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1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
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Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Korean Muslim YouTuber's plan to build mosque in Incheon goes viral
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Why is Apple Pay struggling to get purchase in Korea?
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Yoon's office denies considering liberal figures for key posts
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Hollywood primed for Oscars night
HOLLYWOOD (AFP) ― Hollywood is ready for its close-up Sunday as stars gather for the most fiercely contested Oscars show in decades, but organizers hope the weather doesn’t rain on their glamorous red carpet parade.Forecasters predict Los Angeles could have its biggest storm for two years from Friday and potentially through the weekend, when the movie industry’s finest come together for the climax of the annual awards season.Three movies ― harrowing historical drama “12 Years a Slave,” 3-D space
FilmFeb. 28, 2014
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Rachael Yamagata, Emi Meyer to stage concert in Hongdae
Rachael Yamagata(left), Emi MeyerNew York-based singer-songwriters Rachael Yamagata and Emi Meyer will perform together in Seoul in March.Yamagata and Meyer will give their collaborative performance on March 12 at the YES24 Move Hall in Hongdae, northwest Seoul. Concert organizer Southern Star Entertainment said the concert would allow them to perform in a more intimate atmosphere than usual. Pop-jazz artist Emi Meyer ― who is half-American and half-Japanese ― is a highly acclaimed artist in the
PerformanceFeb. 28, 2014
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TVXQ sweeps 5 Japan Gold Disk Awards
Coming off the release of the group’s seventh studio album and 10th anniversary celebrations, K-pop duo TVXQ dominated this year’s Japan Gold Disk Awards with five wins, including best Asian artist, album of the year, best three albums, most downloaded song and best music video. The annual awards ceremony is headed by the Recording Industry Association of Japan and recognizes the artists of the year based on their record sales in Japan.TVXQ is not the only K-pop group crowned this year. The duo’
PerformanceFeb. 28, 2014
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New theater chief faces opposition
A group of thespians and theater professionals are demanding that the government cancel the appointment of a critic as artistic director of the state-run National Theater Company of Korea. In a statement released Thursday, members of the National Theater Association of Korea claimed that the post should have been given to someone with hands-on experience in theater, not to an outsider with an academic or administrative background. A long-time critic and professor of theater, Kim Yun-cheol took o
PeopleFeb. 28, 2014
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Veteran anchor named to head Arirang TV
Former news anchor and reporter Chung Sung-keun, 59, has been named CEO of Arirang TV, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Friday. Chung will take over the chief post at the nation’s biggest English-language TV network from Sohn Ji-ae, a former CNN reporter. His three-year term starts March 1. He has served as a reporter, an anchor and an editor at the nation’s two largest radio and television networks, KBS and SBS. Arirang TV operates three channels ― Arirang World, Arirang Korea a
TelevisionFeb. 28, 2014
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Gum Nanse hopes to be remembered as public conductor
Classical musicians often yearn to conduct a big-name orchestra to become a maestro. But that was not goal of renowned Korean conductor Gum Nanse.“My philosophy is to become a conductor for the public rather than one who conducted a great orchestra or conducted it in a great concert hall,” Gum said in a recent interview with The Herald Business, the sister paper of The Korea Herald. Gum, 67, is currently the CEO and artistic director of Euro-Asian Corp., which owns the Eurasian Philharmonic Orch
PerformanceFeb. 28, 2014
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TVXQ wins big at Japanese music awards
South Korean pop duo TVXQ has scooped up five awards at the Japan Gold Disk Award 2014, including best Asian artist, the duo's management agency said Friday.Four other awards they won are Pop Album of The Year, Best 3 Albums, Song of the Year by Download and Best Music Videos, S.M. Entertainment said in a release.Girls' Generation, a K-pop group also management by the company, had two of its albums -- the second and third full-length albums -- on the Best 3 Albums list.Founded in 1987, the Japan
Feb. 28, 2014
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Ham So-won announces breakup with Chinese property mogul
Actress Ham So-won has recently ended her four-year relationship with her Chinese boyfriend, real estate mogul Zhang Wei, Korean media reported Friday.“We decided to go separate ways to focus on our careers. We naturally grew apart as both of us have been extremely busy,” Ham told the Sports Chosun. “Zhang offered top-notch apartments in Beijing and land in Shanxi worth tens of billions won as farewell presents, but Ham turned down the offer,” a source close to the two was quoted as saying. The
Feb. 28, 2014
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U.S. DJ hopes to bring more rappers to Korea
This may have been DJ Phalse ID’s first time in Korea, but he assured it wouldn’t be his last. The 25-year-old performed at Club Circle in Songtan, Gyeonggi Province, and Lucidream in Itaewon over the weekend and said he already had plans to return next month.“We’re already working on it,” he said.Growing up in Washington, D.C., DJ Phalse ID played multiple instruments, would make mixtapes for friends for $5 each in middle school, and in high school helped out his aunt at the radio station where
PerformanceFeb. 28, 2014
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[Photo News] Learn before you go
PeopleFeb. 27, 2014
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[Photo News] Kumho Asiana scholarship
PeopleFeb. 27, 2014
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Paintings reflect childhood experiences
Paintings by French American artist Jean-Marie Haessle are often compared to those by abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Haessle’s all-over paintings, which spread colors over the whole canvas without emphasizing a certain point, exude spontaneity, rapidness and primitive energy that his contemporaries strive to express. “I am me. I have both French and American side in me. I try to be both. Certainly my central color is French,” said Haessle during an interview with
PerformanceFeb. 27, 2014
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Seoul Art Cinema shows 22 ‘important, underrated films’
Seoul Art Cinema will screen 22 modern films it thinks are important or severely underrated. The featured filmmakers include Brian De Palma, Nanni Moretti, Abbas Kiarostami and Takashi Miike. The special series, titled “Parallax,” will begin in March. Some of the films have already been released in theaters in Seoul, though they did not succeed commercially, while one of them ― Margarethe von Trotta’s “Hannah Arendt” ― is having its Korean premiere. “Hannah Arendt” is a drama about the eponymous
FilmFeb. 27, 2014
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Jessica Alba’s main street is high fashion
PARIS (AP) ― The first full day of Paris’ frenzied ready-to-wear shows mixed up iconic fashion veterans like Dries Van Noten with a whole new sort of fashion player: H&M. It may be a tricky ride ahead for the main street shop, which is now attempting to walk the snooty high fashion runway. Yet the company, which has still not been allowed on the official Fashion Week calendar, put on a buzzy show-spectacle replete with strobe lights, plasma screens and Jessica Alba which may go some way in shutt
Arts & DesignFeb. 27, 2014
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2NE1 tops major music charts with new album ‘Crush’
Popular K-pop girl group 2NE1 has returned to the music scene ― and with a powerful force.The four-member hip-hop-infused girl group released their sophomore studio album “Crush” on Thursday, immediately sweeping all local real-time music charts.The title track “Come Back Home” topped the music charts of major online music services such as Melon, Bugs Music, Naver Music, Daum Music, Cyworld Music, Soribada and Monkey3. “Gotta Be You,” another title track, trailed behind closely at second place.
PerformanceFeb. 27, 2014
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B.J. Novak is writing for you, kid
One More Thing: Stories and Other StoriesBy B.J. Novak(Alfred A. Knopf)The guy from “The Office,” as most people think of B.J. Novak, has written a book ― a fun and unusual one. Though “One More Thing” is subtitled “Stories and Other Stories,” only a few of the 63 pieces are stories in the usual sense. Many are fables, some are comedy monologues, others are nearly prose poems. A few are two-line koans. Almost all 63 of them are smart, quick and funny.Many revolve around taking a common phrase an
BooksFeb. 27, 2014
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Engaging thriller about perfume heir
North of BostonBy Elisabeth Elo (Pamela Dorman Books)Scent pervades Elisabeth Elo’s debut outing: expensive perfumes, the tang of fishing boats and the coppery smell of blood.The thriller stars Pirio Kasparov. She’s a descendant of Russian parents who bought their Beacon Hill bona fides, but who feels more at home among Boston’s dockworkers and fishermen.Pirio is heir to a perfume house founded by her parents. Her mother, who died when Pirio was only 10, took the secret of her signature scent to
BooksFeb. 27, 2014
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Malcolm Gladwell’s new big idea: Underdog status can be advantage
Over the last 14 years, Malcolm Gladwell has produced one bestseller after another. His books are so buzzworthy their titles become catchphrases, like “Tipping Point” and “Outliers.”Gladwell leads readers spellbound through stories that develop into counterintuitive insights into modern life.His newest book is “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants” (Little, Brown; $29). The book was inspired by a 2009 story Gladwell wrote in The New Yorker about a girls’ basketbal
BooksFeb. 27, 2014
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Getting under California’s skin
Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler? Both have used the loose frame of genre to write enduringly and resonantly about the dark side of the California dream. For Nunn, this has meant an exploration of boundaries, both actual and metaphorical; his last novel, “Tijuana Straits” (which won a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize), traces the shifting landscape of the physical borderland.At the same time, there is also a willingness to take risks, to play against expectation, which mar
BooksFeb. 27, 2014
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The most popular countries in the world to visit
France is the most popular country for travel in the world, data showed on Wednesday. South Korea came in at 25.According to data portal World Statistics, France had the most tourists last year at 81.4 million. About 9.8 million travelers visited South Korea.After France came the United States with 62.7 million visitors, followed by China, Spain and Italy with 57.6 million, 56.7 million and 46.1 million, respectively.By Lee Shin-young, Intern reporter (sylee@heraldcorp.com)
TravelFeb. 27, 2014