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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Manic SXSW wraps up with poignant moment
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― Stars of all stripes and celebrity hit town to close out South By Southwest, but it was a marching band that stole the show Saturday.Members of the Austin High band watched their star turn in the premiere of filmmaker Emmett Malloy’s “Big Easy Express,’’ then joined documentary subjects Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes and Old Crow Medicine Show in an outdoor concert at the University of Texas as the music conference fell into an exhausted heap on its fi
March 19, 2012
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Musical of ‘Once’ is irresistible movie adaptation
NEW YORK (AP) ― The party has already started by the time you enter the Broadway theater to see the musical “Once.’’The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre’s stage is filled with musicians jamming to Irish tunes in what looks like a Dublin pub. Real drinks are offered to the brave theatergoers willing to go up and mingle.Eventually, come show time, everything sort of melts away ― those musicians are the cast ― and there’s just a guy up there strumming a guitar.Pure, moving and inventive ― these are the fo
March 19, 2012
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Photo exhibit documents life inside North Korea
NEW YORK (AP) ― It’s a simple scene that repeats itself around the world.A man gently lifts a small child by the arms as they reach the top of the escalator inside a modern department store.In this particular photograph, the man and the child are in Pyongyang, capital of the communist country where life’s daily activities are largely a mystery to the rest of the world. A photo exhibit that opened Thursday at a gallery in New York includes images such as these, as well as magnificent landscapes,
March 18, 2012
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Korean swan allures Johannesburg
Universal Ballet Troupe takes Tchaikovsky classic to S. AfricaJOHANNESBURG ― More than 1,000 audience members were mesmerized by the Korean Odette when the curtain came down on the final act of the Tchaikovsky classic, “Swan Lake,” in Johannesburg, Friday.The Universal Ballet Company’s first show on its South African tour was greeted with tumultuous applause and a standing ovation at Joburg Theatre, with members of the sold-out audience repeatedly cheering bravo as the dancers took their bows.Th
March 18, 2012
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Norah Jones to play entire new album at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― Norah Jones is unveiling something new at South By Southwest ― again.Ten years after she shook Austin and the music world with “Come Away With Me,’’ the 25 million-selling debut she released just weeks before the 2002 conference and festival, she’s returning to play her entire new album “Little Broken Hearts’’ at La Zona Rosa on Saturday night.“It seemed to make sense to come back to my new record,’’ Jones said. “I’m just going to play the new record. I’m not even going to p
March 18, 2012
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Mueller named director of Rome film festival
ROME (AP) ― Marco Mueller, the longest-running creative director of the Venice Film Festival, is moving to the Rome International Film Festival.The Rome festival’s president Paolo Ferrari announced the appointment Friday, saying Mueller was ``esteemed in Italy and abroad.’’Mueller, whose eight years at Venice were widely regarded as a success, was not confirmed to a third stint last year. He said in a statement he was looking forward to working at the Rome festival, ``which wants to better meet
March 18, 2012
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Jagger-Richards spat: It’s all over now
NEW YORK (AFP) ― We all need someone to lean on, and the founding duo of the Rolling Stones say they’re doing just that after overcoming three decades of misunderstandings with a year of some heavy conversation.In an interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards said they rebuilt their friendship after guitarist Richards’s best-selling 2011 memoirs “Life” laid bare his pent-up frustration with the snake-hipped frontman.“In the 1980s, for instance, Keith and I were not communicatin
March 18, 2012
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‘Hunger Games’: The next big movie franchise
Best-selling trilogy to follow on the success of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Twilight’LOS ANGELES ― The movie magic is over for “Harry Potter.” The bite will be gone from “Twilight” when the final film’s released in November.It now falls to “The Hunger Games,” based on to the best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins, to launch the next great film franchise. It’s a worthy heir. This story is not only a big literary success ― where parents and their children are reading the books ― it has spawned numerous
March 18, 2012
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Magic goes digital
IT devices, multimedia fuel already growing popularity of magicJin Hyo-beom, a professional magician based in Gwangju, was tired of doing the same old magic tricks on stage. But the 30-year-old illusionist had an idea ― magic tricks for digital devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs.The iPhone and iPad have become the main tools for Jin’s acts on stage. With the gadgets, he can conjure up pretty much everything from a cup of coffee to a bunch of roses. People love the idea of turning the sa
March 16, 2012
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Shamanism explored in contemporary art
Director and young performing artist delve into the world of Korea’s indigenous spirituality Aside from the comical talk-show character “The Knee-Drop Guru,” and a few TV drama shows such as MBC’s 2004 flick “Lotus Flower Fairy,” it’s hard to come across much about Korean shamanism in popular culture.In the contemporary art scene, however, two artists have recently come up with unconventional works that shed light on the historical and artistic value of shamanism. One is media artist Park Chan-k
March 16, 2012
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Exhibitions“Meditation & Healing”: N Gallery presents works by South Korean artist Kim Hong-tae. Kim has consistently created, for the past two decades of his career, paintings of simple surfaces and lines which ponder the themes “primitive and child.” At the exhibition, visitors can view about 30 of Kim’s abstract paintings on the theme and also some landscape paintings. The exhibition runs through April 5 at N Gallery in Seohyeon-dong, Gyeonggi Province. Fore more information, call (070) 7430-
March 16, 2012
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Gabi (Korea)Opening March 15Period drama. Directed by Jang Yoon-hyun. Tanya (Kim So-yeon), a young Korean woman who grew up in Russia and knows how to brew coffee, comes to Joseon with her boyfriend Illichi (Joo Jin-mo), who is also Korean. Shortly after her arrival, she becomes Joseon’s first barista and ends up serving Gojong, the King of Joseon. Gojong has no idea that Tanya and Illichi together carry a secret mission from the Japanese to assassinate the monarch. Love Fiction (Korea)Opened Fe
March 16, 2012
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The Decemberists‘ live CD a mixed bagThe Decemberists“We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)” (EMI)If anyone ever needed proof that live albums have worth, they should check the marketplace: The Who’s ``Live at Leeds (Super Deluxe Edition)" now fetches $300 on the Internet. Still, despite the many classic live albums that have been released, they‘re often a mixed bag, and that’s the case with the Decemberists’ new 20-track collection from their 2011 tour.PRO: The performance
March 16, 2012
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Willie’s Shoe Service leaves footprint in Hollywood
For a recent episode of the TV series “Modern Family,” Raul Ojeda crafted a pair of shoes covered in red sequins for actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson. His character, Mitchell, shows off the shoes for a “Wizard of Oz”-themed birthday party he throws for his partner, Cam.A decade ago, Raul Ojeda was working as a shoe shiner. Now the 29-year-old is leaving his own footprint in Hollywood, supplying custom-made shoes to stars such as Steve Carell and Sally Field.Ojeda is the owner of Los Angeles-based Will
March 16, 2012
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Bobbi Kristina dating 'adopted' brother
Bobbi Kristina Brown's maternal grandmother, Cissy Houston, is upset the teen is romantically involved with a man her mother, Whitney, helped raise, TMZ said.Brown has been making headlines since Whitney Houston died in a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel room last month at age 48. The singer's only chil
March 16, 2012
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Rihanna says collaboration with Brown ‘made sense’
NEW YORK (AP) ― People have been scratching their heads over Rihanna’s musical collaboration with Chris Brown, but she says it “made sense” and it’s “innocent.”Brown appears on a remix of her song “Birthday Cake,” and she appears on a remix of his “Turn up the Music.” Their music union is noteworthy because Brown beat up Rihanna three years ago and is still on probation for the assault.Rihanna says it was her idea for Brown to appear on her song because he’s “the hottest R&B artist” right now. H
March 16, 2012
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Korean troupes perform at Costa Rican arts festival
SAN JOSE (Yonhap News) ― South Korea’s cultural and sports delegation threw an extravaganza of traditional and contemporary Korean arts as well as Korean sports at the opening concert of the 2012 International Arts Festival (FIA) in San Jose Thursday.Under the direction of Suh Bong-jun, the general manager of the Korean art and sports delegation, performers of namsadangnori, which dates back to the late Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) and is No. 3 on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list, and pe
March 16, 2012
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Date set for 2013 Oscars
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― The annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24 next year, Oscars organizers said Wednesday, two and a half weeks after this year’s show. Nominations for those shortlisted for prizes on Hollywood’s biggest night will be unveiled on Tuesday, Jan. 15, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said.“The ceremony will take place at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network to more than 225 countries,” it
March 15, 2012
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Dustin Hoffman TV show canceled over deaths of horses
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― A hit U.S. television series starring Dustin Hoffman has been canceled after three horses died during filming, the channel which makes the show announced Wednesday.“Luck,” about thoroughbred racing and also starring Nick Nolte, launched in January and had already been picked up for a second season, with production mostly at a horsetrack east of Los Angeles.But a first horse died on the set in 2010 and another died last year. Then a third animal had to be put down on Tuesday a
March 15, 2012
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No Rolling Stones tour yet despite 50th anniversary
NEW YORK (AFP) ― The Rolling Stones are staying put this year, Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, leaving fans to look forward instead to a major documentary marking the rock band’s 50th anniversary.“Basically, we’re just not ready” for a fresh concert tour, guitarist Keith Richards told the pop culture magazine, adding that 2013 was the group’s “more realistic” target for hitting the road.Quoting other, unidentified sources, Rolling Stone cited worries about Richards’ health in the wake of a hea
March 15, 2012