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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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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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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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YouTube talks shutdown in April Fool’s prank
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― In an elaborate April Fool’s prank, YouTube announced Sunday it was going dark for a decade, and that the site was merely an eight-year contest to find the best video.“It’s finally time to pick the winner,” YouTube representatives announced in a 3:32-minute video posted on its homepage.The message was simple: The world’s most popular video-sharing website would close at the end of the day to review all the video submissions it has received over the years, and would announce th
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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Writer sued over unpaid support for illegitimate son
Famed novelist Lee Oi-soo has been sued by a woman in her 50s for not paying child support for their illegitimate son born in 1987.The woman, whose last name is Oh, allegedly filed a lawsuit against the popular author in February, demanding payment of some 200 million won in unpaid child support. She also demanded the 67-year-old author legally register their child as his son. The child, who is currently a college student, has been using his mother’s family name. Lee married his wife, Jeon Youn
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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Ex-foreign minister named Kyungnam chair professor
Kyungnam University appointed former Foreign Minister Song Min-soon chair professor Monday, the school in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, said.Song will teach diplomacy, trade, reunification and security to undergraduates and graduates majoring in political science.Song was recruited as a career diplomat of the foreign ministry in 1975, served as deputy director general of the North American affairs bureau of the ministry, ambassador to Poland, chief South Korean delegate to the six-way tal
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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Spanish princess in eye of graft scandal storm
MADRID (AFP) ― Spanish King Juan Carlos’s youngest daughter, Princess Cristina, is in the front line of a legal storm engulfing her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, who is under investigation for allegedly embezzling millions of euros in public money.The 47-year-old has not been named as a suspect in the corruption probe opened at the end of 2011 by a judge on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Urdangarin and his former partner Diego Torres are suspected of siphoning off money paid by regional gove
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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Sondheim wins MacDowell medal
NEW YORK (AP) ― Stephen Sondheim has won one of the top honors in the arts world, the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement. The MacDowell Colony, the U.S.-based artist residency program, announced Sunday that Sondheim has received an award that has been given to Robert Frost and Georgia O’Keeffe among others. The 83-year-old Sondheim is known for such classic musicals as “A Little Night Music” and “Into the Woods.” He will accept the medal at an August ceremony.
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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First female promoted to No. 2 post in police agency
The police agency has named its first-ever female chief superintendent general, its second-highest rank, since its establishment in 1945. According to the Korean National Police Agency Monday, Senior Superintendent General Lee Kum-hyoung, who is director-general for personnel management of the agency, has been nominated president of the Korean National Police University. The school president is ranked as chief superintendent general, one rank below the head of the police agency, which is commiss
PeopleApril 1, 2013
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Suspended coffee: a gift for you and others
A warm, smooth cappuccino or latte is ideal for coping with mid-spring frosty winds. It warms you up, boosts energy and, more than anything, provides comfort in a hectic life. To share such a good feeling with the less wealthy, a number of cafe owners across Europe have joined the “suspended coffee” initiative.Suspended coffee is an extra coffee that one pays for in advance for someone in need. People participating in the initiative go to a coffeehouse, order their coffee and prepay for another
CultureApril 1, 2013
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Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman
Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger _ it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine.Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue that we can't fully understand Shakespeare unless we study his often-overlooked business savvy.“Shakespeare the grain-hoarder has been redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be
CultureApril 1, 2013
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Actress from popular 90s sitcom found dead
A 38-year-old actress from a popular 1990s sitcom was found dead in an apparent suicide, police said Monday.The body of the actress was found Friday by her boyfriend at her home in Gangnam district, Seoul, according to Gangnam Police Station. The actress, only identified by her surname Kim, had been suffering from depression.Kim left a note saying “I’m sorry,” indicating that she may have taken her own life.The actress gained fame after she appeared in a popular 1990s sitcom “Sunpung Sanbuingwa
TelevisionApril 1, 2013
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Korean novel shines in Lithuania
Korean author Ha Il-ji’s 2009 novel “The Republic of Uzupis” has been selected as one of the 12 best translated books of 2012 by Lithuania’s government-affiliated literary organization. A tale about a middle-aged man who wanders in search of an imaginary country, the novel was translated into Lithuanian by Korean translator Seo Jeon-seok with the support of Literature Translation Institute of Korea and published in Lithuania in 2012. “Filled with humor and mystique, the novel tells the story of
BooksMarch 31, 2013
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Faulkner letters, manuscripts to sell
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Letters, an unpublished short story and other documents penned by ground-breaking American novelist William Faulkner are expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction this June.Sotheby’s in New York announced the June 11 sale, which it called “the largest and most important group of William Faulkner material ever to appear at auction.”Highlights include letters that show the author’s life in Paris during the 1920s and a 12-page story called “The Trapper’s Story,” which was n
BooksMarch 31, 2013
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Love of art is blind for sightless museum visitors
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Her eyes see nothing, but when Barbara Appel runs her fingers over the face of a Picasso sculpture in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, she sighs with pleasure.Most people go to museums to look at exhibits, but for some at MoMA, love of art is literally blind.Each month, a small group with various levels of impaired vision accompanies an expert guide to the famed Manhattan museum.For Appel, who is 62 and suddenly lost her sight just over a decade ago, the Art inSight program is a
PerformanceMarch 31, 2013
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Retracing the steps of abstract art in Korea
In 1959, art student Youn Myeung-ro received the top award from the National Art Exhibition, considered the gateway to success in the careers of Korean artists. That would have been the easiest path for Youn to reach fame. But he took the road not taken. Rebelling against the status quo of the art world, he refused to show his prize-winning work at the actual exhibition. He established a new artist group and showed his work on the stone wall of Deoksugung Palace, the venue of the National Art Ex
PerformanceMarch 31, 2013
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2BiC looks to add some soul to local music scene
The two husky guys of 2BiC may not look like the typical hard-bodied and pretty-faced male singers one expects in today’s image-conscious music scene, but Ji-hwan and Jun-hyung have powerfully soulful voices that can blow the competition out of the water. “I know when you look at us you think we don’t really look the part. Many people ask if we’re comedians,” said Ji-hwan. “But when we sing, we are very sincere ... and I think people can see that.”The old college buddies did not expect to find t
PerformanceMarch 31, 2013
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China ‘bans’ Kraftwerk from festival over Tibet show
BEIJING (AFP) ― China has forbidden German electronic band Kraftwerk from performing at a music festival, more than a decade after they appeared on the bill of a Free Tibet concert, an industry source said Thursday.Modern Sky records, a Chinese music company, applied to the Ministry of Culture for permission for the band to play at the annual Strawberry Festival in Beijing next month.But a source at the firm, asking for anonymity for fear of reprisals, said: “Kraftwerk were not allowed to play .
PerformanceMarch 31, 2013
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Actor Choi Min-soo’s rock band to go on tour
Choi Min-soo, best known as a tough-guy actor in productions such as “The Hourglass,” has announced that his rock band 36.5˚C will kick off a 10-city nationwide concert tour beginning in June. The 50-year-old actor first entered the music scene in 2006 with the release of his band’s debut album “The Men’s Story” under the name Choi Min-soo Rocksan Band. After Choi’s music career went quiet for several years, he finally introduced his latest rock band 36.5˚C and performed on stage at the Ulsan Ja
PerformanceMarch 31, 2013
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Phil Ramone, Grammy-winning producer, dead at 79
NEW YORK (AP) ― Phil Ramone, the masterful Grammy Award-winning engineer, arranger and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, died Saturday of complications stemming from heart surgery, his family said. He was 79.Ramone, who lived in Wilton, Connecticut, had elective surgery on Feb. 27 to prevent an aortic aneurysm, son Matt Ramone said. He later developed pneumonia and died Saturday morning at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the son said.
PeopleMarch 31, 2013
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Family sues NYC transit authority over push death
NEW YORK (AP) ― The family of a Korean immigrant who died after allegedly being pushed into the path of a New York City subway train has filed a lawsuit against the city’s transit authority. The lawsuit filed Friday by the family of Han Ki-suck seeks unspecified damages stemming from his Dec. 3 death. It accuses the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of negligence. Police say a homeless man admitted pushing Han onto the tracks but said Han was drunk and instigated the confrontation. Naeem Dav
PeopleMarch 31, 2013
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Freddie Mercury ‘took Princess Diana to gay bar in drag’
LONDON (AFP) ― Queen singer Freddie Mercury disguised the late Princess Diana as a male model and smuggled her into a notorious gay bar, according to a memoir serialized in Britain’s Sunday Times.Comedian Cleo Rocos describes in her book “The Power of Positive Drinking” how she, Mercury and fellow comedian Kenny Everett dressed Diana in an army jacket, cap and sunglasses for a night out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, south London, in the late 1980s.“When we walked in... we felt she was obviously
PeopleMarch 31, 2013
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‘Shroud of Turin’ may have existed in Jesus’ lifetime, scholar insists
The Shroud of Turin, the alleged burial shroud of Jesus, may have been made during Jesus’ lifetime, according to a new study by an Italian scholar.Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical engineering at Padua University, claimed that the shroud dates from 280 B.C. to A.D. 220, the period when Jesus was alive.The findings were published in Fanti’s new book, “Il Mistero della Sindone (The Mystery of the Shroud).“The latest research contrasts a 1988 study that put the production date of the linen cl
CultureMarch 30, 2013