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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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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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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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Liberal bloc moves to rewrite student rights ordinance
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job award
LONDON (AP) ― A critic who accused a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like “tin cans tied to a tricycle’’ has won a prize for the year’s most lacerating book review.Adam Mars-Jones’ review of Michael Cunningham’s novel “By Nightfall’’ was named the winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award.The review condemns the novel’s pretensions, saying it is “filled with thoughts about art, or (more ominously) Thoughts about Art.’’Mars-Jones, a British-born novelist, was aw
BooksFeb. 8, 2012
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McCartney headlines queen‘s jubilee concert
LONDON (AFP) - Beatles legend Paul McCartney will headline a large concert in front of Buckingham Palace to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, organiser Gary Barlow said Tuesday.Barlow, the frontman of pop band Take That who has been tasked with putting together the June 4 tribute to mark the monarch‘s 60 years on the throne, said the London gig would “transcend multiple decades of music.”Elton John, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Chinese virtuoso pianist Lang Lang will join McCartne
PerformanceFeb. 8, 2012
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Audiences are noticing Galecki, and now the Emmys, Globes are too
LOS ANGELES ― Johnny Galecki seeks to be average.The star of “The Big Bang Theory” is seated outside a small Hollywood restaurant, talking about his longing to play ordinary, run-of-the mill figures rather than the larger-than-life characters that actors and audiences sometimes embrace.“Guys like Dustin Hoffman and Jack Lemmon have always been my leading men,” said the 36-year-old, leather jacket-clad actor, who minutes before was crushing the butt of a luxury cigarette with his scuffed combat b
FilmFeb. 8, 2012
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Ai Weiwei to build London 2012 pavilion
LONDON (AFP) ― Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is reuniting with the Swiss architects with whom he created Beijing’s spectacular Bird’s Nest Stadium, to build a pavilion for this year’s London Olympics.Ai, along with the Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron, will join forces again to design a pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens park, the gallery said on Tuesday. “It is a great honour to be working with Herzog and de Meuron and Ai Weiwei,” said gallery director Jul
PerformanceFeb. 8, 2012
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Berlin’s Pergamon Altar up for renovations
BERLIN (AFP) ― The Great Altar of Pergamon, a sculpted frieze dating from the 2nd century B.C. and one of Berlin’s top tourist attractions, will be closed for repair work from 2014, the museum said Tuesday.The Pergamon Museum ― which opened to house the Ancient Greek masterpiece in 1930 on Berlin’s renowned Museum Island ― will undergo a complete renovation in several phases, between October of this year and 2019.“Preliminary restoration work in the Pergamon Hall will likely begin in May 2014,”
FilmFeb. 8, 2012
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Man admits N.Y. part of art-theft spree
NEW YORK (AP) ― A wine steward who plucked artwork off hotel and gallery walls in a bicoastal spree admitted Tuesday to stealing a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving charges here after serving jail time in California.An art-loving thief who stole to decorate his own apartment, according to prosecutors, Mark Lugo pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the New York case.He admitted he took the pricey sketch by the Cubist painter Fernand Leger from a lobby gallery at Manhattan’s Carlyle Hotel on J
PerformanceFeb. 8, 2012
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Swedish museum to open Korean wing in Stockholm
Sweden’s Museum of East Asia will open a special exhibition wing for Korean antiquities this weekend, a South Korean government agency in charge of supporting exchanges with foreign countries said Wednesday.The Korean room, built with financial support from the Korea Foundation affiliated with the Foreign Ministry, is scheduled to open on Saturday, the agency said.About 160 of some 350 Korean artifacts owned by the museum, chiefly ceramics, will be displayed in the 100 square meters of space on
PerformanceFeb. 8, 2012
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Park Chan-ho’s wife to host food show
Park Ri-hye, wife of South Korean baseball pitcher Park Chan-ho and a trained chef, is to host a new food show for a local cable TV channel.“Park will host a show titled ‘Homemade cook by Park Ri-hye,’” Olive TV, a cable channel owned by CJ E&M, said in a press release. “This is the first time for her to share her recipes (with the audience) as a solo emcee,” it added. The weekly show runs on Tuesdays.The program will feature Park’s lifestyle in Seoul and her secret recipes that she created for
PeopleFeb. 7, 2012
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‘Amazing Spider-Man’ teaser released for fans
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― “The Amazing Spider-Man’’ dropped in on hundreds of fans Monday.Sony Pictures teased the latest incarnation of the web-slinging superhero, which doesn’t arrive in U.S. theaters until July 3, at preview events held Monday at movie theaters in 13 cities spanning the globe, including Mexico City, Berlin, Rome, Paris and Moscow, with the cast and filmmakers appearing in Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro and London.The event began with the debut of the 3-D full-length “Amazing
FilmFeb. 7, 2012
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Spanish artist Antoni Tapies dies aged 88
MADRID (AFP) ― Avant-garde Spanish painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies has died in Barcelona at age 88, local media reported Monday.Tapies was hailed as one of the biggest names in European contemporary art for his striking abstract canvases and compositions in which he sometimes used waste material.He won many awards and was associated early on in his career with other major names in 20th-century art, including fellow Catalan Joan Miro.He had a prominent art foundation named after him in the cit
PerformanceFeb. 7, 2012
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Auction houses outfox Chinese antiquity fakers
HONG KONG (AFP) ― Nicolas Chow places a magnifying glass against a Ming Dynasty vase to inspect the potter’s 600-year old workmanship.Chow, the international head of Chinese ceramics and works of art at auction giant Sotheby’s, points out layers of uneven bubbles invisible to the naked eye along the early 15th century blue and white porcelain.The distinctive markings are just one tell-tale sign that experts rely on to determine if a piece is a multi-million dollar original or worthless fake.“Tha
PerformanceFeb. 7, 2012
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U.S. judge: Baroque artwork to return to man’s heirs
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) ― A federal judge has ordered the return of a 16th Century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of a Jewish man who died shortly before the German occupation of France in World War II.U.S. Judge Robert Hinkle filed the order Monday to return the work ― “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue’’ ― to the descendants of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe. U.S. authorities seized the Italian painting last November from a Florida museum that was
PerformanceFeb. 7, 2012
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KOFIC to support 33 Korean-foreign joint productions in 2012
Film council will back small-scale production houses and distributors;office slated to move to Busan in 2013The Korean Film Council will be supporting 33 Korean-foreign joint production films this year, as well as small-sale production houses and distributors, its officials announced in a press meeting in Myeong-dong, Seoul, Tuesday.The council kicked off the 2 billion won project for the 33 joint productions on Tuesday by announcing its official call for submissions. Fifteen applications will b
FilmFeb. 7, 2012
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Scholar dreams of taking pansori to the world
Korean literature professor leads English translation of all pansori lyricsPansori, a traditional form of narrative music performed by a solo singer, was added to UNESCO’s world heritage list nearly 10 years ago. But promoting pansori overseas has not been easy ― partly because there was no way for the foreign audience to understand the words during the performance.To facilitate better appreciation of pansori performances, Choe Tong-hyon, Korean Language and Literature professor at Kunsan Nation
PerformanceFeb. 7, 2012
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Book details JFK affair with teen White House intern
NEW YORK (AFP) ― John F. Kennedy carried on an 18-month-long affair with a teenaged White House intern, according to a new book by the woman who claims to have been the late U.S. president’s lover.Excerpts of the shocking memoir, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” were released Monday by the New York Post, which said it purchased a copy of the book at a local bookstore, although it is not scheduled for publication until Wednesday.In her tell-all mem
BooksFeb. 7, 2012
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Chris Brown to perform at the Grammy Awards
NEW YORK (AP) ― Chris Brown will perform at this year’s Grammy Awards, the event where his career almost ended three years ago.Brown admitted to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy party in 2009 and is serving five years of probation for the felony attack. A source told The Associated Press on Monday that Brown will hit the stage at Sunday’s show. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because Brown’s performance has not been officially announced.After the attack, Brown’s repu
PerformanceFeb. 7, 2012
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Clooney, Pitt, pals meet for Oscars lunch
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) ― George Clooney says the best thing about Academy Awards nominations is not necessarily the prizes. It’s hanging with old and new friends.At the annual Oscar nominee luncheon Monday, Clooney said he’s made new pals on the awards circuit this season and has been happy to catch up with longtime friends such as Viola Davis and Brad Pitt, his co-star in the “Ocean’s Eleven’’ movies.“A lot of people at home think we all hang out together. I think they think we’re alway
FilmFeb. 7, 2012
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Come Together
This is a series introducing associations and clubs that expats can get involved in. This week, Expat Living spoke to Ramon Christian Eusebio, president of Filipino Scholars in Korea. ― Ed.● Name: Pinoy Iskolars sa Korea, Inc. (PIKO) ― Filipino Scholars in Korea● Location: Seoul● Number of members: 313 as of December ●Started: 2006What is PIKO?PIKO is an organization committed to the promotion of fellowship and cooperation among Filipino students participating in educational programs in the Repu
Expat LivingFeb. 7, 2012
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Seoul City seeks expat volunteers
Seoul Metropolitan Government is recruiting foreign volunteers who will work to improve foreign residents’ daily lives in Seoul.Forty-five volunteers will monitor and report any inconveniences experienced by foreign residents and suggest policies to improve things. Applicants will work from March to December 2012 and will be entitled to some payment for their activities.Foreign nationals or naturalized Korean citizens who have lived in Seoul for at least one year can apply. They should have inte
Expat LivingFeb. 7, 2012
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Busan Salsa Club puts on Valentine’s party
Busan International Salsa Club is holding a Valentine’s Day party Saturday at Bar Caribe in Seomyeon.The event will include a secret message board so that coy singles can tell their crush how they feel, chocolate fondue and salsa lessons at the beginning of the night.A basic lesson for absolute beginners starts 7:30 p.m., with a lesson for all levels at 8 p.m. and a Bachata lesson starting at 9 p.m.The dress code is white and red, with organizers promising prizes for the best dressed men and wom
Expat LivingFeb. 7, 2012