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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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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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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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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Johnny Knoxville shrugged off a lot on the way to being ‘Bad Grandpa’
The right ring finger. ... No, “THE LEFT RING FINGER!”It’s minutes before sunrise at Westchester’s Kerlan-Jobe sports medicine clinic and Johnny Knoxville has very nearly, accidentally, authorized orthopedic surgery on the wrong hand. His uninjured hand.A clinic administrator taking down Knoxville’s information shakes her head in disbelief.Within the hour, the co-creator and breakout star of MTV’s cultishly beloved series “Jackass” ― and a trio of spin-off movies that have a combined gross of mo
Oct. 25, 2013
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Hunchback mortician tale gets belated theater release
Art house film director Jeon Kyu-hwan’s drama “The Weight” is finally hitting local theaters next month, a year after the movie won the Queer Lion prize at last year’s Venice International Film Festival.The film, which is Jeon’s fifth feature-length film, tells the story of a hunchback mortician and his transgender sister. It is the first Korean movie to win the prize at Venice, which is given to the best film with LGBT themes.Actor Cho Jae-hyun, who plays the mortician, won the best actor prize
Oct. 25, 2013
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George Clooney’s WWII drama ‘Monuments Men’ pushed to 2014
NEW YORK (AP) ― George Clooney’s World War II drama “The Monuments Men” is being pushed to 2014 and out of this year’s awards season.The movie will now be released in the first quarter of next year, instead of its planned release date of Dec. 18, a spokesman for Sony Pictures said Wednesday. “Monuments Men,” which Clooney directed, cowrote and stars in, had been expected to be among the top Oscar contenders.The film could still compete for awards next year, but the early-in-the-year positioning
Oct. 24, 2013
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Lesbian romance tale arrives with praise, whiff of scandal
NEW YORK (AP) ― “Blue is the Warmest Color” arrives in the United States from France this week ― and it’s bringing along some baggage. On the plus side, the intense and soulful lesbian romance carries a Palme D’Or from Cannes, awarded not only to director Abdellatif Kechiche but, in a rare gesture, to his lead actresses, who received effusive praise from jury head Steven Spielberg. It’s also done boffo box office in France. On the more complicated side, it carries a whiff of scandal ― in the fo
Oct. 23, 2013
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Scheduling conflict delays signing of Korea-China movie pact
BEIJING (Yonhap News) ― China has notified Korea that it will delay this week‘s signing of a bilateral agreement to jointly produce movies and TV programs, citing scheduling conflict, a Korean embassy official said Tuesday.Korean Culture Minister Yoo Jin-ryong and Cai Fuchao, head of China’s State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio and Television, had originally scheduled to formally sign the pact on Wednesday in Beijing, but Beijing asked Seoul on Monday to put off the signing
Oct. 22, 2013
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A glimpse into privileged lives of young Pyongyang elites
GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province ― Singaporean filmmakers Lynn Lee and James Leong started their documentary “The Great North Korean Picture Show” in 2008 thinking the film would most likely be about the communist state’s film industry.The film, which had its Korean premiere last week at the ongoing DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival, turned out to be something more, if not entirely something else. A lot of it had to do with the limitations the filmmakers faced while shooting: They were
Oct. 22, 2013
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‘Hide and Seek’ to open London Korean Film Festival
Director Huh Jung’s thriller “Hide and Seek” has been selected as the opener of the upcoming London Korean Film Festival, the film’s producer said.Organized annually by the Korean Cultural Centre UK, the London Korean Film Festival celebrates its eighth anniversary this year. The thriller, released in August, tells the story of Sung-woo, an established businessman who lives with his wife and two loving children in a luxurious apartment. He one day learns that his brother, whom he cut off contact
Oct. 21, 2013
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Women speak candidly about abortion experiences
GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province ― In 2009, a group of pro-life doctors reported clinics and fellow physicians that performed illegal abortions. Under Korean law, abortions are illegal except under special circumstances, such as the unborn baby posing a serious health risk to the mother. The practice still remains widespread here, however, especially among young and unmarried women.The particular event in 2009 inspired filmmaker Jo Se-young to create a film about the issue, featuring women who agreed t
Oct. 20, 2013
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Box Office: Lovelace, Hwa-yi, Rush
Lovelace Opened Oct. 17Biography. Drama. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Linda Lovelace (Amada Seyfried) is manipulated by her abusive, domineering husband Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard) into entering the porn industry. Despite her protests, she stars as the main character of a hardcore porn film “Deep Throat.” The movie is the first of its kind to gain much popularity and is screened all over the country, turning Linda into a famous porn star. Behind the glamorous fame Linda is u
Oct. 18, 2013
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Mother steals the show in ‘Carrie’ remake
Awash in blood and tears, a woman howls in unspeakable anguish as she gives birth in the harrowing opening moments of “Carrie.” She is ashen and alone, her face gnarled with fear. Believing the child to be the devil’s spawn, she grabs a pair of scissors to stab the infant to death. Only the baby’s soft mewling, the pureness of its gaze, spares it from the knife.Director Kimberly Peirce summons up the bracing thematic subtext of her stylish remake in that deeply disturbing scene. It’s masterful f
Oct. 18, 2013
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Movie harkens back to 2007 Taliban abductions of Koreans
BUSAN (AP) ― The South Korean Christians kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2007 returned home to not just relief but outrage, rapped for engaging in zealous missionary activity in the Islamic country in defiance of government warnings and forcing South Korea to negotiate for their release. A new drama by director Lee Jang-ho, well-known in South Korea for his commercial movies in the 1970s and the 1980s, borrows from those true events to examine religious conviction in a country that se
Oct. 17, 2013
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Movies with a 270-degree view to hit Korean cinemas
BUSAN (AFP) ― A new format that gives moviegoers a panoramic 270 degree view will be rolled out by Korea’s biggest cinema chain this month, using the walls of theaters as additional screens. Screen X, developed by cinema chain CJ CGV, was on show at the Busan International Film Festival last week in the premiere of a 30-minute spy thriller “The X,” directed by Kim Jee-woon, a film commissioned to showcase the expanded three-screen format. Kim, who directed this year’s Arnold Schwarzenegger actio
Oct. 16, 2013
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U.S. films dominate Rome festival line-up
ROME (AFP) ― U.S. director Spike Jonze’s “Her” will be one of the hotly awaited premieres at the Rome film festival, including movies starring Scarlett Johansson and Christian Bale, the festival’s director said Monday.Marco Mueller, formerly the head of the Venice film festival, on Monday unveiled a line-up for November featuring Brazilian, Chilean, Iranian, Japanese, Mexican and Portuguese films.Of the 18 films in competition, 17 are world or international premieres, with a strong American and
Oct. 15, 2013
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Song Hae-kyo to star in ‘My Palpitating Life’
Actress Song Hye-kyo will make a comeback to the big screen with a film based on leading writer Kim Ae-ran’s celebrated novel, “My Palpitating Life,” the movie’s production company announced on Sunday. “Song Hye-kyo has always wanted to work with the director Lee Jae-yong. The casting would not have been made possible without her respect toward the director and trust in the original book,” said an official. Song is to play an affectionate mother of a son who is suffering from a rare disease that
Oct. 15, 2013
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CJ’s Pan-Asian film in English opens Hawaii International Film Fest
Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ E&M’s English-language movie “Final Recipe” had its U.S. premiere on Thursday as the opening film of the Hawaii International Film Festival. Helmed by Korean director Gina Kim and starring singer Henry Lau and actress Michelle Yeoh, “Final Recipe” is one of CJ E&M’s international projects alongside Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi flick “Snowpiercer” and Korea-China joint production “A Wedding Invitation.” The film, jointly written by Kim and Chinese-American screenwrit
Oct. 14, 2013
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Directing debuts, Tarantino and a typhoon: BIFF closes 18th edition
The 18th Busan International Film Festival closed on Saturday with the screening of “The Dinner” by Korean filmmaker Kim Dong-hyun.The 10-day festival sold over 217,000 tickets for the 299 films screened, in spite of a rare October typhoon that hit Busan four days before its closing day. BIFF was attended by more than 220,000 viewers last year during its 17th edition, which remains a record for the festival.This year’s edition was filled with highly anticipated directorial debuts by prominent Ko
Oct. 13, 2013
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Box Office: Hwa-yi, Rush, Runner Runner
Hwa-yiOpened Oct. 9Action. Thriller. Directed by Jang Joon-hwan. A five-member crime organization lives on a deserted farm in the middle of a forest. A plan-gone-wrong leaves the gang with a kidnapped boy, and the five members -- Seok-tae (Kim Yoon-seok), Ki-tae (Jo Jin-woong), Jin-sung (Jang Hyun-sung), Dong-beom (Kim Sung-kun), and Beom-soo (Park Hae-joon) -- raise the boy as their son. The boy, named Hwa-yi (Yeo Jin-goo), longs for an ordinary life but is deprived of his childhood, forced to
Oct. 11, 2013
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Hanks and his co-star: An encounter at sea
It’s a moment rife with dread, surprise, panic, suspense. In “Captain Phillips,” Paul Greengrass’ white-knuckle re-enactment of the 2009 hijacking of a U.S.-flagged freighter in the Arabian Sea, four Somali pirates take the bridge of the Maersk Alabama.It is the first time that Muse, the lean, stone-eyed leader of the marauders, and Richard Phillips, the mariner in charge of the giant container vessel, meet.And for Greengrass, it was a doubly crucial moment. He had cast Barkhad Abdi, a Somali-Am
Oct. 11, 2013
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DreamWorks CEO to share lecture stage with director Bong
Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, one of the world’s most acknowledged animation houses, will give a dual lecture on cultural content and its role in the creative economy with Korean film director Bong Joon-ho on Oct. 18. As part of CJ’s Global Creative Forum held at Daeyang Hall of Sejong University in Seoul, Katzenberg will talk about DreamWorks’ “Kung Fu Panda” series and its strategy of mixing Asian characters with Western philosophies. He will also discuss the use of cutting-
Oct. 11, 2013
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Busan film fest grows on goodwill of Asia’s stars
BUSAN (AP) ― How much would it cost to hire Asia’s biggest movie stars to host the region’s largest film event? Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok opened this year’s Busan International Film Festival for a mere 500,000 won, or $465, according to Yang Heon-kyu, who oversees the festival’s budget. In 2012, Chinese actress Tang Wei accepted the same amount. The goodwill from big-name stars is one indication of how important Busan has become to the Asian film industry in less than two decades.It is not just
Oct. 10, 2013