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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Competition to find Earhart strong 75 years on
HOUSTON (AP) ― Jon Thompson has traveled the world collecting art and artifacts for museum exhibits, seen the remains of the Titanic on the sea floor and participated in two unsuccessful missions to find Amelia Earhart.Aged 72 and battling prostate cancer, Thompson is convinced he and a team from deep-sea exploration company Nauticos will finally be successful in finding the Kansas-born aviator’s plane, which disappeared with Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in July 1937. He’s among the researc
TravelApril 11, 2012
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Korea’s best-selling children’s novel wins Polish award
A translated version of the best-selling Korean children’s novel “Leafie, a Hen into the Wild” has won a literary honor in Poland, according to Korea Literature Translation Institute.The book, about the adventures of a mother hen who tries to escape the coop with her duckling son, has been named the “best book of spring 2012” (Najlepsza ksika na wiosne 2012) by Granice.pl, a renowned literary organization in Poland. According to Korea Literature Translation Institute, it is the first time a Kore
BooksApril 11, 2012
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Great Mountain Music Festival to feature dance music
Annual music festival in Gangwon to explore inseparable relationship between music and danceGreat Mountain Music Festival & School, a classical music event held in the summer, will focus on the intertwined relationship between music and dance this year, festival organizers said on Wednesday.Under the slogan “Dancing Through the Centuries,” the festival will feature a wide range of dance music or music composed to accompany dancing from the 17th to 20th century, offering the audience a rare chanc
PerformanceApril 11, 2012
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Eva Longoria talks politics, producing
NEW YORK (AP) ― “Desperate Housewives’’ star Eva Longoria is leaving Wisteria Lane for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.The 37-year-old actress was named a national co-chair for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in February, and she’s bidding farewell to her sassy, model-turned-housewife character Gabrielle Solis on the ABC drama’s May 13 finale.But making the leap from the domestic affairs of the “Housewives’’ to a national political campaign hasn’t been an easy transition.“People go, ‘Who
TelevisionApril 11, 2012
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Girl group Afterschool adds new member
Korean girl group Afterschool introduced Tuesday its newest member, Ga-eun.The 17-year-old will make her official debut on the group’s upcoming album, which will be released June 21.Ga-eun has the Afterschool “vibe” with a baby-face and a model-like figure, Afterschool’s management agency Pledis said. The company pointed out that Ga-eun demonstrated the most powerful vocal and dancing abilities among the candidates who vied to become the ninth member of the group. “Ga-eun went to junior high in
April 11, 2012
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Ship leaves NYC to visit Titanic graves in Canada
NEW YORK (AP) ― Passengers dressed in fur coats and wide-brimmed hats strolled the decks of a memorial ship as it began its journey to Canada to visit the spot where the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean a century ago.The ship was packed on Tuesday with history aficionados who have long been obsessed with the doomed ocean liner. Quite a few wore old-fashioned costumes, and one boy in a fake white beard was dressed up as Captain Edward John Smith.The cruise ship Journey, operated b
TravelApril 11, 2012
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Tinted gold passes for precious stones
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AFP) ― All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for colour-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds.The tinting can increase the value of gold by a factor of five, meaning the chemically-altered precious metal is likely to appear in jewellers’ display windows worldwide soon, according to University of Antioquia engineers.“It does not involve painting the gold or covering it with some mat
Arts & DesignApril 11, 2012
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‘Little Paris Kitchen’ spells success for young British chef
PARIS (AFP) ― From au pair to television chef of the moment, Rachel Khoo has come a long way since she landed in Paris from London six years ago, armed with schoolgirl French and a love of cooking.With a bestselling recipe book and BBC series, “The Little Paris Kitchen,” now under her belt, the 31-year-old looks well placed to be the next big thing on the television chef scene. Or rather, the next small thing.For Khoo’s new-found fame comes courtesy of the micro-restaurant which the bubbly brune
Arts & DesignApril 11, 2012
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Designers show mixed bag of goodies
Organza, dots lend light mood to dark palettes of winter monthsGlobal warming, or more accurately, global climate change must have been on the minds of many designers presenting their fall/winter collections during last week’s Seoul Fashion Week.Never mind the unseasonably cold and windy weather ― the gusty wind knocked out a wall of a tent at Olympic Park that housed the press room ― the audiences were treated to some delightful lightness afforded by the use of organza, fine silk, punched fabri
Arts & DesignApril 11, 2012
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Korea‘s international awards show highlights best in TV dramas
Park Eun-mi has been watching TV almost all day for months. As a television programmer, she is among those responsible for sifting through scores of submissions to create a list of candidates for the Seoul International Drama Awards.Now in its seventh year, the awards ceremony recognizing the best in television dramas will be held in August in South Korea, a country increasingly known worldwide for producing top-notch programming.“It is our way of giving back,” said Min Young-dong, last year’s p
TelevisionApril 11, 2012
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Doomsday condos on sale for those who can afford it
Luxury flats built inside missile silos to fend off disaster“Act now, or you’re a loser.”A salesman abides by this strategy to prepare for the worst as he seeks to sell ultra-safety underground havens designed to withstand Doomsday. ‘Doomsday preppers,’ luxurious underground havens built deep under the Kansas prairie, have been sold to four buyers for a total of about $7 million so far, the Daily Mail reported.The luxury flats located within 3-meter-thick walls of abandoned missile silos stretc
TravelApril 11, 2012
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Chairman Cho at the vanguard of sports diplomacy
Chairman Cho at the vanguard of sports diplomacyBy Kim So-hyunEver since he took the helm of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee in 2009, Hanjin Group chairman Cho Yang-ho has been at the forefront of Korea’s sports diplomacy. Even after PyeongChang won the right in July last year to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, Cho continued to contribute towards achieving world peace through sports.Cho was named an international ambassador for the Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based orga
PeopleApril 10, 2012
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Final book of Churchill trilogy coming this fall
NEW YORK (AP) ― The third and final volume of the late William Manchester’s beloved series on Winston Churchill is coming out this fall, nearly 25 years since the previous book.In November, Little, Brown and Company will publish “The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965.” The new work was started by Manchester and completed by Paul Reid, a former writer for Cox Newspapers. Manchester, who began the Churchill series in the 1980s, was in poor health during his lat
PeopleApril 10, 2012
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Dior names Simons as artistic director
PARIS (AP) ― Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, seven months after its icon, John Galliano, was convicted by a Paris court for drunken anti-Semitic ravings.A fashion rebel of a different sort, Simons ― who began his career as a furniture designer and has had his own successful menswear label ― will present his first show for the renowned Dior fashion house in July, according to Monday’s announcement.Galliano was dismissed by Dior in March 2011, day
PeopleApril 10, 2012
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Rain to promote military service
The Military Manpower Administration appointed singer Rain as the ninth military service promotion ambassador on Tuesday.“Make it widely known that fulfilling military service is a proud and honorable act while working as the military service promotion ambassador,” Military Manpower Administration Commissioner Kim Young-hoo said after appointing Rain as the goodwill ambassador. Rain will serve as the goodwill ambassador for one year. During that time he will model for various promotion projects
PeopleApril 10, 2012
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Kang donates profits from restaurant business
Former TV celebrity Kang Ho-dong announced Tuesday that he would donate all profits from his shares of 678 Corporation. Once a leading show host, Kang is the largest shareholder of the company, which operates seven restaurant brands specializing in pork, chicken and beef dishes, including 678 Chicken and Baekjeong. Kang became the company’s largest shareholder in 2005 and currently holds a 33.3 percent stake worth more than 15 billion won ($13 million). 678 Corporation has not disclosed the deta
PeopleApril 10, 2012
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Lotus Lantern Festival designated as intangible cultural heritage
Yeondeunghoe, the lotus lantern festival that accompanie Buddha’s Birthday, has been designated as an intangible cultural heritage by the Cultural Heritage Administration said Monday.The first form of the festival dates back to Korea’s Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-935 A.D.), and has been held on the day of Daeboreum ― a Korean holiday that celebrates the first full moon of the lunar calendar. The religious ceremony now takes place annually in Seoul on the nearest Sunday to Buddha’s Birthday.“Though Ye
CultureApril 10, 2012
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Georgia’s Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities
GORI, Georgia (AP) ― A museum that has honored Josef Stalin in Georgia since 1937 is being remodeled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during the Soviet dictator’s rule.Georgian Culture Minister Nika Rurua said Monday that his nation, which became independent in 1991, can no longer host a museum “glorifying the Soviet dictator.’’Stalin was born Josef Dzhugashvili in the central Georgian town of Gori in 1879, and the museum opened here in 1937, at the height of purges that were later
CultureApril 10, 2012
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Dublin artist opens shredded 1.4 billion euro house to public
DUBLIN (AFP) ― An artist is welcoming tourists to his Dublin home ― made from 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion) of shredded bank notes ― to stimulate debate about Ireland’s ailing economy, he told AFP on Monday.Frank Buckley built the three-roomed apartment-cum-gallery over three months, from bricks made of mulched, decommissioned notes provided by Ireland’s Central Bank.With the help of some donated timber and a door and a window given by a friend, the total cost to the struggling artist was jus
PerformanceApril 10, 2012
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Korean contemporary art introduced in Mideast
Standard Chartered Korea sponsors ‘Korean Eye’ that showcases Korean artwork in Abu DhabiA group of Korean contemporary artists and their works are being introduced in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, through an exhibition titled “Korean Eye: Energy and Matter.”The exhibition, sponsored by Standard Chartered, a leading global financial group, presents 19 works by 14 established and emerging contemporary Korean artists including Kang Hyung-koo, Shin Mee-kyoung and Bahk Seon-ghi
PerformanceApril 10, 2012