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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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Art lovers can now visit New York’s Met every day
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Art lovers can now visit New York’s famed Metropolitan museum every day of the week after the management dropped a policy of being closed on Mondays.The Met, which welcomed a record-breaking 6.28 million visitors last year, had closed its doors on Mondays for more than 40 years.“Art is a 7-day-a-week passion, and we want the Met to be accessible whenever visitors have the urge to experience this great museum,” Met director Thomas Campbell said in a statement.The change announced
PerformanceJuly 2, 2013
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Restoring the glory of long-abused ancient Babylon
BABYLON, Iraq (AFP) ― At ancient Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, Iraqi workers labor with a heavy saw, hammers, a chisel and crowbar to break up and remove a concrete slab that is hastening the structure’s decay.The concrete lies between the two long, towering walls of tan bricks decorated with processions of bulls and dragons that make up the more than 2,500-year-old Ishtar Gate, in what is now Iraq’s Babil province.The masonry slab was laid during the late dictator Saddam Hussein’s rule.Removing the co
CultureJuly 2, 2013
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Music Bank to run international K-pop chart this week
Music Bank, a weekly pop-ranking show on state-run broadcaster KBS, will dedicate this Friday’s edition to hallyu, or Korean pop culture fever. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of KBS World, the satellite broadcasting division of the broadcaster, “Music Bank World K-Chart!” will unveil who is the most popular K-pop star overseas. The short list includes Psy with “Gentleman,” SNSD’s “I Got a Boy,” SHINee’s “Dream Girl,” INFINITE’s “Man In Love” and 2PM’s “Come Back When You Hear This Song.”
PerformanceJuly 2, 2013
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Tony An joins list of this year’s old-school comebacks
Former H.O.T. idol star Tony An is joining the list of veteran stars working their way back into today’s dynamic music scene. Representatives of An’s agency TN Entertainment announced that the star is releasing his newest EP “I’m Tony An” Wednesday. This is the first album he has released in more than two years since his previous EP “Top Star” in 2011. An’s new four-track album includes the electro-heavy lead track “Until Here…” and features the members of Big Bang and Se7en. “An is currently ab
PerformanceJuly 2, 2013
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MBC to abolish its college music competition
South Korean broadcast network MBC said on Tuesday it will discontinue its time-honored college music competition, citing its declining viewer ratings. “College Musicians Festival” started in 1977 and has been deemed the representative program through which amateur musicians often made a high-profile debut thanks to the national broadcast network’s influence. MBC said the program’s popularity and the viewer ratings were relatively low compared to the high production cost. The network said that i
PerformanceJuly 2, 2013
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Actress Song talks about working with director Wong
Actress Song Hye-gyo on Sunday downplayed rumors of her quarrel with Wong Kar-Wai, but admitted there had been “some difficulty” with the Chinese director, Hong Kong media reported.Song said there was “a bit of friction and misunderstanding” with Wong while filming his recent flick, adding that the difficulties helped her mature. “It has not been easy. For me, it was the first time working with Wong. Since their (movie makers in Hong Kong) way of filming was different from that of Koreans, there
FilmJuly 2, 2013
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Ailing Mandela still able to unite South Africans
The spelling and grammar need work, but the message has its own eloquence. A 10-year-old's note to Nelson Mandela, the prisoner who fought South African apartheid, or white racist rule, and became a global emblem of unity and humility, addresses him as “the greates president are land has ever had it is realy bad that you are in the hospital. But realy cool that you stopt apartit. you maid are land A beter place”It is one of hundreds of messages that have been placed at two makeshift shrines by S
PeopleJuly 2, 2013
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Granddaughter puts Picasso muse nudes on display
CANNES, France (AFP) ― As a child, Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter Marina often found herself shut out of his sumptuous Cannes villa “La Californie.” Four decades after his death, the gates of the house she inherited, along with thousands of his art works, are always promptly opened to visitors.“Living in this house, unconsciously perhaps it’s a way of recapturing lost time in a place where we were once excluded,” says Marina, who for many years struggled to accept “an inheritance given without lo
PerformanceJuly 1, 2013
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Italy promises UNESCO it will not abandon Pompeii
ROME (AFP) ― Italy’s culture minister assured UNESCO on Sunday that efforts were being made to restore the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii, after the United Nations organization urged the country to speed up repairs.“Pompeii is a symbol for our country. UNESCO’s reprimand is an alarm which I take very seriously and we are already working to overcome the site’s urgent problems,” Culture Minister Massimo Bray said in a note.Giovanni Puglisi, head of the UNESCO National Commission in Italy, on
CultureJuly 1, 2013
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Murakami’s latest novel tops bestseller lists on day of its Korean release
The Korean edition of famed Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest novel “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” topped the local bestseller lists on the day of its release Monday. The novel tells the story of a 30-something man named Tsukuru Tazaki, who was suddenly cut off by his close friends during high school. After being terminally depressed for many years, he now makes a living designing train stations at a railway company in Tokyo. He one day decides to visit his once be
BooksJuly 1, 2013
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Kang Se-hwang: A Renaissance man
The 18th century was a crucial moment for the people of the Joseon era (1392-1910). Cities started to form, trade was active and Western knowledge was introduced to the country by those who traveled to China, opening the eyes of the intellectuals who believed the traditional Confucianist way of life was the only one of merit. Kang Se-hwang (1713-1791) was a painter, calligrapher, poet and critic who captured the dynamic sceneries of the time. Drawing since the age of 10 and painting until his de
CultureJuly 1, 2013
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Mumfords close Glastonbury after Stones triumph
LONDON (AP) ― Mumford & Sons brought the Glastonbury Festival to a foot-stomping close Sunday, with many music fans still on a high from the Rolling Stones’ first-ever gig at Britain’s leading music extravaganza.The Mumfords’ performance was the Grammy-winning folk-rockers’ first since bassist Ted Dwane had surgery for a blood clot on his brain earlier this month.The banjo-wielding balladeers got a warm reception, especially when they launched into “I Will Wait,’’ one of their biggest hits, for
PerformanceJuly 1, 2013
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Cirque du Soleil performer dies in Las Vegas fall
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― A performer with the world-famous Cirque du Soleil circus died after plunging from a high wire before a horrified crowd at a Las Vegas show, the organization confirmed on Sunday.Sarah Guyard, who media reports identified as a 31-year-old mother-of-two, fell to her death towards the end of the circus’ popular Ka production staged at the MGM Grand on Saturday.Witnesses quoted by U.S. media reports said Guyard fell from a height of around 50 feet as she was being hoisted up towa
PerformanceJuly 1, 2013
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Korean director wins award at Moscow film fest
Korean filmmaker Jung Young-heon won the best director award at the Moscow International Film Festival for his movie “Lebanon Emotion” on Saturday.The film was among 16 movies that received awards at the 35th edition of the festival, which started in 1959 as the biggest movie festival in Eastern Europe. “Lebanon Emotion” depicts the complex emotional changes of a man and a woman in both urban and rural settings. Despite its title, the film features no scenes based in Lebanon. The movie won the C
FilmJuly 1, 2013
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‘JYJ Membership Week’ attracts 17,000 participants
The four-day “JYJ Membership Week” wrapped up Sunday with about 17,000 fans of the trio gathering to share their affection for the boy band.“The event was intended to bring fans of JYJ closer to the singers and we have managed to pull it off,” Back Chang-ju, CEO of JYJ’s agency C-JeS Entertainment, said in a press release. The agency said about 4,000 fans from Japan flew in to see the trio.The event at SETEC in southern Seoul consisted of three sections highlighting the members’ artistic talents
PerformanceJuly 1, 2013
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Actress Kim Ko-eun wins ‘Rising Star Award’ in New York
Actress Kim Ko-eun from the 2012 film “Eungyo (A Muse)” received the “Star Asia Rising Star” award on Saturday at the New York Asian Film Festival 2013, held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. “Thank you so much for inviting me all the way here to the New York Asian Film Festival and giving me this honorable award. I’ll come back with good work,” Kim stated after receiving the award. Kim debuted last year in “Eungyo,” winning several awards, including those at Busan Film Critics
PeopleJuly 1, 2013
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Ford, Egan win Carnegie literary medals
NEW YORK (AP) ― Richard Ford and Timothy Egan, winners of literary medals presented by the American Library Association, both credit libraries for making their work possible.Ford and Egan are this year’s recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for the best works of fiction and nonfiction. Ford was cited for the novel “Canada,” narrated by the teen son of bank robbers. Egan won for “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,” a biography of photographer Edward Curtis, who compiled an ency
BooksJuly 1, 2013
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Japanese housewife in search of true history
Unlike many other Japanese housewives who visit Korea as tourists, Mieko Ito had one clear reason to come. The 67-year-old housewife has been on a journey to get a closer look at Korean history and understand the pain many Koreans endured during the Japanese colonial rule of the early 20th century.She is currently in Seoul to study Korean at Ewha Womans University. After classes, Ito visits historic places and museums across the country to face the truth about Japan’s wartime atrocities, she sai
PeopleJuly 1, 2013
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[Photo News] Soccer player Ki marries Han Hye-jin
Footballer Ki Sung-yueng and actress Han Hye-jin have tied the knot at the Intercontinental Hotel in southern Seoul, Monday.Both the groom and the bride said with one voice, “It’s the happiest day of my life,” at the press conference before the wedding ceremony.After the wedding, the Swansea City midfielder will head to the United Kingdom for a team training while the actress, 32, will stay in Korea until the end of July to finish her agenda. The newlyweds will set up homes in Korea and the U.
PeopleJuly 1, 2013
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Hip-hop duo gets lucky with ‘Luckynumbers’
South Korea’s hip-hop duo, Dynamic Duo, released their seventh album “Luckynumbers,” on Monday, quickly topping online charts. “Luckynumbers” contains 13 hip-hop tracks whose styles range from Detroit to trap sounds.In the lead track “Baaam,” Gaeko and Choi Ja belt out about a man’s unstable mental state when he falls for an attractive woman. The song incorporates UV member Muzie’s play of a vocoder in sync with a strong jaunty beat. The new album mastered by Stuart Hawkes, who has previously wo
PerformanceJuly 1, 2013