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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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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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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Jay-Z brings the hype to South By Southwest
Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but getting to the venue isn’t one.The rapper brought the beat to South By Southwest, but not before he needed a police escort to make it from the airport to the show, which started 40 minutes late.Jay-Z played a hits-filled set for a standing room-only crowd after flying in late Monday afternoon. He was on the town with his wife, Beyonce, in New York City the night before to see fellow SXSW participant The-Dream, perhaps explaining his late arrival in Texas.The show
March 13, 2012
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Rare imperial bowl creates a stir in China
A rare Chinese imperial ceramic bowl that was made around 900 years ago and could fetch $10 million when it goes under the hammer next month has triggered huge excitement among Asian art collectors.The interest generated by this small, modest-looking flower-shaped bowl -- and its potentially sky-high sales price -- are a testament to the vitality of Asia‘s art market, which has witnessed explosive growth over the past decade.The antique was due to go on public display in Beijing over the weekend
March 13, 2012
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Top Japan musicians play US for cherry blossoms
Two of Japan‘s best-selling pop acts will play in Washington to mark the centennial of the capital’s cherry blossoms and offer thanks for U.S. support after last year‘s tsunami, organizers said Monday.Misia, Japan’s best-known R&B singer who has sold more than 30 million albums, will perform on March 25 at a ceremony to celebrate 100 years since Japan gifted the celebrated pink-flowering trees to the United States.AKB48, an all-girls J-Pop band named after Tokyo‘s geek culture neighborhood Akiha
March 13, 2012
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Taylor Swift tops U.S. music earnings, Adele squeaks in
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ―Country star Taylor Swift racked up the biggest U.S. earnings last year, followed by Irish rockers U2 ― while British sensation Adele made it into the top 10 despite her health woes.The Grammy-winning Swift made a cool $35.7 million from all sources of U.S. income, including touring and music sales, according to annual 2011 rankings in industry paper Billboard. In second place were stadium veterans U2, who earned $32.1 million, including north American revenues from their monu
March 13, 2012
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Art sleuths believe long-lost Da Vinci found in Italy
Art sleuths said on Monday they believe they have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece on a hidden wall in a palace in Florence that has not been seen in over four centuries. A close-up of Giorgio Vasari`s fresco bearing the words "Cerca Trova",( seek and you shall find), that is painted
March 13, 2012
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Artworks get smarter
Savina Museum of Contemporary Art presents interactive, real-time ‘social networking arts’A hideous looking robot came to life when the number posted on one of its arms was called on a phone. Various parts of the robot creaked and turned, and drops of reddish brown paint slid down a thin tube onto a feather swooshing across a white canvas laid in the center of the machine. A colorful abstract painting was created only a few minutes later. When the caller says it is finished, it is finished. The
March 12, 2012
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Crowd-funding plays lead role in SXSW films
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― The crowd-financing website Kickstarter.com has electrified the traditional structures of filmmaking, aiding 33 films at the South By Southwest Film Festival. That’s 10 percent of the festival’s entire slate. Even SXSW Film head Janet Pierson was surprised.“I’m fascinated that this is a viable tool, or seems to be,’’ says Pierson, who produced indie films in the ’80s and ’90s. “How great that this vehicle exists that’s working for all these filmmakers.’’The budgets for even
March 12, 2012
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Daughter to follow Whitney Houston into showbiz
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Whitney Houston’s daughter said Sunday she plans to follow her mother into show business, while the drug-troubled star’s sister-in-law admitted her untimely death could have been predicted.In her first interview since Houston’s death last month aged 48, Bobbi Kristina ― Houston’s daughter from her stormy relationship with singer Bobby Brown ― also said she still hears her late mother’s voice.“I feel her passing through me all the time,” she told TV talk show host Oprah Winfre
March 12, 2012
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Silent film narrator returns to modern stage
Actor Cho Hee-bong performs oldest surviving Korean silent film ‘Crossroads of Youth’What would it have been like to watch a silent film with live narration and music?Today’s moviegoers were given an opportunity to watch Korea’s oldest surviving silent film, “Crossroads of Youth.” last week, accompanied by live music and narration ― all in the 1930s style. Just like the “silent era” in the 20s and 30s, they saw and heard a “byeonsa” ― Korean term for silent-film narrator ― “performing” each an
March 12, 2012
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Gugak center, Lee Young-hee to collaborate in New York
The National Gugak Center will hold a special fashion and music gala with hanbok designer Lee Young-hee in New York in October to commemorate the 130th anniversary of ties between Korea and the United States.One-hundred musicians will play royal court banquet music entitled “Music of Peace, Dream of the Dynasty,” adapted from Bongsudangjinchan Banquet, which was dedicated to the 60th birthday of Hyegyeonggung Hong, the mother of King Jeongjo. About 50 other performers, including dancers, will al
March 11, 2012
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Moon aims to share beauty of ballet worldwide
Universal Ballet president and director to lead company on tour of South Africa this monthMore than 1,000 people gave a standing ovation in November last year at the finale of the Universal Ballet Company’s “Shim Chung” at the Royal Opera House in Oman. Two months ago in January, about 100 middle-aged women crowded a restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, to attend the fan meeting of UBC’s young ballerinos Lee Seung-hyun and Kang Min-woo. The show “This is Modern 3,” which took place few days later at the
March 11, 2012
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After long wait, Whedon brings ‘Cabin’ to SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― After several years of studio purgatory, Joss Whedon’s long-shelved, much-anticipated horror film “The Cabin in the Woods’’ finally arrived before audiences at the South By Southwest Film Festival.Nobody complained about the delay.“It really holds up,’’ deadpanned Whedon after the Friday evening premiere before a rapturous, hooting crowd at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. “I would say, timeless classic.’’“The Cabin in the Woods,’’ which Whedon produced and co-wrote with director
March 11, 2012
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Star-studded runway blends fashion, K-pop
K-pop stars strutted down the runway on Sunday, moving to the rhythm of their hit songs.“K-collection in Seoul,” a fashion show/concert held at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena at Olympic Park in Bangi-dong, featured popular K-pop groups such as Girls Generation, Big Bang, IU, MBLAQ, Infinite, T-ara, Miss A and Secret. Some of the stars walked down the catwalk decked in impressive outfits as well as showcasing their songs on stage. Actor Yeo Jin-gu who rose to stardom after starring in the MBC hit d
March 11, 2012
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Report: Kardashian's ex seeks $7 million
Kim Kardashian's estranged husband, Kris Humphries, is demanding $7 million to sign off on their divorce, sources told TMZ.com.Other sources told the celebrity Web site the Kardashian camp quickly rejected the demand on the grounds the couple wasn't married long enough for Humphries to warrant $7 mi
March 11, 2012
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'Home Alone' house sold for $1.6M
The 14-room suburban Chicago house in which the big-screen comedy "Home Alone" was shot has been sold for nearly $1.6 million after 10 months on the market.The red-brick house in Winnetka, which was put up for sale last May by owners John and Cynthia Abendshien for $2.4 million, sold Thursday to an
March 11, 2012
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Exhibitions“Song for Nobody”: Bae Young-whan’s solo exhibition at Plateau in Taepyeongro, central Seoul, looks back on the last 15 years of his artistic career. The artist, who represented Korea at the 2005 Venice Art Biennale, filled the 43-square-meter exhibition space with 26 works that share the same theme, but are very diverse in genre and materials. His chandelier work “Insomnia -- Song of Dionysos” which appeared in director Im Sang-soo’s 2008 movie “The Housemaid,” is on show. The exhibi
March 9, 2012
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Eyelike
Springsteen’s anger channeled in new albumBruce Springsteen"Wrecking Ball" (Columbia)Nearly three decades ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote with sadness about a man showing his young son a hometown ravaged by outside economic forces, a town the family was about to leave.He’s not sad now. He’s angry, mighty angry. On the new song, "Death to My Hometown," he wants to "send the robber barons straight to hell, the greedy thieves who came around and ate the flesh of everything they found, whose crimes hav
March 9, 2012
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Box Office
Howling (Korea) Opened Feb. 16Crime. Thriller. Directed by Yoo Ha. Detective Sang-gil (Song Kang-ho), who is desperate for promotion, gets annoyed when he is assigned to work with an inexperienced junior Eun-young (Lee Na-young) for what looks like a suicide case. Eun-young finds out that it is a murder case involving a giant wolf-dog. Being the only female detective in her team, socially inept Eun-young endures low expectations, lewd jokes and even sexual harassment by her macho team members. W
March 9, 2012
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McGregor and Beaufoy find vocal harmony in ‘Salmon Fishing’
Hearing Ewan McGregor as an uptight salmon fisheries expert in the comedy “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” you might think that you’re hearing the real Ewan ― the one whose voice isn’t the put-on American, British or what-have you accents he so often manages in the movies.“But nooo, that’s not me,” he says. “I didn’t want to use my own accent ― exactly.”He took a suggestion from “Salmon Fishing’s” Oscar-winning screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy (“Slumdog Millionaire”). Beaufoy’s one word idea?“Morningsi
March 9, 2012
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N. Korean orchestra opens musical bridge to Europe
PARIS (AFP) ― South Korean troops may be conducting live fire exercises near the North Korean frontier, and Pyongyang may be ramping up its anti-southern rhetoric, but there may be more harmony on the musical front.Next week, for the first time, musicians from North Korea will perform in Paris with a French orchestra led by a South Korean conductor, Myung-Whun Chung, in a minor diplomatic victory for the international maestro.“I’ve been trying to do this for 30 years,” he said this week. “For pr
March 9, 2012