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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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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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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Cable TV operators' agree to retransmit HD programs
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Cable television operators have started to re-air high-definition terrestrial TV programs late Monday following the government's mediation efforts."We have decided to accept the recommendations made by the national broadcasting watchdog and started the retransmission as of
Dec. 5, 2011
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Clinton flies home to fete Kennedy Center honorees
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined in celebrating the top artists receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday while home for less than 36 hours between diplomatic travels.Between her historic visit to Myanmar and a trip to Germany to discuss Afghanistan’s future, Clinton hosted a dinner Saturday for some big names from Broadway, jazz, pop, classical music and Hollywood. On Sunday, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins and Meryl Streep will also be
Dec. 5, 2011
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Ma, Diamond, Streep receive Kennedy Center Honors
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Meryl Streep may have her next film assignment and Neil Diamond thanked the namesake of his famous tune “Sweet Caroline’’ as they joined other luminaries from Broadway, jazz and classical music Sunday to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.Broadway singer Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins were among several to receive the top award for those who have influenced American culture through the arts.Caroline Kennedy, who hosts the show as part of
Dec. 5, 2011
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Madonna to perform at Super Bowl halftime
NEW YORK (AP) -- Madonna will be taking the stage on U.S. football‘s biggest night, the Super Bowl.The National Football League and NBC announced Sunday night that the Grammy Award-winning singer will highlight the Feb. 5 show, which is the most-watched musical event of the year. More than 162 million in the U.S. tuning in to see The Black Eyed Peas’ performance with Slash and Usher last February.Madonna, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee who has sold more than 300 million records, will join s
Dec. 5, 2011
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Photographers bring their wars to New York’s Bronx
NEW YORK (AFP) ― After dangerous, dusty assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan, photographer Michael Kamber has chosen a tough area of New York City as the new backdrop for his interest in war.The award-winning journalist recently opened a gallery in the Bronx, the first in the borough, and he hopes that his gesture will both help photographers and build bridges with a neighborhood that, while not at war, certainly knows the harder side of life.The Bronx Documentary Center’s inaugural exhibition fo
Dec. 5, 2011
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Amsterdam museum identifies new Rembrandt painting
THE HAGUE (AFP) ― A painting by Rembrandt that had long been attributed to one of his school is in fact by the 17th-century Dutch master himself, the Rembrandthuis museum in Amsterdam said Friday.“We are 100 percent sure now that we can attribute the painting to Rembrandt,” Leslie Schwartz, a museum spokeswoman, told AFP.She said the painting called “Old Man with a Beard” had up to now been attributed to “an associate.”The 18.5-centimeter by 17-centimeter oil painting was done around 1630, at th
Dec. 5, 2011
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MOCA sheds light on donors
Exhibition at National Museum of Contemporary Art features donated artwork; museum vows to better manage donations The National Museum of Contemporary Art kicked off on Monday an exhibition highlighting its donors, an unprecedented move in the museum’s history.The exhibition “Beautiful Encounter: Selected Gifts from the Collection,” currently held at MOCA in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, showcases 270 among the total 3,045 donated works in the museum’s collection. The museum also invited about 15
Dec. 5, 2011
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New cable channels off to shaky start
Technical glitches, frequent program reruns dampen expectations for the cables operated by print media firmsAll that flashy advertisement and promises of “a new television era” were brought to shame, at least in the first few days after new pay-television channels went on air here. Instead of mega-sized soap operas and high quality variety shows that had been promised, viewers were left with broken and frozen frames, several minutes of sudden muteness, if not a complete empty signal. “For a mome
Dec. 5, 2011
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Doctor-turned-filmmaker investigates Korean health care system
Song Yoon-hee talks about making of Korea’s first medical documentary Just three days ahead of the opening of her documentary debut, “White Jungle,” occupational environmental physician and filmmaker Song Yoon-hee seemed rather cynical. “I hope the movie won’t get closed down by theaters too early,” she said. Promoted as the local version of Michael Moore’s 2007 medical documentary “Sicko,” Song’s 9 million won budget indie film triggered much debate online even before its official release. The
Dec. 5, 2011
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U.S. investigates forgery of modern art: report
NEW YORK (AFP) ― U.S. federal authorities are investigating whether paintings and drawings sold by elite New York art dealers as the work of Modernist masters are in fact fakes, The New York Times reported Saturday.The pieces purported to be by artists like Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, sold for up to $17 million apiece, were purchased through Glafira Rosales, a little-known art dealer claiming the works were obtained by a secret collector, the Times said.Some of the works were then sol
Dec. 4, 2011
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LatAm collectors shop for deals at Art Basel Miami
MIAMI (AFP) ― Latin Americans who sell or collect top notch contemporary art are key players in the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the biggest art fair of its kind in the United States.Thousands of art lovers, collectors and gallery operators from all over the world filled the Miami Beach Convention Center in a frenzied opening Thursday that recalled last week’s Black Friday shopping binge.“I want to buy a sculpture by a young Korean woman who is promising and spectacular,” said Ana Rosa
Dec. 4, 2011
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National Gugak Center to perform in Paris, Berlin
The National Gugak Center will perform Korea’s celebrated traditional music “Yeongsanhoesang” in Berlin and Paris on Wednesday. The center previously held a concert featuring the same music at La Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris and at Tempodrom, a major venue in Berlin, on Sunday. The upcoming concerts on Wednesday will take place at the same venues in Paris and Berlin.The featured piece is believed to have been written as a Buddhist piece during Korea’s Goryeo period (918-1392), or even b
Dec. 4, 2011
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City of art shines at night
Highest art gallery in Seoul offers contemporary work by 14 N.Y.-based artistsThe dazzling night cityscape has always been an advantage for Sky Art Gallery, the highest art space in Seoul. Even more credit should be given to it this time, though, for providing a perfect background for the contemporary art show heralding the start of the holiday season. The jazzy artworks from New York showcased at the exhibition “The City of Art: New York 1945-2000” meld in marvelously with the glitzy atmosphere
Dec. 4, 2011
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‘Melancholia’ wins best Europe film award
BERLIN (AFP) ― Denmark’s Lars Von Trier late Saturday won the prize for best European film of 2011 for his movie “Melancholia” at a ceremony put on here by the European Film Academy.“Melancholia” follows two sisters, the bride Justine (Kirsten Dunst) due to get married in the sumptuous romantic castle of Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), but the union is doomed as the wayward planet Melancholia heads for Earth.Dunst won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role, although the Danish director was
Dec. 4, 2011
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Swift, Minaj get Billboard honors, talk Grammy nods
NEW YORK (AP) ― Taylor Swift doesn’t think the Recording Academy is mean. Though she won the Grammy for album of the year in 2010, she’s not sad her latest multiplatinum effort isn’t up for the honor this time around.“I got three nominations. I was just so excited,’’ she said Friday, before she was honored as Billboard’s “Woman of the Year.’’Among the Swift achievements that led to her Billboard honor was the best-selling performance of her third album “Speak Now,’’ which has sold more than 3.7
Dec. 4, 2011
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Silent movie making big noise in Oscars race
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― “The Artist,” a black-and-white homage to the era of silent movies, has a growing number of film insiders talking in Hollywood, where it is increasingly tipped as a leading Oscars hopeful.The movie by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius won best film and best director this week by the New York Film Critics Circle, lending weight to its hopes for the Academy Awards.On the same day it secured a best picture nomination for the Independent Spirit Awards, another key pointer to w
Dec. 4, 2011
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‘Premium’ theaters offer more than a movie
Oh, those comfy chairs.It’s as if stepping into the first class section on an airplane, except there’s a wide movie screen right before your eyes. There are drinks, snacks and even board games. If you want, you can order a bottle of quality wine along with the nibbles. Or even get proposed to over a fine dining five course meal.Welcome to “premium” movie theaters, which have brought a new moviegoing experience to Koreans in the past decade. Since the very first premium theater in Korea, “CGV Gol
Dec. 2, 2011
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Classical Music“Marc Grauwels & Friends”: Belgian flautist Marc Grauwels will perform with a group of acclaimed Korean musicians on Dec. 8 in Seoul. Noted for his eclecticism as a soloist, Grauwels has worked with international musician such as famed Guy Lukowski and Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos, who wrote a concerto for flute dedicated to Grauwels that was played at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. He will play with flautist Park Min-young, violinist Jung Yoo-jin and many more. The pro
Dec. 2, 2011
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Box Office
Tokyo Oasis (Japan)Opened Dec. 1Drama. Directed by Kana Matsumoto. Touko, (Satomi Kobayashi), an obscure actress, leaves the film set of her latest project on a whim. Without any plans in mind, she begins to wander the streets of Tokyo, and comes across three random people. Right after leaving the set, she is offered a ride by a driver named Nagano. At a small theater venue, she chats with former screen writer Kikuchi. At the zoo, she runs into Yasuko, a young woman who has failed to get into an
Dec. 2, 2011
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‘Shame’ duo Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender share risky tie
Actors will endure a lot for a director they believe in. Michael Fassbender swallowed his pride and wore a superhero helmet for Matthew Vaughn in “X-Men: First Class” and toggled trickily between English and German for Quentin Tarantino in “Inglourious Basterds.” But none of that compares to what he’s been willing to go through for Steve McQueen.Four years ago, when Fassbender began working with the punctilious filmmaker (no relation to that other Steve McQueen) in the prison drama “Hunger,” the
Dec. 2, 2011