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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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Sexting: Half of U.S. adults’ phones contain intimate content
More than 50 percent of U.S. people have used their mobile device to share or receive intimate or sexual text messages, emails or photos from someone, according to security software firm McAfee.McAfee released a new study on Tuesday titled “Love, Relationships, and Technology” gathering data from 1,500 U.S. consumers.While 77 percent of sexters send their racy content to their significant others, 16 percent send it to complete strangers.Eighteen-to 24-year-olds with smartphones are most keen on
Life&CultureFeb. 6, 2014
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[Uniquely Korean] Bomb-drink cocktails help smooth relationships
When it comes to booze, Koreans know what they are dealing with. Just as the term “let’s have a meal” is often interchangeable with arranging a meeting, “let’s go for a drink” is roughly equivalent to socializing. In the past, social meetings with alcohol had involved participants getting heavily drunk. This brought forth the birth of poktanju, or the bomb-drink, which refers to a cocktail of beer and liquors such as whiskey.As its name suggests, its main goal is to bombard the drinker with a he
CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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At 30, Lim seeks change, balance
Lim Dong-hyek was called a “prodigy pianist” in his teen years, an “idol star in classical music” and a “Chopin specialist” in his 20s. He wouldn’t have chosen any of these labels, if he’d had a choice. Now turning 30, Lim wants to show his true colors as a pianist, nothing more and nothing less. “People tend to think of me as a poser who boasts flamboyant techniques and transcription skills, but I am not,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday from New York. “I like to play pieces that are e
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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Chaplin’s only novel to be released
ROME (AFP) ― A virtually unknown novel by Charlie Chaplin ― the only book the silent film comic ever wrote ― is being made public for the first time.“Footlights,” which will be unveiled in London later Tuesday, was written by Chaplin in 1948 and later transformed into his film “Limelight,” in which a washed-out clown saves a dancer from suicide.The book is being published in English by the Cineteca di Bologna, an Italian film restoration institute which has been working with Chaplin biographer D
BooksFeb. 5, 2014
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Houston gets U.S. premiere of Holocaust opera
HOUSTON (AP) ― It’s the darkest of operas, a powerful and unrelentingly grim work that dares to grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust through a musical descent into the hell that was Auschwitz. The opera is “The Passenger,” and its composer was Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Polish Jew who as a young man fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis ― the only member of his family to survive. He completed the opera in 1968 and considered it his most important work. Yet for political reasons it had ne
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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Pharrell to perform on Oscar’s telecast
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Pharrell Williams will perform at the Academy Awards. Oscar producers said Tuesday the producer-performer will sing his nominated song “Happy.” There was no word on whether his Grammy Award-stealing hat would make an appearance. Williams wrote “Happy” for “Despicable Me 2.” It’s nominated for original song along with U2’s “Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” “Let It Go” by Idina Menzel from “Frozen” and Karen O’s “The Moon Song” from “Her.” The 40-year-old Wil
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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U2 freebie rakes in $3m to fight AIDS
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Rock group U2’s new single “Invisible” raised more than $3 million for the fight against AIDS during the 36 hours it was available for free on iTunes, it was revealed Tuesday.It scored more than 1 million downloads in the hour after it premiered in a Bank of America commercial during Sunday’s Super Bowl, then picked up 2 million more until the free offer ended Monday midnight.With the second-biggest bank in the United States pledging one dollar for every download, “Invisible”
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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Real ‘Monuments Men’ records go on display
WASHINGTON (AP) ― When art historians saw Paris fall to the Nazis in World War II, they immediately realized Europe’s vast monuments, art, cathedrals and architecture were at risk and began mobilizing to protect such treasures. In Washington, the newly opened National Gallery of Art became the U.S. museum world’s epicenter for lobbying President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Allied forces in 1941 to prevent the destruction of Europe’s monuments. Their efforts would create a corps of U.S. and Bri
CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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Kim Jang-hoon, Crayon Pop team up for Korea Firefighters Project
Ballad rock singer and big-time philanthropist Kim Jang-hoon, who has been dubbed the nation’s “Donation Angel,” has finally unveiled his latest charity project after more than a decade in the making. “Back in 2002 I had hurt my shoulder and while I was at the hospital getting treatment there was a man sitting next to me; the man was a firefighter,” said Kim at a press conference held at the Press Center in Seoul on Wednesday. “He told me that despite the difficult situations they face, they are
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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SM group to release sophomore album ‘Breath’ next week
SM Entertainment’s ballad project group SM The Ballad will release its sophomore album “Breath” next week, the nation’s top entertainment agency said Tuesday.Prior to the album’s formal release next Thursday, three songs, including the title track, will be unveiled one by one, starting on Monday, the company said. “Breath” will feature the collaborative efforts of eight singers from SM boy and girl groups: Jonghyun from SHINee, Max Changmin from TVXQ, Krystal from f(x), Zhoumi from Super Junior-
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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In NYC, Pussy Riot slams conditions in Russia
NEW YORK (AP) ― Americans who will be at the Winter Olympics should look beyond the facilities created for the games and take a hard look at the host country itself, two members of the Russian protest punk band Pussy Riot said Tuesday. Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova made their first public appearance in the United States, arriving to take part in Amnesty International’s “Bringing Human Rights Home” concert on Wednesday in Brooklyn, where they will be introduced by Madonna. The women w
PerformanceFeb. 5, 2014
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Oh Kimchi founders keep Korean traditions alive
AUSTIN, Texas ― Even though her mother is from South Korea, Abigail Lunde didn’t really like kimchi growing up.“My mom would put a little bowl of water next to my plate and wash it off for me,” says Abigail Lunde, now 28, of the fermented side dish that almost every Korean (well, 95 percent, according to a recent survey) eats at least once a day. “My mom wanted me to be Americanized,” Lunde says. “We would go back (to South Korea) every few years to visit, but I didn’t understand the culture. I
FoodFeb. 5, 2014
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Philippine priests swap sermons for ‘selfies’
MANILA (AFP) ― For some of the Philippines’ most powerful clergymen, stepping off the pulpit and into cyberspace felt impossibly daunting until they took their first “selfies” and posted them on Facebook. Their initial forays into the brave new virtual world took place in a groundbreaking class for 50 of the Philippines’ top bishops and monsignors in Manila earlier last month, part of the Catholic Church’s strategy to remain relevant in the digital age.Sean-Patrick Lovett, a program director wit
CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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Pro gamers enjoy celebrity, income from heeding the ‘Call’
CHICAGO ― Matt Haag used to be just another suburban kid going to high school, working at McDonald’s and aggravating his parents by spending endless hours on his Xbox. Today the lanky, dark-eyed 21-year-old is a global celebrity to an enormous number of young people, very few of whom know him as Matt. They call him Nadeshot, master of the virtual submachine gun, a guy who makes a six-figure living playing the video game “Call of Duty.” Haag is among a handful of Chicago-area men who have found a
CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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[Photo News] Shared growth
PeopleFeb. 5, 2014
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Gender divides into our nightmares
A study has found that women are more likely to dream of interpersonal disputes, while men tend to face war or calamities, the Guardian reported.Antonio Zadra and Genevieve Robert of the University of Montreal collected 9,796 dream reports, written by 572 participants over the course of two to five weeks.They found that interpersonal conflict was twice as frequent in women’s nightmares as men’s. Men were much more likely to report nightmares involving disaster or calamity, such as floods, earthq
Life&CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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Korea to put up show in New York Fashion Week
Four of South Korea's top designers will showcase their work in a regular government-led fashion show set to open in New York next week, officials said Wednesday.The ninth edition of Concept Korea will take place at the Lincoln Center on Tuesday, as part of the New York Fashion Week, which will be held at various venues throughout the city on Feb. 5-13, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said.Since 2009, the ministry and its subsidiary Korea Creative Contents Agency has jointly organize
Arts & DesignFeb. 5, 2014
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Scientists develop new technology to curb hair loss
Hair loss or baldness has been a tricky problem for both men and women to tackle since there are only a few choices. (OSEN)The ways are namely hair implant surgery, which is too costly and prone to side effects, and medication, which only slows the process of hair loss.However, a new technology that would allow completely new hair follicle to be formed out of donor dermal cells has been developed by a group of scientists in Taiwan, according to foreign news reports. Scientists have been experime
Life&CultureFeb. 5, 2014
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[Graphic News] Domestic tourism in need of a shot in the arm
Domestic tourism remains sluggish a decade after Korea introduced a five-day workweek system, once billed as a golden opportunity for the leisure and tourism sector. Outbound travel, meanwhile, has grown steadily, data from the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports show. According to the data reported to President Park Geun-hye during a meeting on tourism policies on Monday, the aggregate days that Koreans spent on domestic travel for all of 2012 were 360 million days, little changed from 350
TravelFeb. 4, 2014
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Sending money abroad the easy way
For foreigners living in Korea, banking can be easy or an incredibly frustrating experience. And when it comes to sending money overseas, while commission fees on transactions made at the bank vary little, not all Korean banks are the same. On top of this, shopping around is not simple ― a person is only allowed one designated bank for overseas remittances and must go through a transfer process to change to another.But major Korean banks usually offer discounts on remittance services via ATM and
Expat LivingFeb. 4, 2014