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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Korea enters full election mode
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Hello India] Corporate Korea sees new growth drivers in India
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Vivaldi Park opens sledding hill, new mid-level ski slope
Vivaldi Park ski resort opened a sledding hill and another mid-level ski slope Friday. The new sledding spot, 130 meters long and 40 meters wide, is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with ticket prices varying depending on the age and the duration of use. Children ages 4 to 7 must be accompanied by parents on the hill. Those under 3 and adults aged over 55 are not allowed to enter. The resort offers discounts of up to 50 percent on the use of lifts and ski rentals if online reservations are made in ad
TravelDec. 13, 2013
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Lotte Hotel Seoul nabs Seoul, MICE travel awards
Lotte Hotel Seoul has won in the category of Best Hotel in Seoul in Global Traveler’s GT Tested Awards on Tuesday. The hotel has won the award for the second straight year. The travel magazine picks the winning hotels based on reviews by business travelers and its readers. Lotte Hotel Seoul also came second in the category of meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions ― or MICE ― beating other prominent hotels like Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong.“We are deeply
TravelDec. 13, 2013
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Yoga room opens at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport
CHICAGO (AP) ― Find your zen, air travelers: Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport now has a yoga room.The Chicago Department of Aviation announced Tuesday that the airport yoga room is open on the mezzanine level of the Terminal 3 rotunda at O’Hare. The department also plans to open a yoga room at the city’s Midway International Airport in the near future.Aviation commissioner Rosemarie Andolino calls the yoga room an “oasis for passengers.”The 15-foot by 16-foot room has sustainable bamboo wo
TravelDec. 13, 2013
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Seolleongtang (beef bone soup)
Seolleongtang is a milky beef bone soup that’s made by boiling beef leg bones for several hours until the broth becomes rich and creamy white. Yes, it takes time, but most of it is stove time. You can do other things around the house while this is boiling away in the kitchen. The results are totally rewarding! A couple of kilograms of beef bones make lots of rich and nourishing soup. Legend has it that this soup was created because King Seongjong of the Joseon Dynasty wanted to feed a large numb
FoodDec. 13, 2013
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Sweet and simple at Cafe 8
To bill Cafe 8 as a run-of-the-mill coffee shop would be inaccurate. Sure, the massive 80-seat spot in Seoul’s Sinsa-dong is called a cafe, but it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the name is more-or-less a surface-level introduction to an eclectic eatery-bakery that dabbles in flowers, wine and grub. To understand the fusion of flower shop, wine cellar, bakery, restaurant and coffeehouse that is Cafe 8, it is perhaps easiest to start at the beginning, when eight friends teame
FoodDec. 13, 2013
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Around the Hotels
Dinner concert at Ritz-Carlton Seoul The Ritz-Carlton Seoul will host a lively dinner concert featuring Latin music to celebrate the end of the year. “Viva 2014” on Dec. 31 will feature a performance from acclaimed countertenor Lee Dong-gyu. The dinner will begin with a six-course meal featuring dishes such as halibut with lemon balsamic dressing, herb ricotta cannelloni with beef steak, and much more. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. featuring popular remakes of Michael Buble, such as “Sway
FoodDec. 13, 2013
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Korean musical kicks off its Japanese run
Korea’s homespun musical “Moon Embracing the Sun” kicked off its Japanese run at the Aoyama Theatre in Tokyo on Thursday, starring Lina from the girl group The Grace and Sung-je from the dance group Supernova. Based on MBC’s enormously successful 2012 drama series of the same name, the musical tells the moving love story of Hwon, a cynical but attractive fictional Joseon king, and Yeon-woo, a beautiful female shaman. The musical also deals with the court intrigues of those vying for political po
PerformanceDec. 13, 2013
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Teenage LPGA star Lydia Ko signs with IMG
CLEVELAND (AP) ― Lydia Ko, who earned an exemption to join the LPGA Tour in October as a 16-year-old, has signed with management company IMG.Born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, Ko is already No. 4 in the rankings and won the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters last week in Taiwan in her second start as a professional.She won the Women’s Canadian Open at 15 last year to become the youngest winner in tour history and defended the title this year.Paula Creamer and Michelle Wie are among
PerformanceDec. 13, 2013
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Brazil wants to keep using World Cup security plan
SAO PAULO (AP) ― Brazil wants to use the security model for next year’s World Cup to help reduce fan violence in local matches across the country.Government officials said Thursday that soccer at all levels should be able to benefit from the plans for the showcase event.The announcement comes less than a week after hundreds of rival fans confronted each other inside a stadium in the final round of the Brazilian league. The violent images broadcast across the world raised doubts about the country
PerformanceDec. 13, 2013
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Ex-NBA star Rodman in N.K. next week for ‘hoops not nukes’ training
LONDON (AFP) ― Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who has struck up a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will visit the reclusive state next week to train its basketball team, sponsors said Thursday.The eccentric former Chicago Bulls star is organizing a friendship exhibition game between North Korea and a team of mainly ex-NBA players on Jan. 8, Kim’s birthday.Sponsors Paddy Power said the Dec. 19-23 training sessions and match will be unaffected by the turbulent political events in N
PeopleDec. 13, 2013
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Pyeongtaek Univ. president awarded for Korea-Japan ties
Cho Ki-hung, the president of Pyeongtaek University, received the Prince Takamado Award from the Prince Takamado Memorial Foundation for Japan-Korea Exchange, Monday, for his years of work in building ties between the two countries.Cho, 81, was awarded for organizing various student exchange programs between the two countries for more than 40 years. Princess Hisako, the widow of Prince Takamado, handed the award to Cho at the fifth award ceremony held in Tokyo, the foundation said.The foundatio
PeopleDec. 13, 2013
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Hanjin donates 3 billion won to charity fund
Hanjin Group donated 3 billion won ($2.8 million) to the Community Chest of Korea on Friday. The donation ceremony at the nationwide charity fund-raiser in Seoul was attended by Korean Air president Ji Chang-hoon, Community Chest of Korea chairman Lee Dong-kurn and others. Hanjin Group assists impoverished teenagers who support their parents and siblings, provides foods to seniors living alone in poverty, donates books to rural villages and makes other social contributions.By Chun Sung-woo (swch
PeopleDec. 13, 2013
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Documentary filmmaker dies of cancer at age 50
Documentary filmmaker Lee Seong-gyou, who is best known for his 2010 film “My Barefoot Friend,” died on Friday. He was 50.He started shooting “My Barefoot Friend,” a film documenting the life of a 50-something rickshaw operator named Shalim living in Calcutta, India, in 1999. It took him more than 10 years to complete the film, which became the first Asian feature-length documentary to be nominated in the competition lineup of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2010.Lee was
FilmDec. 13, 2013
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Actress Lee Mi-sook mired in dispute
South Korean actress Lee Mi-sook found herself in hot water as some viewers have taken steps to have her kicked off of TV.MBC, a major broadcaster, recently released a list of actors and actresses who will be blocked from appearing on its programs in connection with wrongdoings or related disputes. About 10 viewers claimed that Lee should be included on the list and filed an application for an injunction against MBC at the Seoul Southern District Court on Thursday.They argued that Lee should rec
TelevisionDec. 13, 2013
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Former idol to wed medical doctor
Go Ji-yong, former member of the idol music group Sechs Kies, is getting married on Friday.Go and his bride-to-be, Heo Yang-im, will hold their private wedding at Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel, and about 50 bodyguards have reportedly been hired to protect their privacy. Heo is a doctor at the department of family medicine at the Seoul Paik Hospital who guest-starred on several TV shows, including “Vitamin” and “Escaping Crisis No.1.” Go Ji-yong is said to have been running his own business since the b
TelevisionDec. 13, 2013
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Choo reveals how he joined ‘Superman is Back’ with his daughter
Korean-Japanese fighter Choo Sung-hoon said his wife Shiho Yano had encouraged him to appear on “Superman is Back,” a segment of a South Korean variety TV show that has become wildly popular.Yano’s agency was originally opposed to the idea of featuring the Choo family on a Korean program. Yano is one of the top models in Japan, and it is assumed that the Japanese agency did not want something to happen to undermine her image because of the show. But Yano asked Choo to consider the proposal posit
TelevisionDec. 13, 2013
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Psy's 'Gentleman' crosses 600 mln mark on YouTube
South Korean rapper Psy's music video, "Gentleman," surpassed the 600 million view mark on YouTube Friday. The video has attracted more than 600.40 million hits since it was released in April, according to the video-sharing website. The milestone was reached more than four months after the video broke the 500 million mark on July 31. "Gentleman" had set a world record as the most-watched online video in a single day upon its release, breaking 100 million views in the shortest period of ti
Dec. 13, 2013
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Religious leaders speak out against NIS scandal
Some 164 Protestant clergymen in the Daejeon and Sejong City area on Thursday held a protest urging President Park Geun-hye to resign over her sloppy measures against the state intelligence agency’s alleged interference in the 2012 presidential election.Calling it a “serious incident that threatens the basis of democracy,” the religious leaders said Park should assume responsibility, apologize and step down. “The reason we are asking for her resignation is not because we assume that she has orch
CultureDec. 12, 2013
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Art auction of Chun family collection draws huge interest
The long-sluggish Korean art market got a boost on Wednesday after dynamic sales of the seized art collection of the family of former President Chun Doo-hwan, setting the stage for the next round of auctions of the Chun collection next week. All items being auctioned were sold off, raking in some 2.5 billion won ($2.4 million), about nine times K Auction’s original estimate.The Korean government commissioned K Auction and Seoul Auction, two major auction houses in Korea, to sell all 235 confisca
PerformanceDec. 12, 2013
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U.S. charity buys up Hopi masks to return to tribe
PARIS (AP) ― A U.S. charitable foundation said Wednesday that it was the anonymous bidder that paid $530,000 for 24 Native American masks in a contested Paris auction two days ago, and will return them to the Hopi and the San Carlos Apache tribes. “These are not trophies to have on one’s mantel,” said Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, director of the Los Angeles-based Annenberg Foundation, which revealed itself to be the secret caller that triggered a bidding war in Monday’s highly publicized auctio
CultureDec. 12, 2013