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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Seventeen shows who is the ‘Maestro’ of K-pop in greatest hits album
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Bucheon to throw its annual genre-film bash
PiFan to also hold genre-fiction book fair, camping opportunities and movie-themed partiesFor horror, fantasy, mystery and animated film fans, Bucheon is the place to be this month.The annual Puchon (Bucheon) International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), which is considered the largest genre film fest in Asia, is opening this Thursday ― featuring a total of 230 films from 47 countries. This year’s edition opens with Korean horror film “Horror Stories,” a joint project by six local directors: Je
FilmJuly 15, 2012
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Kitten stows away on 6,500-mile journey
Animal rescuers in California said a kitten stowed away in a shipping container and made a 6,500 mile freighter trip from China.Marcia Mayeda, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care & Control, said the kitten survived the trip without any food or water and was taken to the Carson Animal Center after the crate she was in was delivered Thursday to a Compton business, the Los An
TravelJuly 15, 2012
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Autistic man survives 3-week ordeal in U.S. desert
An autistic man lived on frogs and roots as he wandered for weeks in the remote Escalante Desert of southern Utah until being rescued, emaciated but alive.William Martin LaFever, 28, told rescuers that in addition to the bits of food he scavenged, including a few frogs he caught, he drank water from the Escalante River while attempting to walk from Boulder, Utah, to Page, Arizona, a distance of ap
PeopleJuly 15, 2012
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Ditching digital
Gadget-fatigued people turn back to vinyl records, film cameras, fountain pensKoreans are often thought of as some of the world’s most tech-savvy people, quick to catch on to the newest digital gadgets.Using their mobile phones or tablets, they listen to music, manage schedules, take pictures and type emails.However, an underground shopping arcade in Hoehyeon-dong, central Seoul seems to resist the tide of digital culture. Vinyl record stores line the passageways, and everything feels slow. If y
CultureJuly 13, 2012
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Museums, art centers offer fun, education for kids
With school break just around the corner, museums and art centers have lined up a variety of cultural events. The programs will suit the needs of children and teenagers looking for fun and entertaining events as well as parents seeking to find more educational opportunities. Although the vacation has been made shorter by the five-day school week this year, children and parents can still make the best of it in an enriching cultural atmosphere. Here are some fun yet educational summer programs tha
CultureJuly 13, 2012
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Dance“Swan Lake”: Russia’s Novosibrisk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is presenting Tchaikovsky classic “Swan Lake.” The piece is directed by Igor Zelensky while its stage and costume have been designed by Louisa Spinatelli. The show runs from July 26 to 29 at Seoul Arts Center. Tickets range from 50,000 won to 250,000 won. For more information, visit www.sac.or.kr or call (02) 2650-7481. “Orpheus and Eurydice”: Kim Yong-geol Dance Theater presents its original creative repertory “Orph
PerformanceJuly 13, 2012
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Eyelike
Zac Brown Band show diversity on new CDZac Brown Band"Uncaged" (Southern Ground/Atlantic)The Zac Brown Band delivers a message with the title of its new album, "Uncaged" -- and the songs back up that statement. Although still likely to be described as a country band, the Georgia group purposely, and admirably, avoids current Nashville conventions on their new collection.Ten years in, the ZBB instead focus on the tight interplay the ensemble has developed through heavy touring, dwelling on instru
PerformanceJuly 13, 2012
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Box Office
A Millionaire on the Run (Korea)Opening July 19 Comedy. Directed by Kim Ik-Ro. A promising salary man and a lobbyist, Choi Young-in (Park Jin-young) is attacked by a stranger while on a delivery mission to carry $5 million. He realizes that his boss Han Sang-moo (Cho Sung-ha), whom Young-in considered as his own brother, has betrayed him and made a scheme to kill him and take the money. While running away, Young-in encounters Miri (Min Hyo-rin) who robbed Pil-soo (Oh Jung-se) and runs away with
FilmJuly 13, 2012
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Well-cast thriller lurches to a halt a few too many times
Here’s one thing the movies get wrong pretty consistently ― the reaction of seemingly rational people upon seeing the supernatural, the impossible, the miraculous.“Red Lights,” the new film from the director of the nervy minimalist thriller “Buried” (Ryan Reynolds in a box), has great actors reacting exactly the way their characters would respond to things that fall under “This CANNOT be happening.”There’s Sigourney Weaver as Margaret, the jaded, not-quite smug academic and veteran debunker of t
FilmJuly 13, 2012
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European crisis drags down business travel
NEW YORK (AP) ― U.S. companies are scaling back their travel plans in response to Europe’s financial crisis and uncertainty about the economy at home.American business travelers are now expected to take 437.9 million trips this year, the Global Business Travel Association said Tuesday. That’s down 1.2 percent from an estimate made in April by the travel and meetings trade group.The outlook for next year is even worse, with the trade group lowering its forecast to 435 million trips, down 1.9 perc
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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KTO to operate rush ticket website
The Korea Tourism Organization plans to open a website that sells rush tickets that are sold on the day of performance at discounted prices starting August. The website will offer 50 to 90 percent discount on the rush tickets for major performances held at Daehangno, a theater district in Seoul, as well as major art centers. For more information, call (02) 729-9536.
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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CityMap rolls out new travel apps
App developer company CityMap has launched two mobile travel applications featuring information on more than 600 camping sites in Korea, as well as travel information on Jeju. “The Camping Roadmap” features detailed information about camping sites nationwide ― facilities, surroundings, ground conditions ― with high-definition photos. The “Jeju Roadmap” includes information on accommodation, restaurants, tourist attractions, the Olle walking trail, rental cars, and leisure companies based on thre
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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Korail offers travel to Boryeong Mud Fest
Korea Railroad Corporation offers a special travel package including train tickets to the Boryeong Mud Festival to Boryeong in South Chungcheong Province, accommodation and transportation on arrival. Those who purchase the package can get a 20 percent discount on the roundtrip train tickets. There are two types of travel programs ― one with basic transportation and accommodation with entrance fee to the festival and the other with additional tickets for rail bike or cruise ship experiences. The
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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Denver’s downtown becoming hot spot for cocktails, food ― and ice cream
DENVER ― I never thought of Denver as much of a foodie destination, though Frasca, a 30-minute drive away in Boulder, gets heaps of well-deserved praise. But on a weekend trip a few months ago, I encountered a few meals ― and a few drinks ― that have me eager to return.The LoDo (lower downtown) area has undergone an amazing revitalization and now is crowded with restaurants and bars and young professionals eager to sample them. The turnaround began with the 1988 opening of Wynkoop Brewing Co., a
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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Zambia underfoot: On the ground at Zebra Plains
MFUWE, Zambia ― We’re nodding off in our tent, pitched under a tree, when the crunching and gnashing begin.It’s the hippos again, a half-dozen massive beasts climbing up from the Luangwa River for their nightly feed. During September, a hot, dry month here at Zebra Plains Camp, in northeast Zambia, the tree’s foot-long fruit hang low, an irresistible meal for diners with gaping jaws and fist-size grinders.Silence falls as the hippos lumber away. For a moment we doze ― well wined and dined after
TravelJuly 13, 2012
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Thrill of competition, agony of life
GoldBy Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)TV producers who create those biographical segments on Olympic athletes could only wish that Chris Cleave wrote their scripts.In “Gold,” Cleave fashions a life-and-death story of two female cyclists, long entwined athletically and personally, competing for a single spot on Great Britain’s Olympic team.Cleave’s earlier novels include the bestseller “Little Bee.”“Gold” feels like a marriage of “Wide World of Sports” with Lifetime television; that’s meant as a
BooksJuly 13, 2012
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Another winner from bestseller author
Shadow of NightBy Deborah Harkness (Viking Books)The ingredients for an enthralling historical fantasy can be deceptively simple: All you need are Elizabethan England, magic and witches. Add to this heady draught a liberal infusion of vampires and daemons, spice with a bit of romance and a dash of time travel ― just to kick up the action a notch ― and one’s imagination reels with the possibilities. Or at least it should, because Deborah Harkness’ “Shadow of Night” can show you just how potent su
BooksJuly 13, 2012
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Garcia Marquez foundation refutes dementia claim
The head of a foundation created by Colombian Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez refuted claims from the author’s brother that he is suffering from dementia.“I will not argue or comment on interpretations of Gabo’s private affairs and health, but I assert there is no medical diagnosis of senile dementia,” the director of the New Journalism Foundation, Jaime Abello, wrote on Twitter.“Please, enough messages of solidarity: Gabo is not insane. He’s just an elderly person who has lost
BooksJuly 13, 2012
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Margaret Atwood, author of dark tales, nurtures budding teenage writers
Margaret Atwood has always been one step ahead. The recent to-do over the use of the word “vagina” on the Michigan state House floor, for instance, would fit right in with the world she imagined in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was published back in 1985.So maybe other adult novelists should take note of Atwood’s latest move: She’s jumped into the frenetic teen writing site Wattpad (www.wattpad.com). “I look forward to exploring the ways Wattpad connects people to reading and writing, and may hel
BooksJuly 13, 2012
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Kurt Andersen concocts tale of woman seeking to reveal her radical past
The public intellectual has become a rare creature in America, but Kurt Andersen has helped keep it from going extinct. He co-founded Spy magazine, was editor of New York magazine and now writes pieces like Time’s 2011 person of the year story, the Protester. These days, though, he mostly splits his time between hosting “Studio 360,” broadcast weekly to 160 NPR stations, and writing the occasional bestselling novel. His newest book, “True Believers” (Random House: 447 pages, $27), came out Tuesd
BooksJuly 13, 2012