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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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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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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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Possible lost Caravaggio painting found in attic in France
PARIS (AP) -- A 400-year-old picture that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio has been found in an attic in southern France. Eric Turquin, the French expert who retrieved the painting two years ago, said it is in an exceptional state of conservation and estimated its value at 120 million euros (about $135 million), even though he acknowledged experts disagree about its authenticity. Called “Judith Beheading Holofernes,” it depicts the biblical heroine Judith beheading an A
April 13, 2016
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Manuscripts among rare Hemingway items shown at JFK library
BOSTON (AP) -- Ernest Hemingway penned 47 possible endings to “A Farewell to Arms,” eight of which are on display at a new exhibition on the famed American writer at the John F. Kennedy presidential library -- along with the one that actually concluded the classic World War I novel. “If a person wants to make their mark as a writer they have to work very hard, and this exhibit really shows how hard he worked,” said Patrick Hemingway, the author’s only surviving child who on Tuesday toured th
April 13, 2016
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Handwriting study finds clues on when biblical texts written
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than what some scholars think. Using handwriting analysis technology similar to that employed by intelligence agencies and banks to analyze signatures, a Tel Aviv University team determined that a famous hoard of ancient Hebrew inscriptions, dated to around B.C. 600, were written by at least six different authors. Although the inscription
April 13, 2016
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'Small Stores Festival’ flea market in Seoul
Seoul city will invite 200 teams of small business owners from all over Korea to a flea market at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul on May 28. The event will run between noon and 6 p.m. with busking performances, interactive games and more.Designed to help invigorate the small business ecosystem, a wide range of items including handcrafted clothes, artisan accessories, homemade food, interior design props and stationary will go on sale at the market. (Naver)By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)
April 13, 2016
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The body, animals and deities: Mayan art on show in Berlin
BERLIN (AP) -- Sculptures celebrating the human body, precious jewelry, animals from frogs to jaguars and depictions of deities are going on show in Berlin in an exhibition that offers a glimpse of centuries of Mayan art. The exhibition, “The Maya - Language of Beauty,” features some 300 artworks spanning around a millennium up to the arrival of Spanish colonial rulers after 1500. The presidents of Mexico and Germany are opening the show at the German capital's Martin-Gropius-Bau museum on Monda
April 12, 2016
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Korea withdraws nomination of Confucian academies for UNESCO list
The Cultural Heritage Administration announced Monday it has withdrawn the nomination of Korean Confucian academies, or seowon, for the UNESCO Cultural Heritage list. The decision was made when the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an independent international advisory body that offers technical and on-site evaluation for cultural heritage sites around the world applying for the UNESCO Cultural Heritage designation, deferred its decision to present evaluation reports on the
April 11, 2016
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Austria wants to seize Hitler’s birth house
VIENNA (AFP) -- Austria said Saturday it wants to seize Adolf Hitler’s birthplace from its private owner in a bid to end a bitter legal battle and stop the house from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. “We are currently examining the creation of a law, which would force a change of ownership and pass the property to the Republic of Austria,” Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP. “We have come to the conclusion over the past few years that expropriation is the only way to avoid the
April 11, 2016
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LTI Korea Translation Academy recruits new students
The Literature Translation Institute Korea’s Translation Academy is recruiting new students for its 2016 semester, which begins this September.The academy offers two-year courses in the translation of Korean literary and cultural texts into English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. The programs feature comprehensive and in-depth training in literary translation, comprising some 9 to 15 hours of classes per week, as well as excursions that provide insight into Korean culture and history, talk
April 10, 2016
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[Eye interview] Scholar warns Korean youth to avoid passivity
How does an “outsider” become an “insider?” By building a house, a palpable demonstration of the determination to belong, discovered Robert J. Fouser, a columnist for The Korea Herald and former Seoul National University associate professor of Korean language education. Fouser, who made local headlines when he became the first foreign Seoul National University tenure-track professor to teach Korean language education in 2008, was in the limelight again after he bought and renovated an old hanok
April 8, 2016
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Korean shamanic ritual documented in photography
Rare photographs that offer a glimpse of shamanic rituals and ceremonies in Korea are currently on view at the National Folk Museum of Korea. The exhibition features some 100 photographs, taken by the late Kim Soo-nam, a photojournalist who devoted more than 30 years to documenting scenes of shamanic rituals in Korea and other Asian countries. The photos reveal scenes of 22 major shamanic rituals that were or have long been practiced in Korea. The photos were culled from a vast archive of some 1
April 6, 2016
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Stratford Festival launches new Shakespeare online toolkit
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Stratford Festival in Canada is commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death by making his plays accessible to a generation raised on the Internet. The festival has just unveiled an online teaching platform that will include each of Shakespeare’s scripts, a film clip of every scene and notes to understand each piece of dialogue. “King Lear” is the first play to be offered using these tools and more titles will be added as part of the festivals to captur
April 6, 2016
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From limos to junk, quirky museums tell Beijing's history
BEIJING (AP) -- Stuffed into a tiny room off an alleyway are items that Wang Jinming readily admits were put out with the garbage: Paper string, a needle holder, a metal pancake maker built for thrusting into a fire. "These objects all look quite old and shabby," he said. "But they record real history." Wang's Beijing Old Items Exhibition in the heart of old Beijing is one of dozens of private museums that dot the capital’s backstreets and its suburbs. Their collections feature the grand and mun
April 5, 2016
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Russia's Hermitage Museum offers help to restore Palmyra
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) -- The director of Russia’s renowned Hermitage Museum, which has an important collection of sculptures from Palmyra, has offered its expertise to help restore the ancient Syrian city retaken by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces from the Islamic State group. “Restoring Palmyra is the responsibility of all of us,” Mikhail Piotrovsky told AFP, surrounded by displays of tombstones, sculptures and coins from Palmyra at the museum in St. Petersburg. Following the IS campa
April 5, 2016
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Huge Rolling Stones exhibition offers satisfaction for fans
LONDON (AP) -- It’s only rock ‘n’ roll -- but it isn’t, is it? The music business is about commerce as well as entertainment, and the Rolling Stones are one of its biggest multinational firms. There’s plenty of both art and business in “Exhibitionism,” a vast exhibition that covers 1,850 square meters of London’s Saatchi Gallery with five decades of Stones history. The more than 500 artifacts, borrowed from the band’s archive and private collectors, include musical instruments, lyrics, sketche
April 5, 2016
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Secret Tut chamber? Egypt calls experts to examine evidence
VALLEY OF THE KINGS, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt on Friday invited archaeologists and experts from around the world to examine new data from new, extensive radar scanning conducted on King Tutankhamun's tomb to explore a theory that secret chambers could be hidden behind its walls. The open invitation to a conference in Cairo in May, issued by the antiquities minister at a news conference just outside the tomb, aims to bring broader scientific rigor to what so far have only been tantalizing clues. The n
April 3, 2016
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Getting some shut-eye at the movies
What do you do when you are desperately in need of a lunchtime nap after a night of burning the midnight oil, or, as the case may be, drinking the night away. If you work in Yeouido, Seoul's financial hub, and have 10,000 won ($8.70) to spare, you could make a dash for the Yeouido CGV where the movie theater chain transforms its Premium Theater into a cozy sleep nook during lunch hours, Monday through Thursday. The interior of the Premium Theater at Yeouido CGV (CGV) “Plenty of office workers vi
March 31, 2016
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Myanmar pagoda re-clad with gold blocks as devotees look to gain spiritual credit
YANGON (AFP) - Teetering on bamboo scaffolding, expert craftsmen are busy attaching blocks of gold to a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Yangon, burnishing one of the city's major landmarks and racking up spiritual credit for devotees. The five-yearly renovation at the Sule Pagoda sees the monument shed its weather-damaged frontage. It is re-clad in several hundred solid gold plates -- each costing around $1,100 -- and thousands of squares of gold leaf. The cost is significant in the impoverished Sou
March 30, 2016
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US museum returns 10th century Khmer statue to Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia on Monday welcomed home a 10th-century Khmer statue that was looted during the country's civil war before spending the past three decades at an American museum. The sandstone Torso of Rama statue, which stands 157 centimeters high and is missing its head, arms and feet, was formally handed over at a ceremony in Phnom Penh attended by government officials, the US ambassador and the director of the Denver Museum of Art. Christoph Heinrich, director of the Denv
March 29, 2016
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'Very doubtful' Palmyra can be restored after IS: UN expert
PARIS (AFP) - A Syrian expert for the UN‘s cultural body said Monday she was “very doubtful” the destruction caused to Palmyra’s ancient monuments during its occupation by the Islamic State group can be repaired. “Everyone is excited because Palmyra has been ‘liberated,’ but we should not forget everything that has been destroyed,” said Annie Sartre-Fauriat, who belongs to a group of experts on Syrian heritage set up by UNESCO in 2013. “I am very doubtful about the capacity, even with internati
March 29, 2016
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[Foreigners Who Loved Korea 14] Hu Zongnan, the “little giant” who helped Korea’s fight
In Korea’s turbulent path toward independence and nation building, there were foreign nationals who stood steadfastly by the Korean people, although their contributions have been largely overshadowed by those of Korean patriots. The Korea Herald, in partnership with the Independence Hall of Korea, is publishing a series of articles shedding light on these foreigners, their life and legacies here. This is the 14th installment. -- Ed.Hu Zongnan was born on May 12, 1896 to a poor household in Zhenh
March 28, 2016