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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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‘Les Miserables’ musical is bound for Broadway
Someone is dreaming the dream: “Les Miserables’’ is coming back to Broadway.Producer Cameron Mackintosh said Tuesday that the national tour of the epic musical about life in 19th-century France will make a stop on Broadway in March 2014 at a Shubert theater.The move comes on the heels of the Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.It will mark the third time the show has made it to Broadway. The original landed in 19
Feb. 20, 2013
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Desert rain frog is Web sensation
A YouTube clip taken in South Africa of a tiny, fat desert rain frog with a squeaky voice has been viewed nearly 1.4 million times in less than a week.Posted Feb. 13 by Dean Boshoff, the clip is titled “World‘s Cutest Frog.”“I recorded a short clip of the defensive cry of the desert rain frog found in the sandy dunes along Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape province,” Boshoff wrote.He also encouraged people to “keep on sharing your videos of how your animals react to hearing this frog’s mighty wa
Feb. 20, 2013
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Internet ― boon or bane for concert industry?
When renowned violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill and pianist Lim Dong-hyek started playing on Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., it wasn’t just the some 100 people at the concert hall of NHN headquarters in Gyeonggi Province listening. There were more than 30,000 others paying attention to Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Bach and some famous film scores through Naver, the nation’s largest portal site. The artists were performing for the Naver music section, which holds concerts on its own and broadcasts them live on the w
Feb. 19, 2013
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Museum enriched by the culture and legacy of Tibetan art
The following is part of a series exploring unique museums, collections and the passionate collectors behind them. ― Ed.Buddhism as a religious practice has been deeply rooted in the lives of Tibetans. And although Bn is the ancient religion of Tibet, over the years it has slowly diminished and replaced largely by Tibetan Buddhism. The heavy influence of Buddhism in the country has spilled over into the world of art and can be clearly seen in various pieces of traditional Tibetan art.Hahn Kwang-
Feb. 19, 2013
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Letters from Lennon killer to N.Y. cop on sale in L.A.
Letters from John Lennon’s killer detailing his obsession with the novel “The Catcher in the Rye’’ to the police officer who arrested him went on sale Monday through a Los Angeles auction house.The four missives from Mark David Chapman to Stephen Spiro are for sale through Moments In Time, which specializes in historical documents and rare autographs, at a fixed price of $75,000, auction house owner Gary Zimet said. Zimet is selling the letters on behalf of Spiro, who arrested Chapman on Dec. 8,
Feb. 19, 2013
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YouTube launches Asian-pop channel
YouTube, the video Web site of Google Inc., on Tuesday launched a channel that incorporates video clips posted by Asian musicians, including Korean pop idols SHINee and Super Junior.The “A-pop Channel” features a top 20 list of the most popular video clips that highlight pop idols in Korea, Japan and China, as well as a calendar that posts information for online fan meetings and events, according to the YouTube’s Korea blog. Users can also view the top 20 list by country, K-pop, J-pop and C-pop,
Feb. 19, 2013
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Newly weds purchasing quality products on rise
Newlyweds are choosing to buy higher-quality goods over extravagant house appliances due to the ongoing economic slowdown.Unlike the past where the trend was to purchase luxurious home appliances upon marriage, many newlywed couples nowadays are cutting down on unnecessary spending, instead seeking quality products at reasonable prices. According to statistics, couples on average bought 65 home appliances this year, a decrease from 80 products in 2012. The average wedding preparation cost, howev
Feb. 19, 2013
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Korea to set up Goguryeo Museum
The government is considering establishing a museum of Goguryeo (B.C. 37-A.D. 668) history near Achasan Mountain in Seoul and its outskirts, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday. The museum is expected to boost public awareness of the history of the kingdom that ruled the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and in the northeast region of current China, amid intensifying tension between the two countries over claims of the origin of the kingdom. While China occasionally alleg
Feb. 18, 2013
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Happiness tends to increase with age
Overall happiness and satisfaction with life tend to increase with age, but a person‘s well-being depends on when he or she was born, U.S. researchers say.Angelina R. Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine conducted the study while at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Sutin and colleagues used two large-scale longitudinal studies -- the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for t
Feb. 18, 2013
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Men and women differ on partner’s ideal heights: study
男女 이상형의 조건, 키 몇 cm이상일까?Women want partners who tower over them, while men’s preferred height difference is significantly smaller, according to research by Dutch scientists.“Both men and women prefer to be in a couple where the man was taller than the woman, but not too tall, and the preference was most pronounced in women who, unlike men, considered partner heights unacceptable if they resulted in her being taller,” said Gert Stulp, evolutionary psychologist from the University of Groningen who
Feb. 18, 2013
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More men prioritize dating over work
Fifty percent of U.S. men versus 36 percent of women say they would choose a date over work, a survey for the specialty dating service It‘s Just Lunch said. It’s Just Lunch asked more than 4,300 U.S. single men and women a series of questions regarding how they view dating issues related to work. Forty-one percent of the women said work and dating held near equal importance in their lives and they made time for both.Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman, a psychologist who specializes in single career w
Feb. 18, 2013
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Museum to restore ‘Jikji’ Vol. 1 types
A group of experts geared up to restore the metal types for the missing part of the world’s oldest surviving printed book, “Jikji.”The Cheongju Early Printing Museum on Sunday said that its head curator, Hwang Jeong-ha, and others had started research to restore the metal types used for the printing of the first volume of “Baegun Hwasang Chorok Bulji Jikji Simche Yojeol (Mater Baegun’s Excerpts from the Buddha and Patriarchs’ Direction Pointing to the Essence of Mind),” also known as “Jikji.” Cu
Feb. 17, 2013
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Harlem shake goes viral
(Youtube)A video of four U.S. men doing the Harlem shake dance move to electronic music has gone viral, prompting thousands of copy-cat videos to pop up on YouTube.The meme began in late January when the original video under the video blogger name Filthy Frank was posted online depicting the four men dancing to a song cut by New York DJ Baauer, California‘s Bay Area News Group r
Feb. 17, 2013
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Bilingual babies get good at grammar
Babies as young as 7 months can begin to learn two languages even if they have vastly different grammatical structures, Canadian and French researchers say.A study by the University of British Columbia and Universite Paris Descartes reports infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages, such as English and Japanese, even though those languages use opposite word orders.In English, a function word comes before a content word -- the dog, his hat, w
Feb. 15, 2013
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Sungnyemun restored to its original Joseon glory
Sungnyemun, a historic gate in downtown Seoul whose restoration is near completion, was unveiled to the press on Thursday ahead its unveiling to the general public in April. Along with the gate, parts of the Seoul City Wall, of which Sungnyemun was one of its four main gates during the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), were also restored to portray the original atmosphere of the gate. The National Treasure No. 1 was severely damaged on Feb. 10, 2008 in an arson attack by a mentally disturbed man in hi
Feb. 14, 2013
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Syrian official warns of trafficking in antiquities
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ― A Syrian government official warned Wednesday of rampant trafficking in antiquities from his country and appealed for U.N. help in halting the illicit trade that has flourished during the nearly 23-month-long civil war.Syria’s turmoil has increasingly threatened the country’s rich archaeological heritage but the issue of smuggling artifacts has taken a back seat to more dramatic images as some of the most significant sites got caught in the crossfire between regime forces an
Feb. 14, 2013
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Teens ‘sleep texting’ and don‘t remember
Some teens and adults are so connected with their smartphones they answer the buzz in their sleep and don‘t know they’re “sleep texting,” a U.S. expert says.Elizabeth Dowdell, a nursing professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said her research involves Internet safety and many have told her about texts other people tell them they made but don‘t remember making.“Many parents tell me, ’My child is so connected they never leave their cellphone and they have it on their nightstand and the
Feb. 14, 2013
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Profiles of minister-nominees: Yoo Jin-ryong, Culture, sports and tourism
Yoo, a former vice culture minister and the current dean of Hallyu Graduate School at the Catholic University of Korea, has been named as the new culture minister. He received his bachelor’s degree in commerce and trade from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D in public administration from Hanyang University. Yoo became a public official in 1978 and served a number of positions in the nation’s cultural sector, including the secretary-general of Korea National University of Arts, and deputy sec
Feb. 13, 2013
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Salt of the earth in Sinan, Yeonggwang
In the far southern villages of Sinan and Yeonggwang in South Jeolla Province, there are endless salt farms glaring with white crystalline under the sizzling sun. They are the so-called salterns, and appear on the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List. “Salterns are the result of human interaction with the environment and are also an outstanding example of sea water usage. They show the continuity of a living culture in which people have long employed the natural environment to produce items
Feb. 13, 2013
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Large Baekje cemetery discovered on southern island
Archeologists have discovered 38 graves from the sixth to seventh century on an island off of South Korea's southern coast, which were hailed as a rare find, even in the country's inland areas. The graves were part of the Baekje cemetery on Sangtae Island off Sinan, 410 kilometers south of Seoul, and were first discovered on a field survey conducted by a regional university from 1986 to 1987. Baekje was an ancient Korean kingdom that existed in the southwestern part of the Korean Peninsula from
Feb. 13, 2013