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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Rated-R theater ‘Caligula_Remix’ to open Uijeongbu festival
The infamously R-rated theater play, “Caligula_Remix,” with the famous line “I am God! Worship and blame me!” will open the 12th Uijeongbu International Music Theater Festival on May 4 as its Asian premier. “Caligula_Remix,” an adaptation of Albert Camu’s “Caligula,” tells the real-life story of Roman emperor Caligula’s suffering over the death of his sister and lover Drusilla as well as conflict between the tyrant and his rebel forces. Although there is no nudity involved, explicit verbal descr
PerformanceMay 2, 2013
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MODAFE 2013 to feature ‘dance and life’
The 2013 International Modern Dance Festival, one of the oldest modern-dance festivals in Korea, unveiled its lineup for the upcoming edition scheduled for later this month.Under the theme “Dance and Life,” a total of 18 works, both from home and abroad, are to be featured during this year’s festival. Among them, five are from overseas, including the festival’s highly anticipated opener “Babel.”A work by renowned Belgian choreographers Damien Jelet and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, “Babel” is based on t
PerformanceMay 2, 2013
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Lee Hyo-ri unveils video teaser for new song ‘Miss Korea’
After a three-year hiatus, K-pop diva Lee Hyo-ri is making her long-awaited comeback with a self-composed title song. On Thursday, she released a 33-second teaser for her title song, “Miss Korea,” prior to her upcoming album release. In the retro style-teaser the chanteuse repeats “Because I’m a Miss Korea,” while dressed in figure-hugging costumes. Lee’s management agency B2M Entertainment announced on the same day that the full version of “Miss Korea” would be released next Monday before the f
PerformanceMay 2, 2013
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Report shows persistence of TV violence
NEW YORK (AP) ― Violence, gore and gunplay were staples on prime-time television even in the most sensitive period directly following the Newtown school shooting.A study of 392 prime-time scripted programs on broadcast networks shown during the month following Vice President Joe Biden’s January meeting with entertainment industry executives on the topic revealed that 193 had some incident of violence, according to the Parents Television Council. Some are cartoonish ― quite literally, with Homer
CultureMay 2, 2013
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Former lawmaker Hyun named nominal head of unification panel
President Park Geun-hye named former five-term lawmaker Hyun Kyung-dae as executive vice chairperson of the National Unification Advisory Council on Thursday.“Kim Hyun-uk, current executive vice chairperson, offered to resign after a meeting of the executive committee on April 30, so Park had to select his successor,” presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing said in a briefing to reporters Thursday. “The National Unification Advisory Council is headed by President Park and the executive vice chairper
PeopleMay 2, 2013
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New MBC president nominated
The board meeting of the Foundation for Broadcast Culture on Thursday nominated Kim Jong-guk, president of Daejeon MBC, a branch of the nationwide broadcasting network, as the new CEO of the mother company. The foundation holds a 70 percent stake in MBC.Kim, a Korea University graduate, began his career at MBC in 1982 as a reporter. Kim is reported to have received five votes out of the total nine at the board meeting. He previously served as president of Masan/Jinju MBC as well as Gyeongnam MBC
CultureMay 2, 2013
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Samsung Group president hosts lunch for CICI speech contest winners
Rhee In-yong, president of Samsung Group, invited the winners of Corea Image Communication Institute’s 2013 speech contest to a luncheon and discussion on cultural topics on Thursday.Rhee and the winners discussed and exchanged ideas about the “Meaning of the success of the Korean wave and new areas of the Korean wave,” “New keyword for 2013 Korea” and “Multicultural Korea.” “Korea is opening up to the world and I hope you will become the bridge between Korea and the outside world,” he said at t
CultureMay 2, 2013
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Lee Hyori to be the next “Miss Korea” in new video
Singer Lee Hyori released a teaser of her new music video “Miss Korea” through her agency, B2M Entertainment’s official YouTube channel and music websites in South Korea on Thursday. The 34-year-old singer appears in the video as a winner of North Chungcheong Province’s beauty pageant with glamorous makeup and outfits reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980. The use of black-and-white in the video adds to the retro feel. Lee flaunts a seductive and playful image in the 33-second teaser, eliciting resp
PerformanceMay 2, 2013
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Seo Kyung-duk, Song Il-kook to post makgeolli ad in WSJ
Seo Kyung-duk, a PR expert in promoting Korean culture, said he would post a new ad for makgeolli in the Wall Street Journal later this month.The professor of Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul commented on Twitter on Thursday that “the actor Song Il-kook, who has become a world star thanks to the worldwide success of his drama ‘Jumong,’ will participate in this project.”The ad will be financed by crowdfunding, a method that enlists financial support from ordinary citizens interested in the pr
CultureMay 2, 2013
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Psy included in Encyclopedia Britannica
K-pop sensation Psy was added to the annals of history Wednesday when his name was officially included in the Encyclopedia Britannica, its Web site showed. The online version of the English-language encyclopedia introduces Psy as the "South Korean singer and rapper" who "achieved international fame" last year with the humorous music video to his pop song "Gangnam Style."Though the 36-year-old singer, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, was originally known in his home country as a "controversial
TelevisionMay 1, 2013
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More and more U.S. women take up arms
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (AFP) ― Proudly brandishing a target she had riddled with bullets, 62-year-old Sharon Schaefer could not hide her delight at joining America’s growing number of gun-toting women.“It was fun!” she exclaimed breathlessly, much to the approval of her instructor Teresa Ovalle.“You did a good job, Sharon,” said the former Marine, who had just given the senior citizen a crash course in pistols at the Fredericksburg Range, some 80 kilometers southwest of the U.S. capital.On Thu
CultureMay 1, 2013
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Denmark’s Noma loses world restaurant crown after outbreak
LONDON (AFP) ― Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world’s best restaurant from Denmark’s Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with a bout of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery.The restaurant in Girona, run by three brothers and known for its dishes based on perfumes, had spent two years as runner-up on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list compiled for a 12th year by more than 900 international experts for Britain’s Restaurant magazine.It swapped pl
FoodMay 1, 2013
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Korean designers to be showcased in Singapore
A group of Korean designers will present their collections at one of Asia’s biggest fashion showcases in Singapore this month. Twelve young designers and Lee Suktae will attend the Asia Fashion Exchange from May 13-19 in Singapore that will gather international and Asian designer brands from all over the world. Young designers’ brands such as J Apostrophe, J KOO, KYE, Leyii, Navy Scandal and One Choi will present their pre-spring collection for 2014 to international buyers and press at the Blue
Arts & DesignMay 1, 2013
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Excavation of ‘treasures’ in waters off Jindo to be resumed
A search for Korean cultural properties that may exist on the bottom of the sea off a southwestern island will be resumed as planned on Wednesday after six months of suspension due to low water temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The sea off of Jindo Island’s Oryu-ri is likened to “an underwater treasure trove” as top-quality Goryeo celadon vases and bottles were found in the latest survey conducted last fall by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage.Goryeo is the ancien
CultureMay 1, 2013
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Ambitious Mariinsky supremo launches new Petersburg theater
ST. PETERSBURG (AFP) ―The hugely ambitious and well-connected director of Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre will on Thursday oversee the opening of a controversial new ballet and opera house, one of the biggest cultural projects in post-Soviet Russian history.The new “Mariinsky-2” theater will open with a gala on Thursday night conducted by director Valery Gergiev with great performers from across the world and expected to be attended by President Vladimir Putin.The new theater lies just behi
PerformanceMay 1, 2013
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Expats to sing Bach’s Mass in B Minor
The Camarata Music Company Chorale and Orchestra, a group of mainly expats living in Seoul, will hold a concert featuring J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Chungdong First Methodist Church. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, a compilation of 24 small pieces arranged in five acts, is called “one of the pinnacles of human achievement” by novelist Douglas Adams and “the greatest work of music of all ages and of all peoples” by critic and publisher Hans-Georg Ngeli. It was one of the German
PerformanceMay 1, 2013
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Philip Roth receives ‘Literary Service’ award
NEW YORK (AP) ― Philip Roth’s latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work.Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award Tuesday night. He was cited for such novels as “Portnoy’s Complaint’’ and “American Pastoral,’’ but also for his advocacy in the 1970s and 1980s for writers in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries during the Cold War. PEN, in the midst of a weeklong “World Voices Festival,’’ is an international writers’ organiza
BooksMay 1, 2013
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Chinese dancer emerges as Korea’s best-known filial daughter
Ballerina Fang Meng-ying arrived in Seoul from China at the age of 17, all by herself, not knowing many people in the foreign city. Leaving the Beijing Capital International Airport, she avoided looking into her parents’ eyes, knowing she’d burst into tears if she did.“I think that’s one of the reasons why I can really relate to Shim Chung, especially when she agonizes as she decides to leave her blind father,” said Fang in an interview with The Korea Herald on Tuesday. The 23-year-old is ahead
PerformanceMay 1, 2013
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9Muses to release new album this month
The nine members of the up-and-coming K-pop girl group 9Muses have announced plans to release their newest EP “Wild” on May 9. The group released a teaser image showing off part of a bare female chest and the phrase “OH!9 Project” with the “!9” graphic circled in red, possibly hinting that the ladies’ upcoming album may receive a 19-and-over rating. The girl group officially made its debut in August 2010 with the release of its first single album “Let’s Have a Party” and the lead track “No Playb
PerformanceMay 1, 2013
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Secret greets fans with a ‘YooHoo’ in new album
The four members of the K-pop girl group Secret have returned to their fans after four months with the group’s third EP titled “Letter from Secret,” which was released Tuesday. The bubbly, upbeat four-track album includes the lead track “YooHoo” and other singles “Daddy Long Legs,” “Only U” and “B.O.Y. (Because of You).” Upon its release, the new album’s track “YooHoo” took the top spot on many local music real-time charts including Mnet, Bugs, Olleh, Soribada and others. The single was composed
PerformanceMay 1, 2013