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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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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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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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Mission Hills, Hainan’s answer to tropical golf getaway
The allure of southern China’s Hainan Island is finally getting some long-deserved attention by virtue of its pristine beaches and clear blue waters along over 1,000 kilometers of coastline that encircles virgin rainforests atop central highlands.From Singapore to Seoul, the tropical island is fast becoming the answer to the holiday puzzler: Where can couples find that affordable but luxurious golf getaway? At the top of the expansive list of Hainan’s resort destinations is Mission Hills Haikou,
TravelMarch 22, 2013
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Authentic Hong Kong dishes at Grand Hyatt Seoul
The hotel’s The Chinese Restaurant will be hosting guest Chef Lo Kwai Kai from Hyatt Regency Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui from March 21 to 31. This will be a great opportunity for those seeking an authentic taste of Hong Kong’s finest dishes. Chef Lo Kwai Kai, who has more than 30 years of culinary experience, will prepare a wide array of traditional Chinese cuisine especially for Korean guests. The menus include steamed cod fish fillet, bean curd with homemade pickled chili, Shanghainese-style stir-
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Easter celebration at JW Marriott Hotel Seoul
The hotel is serving Easter brunches at the hotel’s JW’s Grill (100,000 won) and The Caf (77,000 won) featuring a variety of special Easter dishes, including lamb, egg brioche and Easter chocolates. Both prices include tax. The hotel will also hold an exclusive Easter celebration that hands out great prizes including the Gold Card membership worth 400,000 won and dining vouchers for use at The Caf and wine buffet at Bar Rouge. On Easter Sunday, hotel employees dressed up as rabbits will hand out
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Rainbow Secret Package at Imperial Palace Seoul
The hotel presents “Rainbow Secret Package” throughout the year. The first package (for two people) includes a one-night stay at the hotel and a comfortable brunch at Deli Amador. The second package (for three people) includes a one-night stay at the hotel with a party at Zoe Bar. The bar will provide guests with unlimited energy bomb cocktails, three glasses of signature cocktails and a snack. All visitors will also be given a “Glossy Box,” a cosmetics set consisting of five kinds of cosmetics
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Takeout lunches at Millennium Seoul Hilton
The hotel’s restaurant Cilantro Deli and Genji are offering takeout lunches through the end of May. Cilantro Deli offers an array of sandwiches (including club, salmon, vegetable, ham and cheese, mozzarella cheese, roast beef and salmon croissant-wich), four different salads including Caesar and salmon, breads and desserts. The menus range from 7,000 won to 20,000 won. Genji, the Japanese restaurant, offers popular lunch boxes. Guests can choose from regular lunch bento sets to special sushi ben
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Ladies Away package at W Seoul Walkerhill
The hotel is offering two unique promotions, “Ladies Away” and “Ladies Evening Away,” for city dwellers until June 28. The “Ladies Away” package includes 50-minute Ayuvedic spa treatment at AWAY spa, and a salad buffet and dessert at the hotel’s restaurant, Kitchen. The package is priced at 157,300 won. The “Ladies Evening Away” package offers a 30-minute back treatment, 30-minute mini facial massage and a choice of diet and health food set menus (two courses available) at the hotel’s Japanese r
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Spicy stir-fried squid (ojingeo bokkeum)
This squid dish is one of the most popular spicy dishes in Korean cuisine. The squid is cut into bite-sized pieces and stir fried in a slightly sweet red chili sauce along with vegetables. This recipe is certainly hot, but not fiery hot. Adjust the spiciness level to your taste. One way to reduce the spiciness is to use fewer fresh chili peppers (or none at all). Fresh chili peppers are called for in the classic versions of the dish, but the heat can be quite intense with certain varieties.This
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Northeastern eats at Tuk Tuk Noodle Thai
Hard to find but worth the effort, Tuk Tuk Noodle Thai feels like a hidden gem that foodies hope no one else has discovered but the steady stream of patrons looking for nosh even during closing hours proves this restaurant is no big secret. Tuk Tuk can credit its not-so-underground fame to owner Im Dong-hyuk, whose unbridled passion for Thai cuisine forms the backbone of the eatery’s extensive menu and the combination of flavors and fragrances that make dining at Tuk Tuk a vibrant, palate-bendin
FoodMarch 22, 2013
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Lee Hi takes M! Countdown crown once again
Super rookie Lee Hi, who exploded onto the music scene with her debut single “1,2,3,4,” is back on top once again with her latest release “It’s Over.” The singer performed her newly released single on the M! Countdown comeback stage on Thursday, beating out veteran ballad singers 2AM to receive her fourth countdown crown in her short career. The 16-year-old unveiled the first part of her debut album, titled “First Love Part 1,” on March 3. “It’s Over,” the album’s title track that put her on top
PerformanceMarch 22, 2013
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Fallon reportedly replacing Leno on ‘Tonight’ show
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― As Jay Leno makes jokes about ratings-challenged NBC in his “Tonight” monologues, speculation is swirling the network is taking steps to replace the host with Jimmy Fallon next year and move the talk show from California to New York. NBC confirmed Wednesday it’s creating a new studio for Fallon in New York, where he hosts “Late Night.” But the network did not comment on a report that the studio may become home to a transplanted, Fallon-hosted “Tonight.”The New York Times repor
TelevisionMarch 22, 2013
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Korean art sells high at Christie’s
A white porcelain jar from the Joseon Period was auctioned off for $1.2 million, the highest price fetched at the auction of Japanese and Korean art auction at Christie’s in New York on Wednesday.Paintings by renowned Korean artists Park Soo-keun and Kim Whan-ki were also sold for double their estimates. Park’s “Five seated figures” was auctioned at $711,750, higher than its $400,000-$500,000 estimate. Kim Whan-ki’s “Moon and Plum Blossom” painting was sold for $663,750, about double its estima
CultureMarch 22, 2013
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Teen touches Nepal with school sponsorship project
A teenager’s idea to reduce poverty has developed into a sponsorship project attracting interest abroad.In Shantipur, Nepal, which is the hometown of President Ram Baran Yadav, on March 9, a groundbreaking ceremony was held to build a school. The event kicked off the Nepal School of Hope Project by Good Way With Us, a Web portal where adolescents propose ideas for a better world and seek sponsorship. The project was inspired by 17-year-old Won Sung-jun, a student at Taft High School in Connecti
PeopleMarch 22, 2013
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Girls Aloud confirms breakup
The British pop group Girls Aloud announced via Twitter it is breaking up after a decade of performing together."Dear Alouders, we just want to say from the bottom of our hearts Thank you!! This tour has been an amazing experience and the perfect chance to say thank you for being on this journey with us through a decade," singers Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts tweeted on the Girls Aloud account Wednesday night."It has far exceeded any of our dreams a
PerformanceMarch 22, 2013
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Kim Fowley talks trash in memoir
Kim Fowley came out of a Hollywood that doesn’t exist anymore, the Hollywood of Kenneth Anger and Ed Wood. Best known for cooking up the Runaways, he began working in the music business in the late 1950s and since then has turned up in more places than Woody Allen’s Zelig, producing for Gene Vincent, writing with Warren Zevon and introducing John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band when they played Toronto in 1969.Fowley is now 73 and reportedly has been fighting bladder cancer, so it’s no surprise
BooksMarch 21, 2013
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The plane truth about ‘Unsolved Crime’
The Annals of Unsolved CrimeBy Edward Jay Epstein (Melville House)There’s a saying in newspaper publishing: If it bleeds, it leads. The only thing that captures the attention of the public better than a bloody crime scene is a bloody crime scene that raises more questions than it answers.In “The Annals of Unsolved Crime,” Edward Jay Epstein looks at 35 cases that were never satisfactorily resolved. He takes as his subjects not John or Jane Doe but rather some of the most famous people to ever di
BooksMarch 21, 2013
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Return of an old-school Scots cop
Standing in Another Man’s GraveBy Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)Welcome back to the Lothian & Borders Police force, John Rebus.On second thought, hold on a moment. You’re actually not so welcome back after all, you crusty, IPA-quaffing, single malt-drinking, doggedly old-school investigative iconoclast. At least not to your Scottish colleagues in the Edinburgh cop shop, who don’t approve of your rule-breaking, not-familiar-with-the-Internet, consorting-with-known-criminals ways.Those bureaucratic ty
BooksMarch 21, 2013
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Marisa Silver’s ‘Mary Coin’ imagines the life of a photographic icon
The starting point for Marisa Silver’s new novel, “Mary Coin,” was a moment of genius that unfolded on a California roadside more than 70 years ago.Just outside the coastal valley town of Nipomo in 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange spotted a migrant farmworker family sitting in a tent off U.S. Highway 101. After a few minutes of conversation, Lange snapped six shots of a mother and her children. The sixth became the defining American photograph of the Great Depression.Silver, a writer with a sha
BooksMarch 21, 2013
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Pianist Cho Seong-jin comes of age
There are unfortunate cases where talented young artists hailed as prodigies slip into a dark period of “growing pains” and fail to take the next step in their career. They are often forgotten or labeled “ill-fated genius.”Cho Seong-jin, 18, however, is proving to be a pleasant exception. This darling of the Korean classical music scene is enjoying every bit of his life while still holding onto his passion for music. Winner of International Frederick Chopin Competition in 2006 and Hamamatsu Int
CultureMarch 21, 2013
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Lotte Hotel to open new hotel in Busan
Lotte Hotel will take part in the burgeoning hotel scene in Busan, announcing on Thursday its plan to open a new property in 2017. With the growing number of tourists in the port city, the second largest city of Korea is in need of more hotel rooms and accommodations. To meet the demand, luxury hotels are flocking to open new properties at high-rise development sites near Haeundae beach. Lotte Hotel said it signed a memorandum understanding with the developer LCT PFV on the hotel opening and est
TravelMarch 21, 2013
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Jeju landscape drawn by a native son
There’s something about landscape paintings that allows viewers to accept them as they are. When viewing Kang Yo-bae’s landscape paintings of Jeju island, one can stop trying to understand the art, but just let the works touch their hearts. The 61-year-old native of Jeju is a landscape painter who has been portraying the southern island of Jeju for more than two decades. Born on Jeju, the artist spent his 20s and 30s in Seoul, studying painting at Seoul National University and teaching high scho
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013