Y Euny Hong: Kept - a comedy of sex and manners
Simon & Schuster, 2006
The author of this entertaining comedy, Y Euny Hong, claims to speak from experience as a surviving descendent of a declining Korean aristocratic family. Making a living now as a journalist, she was given the generous opportunity of 3 pages in the FT’s weekend magazine to trail her novel back in May 2006 [1]. Having read the article, I registered the book as something to put on the radar screen, but not necessarily something to rush out and buy. How can someone who proudly traces her family back 28 generations be so approximate in her attention to more recent historical detail that she can start a sentence thus: “When the Japanese colonised Korea in 1919”? And can one warm to a person who states bluntly “My family is belligerent with subordinates; we make waitresses cry”. So the book was put on the usual online wishlist, but with a low priority.
Fortunately, with the passage of time I forgot the c...
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Cherry blossom festival in VancouverFrom: londonkoreanlinks.net
Post Date: 2008-03-25 11:30:12
On the first day of Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival, Jennifer Barclay reports on a recent visit to the Canadian city’s Koreatown
Driving around Vancouver makes you hungry. There’s a Vietnamese restaurant next to an Indian next to a Greek next to a Korean. That’s especially on the big roads like Kingsway that lead away from downtown towards suburban areas like Burnaby and Surrey. I’d been driving out there a lot to visit some Fijian Canadians whose wedding I was in...
more Easter celebrity round-upFrom: londonkoreanlinks.net
Post Date: 2008-03-22 11:30:23
It’s been a while since I rounded up some of the celebrity news as an excuse for posting some pictures, so here’s some recent items:
First - Brits with Korean connections:
Korea Beat has a translation of an interview with David Beckham , recently in Korea with LA Galaxy
Kate Moss gets an advertising contract with Korean fashion brand GGPX
Next, Korean celebs with Chinese actors in Hong Kong:
Jeon Do-yeon picking up Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards ...
more Contemporary Art showcase at KCCFrom: londonkoreanlinks.net
Post Date: 2008-03-20 11:30:20
A press release from the Korean Cultural Centre:
27 March -16 May
Contemporary Korean Art: From the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea
Contemporary Korean Art marks the Korean Cultural Centre UK’s second exhibition since its opening in January 2008. As a platform for the promotion and development of the Republic of Korea’s unique visual and popular culture, and in keeping with the escalating international interest in Korean art, the exhibition aims to highlight the key movement...
more AKS Korean Evening at the KCCFrom: londonkoreanlinks.net
Post Date: 2008-03-19 11:30:04
The Anglo-Korean Society will be presenting its regular Korean Culture evening on 10 April. If it happened last year, I’m afraid I missed it, but two years ago I went along. It was my first event as an AKS member, and I was very frustrated because there had been some very generous sponsorship of the wine but this was in the middle of Lent and I was abstaining.
Apart from the wine, there was a splendid buffet, speeches, a raffle, some tourism videos and of course the opportunity to make ...
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