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Peter Cook: the tiger blinks, the scorpion twitches. Peter Cook delivers a warning shot to Western architectural glitterati from Busan.(view)

From: The Architectural Review  |  Date: 11/1/2005  |  Author: Cook, Peter

The lights dim, the famous name descends the staircase to the accompaniment of a movie theme tune, and another live performance begins. Four of us greyheads sit at the front and try to remain impassive for the duration of each of seven 40 minute shows: we are part of the audience too, but our moment will come a day later when we are supposed to single out the winner.

Of course we're only skimming past the film world for a moment: for this is all happening in South Korea, in the ...

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