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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Macanese cuisine at Millennium Seoul Hilton
The hotel’s Chinese restaurant Taipan presents Western-style Macanese cuisine designed by Japanese sous chef Hideshima. The menu includes deep-fried prawns and potato in tomato chili sauce, braised whole shark’s fin in Chinese ham and porcini broth, stir-fried abalone with coriander and lime sauce, deep-fried lobster with peanut and coconut sauce, and sauted beef in port wine sauce. The restaurant offers both a la carte dishes and set menus. A la carte dishes start at 18,000 won and set menus st
FoodApril 5, 2013
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Ladies’ lunch at Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel
The hotel’s signature restaurant Feast presents a special promotion for ladies, offering a 20 percent discount on the lunch buffet for all women-only groups. The restaurant is located on the 41st floor, affording one of the finest views of Seoul. The feast presents a variety of international dishes from Western dishes to Asian cuisine. The open kitchen allows guests to communicate with the chefs and order customized pastas and other noodle dishes. The promotion is available from noon to 2:30 p.m
FoodApril 5, 2013
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[Photo News] Outdoor beer garden
FoodApril 5, 2013
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Tteokbokki, (spicy rice cakes)
Tteokbokki is a beloved Korean street food with many variations. This spicy version was developed in 1953, the year the Korean War ended, and became popular as an affordable comfort snack. Over time, the dish has continued to evolve. Other ingredients such as fish cake, ramen, dumplings, boiled eggs, and even seafood have been added to this dish. Here, I kept the recipe simple. Anchovy broth is typically used, to add depth to the flavor, but you can simply use water as well. This recipe is spicy
FoodApril 5, 2013
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Keeping it earnest at Ours Blanc
The secret to Ours Blanc’s successful launch of its second store near Hongdae is very straightforward. Ours Blanc Hongdae store manager Kim Bo-yean pretty much summed up in one short sentence: “We make honest bread.” The bakery-cafe’s loaves, pastries and sandwiches do not skimp on substance, quality or taste and are reasonably priced to boot, with bread ranging from around 2,000 won to 4,000 won ($1.80 to $3.60) and hefty sandwiches from around 5,000 won to 6,000 won. Ours Blanc, which means “p
FoodApril 5, 2013
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Psy wins innovation award
Psy has been included on the list of winners recognized for their “disruptive innovation” during the past year, according to the website of Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. Psy was among the 19 recipients of the award given to a person or organization for their achievements that had a significant impact on their respective industry. “The recent online obsession over Psy’s video for ‘Gangnam Style’ has turned the Korean artist into a global phenomenon,” read the description of Psy on the we
CultureApril 5, 2013
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Hillary Clinton memoir expected in 2014
NEW YORK (AP) ― Hillary Rodham Clinton has a deal for a memoir and policy book about her years in the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. The book has yet to be titled and is tentatively scheduled for June 2014, in time for the summer reading season and for the midterm elections, when a promotional tour could easily blend with Democratic efforts work to recapture the House. The former secretary of state’s itinerary will be closely scrutinized for any signs she may r
PeopleApril 5, 2013
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[Photo News] Jeon Hyo-sung of Secret shows off her moves
Jeon Hyo-sung of K-pop girl group Secret performs at the group’s first concert in Singapore last Friday.(Photos: TS Entertainment) <관련 한글 기사>전효성의 폭발적인 솔로무대, 영상 공개시크릿의 소속사 TS 엔터테인먼트는 5일, 지난달 29일 싱가포르에서 열렸던 첫 단독 콘서트 영상을 공개했다.이날 시크릿 멤버들은 솔로무대와 히트곡들을 선보였으며, 리더 전효성은 비욘세의 ‘Crazy in Love’를 라이브로 선보였다.
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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JYJ wrapped up Tokyo Dome concert
JYJ, South Korea’s three-member boy band, successfully wrapped up a series of massive concerts called “The Return of the JYJ” at Tokyo Dome, drawing in a huge number of Japanese fans. The concert series started on Tuesday and went through Thursday, sparking keen interest among the group’s fans in Korea and Japan. Fans expressed excitement over the media attention to the performances because JYJ hasn’t appeared in the media for about three years due to a legal battle with Japanese management agen
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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‘Superstar K’ singer Hong Dae-gwang debuts with duet song
Former “Superstar K4” contestant Hong Dae-gwang made his debut as a singer on Friday with digital single “Good Bye."The duet song, featuring So-yu from K-pop girl group Sistar, is the first track released from Hong’s debut album, “Meoreojida (Falling out),” which will be available on April 19.The song is written by Hong, who reflected his personal experience of a breakup in the lyrics.Upon release, “Good Bye” took the country’s top music charts by storm. It ranked seventh on digital music provid
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies at age 70
Roger Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded America's most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.Ebert, who had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, his office said. Only a day earlier, he announced on his blog that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence
FilmApril 5, 2013
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Book builds on masterful world
AngelopolisBy Danielle Trussoni(Viking)John Milton, the 17th-century writer and poet, is perhaps most responsible for giving Satan and his rebel angels celebrity status. In “Paradise Lost,” Milton imagines the fallen angels as “all monstrous, all prodigious things,” presenting them as the heroes of his epic work explaining humanity’s fall from grace and justifying “the ways of God to man.” From the novels in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series to films like “The Matrix,” Milton’s masterp
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Missing woman shakes up Southern town
The Next Time You See MeBy Holly Goddard Jones (Touchstone Book)The small-town setting of “The Next Time You See Me,” Holly Goddard Jones’ debut novel, is no place for the faint of heart. The more we see of the people who live here, the easier it is to understand what one character means when he says it’s best to lay low and live “a small life, a sad life.”Especially if you’re different. Because Roma, Kentucky, circa 1993, is a place where cruelty is “the way of the world” and kindness “an anoma
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Americans caught in Great Recession undertow
In the official estimation of government economists, the Great Recession ended in 2009. But in Barbara Garson’s new book, it lives on. And for the people whose stories she tells, the Great Recession may never die.“They didn’t retire, and they didn’t find jobs,” Garson writes, describing the four New York professionals whose stories open “Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession.” They call themselves “The Pink Slip Club.” It’s a group that never loses any members, because n
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Poet finds new muse
Atlanta poet Collin Kelley was at a London gallery in 2010, taking in a retrospective of photographer Sally Mann, when he was gobsmacked by something in the Virginia-born artist’s otherworldly, black-and-white images. He saw eerie parallels to his own work ― the poetry he’d set aside years earlier to focus on writing fiction.He had a collection of poems that had been “kind of floating around” since 2008, enough for a book. He’d given it a couple of titles, combined different poems, changed the s
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Film director Martin Scorsese appeals for ‘visual literacy’
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Film director Martin Scorsese urged Americans on Monday to pay greater heed to “visual literacy” and to embrace their rich cinema heritage before it literally fades away.Scorsese appealed for a greater national commitment to film restoration and preservation when he delivered the annual Jefferson humanities lecture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.Like never before, people today are buffeted by images, said the 70-year-old Oscar-winning direc
FilmApril 4, 2013
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Ozawa says he has time ‘given by God’
TOKYO (AFP) ― Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa said Wednesday he wants to use the time he “has been given by God” after surviving cancer to teach the next generation of musicians.The 77-year-old, who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophagus in 2010 and was treated for a hernia in 2011, said he will invite 24 of Asia’s most talented young string players to attend his chamber music academy in Japan.Ahead of his full-scale comeback planned in August, he will conduct Tchaikovsky’s “Ser
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Louvre names antiquities expert as its new director
PARIS (AP) ― France’s Louvre museum is getting a new director ― the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some of the institutions latest efforts to expand its reach.Jean-Luc Martinez, a French specialist in Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities who has worked at the Louvre since 2007, was appointed by President Francois Hollande for a three-year term. Martinez, 49, is leading the restoration of the famed headless Winged Victory of Samothrace
CultureApril 4, 2013
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Bolshoi Ballet Academy to open Korean branch
The Bolshoi Ballet Academy plans to open its Korea branch in Songdo International Business District, a new city built on reclaimed land on the west coast of Incheon.The Russian institution, one of the oldest and best-known schools for classical ballet, reportedly signed an MOU with Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority in Moscow to open a Korea branch. Local ballet troupe Universal Ballet Company told The Korea Herald that it was collaborating with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in creating the progr
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Ballerina beguiling as Hindu temple dancer
Ballet dancer Lee Eun-won achieved a lot of things early in her life. Undoubtedly one of the most stellar dancers in the local ballet scene, Lee was only 18 when she joined the Korean National Ballet as an apprentice in 2010. She made her lead debut as Marie in the “Nutcracker” in the same year, and was promoted to prima ballerina in 2012 ― just two years after her debut. In spite of her principal dancer title, the 21-year-old is still the youngest member of the company. Her talent was obvious t
PerformanceApril 4, 2013