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[Photo News] Ready for takeoff

Newly recruited flight attendants for Asiana Airlines pose around a miniature of the Airbus A380 at the company’s headquarters in western Seoul on Tuesday. The airliner is to start operation in May. ...

Jan 7, 2014
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Former pope secretly leaves Vatican to visit brother in hospital: reports

ROME (AFP) ― Former pope Benedict XVI secretly left his residence in the Vatican to visit his brother in hospital in Rome, Italian media reported Saturday. The 85-year-old, who promised on his retir...

Jan 5, 2014
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Ecuadorean navy airlifts Jeff Bezos for kidney stone

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. (AP-Yonhap News) QUITO (AP) ― An official in the Galapagos Islands says that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was flown by helicopter from a cruise ship on Jan. 1 for medical att...

Jan 5, 2014
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Saul Zaentz, producer of Oscar winners, dies at 92

Saul Zaentz LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and “The Engl...

Jan 5, 2014
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U.S. senator Cruz hopes to ‘soon’ renounce Canadian citizenship

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 17. (AP-Yonhap News) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has yet to renounce h...

Jan 5, 2014
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Park In-bee voted top female golfer

Park In-bee South Korean LPGA Tour star Park In-bee has been voted the top female golfer for 2013 by American golf journalists. The Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA) announced on Thursday,...

Jan 3, 2014
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Men want pay rise, women marriage for New Year

(Yonhap) Unmarried men and women showed a stark contrast in their New Year‘s hopes as the former selected a pay raise while the latter picked marriage, according to a survey. Matchmaking company Ga...

Jan 3, 2014
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Rain looks to create storm with ‘Rain Effect’

Rain (Yonhap News) Singer, dancer, actor and all-around entertainer Rain has finally made his much-awaited return to the local music scene in full force with the release of his sixth studio album “R...

Jan 2, 2014
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De Blasio sworn in as New York mayor

NEW YORK (AP) ― Bill de Blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City on Wednesday, becoming the first Democrat to occupy City Hall in nearly two decades while vowing to pursue a sweeping l...

Jan 2, 2014
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Lee Seung-gi and SNSD’s YoonA dating

Lee Seung-gi(left), YoonA (Yonhap News) It has been revealed that popular TV personality and singer Lee Seung-gi and Girls’ Generation’s YoonA have been seeing each other for the past several months...

Jan 1, 2014
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Herald Corp. names new managing editors

Herald Corp. has conducted a major shuffle of senior staff at its media business units to enhance its digital and mobile content, data-based news and visual presentation online and offline. Hwang Ja...

Jan 1, 2014
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Pope asks if people helped others in 2013

Pope Francis kisses a baby Jesus statue as he arrives to celebrate a New Year’s Eve vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday. (AP-Yonhap News) VATICAN CITY (AP) ― Pope Francis...

Jan 1, 2014
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Japan’s ‘Tree Town’ sculptors make living art

A tree-sculpting expert washes to remove soil from roots of “macro bonsai” plants at his farm in Sosa, on Oct. 29, 2013. (AFP-Yonhap News) SOSA, Japan (AFP) ― With a deft clip here and a gentle tug ...

Jan 1, 2014
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[Rookies of 2014] Clara Jumi Kang, latest darling of classical music

Clara Jumi Kang (Kumho Arts Foundation) Twenty-six-year-old Clara Jumi Kang was 5 when she was admitted to the Mannheim Musikhochschule as the youngest student ever accepted to study under Valery Gr...

Dec 30, 2013
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[Rookies of 2014] Media artist Yang Min-ha draws on latest technologies

“Intervention, Misalignment” by Yang Min-ha (MMCA) Media artist Yang Min-ha’s interactive media work was one of the well-received artworks at the inaugural exhibition of the Seoul branch of the Nati...

Dec 30, 2013
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