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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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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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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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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Topsy-turvy wine weather makes grape sorters shine
BORDEAUX (AFP) ― A topsy-turvy growing season, which zigzagged from drought to hail to heat wave, produced a distressingly mixed crop in Bordeaux this year ― but gave optical grape sorters a chance to shine.As oenologists deepen their understanding of how the components in grape skins, pips and juices influence the aromas and taste in the glass, they’ve become increasingly serious about sorting.It’s no longer a question of simply removing snails, stems, leaves and the odd rotten cluster.“At the
FoodOct. 28, 2011
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Insamcha (Ginseng tea)
Insamcha is tea made with ginseng. It has a strong fragrance and taste. Ginseng is a special product of Korea, and is thought to be good for physical strength. Certain studies have found that saponin in ginseng has anti-cancer properties. Korean ginseng has been identified as having the highest saponin content.Ingredients ● 100 g ginseng (fresh wet ginseng) ● 10 jujube ● 7 cups water ● 1 tsp pine nuts ●2 tbsp honey 1. Trim and wash ginseng thoroughly, remove the top. 2. Clean the jujube.3. Remov
FoodOct. 28, 2011
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Wine of the Week: 2004 Weingut Brndlmayer St. Laurent ‘Ried Ladner’
When I invited a new friend to dinner last week and asked her to bring a wine, she asked about the menu. And evidently she listened, because she came up with the most brilliant match for the Hungarian goulash: this St. Laurent, a close relative of Pinot Noir, from one of Austria’s best wine estates. Soft and earthy, with a brilliant cherry color and just the slightest hint of strawberries and plums in the nose, it held its own against the smoky paprika in the sauce. It’s hard to find a red this
FoodOct. 28, 2011
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Carnivore’s paradise
Self-selected prime cuts for a bargain at Majang-dong’s butcher-restaurantWhat if you could pick the cut, the grade and the exact quantity of meat you wanted to eat at a restaurant? At the Meat Village Butcher Shop in Majang Meat Market, patrons can browse the stalls and select prime beef and pork before bringing their purchases over to the restaurant where a pan grill and sides are provided at 4,000 won per person. The perks are clear. Customers can choose from a diverse range of butchers, snou
FoodOct. 28, 2011
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Film on Myanmar activist opens Rome festival
ROME (AP) ― A biopic about Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday opened Rome’s film festival, whose organizers quoted the Nobel Peace Prize winner as calling truth and justice bastions against brutality.“The Lady,” by French director Luc Besson, features former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi, who was freed from house arrest last year after spending most of the last two decades detained by a military junta. The movie was filmed in Thailand.In an interview with the Ass
FilmOct. 28, 2011
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GSK chief awarded for work on hepatitis
Kim Jin-ho, head of GlaxoSmithKline, received an appreciation plaque from the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver at 12th Liver Day in Seoul last week, company officials said. A decade of his past activities and efforts for preventing hepatitis, including opening a “Hope Concert” and raising public awareness to the disease, were highly noticeable to the KASL members, the officials said.“As our company produces drugs for liver disorders, I wanted to ease the pain of the patients with li
PeopleOct. 27, 2011
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Yoon Seok-hwa to return to big screen
Veteran stage actress Yoon Seok-hwa is returning to the big screen after 24 years for director Kim Tae-gyun’s debut film.According to Pan Cinema, the production house of the upcoming movie, it only took a day for Yoon to decide to take the role. The actress was instantly moved by the script, the company said.Based on director Kim’s personal story, the film, titled “Spring Snow,” is about a family coming together after losing one of its members. Yoon will be playing Soon-ok, the mother of the fam
FilmOct. 27, 2011
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Herald artday’s first online auction sets new records
The first-ever online auction held by Herald artday, a subsidiary of Herald Media group, closed on Wednesday with 84 percent of items sold, the highest-ever in the history of online art auction in South Korea. “Herald artday First Online Auction” which took place for six days topped the K Auction’s April record of 82 percent sales. The total amount in sales was over 427 million won, also exceptional for an online auction. Among the articles, Lee U-fan’s 1976 piece “From Line,” which was showcas
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre to unveil spectacular refit
MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia’s historic Bolshoi Theatre will finally raise its curtain on Friday after a massive, six-year overhaul that aims to create a state-of-the-art space for its world-renowned ballet and opera troupe.Stars including prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and French soprano Natalie Dessay will tread the new stage at a lavish gala attended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as well as major arts figures.The invitation-only gala in Moscow will be broadcast on a giant screen to crowds
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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Islam’s treasures back on display at New York’s Met
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Masterworks of Islamic art will once again be on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, which next week reopens an exhaustive installation following an eight-year renovation.New York’s biggest and most comprehensive art museum unveils on Nov. 1 its “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.”Refurbished at a cost of some $50 million, the 15 galleries will display 1,200 breathtaking works from the Middle East and North Africa m
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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Swede with Korea connection back for the fans
Musician-writer describes Koreans’ bizarre side in ‘Halla Seoul’Swedish singer-songwriter and author Lasse Lindh said he will return the love he has received from Korean fans in his upcoming concert in Seoul in November.The 37-year-old gained instant popularity here after his song “C’mon Through” appeared in the soundtrack of the 2006 MBC sitcom “Soulmate.” The unexpectedly enthusiastic response of Korean fans to his music led him to decide to live for a year in Sinchon, Seoul, in 2009.Lindh wil
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ gets London prize
LONDON (AP) ― The beautiful, terrifying domestic drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin” has won the London Film Festival’s best-picture prize.Lynne Ramsay’s film stars Tilda Swinton as a mother grappling with grief and guilt after her teenage son carries out a high-school massacre.“Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden, who chaired the judging panel, on Wednesday called it “a sublime, uncompromising tale of the torment that can stand in the place of love.”The 55-year-old London festival introd
FilmOct. 27, 2011
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Singer Amy Winehouse poisoned by alcohol: inquest
LONDON (AFP) ― Singer Amy Winehouse was more than five times over the British drink-drive limit when she died, an inquest heard Wednesday, as a coroner delivered a verdict of death by misadventure.The inquest heard that Winehouse, 27, who was found dead at her London home on July 23 following years of alcohol and drug addiction, repeatedly ignored her doctor’s warnings about the effects of prolonged bouts of drinking.The hearing in London was told that the “Back to Black” singer had suddenly dru
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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Twisted revenge tale gives anime dark edge
BIFF award-winning ‘The King of Pigs’ first of its kind in KoreaAfter this year’s huge box office hit “Leafie,” Korea’s animation scene sees the arrival of a highly controversial work sure to leave an impact long after its theater run.A low-budget feature debut by director Yeun Sang-ho, “The King of Pigs” claims to be “the first animated vicious thriller in Korea.” Unlike “Leafie,” which sold over two million tickets with its PG rating, the film targets adult viewers only. Ironic, since the $150
FilmOct. 27, 2011
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Crowded Earth: how many is too many?
Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say.As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus gloomily forecast that our ability to reproduce would quickly outstrip our ability to
CultureOct. 27, 2011
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Coroner: Amy Winehouse died from too much alcohol
LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. That was the ruling of a coroner's inquest into the death of the Grammy-winning soul singer, who died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood — more than five times the British drunk driving limit
PerformanceOct. 27, 2011
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John Malkovich brings pop-up fashions to Paris
PARIS (AFP) ― Clothes fit for a star, designed by a star: Hollywood’s John Malkovich is opening a pop-up fashion store in Paris in the run-up to Christmas to showcase his new menswear line, his firm said Tuesday.Actor-director Malkovich will host a VIP party in Paris for the commercial launch of the Italian-made collection dubbed “Technobohemian by John Malkovich” before it goes on sale to the public from Dec. 5 to 24.First created three years ago, Malkovich’s clothes were until now on limited d
Arts & DesignOct. 26, 2011
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Exhibit examines American interest in Rembrandt
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) ― The North Carolina Museum of Art has curated an exhibit of 30 works by Rembrandt from American collectors, which is especially appropriate considering that the museum’s first director was partly responsible for authenticating many works as painted by the Dutch artist that turned out not to be actual Rembrandts.“Rembrandt in America” opens Oct. 30 at the museum, then travels next year to Cleveland and Minneapolis.The 30 paintings are from private collections and mor
PerformanceOct. 26, 2011
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Strike keeps Paris’ Orsay Museum shut
PARIS (AFP) ― Striking staff at Paris’ newly revamped Orsay Museum voted Tuesday to extend a protest which has kept the museum closed to thousands of would-be visitors for almost a week.Workers decided to extend their action launched last Thursday to demand 20 more people to staff the larger, renovated venue, whose world-leading impressionist collection draws three million visitors each year, the museum said.Twenty-five years after its creation in a century-old former railway station on the sout
PerformanceOct. 26, 2011
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More companies support the arts
More companies partnered with art organizations through the Korean Business Council for the Arts this year than last year. A total of 83 companies sealed relationships with various art organizations on Wednesday at Seoul Namsan Traditional Theater in Pil-dong, central Seoul. Participants at the ceremony included Choe Kwang-shik, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Park Young-ju, head of the Korean Business Council for the Arts. Contributions from 23 large businesses totaled 3 billion won
CultureOct. 26, 2011