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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Spain’s king discharged from hospital after hip operation
MADRID (AP) ― King Juan Carlos has been discharged from a hospital in Madrid nine days after entering to undergo reconstructive surgery on his left hip joint. The 74-year-old Spanish monarch joked with journalists as he left a hospital Sunday in the front passenger seat of a chauffeur-driven car, promising to “take things very easy” during his recuperation. A hospital statement says the king had “very satisfactorily completed the first phase of his rehabilitation.” In April, the head of state wa
PeopleDec. 3, 2012
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Braun wins DARI Award for making Psy global sensation
Scooter Braun, the U.S. manager for Korean pop sensation Psy, will receive an award from the Korean government for his contribution to making Psy into a global phenomenon, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said on Monday. Braun was chosen as “Man of the Year” for the DARI Award 2012, which is given to people who have bridged the U.S. and Korea through culture by the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles and the Korea Culture and Content Agency. Braun is said to have confirmed his atten
PeopleDec. 3, 2012
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Letterman, Hoffman, Zeppelin receive Kennedy Center Honors
WASHINGTON (AP) ― David Letterman’s “stupid human tricks” and Top 10 lists vaulted into the ranks of cultural acclaim Sunday night as the late-night comedian received this year’s Kennedy Center Honors with rock band Led Zeppelin, an actor, a ballerina and a bluesman. Stars from New York, Hollywood and the music world joined President Barack Obama at the White House on Sunday night to salute the honorees, whose ranks also include actor Dustin Hoffman, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Nata
PeopleDec. 3, 2012
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Kate Winslet appears in a documentary for legalizing drug use
Hollywood star Kate Winslet unknowingly played a role in a documentary endorsing the legalization of drug use. The video was produced by an organization in which her boyfriend and his uncle were involved, and Winslet asked the organization to remove the documentary from public view.The documentary, posted on YouTube, is associated with the “Sundog Pictures” film company owned by Winslet’s boyfriend, Ned Rocknroll and with his uncle’s “Virgin Unite” foundation. This short movie argues for the dec
FilmDec. 3, 2012
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Harvard approves kinky sex club on campus
Harvard University said its recognition of a new club for students who are interested in kinky sex doesn‘t mean the Ivy League school endorses such practices.Harvard this week approved Harvard College Munch, a low-profile adults-only group that will be allowed to use university meeting rooms and post notices on campus.School spokesman Jeff Neal told CNN the club went through normal approval channels and, like any of the other approximately 400 student groups on campus, is not officially endorsed
CultureDec. 3, 2012
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Kim leads polls for Time’s Person of the Year; Psy 4th
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un continued to dominate Time’s online poll for the most influential figure in this year’s news, according to the weekly magazine’s website. Kim garnered 2,257,077 votes as of Sunday morning, dwarfing the rest of the competition. Tailing the hermit kingdom’s leader were newly appointed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi with 362,473 votes, Pakistan’s inspirational teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai with 362,473 votes, and South Korea’s rapping phenomenon Psy,
PeopleDec. 2, 2012
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China unearths ancient palace ruins: state media
BEIJING (AFP) ― China has unearthed the ruins of an ancient palace near the tomb of the country’s first emperor that was already famed for its terracotta soldiers, state media said on Saturday.The discovery is the latest at the mausoleum, which dates back more than two millennia and became one of the greatest modern archaeological finds after a peasant digging a well stumbled upon the life-size warriors in 1974.The palace “is the largest complex ever found at the cemetery,” the Xinhua news agenc
CultureDec. 2, 2012
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Louvre masterworks to light up ex-mining town
LENS, France (AFP) ― The Louvre will shine the light of high culture on a depressed former mining town this week, as the Paris museum opens a gleaming new satellite among the slag heaps of northern Lens.President Francois Hollande will cut the ribbon Tuesday on the Japanese-designed new museum, set to host masterpieces by Delacroix and Raphael for its first year of existence.And Leonardo Da Vinci’s newly restored “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne” will leave its Paris home for the first time
PerformanceDec. 2, 2012
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Karl Lagerfeld photo exhibition arrives in Seoul
After much anticipation, Chanel’s black jacket photo exhibition has arrived in Seoul.The exhibition, which began on Saturday, displays photographs of celebrities and various personalities wearing the Chanel jacket. The snaps were taken by Karl Lagerfeld, who has been the head designer and creative director for the fashion house for 29 years. Since its debut in Tokyo in April, the exhibition has toured New York, Taipei, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Sydney, Paris and Berlin. The photographs are fro
PerformanceDec. 2, 2012
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Sarah Chang holds Korea recital tour
For a long time, violinist Sarah Chang has been the “golden girl” to Koreans. At the tender age of 8, the Korean-American was playing with Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti and studying with Dorothy DeLay. It seems that Chang still has the world under her spell: She has performed with nearly all acclaimed orchestras and musicians around the world and has a 20-volume CD set honoring her 20 year-contract with EMI classics. She received the Avery Fisher Prize in 1999, was selected as one of the 20 fema
CultureDec. 2, 2012
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Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen get Billboard honors
NEW YORK (AP) ― Billboard named Katy Perry its woman of the year, but the pop star thought her year was 2011.“I felt like my year was last year ... I thought my moment had passed,’’ Perry said in an interview with Jon Stewart at Billboard’s Women in Music event Friday in New York City.Perry released “Teenage Dream’’ in 2010, and the double platinum album sparked five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that spilled over to 2011. She tied the record Michael Jackson set with “Thriller’’ for
PerformanceDec. 2, 2012
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Patricia Kaas pays tribute to French singing icon
Patricia Kaas, an internationally known French pop and jazz fusion singer who has sold more than 16 million records worldwide, is in Korea to perform her tribute to legendary French singer Edith Piaf. “Kaas Chante Piaf,” meaning “Kaas Sings Piaf,” is the title of her new worldwide tour focusing on some of Piaf’s most iconic titles. The show was created in commemoration of Piaf’s contribution to the history of French popular music. “Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Piaf’s death, so I wish
PerformanceDec. 2, 2012
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Psy grabs four awards at MAMA
Psy swept four awards at the 2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong on Friday. The “Gangnam Style” singer won Best Dance Performance Solo, Best Music Video, International Favorite Artist, and one of MAMA’s grand prizes, Song of the Year.“My singing career hasn’t always been so successful, but this year has been so exceptionally great,” said the singer after accepting the honor at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.“I’d like to thank Scooter Braun, whom I work with in the U.S.”The
Dec. 2, 2012
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‘Pieta’ wins top prize at Blue Dragon Awards
Director Kim Ki-duk’s Venice-winning film “Pieta” won the top prize at the 33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards on Friday.“I wanted to talk about capitalism and its problems with this movie,” said Kim after receiving the Best Picture prize during the ceremony held at the Sejong Center in Seoul. “I hope to see the kind of society that values people first, not money.”The film, a bleak morality tale about a cruel debt collector running into a woman who claims to be his mother, won the top prize at Venice I
FilmDec. 2, 2012
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Study: Women spend more time ogling women
British researchers say women are more likely than men to give women's bodies a visual once-over.Researchers at Bristol University came to their conclusions after asking volunteers to examine a range of different images, including pictures of couples in films, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.They found women spent 61 percent of their time looking at the women in the pictures, and only 39 percent on the men, while men seemed to spend just over half -- 53 percent -- of their time looking at th
PeopleDec. 2, 2012
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Protests flare in Bahrain for Kim Kardashian visit
Just hours after reality TV star Kim Kardashian gushed about her impressions of Bahrain, riot police fired tear gas to disperse more than 50 hardline Islamic protesters denouncing her presence in the Gulf kingdom.The clashes took place just before Kardashian opened the Bahrain branch of her Millions of Milkshakes shop.An Associated Press journalist saw protesters chanting “God is Great” near the shopping complex in Riffa, some 20 kilometers south of the capital Manama. The demonstrators were cle
TelevisionDec. 2, 2012
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Switzerland best place for baby to be born
In 1988, the United States was ranked at the best place for a baby to be born, but today Switzerland is ranked No. 1 among 80 countries, researchers say. The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, used a quality-of-life index that links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys -- how happy people say they are -- to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. The researchers used data from 2006, collected by the Gallup Poll, and conducted a
CultureDec. 1, 2012
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Lohan arrested over NY fight, charged over LA crash
U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested for assault in New York Thursday, and also charged over a car crash in California, in a double legal blow which could in theory land her back to jail.The perennially troubled 26-year-old, who is struggling to get her life back on the rails and remains on probation for a 2011 jewelry theft, was arrested in the early hours after a fight at a New York nightclub, police said."She was charged with assault" and ordered to appear at a later date, a New York Polic
PerformanceDec. 1, 2012
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Psy to perform at Christmas concert in U.S.
South Korea's pop sensation Psy will perform at a Christmas concert to be held in Washington that U.S. President Barack Obama is set to attend, his agency said Friday.The 34-year-old rapper, whose song "Gangnam Style" has swept the globe, plans to do a special performance at the close of the concert called "Christmas in Washington 2012" to be held on Dec. 21, according to U.S. cable channel TNT, host of the concert.The concert, which marks its 31st anniversary this year, is attended each year by
EntertainmentNov. 30, 2012
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Party ideas for holiday season
Holiday year-end parties in Korea are not something that everyone looks forward to, as they often involve binge drinking and not much variety. An online survey of more than 1,000 employees conducted in December last year found that about 70 percent said they are tired of the traditional binge drinking culture. And only 8.6 percent said they looked forward to such drinking. This year doesn’t have to follow the same old routine ― endless rounds of drinks and visits to karaoke joints or other drink
CultureNov. 30, 2012