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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Beyonce named People’s most beautiful woman
NEW YORK (AP) ― People magazine has named Beyonce as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. The 30-year-old singer tops the magazine’s annual list of the “World’s Most Beautiful” in a special double issue. The announcement was made Wednesday. Beyonce tells People: “I feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt because I’ve given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this Earth.” Beyonce, who is married to rapper Jay-Z, gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy C
PeopleApril 26, 2012
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Wagner’s ‘Ring’ gets a new spin
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Retro, futurist, minimalist and powerful, the new production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle was staged in full this month by the New York Metropolitan Opera, giving this classic work a new spin.The Met says the new version of the four-opera cycle ― “Das Rheingold,” “Die Walkure,” “Siegfried” and “Gotterdammerung” ― produced by Robert Lepage is “the most ambitious production the Met has ever attempted,” weighing in with a budget of $16 million.Although the four operas have shown separa
PerformanceApril 26, 2012
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Director’s youth culture obsession continues in ‘contemporary retro’ film
MINNEAPOLIS ― There’s an unmistakable personal stamp to the romantic comedies of Whit Stillman. His esthetic as a writer and director reflects his Harvard Club roots, with a yearning for the sophisticated golden age of the East Coast American establishment. Cocktails are quaffed, urbane characters fence with four-syllable words, young men dress for parties in white tie, and debutantes fret over such One Percent problems as “a severe escort shortage.”Stillman was retro before “Mad Men” made it co
FilmApril 26, 2012
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Irish artist Louis le Brocquy dies in Dublin
DUBLIN (AP) ― Irish expressionist painter Louis le Brocquy, who was best known for abstract portraits of Ireland’s literary and artistic stars, died Wednesday. He was 95.Irish President Michael D. Higgins praised le Brocquy’s work as “amongst this country’s most valuable cultural assets.’’His family said he died in his Dublin home with his wife of 54 years, the artist Anne Madden, at his side. The cause of death was not announced, but he had been ill for the past year.Born in Dublin in 1916, le
PerformanceApril 26, 2012
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Students to stage protest at Gaga’s concert venue
U.S. sociologist says Christian protesters feel offended by singer’s use of religious symbolismA college group announced on Thursday that they will stage a “massive protest” outside Lady Gaga’s concert in Seoul on Friday, claiming the artist has offended many youngsters with her “abnormal, obscene” performances.“We, Korean students, are hereby warning Lady Gaga, who has performed sexually perverted acts on stage in the name of freedom of expression, to stop her vulgar concert and go home,” said
PerformanceApril 26, 2012
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Katie Couric to launch new Web show for Yahoo, ABC
NEW YORK (AP) ― Katie Couric is launching a weekly Web series for Yahoo News and ABC News about health and lifestyle issues.The series, “Katie’s Take,’’ will premiere Tuesday on Yahoo. Yahoo Inc. formally unveiled the show Wednesday at a presentation to advertisers in New York.Couric left the anchor chair of the “CBS Evening News’’ last year. She is currently a special correspondent for ABC News. She is launching a syndicated talk show, “Katie,’’ this September.In a statement, Couric said she is
TelevisionApril 26, 2012
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‘The King of Pigs’ becomes first Korean animation featured at Cannes
Five Korean films to be presented at upcoming film festival“The King of Pigs,” director Yeun Sang-ho’s feature debut from last year, has been invited to the upcoming Cannes film festival ― becoming the first Korean animated film to be featured at the event. The organizers of the film festival on Tuesday unveiled the full line-up of the Director’s Fortnight sidebar. Yeun’s film “The King of Pigs,” and director Hur Jin-ho’s latest work “Dangerous Liaisons” were among the 21 films selected for the
FilmApril 26, 2012
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Why a diamond is a Hong Kong widow's best friend
Hong Kong businessman Kennedy Tam always wanted to travel the world. When he died suddenly of a stroke in 2010, his wife Freda decided death would not stand in his way.Since that day, Freda has taken Kennedy on trips to New York, Canada, Shanghai and Turkey."We are always together. Even at work he is always near me," said Freda, 48.As she talks, Freda looks lovingly down at the necklace around her
Arts & DesignApril 26, 2012
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Lady Gaga seen roaming around Seoul
Lady Gaga was spotted cruising around Seoul Thursday.A Korean actress Jin Jae-young said on her twitter that she witnessed the pop star passing by on a black sedan. “I just saw Lady Gaga. When I called out her name she blew a kiss at me and said “annyunghasaeyo -- Korean word for hello -- to me. It’s awesome,” she wrote.In the photo Jin posted, Gaga sits on a black vehicle and appears to say some
PerformanceApril 26, 2012
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Beyonce named People's most beautiful woman
People magazine has named Beyonce as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. In this cover image released by People, singer Beyonce graces the cover of People magazine`s special issue naming her the World`s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. (AP-Yonhap News)The 30-year-old singer tops the magazine's annual list of the World's Most Beautiful” in a special double issue. The announcement was made Wedn
PerformanceApril 26, 2012
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Critics slam protests against Lady Gaga
Some Christian groups oppose singer’s concert, others call for tolerance Artists and critics are calling for cultural tolerance from conservative Christian groups who are staging a series of protests against U.S. pop star Lady Gaga, accusing her of advocating homosexuality and pornography.Some churches in Seoul held group prayers or services against Lady Gaga, one of today’s most influential artists, while others are holding protests in front of the Hyundai Card head office building, calling on
PerformanceApril 25, 2012
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Rather’s suit against CBS was worth it, he writes in new book
NEW YORK (AP) ― Retired CBS anchorman Dan Rather says his lawsuit against his former network was worth it, even though the $70 million breach-of-conduct case was rejected by New York courts. In his new book, “Rather Outspoken,” he said the case forced some of the “ugly truths” about CBS into the open. The longtime CBS newsman left the network acrimoniously after a discredited 2004 report about President George W. Bush’s military service. Rather’s book is due out Monday. A copy was purchased Tues
PeopleApril 25, 2012
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Angelina Jolie visits Ecuador as U.N. envoy
QUITO (AP) ― Actress Angelina Jolie visited Ecuador over the weekend in her first such trip as special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency. Jolie has visited various countries over the past decade as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The agency says this is her first trip as special envoy since her appointment earlier this month. The agency said in a statement on Monday that Jolie was on her third trip to Ecuador to assess the situation of thousands of refugees who
PeopleApril 25, 2012
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New York City portrayed online in 870,000 images
NEW YORK (AP) ― The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other.The rare crime scene photograph from Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time.The city Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicized link to the images h
PerformanceApril 25, 2012
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Lee shares his Hollywood experience
Hallyu star returns as Storm Shadow in ‘G.I. Joe 2’Shooting his second Hollywood film required a number of things of actor Lee Byung-hun, including mastering every script line in a perfect American accent and getting used to the extremely strict shooting schedule.The hallyu megastar is returning as the famously heroic “Storm Shadow” character in his upcoming sci-fi film “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” which is a sequel to the 2009 picture “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.”“In Korea, things can be flexibl
FilmApril 25, 2012
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Filmmaker acquires rights to ‘Chinglish’
NEW YORK (AP) ― Plans are in the works to bring David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish’’ to a movie screen.The filmmaker Justin Lin, who has directed several of the “Fast and Furious’’ movies, announced Tuesday that he has acquired film rights to Hwang’s play about an East-meets-West collision.“Chinglish’’ tells the story of a businessman from Ohio who goes to China to expand his business but struggles to be understood and falls in love with a Chinese woman.Hwang, who won a Tony Award as writer of “M. B
FilmApril 25, 2012
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Eclectic line-up revealed for Cannes sidebar
PARIS (AFP) ― The 2012 line-up of the Director’s Fortnight sidebar to the annual Cannes Film Festival was unveiled on Tuesday in Paris, an eclectic selection of 21 films of all formats.“This line-up is above all one of enjoyment, and it’s made so that the spectator goes from laughing to tears from one film to another and within the same film,” said the sidebar’s new artistic director Edouard Waintrop.“Deep emotion, that’s what drew me to cinema,” added the former newspaper cinema critic at the P
FilmApril 25, 2012
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‘The Raven’ reinvents life and work of Edgar Allan Poe as a horror fable
MIAMI ― This much we know is true: Edgar Allan Poe died on Oct. 7, 1849, at the age of 40, after having been found delirious and incoherent in the streets of Baltimore. His exact whereabouts in the few days previous remain unknown. His death has been attributed to everything from alcoholism to rabies to various medical conditions.“The Raven,” the sleek and brooding thriller, offers a different and improbable ― but much less mundane ― solution to the mystery. The movie, which incorporates several
FilmApril 25, 2012
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Fashion’s Narciso Rodriguez gets nod from museum
Fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez has always referenced the world of art: Modern paintings are one of his many sources of inspiration.It seems fitting, then, that El Museo del Barrio will honor the designer of Cuban descent next month during its annual gala. In its announcement, El Museo said that Rodriguez is considered one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America.“It’s a great compliment. I don’t know if it is necessarily true but it is a great compliment. I like to think that I have g
Arts & DesignApril 25, 2012
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A tribute to shoes: Dancers celebrate Capezio
NEW YORK (AP) ― The New York arts world has every kind of tribute; Galas are held virtually every night. But a tribute to a shoe company?Well, shoes are very important to dancers ― pointe shoes, ballet slippers, Broadway dance shoes, tap shoes. So it was an opportunity for dance ― loads and loads, of all varieties ― when Capezio celebrated its 125th anniversary Monday evening with a gala at New York City Center.The evening started with a New York institution: The Rockettes, in black and sequins,
Arts & DesignApril 25, 2012