For the Kims, the weakest link is family

Posted on 22 October 2010 by admin

By Aidan Foster-Carter http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LJ22Dg01.html I’m a sociologist, by discipline. Or indiscipline, do I hear you sneer? True, my subject has its share of what one eminent sociologist, Garry Runciman, has called ”attitude and platitude”. Plenty of obfuscating jargon, too. Nor … Continue reading →

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