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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Pop star Rain adjusting well to military life
Fans wept as he was drafted into the army last month but South Korean pop sensation Rain is apparently adjusting well to military life.Rain, whose real name is Jung Ji-Hoon, will become an assistant instructor next month at the boot camp which he entered in October, the defence ministry said Wednesday.“Assistant instructors are chosen based on outstanding training results and their willingness, and Jung has shown that,” a ministry spokesman told AFP.Rain was recently also named top marksman at t
PerformanceNov. 10, 2011
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Brains, guts, glitz are honored at Glamour fest
NEW YORK (AP) ― His wife couldn’t be there herself to accept her honor. So Mark Kelly, husband of recovering congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, spoke on her behalf. But, he made clear, his wife was still running the show.“We went over my remarks very carefully,” Kelly said at Glamour’s Women of the Year awards on Monday. “She’s still in charge.”Giffords was one of 11 women honored at the Carnegie Hall ceremony, the 21st time the awards have been presented. As always, the assembled group was a for
PeopleNov. 10, 2011
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Book prize for ‘distinguished’ Keith Richards
NEW YORK (AP) ― On a night he was honored for his way with words, Keith Richards was clearly winging it.“This is one for the books, if you get my drift ― you hacks,” the 67-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist joked Tuesday as he accepted the Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography, a prize earned by his million-selling memoir “Life.”Wearing tinted glasses, a long scarf around his neck and a wide red band around his sprawl of salt and pepper hair, Richards stood before hundreds dressed in suits an
PerformanceNov. 10, 2011
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Marc Jacobs perfume ad banned in UK
LONDON (AP) _ Britain's advertising standards watchdog on Wednesday banned a Marc Jacobs perfume ad starring actress Dakota Fanning, saying it seemed to sexualize a child and could cause serious offense.Four readers complained about the magazine ad for Jacobs' recently launched ``Oh, Lola!'' perfume
FilmNov. 10, 2011
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Roy Lichtenstein canvas pops $43 million auction record
NEW YORK (AFP) ― A Pop Art canvas by Roy Lichtenstein, “I Can See the Whole Room! ... and There’s Nobody in It!,” popped previous world records for the landmark contemporary artist when it sold for $43.2 million in New York on Tuesday.The sale at Christie’s beat the artist’s previous auction record of $42.6 million and led a strong performance for contemporary works.“I Can See the Whole Room! ...” was executed in 1961 with oil and graphite in Lichtenstein’s familiar cartoon style, depicting a st
PerformanceNov. 9, 2011
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France bars London gallery from leaving with ‘stolen’ art
PARIS (AFP) ― France laid claim on Monday to a French baroque painting that it said was stolen 200 years ago, and barred a London gallery that brought the work to Paris for an exhibition from taking it back.France’s culture ministry said the picture, “The Carrying of the Cross” painted by Nicolas Tournier around 1632, had been stolen from a museum in the southern city of Toulouse in 1818 and still belonged to the French state.London’s Weiss Gallery had brought the painting to the French capital
PerformanceNov. 9, 2011
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String of intimate chamber music at Seoul venues
The merit of going to a chamber music concert is being able to enjoy individual artists’ different performing styles along with the harmony of the instruments.The intimate nature of chamber music will be displayed at the Kumho Art Hall and Seoul Arts Center’s IBK Chamber Hall through to the end of the year.At the Kumho Art Hall, a series of three chamber music concerts will be held on Thursday, Dec. 8 and Dec. 29.The first performance is by Curtis and Friends, consisting of pianist and Yonsei Un
PerformanceNov. 9, 2011
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Master craftsmen struggle to make ends meet
Substantial support needed to bolster traditional craft industryAlthough he has been hammering Korean traditional patterns on metal for nearly half a century, artisan Park Moon-yeol’s life only began looking rosy in 1993, when he figured out the secret of the seven-step lock. Hearing about the existence of a peculiar Joseon Dynasty lock, he visited a folk museum in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, to take a look. It was tucked away in the back of the museum and the owner prohibited him from tak
CultureNov. 9, 2011
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Shakira honored with Walk of Fame star
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Grammy-winning Colombian singer Shakira now has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.During a Tuesday ceremony surrounded by hundreds of screaming, flag-waving fans, Shakira unveiled her sidewalk star in front of the W Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. It’s the 2,454th star dedicated along Hollywood’s avenue of dreams.“This is incredible,” said the singer and activist. “I would like to thank all of you.”Shakira said she remembered being on the boulevard as a tourist when
PerformanceNov. 9, 2011
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Rap legend Heavy D dies after collapsing
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Heavy D, the self-proclaimed “overweight lover” of hip-hop who became one of rap’s top hit-makers with wit, humor and a positive vibe, has died. He was 44.Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills police said Heavy D died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday after collapsing at his condominium building.Rosen said Beverly Hills police officers were dispatched to Heavy D’s condominium building Tuesday morning after receiving a report of an unconscious person laying on the walkway of a bu
PerformanceNov. 9, 2011
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Woody Allen is the (reluctant) subject of two-part U.S. TV documentary
BEVERLY HILLS ― Writer-filmmaker Woody Allen may be a private kind of a guy, but when it comes to deconstructing Woody, everybody’s eager to lend a hand.Documentary filmmaker Robert Weide managed to charm his way into Allen’s good graces and the result is the two-parter on PBS’ “American Masters,” “Woody Allen: a Documentary,” airing Nov. 20 and 21.“I’ve known him a little bit for a number of years because years ago I headed development for Rollins and Joffe, who were his producers’ managers,” S
TelevisionNov. 9, 2011
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Gender segregation on rise in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Posters depicting women have become rare in the streets of Israel’s capital. In some areas women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks, and buses and health clinics have been gender-segregated. The military has considered reassigning some female combat soldiers because religious men don’t want to serve with them.This is the new reality in parts of 21st-century Israel, where ultra-Orthodox rabbis are trying to contain the encroachment of secular values on their cloistered soc
CultureNov. 9, 2011
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Artisanal liquors taking off like a shot
The air outside GreenBar Collective craft distillery in Monrovia, California, is getting warm, but it still crackles with the crispness of fall. Inside the bright, white warehouse, two employees bottle fresh apple bitters while Keith Taylor, the bar manager for sprawling Echo Park restaurant Mohawk Bend, chats with GreenBar’s founders and master distillers, Melkon Khosrovian and Litty Mathew. They stand beside a silver tank of ruby red hibiscus liqueur that Taylor uses to make a limoncello-based
FoodNov. 9, 2011
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Yes it ‘can’: Chicago museum’s lavatory is flush with fame
CHICAGO ― If you’re heading to the Field Museum to check out its world-class exhibits, you may want to consider stopping at its latest award-winning spot ― the restroom.This year’s 10th annual America’s Best Restroom contest, sponsored by Cintas Corp., named the Field Museum’s ground-floor restrooms as the top bathroom in America as chosen by online voters.The Field’s bathrooms were lauded for its two large break rooms featuring artwork of the night sky, “a calming image that also absorbs sound,
TravelNov. 9, 2011
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Fall styling tips from rag & bone
Designer duo suggests mix of British classic, NY street look with Eskimo motifs for fallAbout 20 power bloggers, teamed up in groups of two or three, hurriedly rummaged through rag & bone racks on Monday at the multi-brand shop Bleecker pop-up store in Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul. They had five minutes to pick out items and dress models. “Now I know what they must feel like on Superstar K,” exclaimed an excited contestant, talking about Mnet’s audition program.Marcus Wainwright and David Nevi
Arts & DesignNov. 9, 2011
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US mom pregnant with 20th child
Michelle Duggar (left) is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob (second from left) after the birth of her 17th child in Rogers, Ark. (AP)Arkansas mom Michelle Duggar proudly announced to the world Tuesday she's expecting -- but her 19 other children got to hear the news first.Duggar, 45, an
PeopleNov. 9, 2011
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KBS chief elected ABU president
The state-run broadcaster KBS said its president Kim In-kyu has been elected the 13th president of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union at the organization’s 48th general meeting in New Delhi, India.It is the first time a Korean broadcasting chief has been elected to the position, KBS said.Recommended by acting president Datuk Ibrahim Yahaya, director-general of Radio-Television Malaysia (RTM), Kim was the sole candidate for the post and more than 50 member broadcasters unanimously voted for his
PeopleNov. 8, 2011
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HUFS president receives top Spanish decoration
In 1968, a young Park Chul, about to enter Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was advised by a friend to study Spanish because it would be the language of the future.While Spanish did not eclipse English as the lingua franca of business, diplomacy and politics, it did find its place as the second most used language in terms of native speakers with almost 400 million Spanish speakers in 21 countries and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.For Park who is now the presiden
PeopleNov. 8, 2011
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Designer pursues dream in New York’s fashion jewelry market
Kim Jung-hee had long set her eyes on the fashion industry of New York City, partly because she felt similarities to it and living in the hip and fashionable Hongdae district in Seoul and also because she majored in fashion and art education in college and worked as a fashion jewelry designer. “I noticed there’s opportunity in the fashion jewelry market in New York City because it’s growing despite the economic slowdown,” the 37-year-old said in an interview. “Although the economy was bad, New Y
PeopleNov. 8, 2011
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China’s ‘soft power’ stumbles at the movies
BEIJING (AFP) ― Everybody knows the Oscars. From Beijing to Paris and New York to Sao Paolo, the golden statuette honoring the best movies in the world is a symbol of the “soft power” prowess of the United States.China’s Golden Rooster awards, however, come and go without much mention ― a potent reminder of the film industry’s difficulty in competing with Hollywood despite a push to gain more influence on the global cultural stage.The Communist Party has called on the culture industry ― includin
FilmNov. 8, 2011