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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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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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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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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
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‘I hope to bring a smile to your face’
Author of famous novel “Please Look After Mom” Shin Kyung-sook said her new book “Moonlight Tales” came to her while on a break from writing long novels. “Walking around at night alone I looked up in the sky, and there it was, a beautiful round moon. The look of it left a strong impression, and this is how the book was created,” Shin said at a press conference at Caf Comma 2 Page on Thursday.In her new book the writer tried different approaches, moving away from long, often heavy stories she is
BooksMarch 21, 2013
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Starman: London show hails rock icon David Bowie
LONDON (AFP) ― Outrageous costumes and hand-scrawled lyrics are among hundreds of items going on show in a major London retrospective tracing David Bowie’s relentless self-reinventions over five decades.Charting the British singer’s rise to fame and his reincarnations as Ziggy Stardust and other outlandish alter egos, the “David Bowie Is” exhibition has become the fastest-selling show in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s history ahead of its launch on Saturday.The prestigious art and design museu
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013
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Paul McCartney to kick off world tour in Poland
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Paul McCartney will kick off a world tour in Warsaw on June 22, four days after he turns 71, the former Beatle’s official website annouced Wednesday.McCartney’s appearance at the National Stadium will be his first-ever show in Poland, said www.paulmccartney.com, adding that his “Out There!” tour would feature music from his entire career.McCartney will also perform in Vienna on June 27, the website said, with confirmed dates for concerts in other cities to be announced “in th
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013
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Psy to change name of song ‘Assarabia’
Psy announced he would change the title and lyrics of his potential “Gangnam Style” follow-up “Assarabia” over concerns it could offend Arabs.The Korean term can be written as “Assarabia” and “Assaravia” in English. Equivalent to the term “Oh yeah!” in English, assarabia is slang used by Koreans to express excitement. However, the Korean term did not translate well globally ― separating the “Ass” and “Arabia,” some said it was insulting to Arabs. The K-pop singer clarified the matter on Monday t
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013
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Snoop Lion to hold first Seoul concert
One of the most influential figures in the American hip-hop industry Snoop Lion, aka Snoop Dogg, is scheduled to perform live in Seoul for the first time this May. The concert titled, “Unite All Originals Live with Snoop Dogg,” will also feature local music and fashion trendsetters 2NE1, who will be sharing the stage with the legendary rapper as special guests. After a trip to Jamaica last year, the rapper announced his conversion to the Rastafarian movement and his rebirth under the name Snoop
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013
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Ex-envoy to Vietnam Im named head of Global Compact Korea Network
A former South Korean ambassador to Vietnam was appointed the new head of the Global Compact Korea Network, the foreign ministry said. Global Compact Korea Network is the local association of businesses that have joined a U.N. initiative to promote sustainable and socially responsible management. Im Hong-jae, a 63-year-old career diplomat who served as ambassador to Hanoi from 2007 to 2010, was elected secretary-general of Global Compact Korea Network in its general session on March 6. Im succee
PeopleMarch 21, 2013
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Ex-Foreign Minister Kim to teach at Seoul National Univ.
Former foreign minister Kim Sung-hwan will take to the lecture podium at Seoul National University. The Graduate School of International Studies of the university said Thursday that it decided to appoint Kim as a two-year chair professor on Monday.Kim also will act as the first head of a global social contribution corps of the university, launched in February this year.The corps will integrate and coordinate on-campus contribution activities, educate in contribution activities at home and abroad
PeopleMarch 21, 2013
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Club launched to promote Korea travel
The Corea Image Communication Institute and Cs jointly launched a new group aimed at promoting awareness of Korean culture among foreign visitors at the Grand Hyatt Seoul yesterday. CICI is a nonprofit organization that strives to promote and advance the global image of Korea, while Cs is a consulting company for the nation’s hospitality industry.The 5.4 Club co-presidents Choi Jung-wha, president of CICI, and Didier Beltoise, president and CEO of Cs, established the club in order to promote and
PeopleMarch 21, 2013
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Psy’s new song sparks attention from foreign media
International media outlets are paying keen attention to Psy’s new song, particularly its “controversial” title. U.S. music magazines such as Billboard and Rolling Stone and Britain’s The Sun reported that Psy, who shot to stardom with his addictive music video for “Gangnam Style,” decided to change the Korean title of his new song “Assarabia” as it could be misheard as offensive.YG Entertainment, Psy’s agency, said the 39-year-old singer considered changing the title even before the controversy
PerformanceMarch 21, 2013