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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Arthouse film ‘Jeseul’ trailblazing at box office
The South Korean film “Jiseul” depicting the 1948 Jeju Massacre sold 42,300 tickets as of Thursday, an unexpected feat for the small-budget independent film.The black-and-white movie features some 120 people who try to escape from the soldiers ordered by the Korean government to kill every Jeju villager living beyond 5 kilometers of the coast. The movie title was named after “jiseul,” which means “potato” in Jeju dialect. Jiseul was a staple dish for refugees in the film. “’Jiseul’ deserves prai
March 28, 2013
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Love in Hong Kong, 1957
Long before Jung Woo-sung and Gao Yuanyuan’s romance “A Good Rain Knows” (2009), there was Kim Jin-kyu and Lucilla Yu Ming’s “Love with an Alien” (1957).The first Korea-Hong Kong joint production film has been rediscovered and its digitized version will be screened for the first time in Seoul next month. Co-directed by Korean director Jeon Chang-geun and Shanghai-born, Hong Kong-based director Tu Gwang-qi, “Love with an Alien” is also the oldest surviving color feature film archived in Korea. Th
March 27, 2013
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Robert Downey Jr. to visit Seoul next month
Robert Downey Jr., the hero of the “Iron Man” film series, is scheduled to visit South Korea in April to promote the latest edition of the Marvel Comics piece.The Hollywood actor will arrive here on April 3 for an “Iron Man 3” press conference the following day, according to Sony Pictures Korea, the local distributor of the superhero film.Downey Jr.’s visit, the first leg of his global promotion tour, comes in line with the world premier of the movie in South Korea scheduled for April 25, a week
March 26, 2013
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Robert Downey Jr. to visit
Robert Downey Jr., the hero of the "Iron Man" film series, is scheduled to visit South Korea in April to promote the latest edition of the Marvel Comics piece.The Hollywood actor will arrive here on April 3 for an "Iron Man 3" press conference the following day, according to Sony Pictures Korea, the local distributor of the superhero film.Downey Jr.'s visit, the first leg of his global promotion tour, comes in line with the world premier of the movie in South Korea scheduled for April 25, a week
March 25, 2013
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Veronica Mars’ campaign rattles movie industry
NEW YORK (AP) ― After years of hope, stalled efforts and studio frustration, “Veronica Mars’’ creator Rob Thomas watched a long-held dream come to fruition in a sudden digital rush. “There were a few minutes of nothing happening,’’ he says. “Then in an hour, watching that ticker go was mesmerizing. I had an attention span of, like, four seconds because everything on my computer screen I wanted to look at at the same time. The Twitter feed was going crazy, the emails were going crazy and then wat
March 25, 2013
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Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC
Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.A musem spokeswoman says the ``Moonrise Kingdom'' star presented her one-person piece called ``The Maybe'' on Saturday.In ``The Maybe,'' Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs.There is no published schedule for the piece, which will occur about a half dozen more times through the end of the year.Swinton first perf
March 24, 2013
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NorigaeOpening April 18Drama. Directed by Choi Seung-ho. The beautiful young actress Jung Ji-hae (Min Ji-hyeon) dies and the media bashes the sexual bribery rampant in the entertainment industry. With the victim dead, the accused are the only ones left in court, rendering the trial useless. The young actress was taken advantage of by a film director and producer who is successful in the entertainment business. As he is an important man in the industry, people decline to testify in court. Lee Jan
March 22, 2013
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‘Olympus Has Fallen’ an unusual project for director Antoine Fuqua
LOS ANGELES ― There’s a notable moment in “Olympus Has Fallen,” director Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller: a slow-motion shot of a desecrated American flag discarded from atop the White House by North Korean terrorists as dirge-like music plays in the background.It’s the type of scene ― bold to his fans, cringe-worthy to his critics ― that Fuqua has used in almost all of his films.“I wanted to create an exciting movie, but give it these small moments of truth,” the director said, noting that he s
March 22, 2013
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Chinese film ‘Mystery’ wins Asian best picture
HONG KONG (AFP) ― A Chinese drama that touches on sensitive topics including police corruption won the best picture at the Asian Film Awards Monday, while Japan’s Takeshi Kitano scooped the best director gong.“Mystery,” directed by Lou Ye, which reportedly upset Chinese censors for dealing with controversial issues such as the behaviour of the country’s new rich, also took home the best newcomer award, won by actress Qi Xi.The social satire was Lou’s first film after he was banned from film-maki
March 19, 2013
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Lee Chang-dong to head Asian Film Academy
Filmmaker Lee Chang-dong has been appointed as the dean of this year’s Asian Film Academy, organizers of Busan International Film Festival said.An intensive film education program organized by BIFF, the Asian Film Academy offers its students a chance to participate in short film productions and attend workshops as well as mentoring sessions. Lee is the second Korean filmmaker to serve as AFA’s dean, after director Im Kwon-taek. Former AFA deans include Hou Hsiao Hsien, Jia Zhangke, Mohsen Makhma
March 19, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan headed to rehab after plea deal
Lindsay Lohan isn't headed back to jail _ but she won't be free to party for a while either.The troubled 26-year-old actress accepted a plea deal on Monday in a misdemeanor car crash case that includes 90 days in a locked-down rehabilitation facility that she won't be able to leave.Lohan who has struggled for years with legal problems and been briefly jailed five times, pleaded no contest to reckless driving and lying to police who were investigating the accident involving the actress in June al
March 19, 2013
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The breakup of a ‘Very Ordinary Couple’
One cannot be sure why film director Roh Deok calls this young couple “very ordinary,” but it is the “ordinary” post-break-up behavior that is on her mind ― or at least in her feature debut: The two get into a physical fight while drinking with their coworkers, obsessively check each other’s Facebook accounts, secretly follow their ex on their dates, and swear at each other in public.The film, “Very Ordinary Couple,” seems to be arguing that this is what most of us, the “ordinary,” go through af
March 18, 2013
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'Miracle in Cell No. 7' third most-viewed Korean film
South Korean comedy "Miracle in Cell No. 7" became the third most-viewed Korean film of all time on Friday, attracting 12.32 million moviegoers since it debuted here, the film's local distributor said."Miracle in Cell No. 7" reached the number 52 days after opening, outperforming the previous No. 3 "Gwanghae: the Man Who Became the King" (2012), which was seen by 12.31 million people, NEW said. But the official box-office tally from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has yet to be released.Directed
March 15, 2013
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G.I. Joe: RetaliationOpening March 28Action. Adventure. Science Fiction. Directed by Jon M Chu. Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), the Cobra commander who is impersonating the president of the United States, has world leaders under his control. His ruthless terrorist organization is determined to rule the world, and the U.S. is in turmoil -- advanced warheads are aimed at innocent people around the world, and the G.I. Joe team is accused of crimes against the country. On Zartan’s orders, some of the G.I. J
March 15, 2013
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On ‘Call’: Breslin opens up on confinement
Abigail Breslin burst onto the scene in 2006, playing Olive, the youngest member of a dysfunctional clan in the quirky film “Little Miss Sunshine.” Despite sweatbands and nerdy glasses, Olive was obsessed with beauty pageants and led her family on a cross-country road trip to a pageant where she’d perform the choicest dance numbers.Breslin, who earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for that role, turns 17 next month and stars in another road trip movie of sorts ― though
March 15, 2013
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‘Movieweek’ magazine goes out of business
Local film weekly Movieweek is going out of business this month, leaving Cine21 as the last Korean movie weekly standing.The magazine announced the news through their official Twitter account on March 12. “Our upcoming 571st edition, which will be out on March 22, will be our last issue,” the weekly said via Twitter.The film magazine was founded in 2001, and has been considered one of the two most influential movie weeklies for the last 12 years, along with Cine21. From the late 1990s to the ear
March 15, 2013
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Dutch thriller pioneers smartphone ‘second screens’ in cinema
AMSTERDAM (AFP) ― Dutch thriller “APP,” about a mysterious personal assistant application that takes over mobile phones, requires viewers for the first time to look at their smartphones in the cinema to view extra footage.In the film, nefarious app “Iris” ― which happens to be the name of the personal assistant found on Apple’s iPhone, Siri, written backwards ― takes control of the smartphone of the heroine, 21-year-old psychology student Anna.“We wanted to make a film about mobile phones, about
March 14, 2013
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Becoming ‘Storm Shadow’ in Hollywood
Director Park Chan-wook has been there, and so has director Kim Jee-woon. Hollywood may not be an undiscovered place for Korean directors as of this year: They’ve made their debut films there, released them, and experienced the red-carpet glamour. Hollywood, however, still remains foreign to most local actors. One of the few exceptions is top actor Lee Byung-hun, whose performance in his 2009 Hollywood debut “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” left a mark. The actor is now ahead of the opening of the
March 12, 2013
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‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ exceeds 12 million mark
South Korean comedy “Miracle in Cell No. 7” has surpassed the 12 million mark in audience, official box-office data showed Monday.The film had drawn 12.18 million viewers as of Sunday after exceeding the 12 million milestone a day earlier, according to the daily box-office tally by the Korean Film Council.Directed by Lee Hwan-kyung, the film is about a group of inmates in cell No. 7 who embark on a mission to help a new inmate ― a mentally disabled man with the mind of a six-year-old child ― be
March 11, 2013
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River Phoenix’s last film premieres in Miami
MIAMI (AP) ― When actor Jonathan Pryce first received a copy of River Phoenix’s last film “Dark Blood,” it sat unwatched on his desk for months. He worried about how he would feel reliving Phoenix’s death, growing nostalgic about memorable dinners the two shared after long days of filming in Utah and recalling the shocking 5 a.m. phone call telling him the young actor had died.“It’s very hard to comprehend for a while. It was a terribly sad time,” said Pryce, who starred in the film alongside Ph
March 10, 2013