Cosmetics

Once while surfing the Net I found an interesting article about Korean cosmetics and its world popularity.
Well, as for my homeland, Korean food brands are much more popular than cosmetics, but still in some shops you can find any Asian cosmetics.

When I was in Korea I bought kilos of different shampoos, creams, nail polish, etc))

This post is not an add)) I just wanna share a photos of my favourite items)

 As I noticed the most popular brands are Tony Moly, Innisfree, The Face Shop and Missha

By the way, why Missha is Missha?))) Do you know that it's popular male name in Russia?) affectionate diminutive from Mikhail)

An international conference to be held in St.-Petersburg, Russia

An International conference 러시아와 한국: 양국간 외교관계 근원을 찾아 주 러시아 대한제국 초대 공사 이범진 순국 100주년 기념 is organized by St.Petersburg State University, Russian Acccosiation of University Korean Studies and Korean Foundation. It will be held on August, 28-30.

Lee Bomjin is an extremely important figure in Korea-Russia bilateral relations in the end of 19  - the beginning of 20 cent.
Lee Bomjin  is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Korea in Russia.
Starting point for permanent Korean diplomatic mission in Russia is June 30, 1900 when a letter of credence was presented to Russian Emperor.

There is a commemorative tablet for  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary installed on his residence in St. Petersburg, Pestel Street, 5:

Lee Bom Jin is highly respected in Russia for his patriotic feelings. He supported his mother land in the hardest period of Japanese occupation and contributed all his money for the Korea's independence sake.

A chapter in my graduation thesis on Korea-Japan relations is devoted to this outstanding Korean diplomat !!~

Grand-granddaughter of Lee Bom Jin is now a member of diplomatic mission of Korea in Russia.  

2011 Daegu IAAF World Championship has started!

This year World Championship on the Queen of sport - Athletics -  is hold in Daegu!!))

My congratulations to Korea and Koreans for such a great sport success~~


Unfortunately due to some tragic reasons I can not attend this event as a staff((((((

So what's the first results?)
Let's see:

Position Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 578 Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat KEN 2:28:43
2 575 Priscah Jeptoo KEN 2:29:00
3 572 Sharon Jemutai Cherop KEN 2:29:14 (SB)
4 340 Bezunesh Bekele ETH 2:29:21
5 534 Yukiko Akaba JPN 2:29:35
6 250 Xiaolin Zhu CHN 2:29:58
7 829 Isabellah Andersson SWE 2:30:13
8 240 Jiali Wang CHN 2:30:25
9 718 Marisa Barros POR 2:30:29
10 547 Remi Nakazato JPN 2:30:52
11 218 Rong Chen CHN 2:31:11
12 349 Aberu Kebede ETH 2:31:22
13 581 Irene Jerotich Kosgei KEN 2:31:29 (SB)
14 339 Atsede Baysa ETH 2:31:37
15 880 Tetyana Gamera-Shmyrko UKR 2:31:58
16 223 Chaofeng Jia CHN 2:31:58
17 963 Tera Moody USA 2:32:04 (SB)
18 552 Yoshimi Ozaki JPN 2:32:31
19 549 Azusa Nojiri JPN 2:33:42
20 182 Lishan Dula BRN 2:33:47
21 876 Olena Burkovska UKR 2:34:21
22 542 Mai Ito JPN 2:35:16
23 778 Margarita Plaksina RUS 2:35:39
24 403 Susan Partridge GBR 2:35:57
25 634 Diana Lobacevske LTU 2:36:05 (SB)
26 241 Xuequin Wang CHN 2:36:10
27 271 Lisa Christina Stublic CRO 2:36:41
28 608 Sung-eun Kim KOR 2:37:05 (SB)
29 587 Caroline Rotich KEN 2:37:07 (SB)
30 966 Kathy Newberry USA 2:37:28 (SB)
31 737 René Kalmer RSA 2:38:16
32 960 Alisa McKaig USA 2:38:23 (SB)
33 881 Tetyana Holovchenko UKR 2:39:25 (SB)
34 611 Sook-Jung Lee KOR 2:40:23
35 594 Yun-hee Chung KOR 2:42:28
36 859 Bahar Dogan TUR 2:42:56
37 742 Annerien van Schalkwyk RSA 2:43:59 (SB)
38 932 Colleen De Reuck USA 2:44:35 (SB)
39 653 Luvsanlundeg Otgonbayar MGL 2:45:58
40 943 Zoila Gómez USA 2:46:44 (SB)
41 697 Judith Toribio PER 2:47:21
42 385 Alyson Dixon GBR 2:50:51
43 614 Jun-Sook Park KOR 3:03:34
44 592 Bo-ra Choi KOR 3:10:06
45 630 Moleboheng Mafata LES 3:28:30 (SB)
46 107 Shariska Winterdal ARU 3:49:48 (SB)
355 Dire Tune ETH DQ
142 Lucia Kimani BIH DNF
311 Alessandra Aguilar ESP DNF
353 Aselefech Mergia ETH DNF
696 Jemena Misayauri PER DNF
793 Epiphanie Nyirabarame RWA DNF
895 Yuliya Ruban UKR DNF
902 Kateryna Stetsenko UKR DNF
738 Tanith Maxwell RSA DNS


All the medals go to Kenia!~

Zeit der Vergeltung

 .... or Bedeviled by Chul-soo Jang is finally in Russia.

 Russian poster:

Firstly this film was presented Moscow International Film Festival this summer.
In my opinion it might be interesting for Russian public for several reasons:
- it's quite new name of film-makers (the most popular is still Kim Gidook)
- it's maybe the first Korean  movie of this genre that is n distribution in Russian cinema.
- Korean media culture is gaining popularity~~

NOVOSIBIRSK by Kim Kangsoo !!!

I share a link where you can see a program for Korean tourists who wanna go to my native city - Novosibirsk!!!

http://www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/walkworld/

http://www.netsko.com/693416


This is 47min video about some sights of Novosibirsk and its region - Berdsk, Koleuvan and a symbol of our city - Akadem Gorodok (A City of Science)

I think not  every "classic" sights for tourists were shown, but still I enjoyed the video))
But Novosibirsk seems not a 3rd largest city but a provincial town, in my opinion.

Particularly I was surprised at music in the video)) Dima Bilan who performed opening song is really one of the most popular singer in Russia and Russian singer abroad (after he won Eurovision). Two Alsou's songs was also used)
But J. Bieber  has nothing in common with Nsk)


I like the video and thanks Kim Kangsoo and his team for visiting Novosibirsk and making the video!!