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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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South Korea to launch space security center under spy agency
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Animation museum-street to open in Seoul’s Myeong-dong
South Korea’s animation industry was barely a blip on the radar when the TV animation series “Pororo the Little Penguin” debuted 10 years ago. But it didn’t take long before the country became the world’s fifth largest producer of animation based on the skyrocketing popularity of the series.The TV series has since been exported to 120 countries around the world while the penguin character Pororo has remained as an unrivaled favorite among Korean toddlers and preschoolers.To support the great adv
March 7, 2013
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DiCaprio: 'Pain is temporary, film is forever'
Top Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio said he was “proud” to play a character who “represents everything wrong” about the American antebellum era. The 38-year-old arrived in Seoul on Wednesday to promote his latest film, Academy Award-winning “Django Unchained.” In the western film directed by the legendary Quentin Tarantino, set in the antebellum era of the Deep South of the U.S., DiCaprio stars as Calvin Candie, a cruel plantation owner who is chased after by a freed slave Django (Jamie Foxx),
March 7, 2013
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Watts, Pitt bring films to Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK (AP) ― The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival will feature everything from Will Forte’s dramatic film debut to a tale of Arctic cowboys herding reindeer.The New York festival on Tuesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films that will make up this year’s lineup. The films include those in competition at Tribeca, in both narrative and documentary categories, as well as those in its out-of-competition “Viewpoints’’ section that highlights unique perspectives.This year’s slate, culled from mo
March 6, 2013
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“Our Homeland” gets Korean release
’Our Homeland’ gets Korean releaseBy Claire LeeA Japanese-born director’s award-winning film is being released in Korea in March, according to the film’s promoters.Director Yang Yong-hi, who was born and grew up in Osaka and obtained her South Korean citizenship in 2004, has been making documentaries based on her family history of ethnic Koreans living in Japan. “Our Homeland,” which is Yang’s feature debut, was premiered in Korea at last year’s Busan International Film Festival and received pos
March 5, 2013
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‘Gift from Room 7’ gets mixed reviews
“Gift from Room 7,” a heartwarming comedy which drew more than 11 million viewers in South Korea, is getting a mixed reception. The film, depicting a mentally challenged father who is wrongfully imprisoned in Room 7 for murder, has been lauded for its impressive performances by the main actors and its touching storyline.But for all the praise, some viewers had negative views about the plot. They said that several scenes did not logically follow from the previous ones, distracting viewers. “The l
March 5, 2013
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Role in ’Schindler‘s List’ scars actress for years
Oliwia Dabrowska, who played an iconic role in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List,” said that she had been “horrified” when she first watched the movie.“I was ashamed of being in the movie and really angry with my mother and father when they told anyone about my part,” Dabrowska told British media. Dabrowska, now 24, made an iconic appearance in the highly regarded movie. She played a little girl in a red coat -- the only colored figure in otherwise black-and-white film.The movie’s p
March 5, 2013
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Share of Korean films rises to seven-year high
As two Korean films, “Miracle in Cell No. 7” and “The Berlin File” swept the local box office, homegrown films grabbed their biggest bite of the growing movie market in seven years.According to the Korean Film Council, the total number of ticket sales, combining both Korean and foreign films, reached well over 21 million in February, up 67.03 percent from a year ago.The growth in the number of movie-goers was led mainly by the popularity of Korean films, which accounted for 82.9 percent of overa
March 4, 2013
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Actor facing rape charge sent home after interrogation
Actor Park Si-hoo returned home after nearly 10 hours of questioning by police on Friday over allegations that he sexually assaulted a 24-year old aspiring actress last month.“Although there is much that I would like the say, I have clarified (my position) enough with the police,” Park told reporters, saying the truth will come out.Park’s friend identified as his surname Kim, who is accused of sexually harassing the woman, also returned home after receiving investigation with Park.The well-known
March 2, 2013
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‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ draws 11 million viewers
Local film ‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ drew 11.09 million viewers in just 38 days after its release, official data showed Friday. This makes it the seventh highest grossing movie in Korean film history, beating Kang Woo-suk’s 2003 drama “Silmido.”A heartwarming comedy about a mentally challenged father (played by Ryoo Seung-ryong) wrongfully imprisoned for murder, the film drew 4.6 million viewers in its first two weeks of release. The plot of the film develops as the man forms genuine friendship wi
March 1, 2013
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Box office
Django UnchainedOpening March 21Drama. Western. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Set in the South in 1858, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave with a brutal history with his former owners, finds himself with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christopher Waltz). Together they search for the Brittle brothers who are wanted dead or alive. Once they find the brothers, the team sets on a mission to rescue Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), Django’s wife from during the slave trade long ago. On their journey they bu
Feb. 28, 2013
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Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor on ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’
“Jack the Giant Slayer,” the latest phantasmagorical big-budget, special-effects film from “X-Men” director Bryan Singer, first got under way about three years ago. But back then it had a different director ― Singer replaced D.J. Caruso ― different writers (Singer brought in Christopher McQuarrie to rework the existing script) and even a different title: Somewhere along the line “Jack the Giant Killer” became “Jack the Giant Slayer,” and while “Fee, fi, fo, fum” is still in the script, no one sa
Feb. 28, 2013
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Park Chan-wook’s ‘Stoker’ an exquisite gothic thriller
A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, “Stoker,’’ and she regards it passively, intrigued. There’s a creepy intruder in the Stokers’ handsome, isolated estate, but it’s India’s Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whose existence India was unaware of until he arrived following the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney) in a mysterious car accident. Dashing, cultured and oozing melodramatic evil, he’s an homage to Joseph
Feb. 28, 2013
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Jennifer Aniston soon to tie the knot
Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston plans to marry actor and director Justin Theroux in a few months, a source told media.The couple got engaged in August and it seems the wedding will take place as soon as the 44-year-old actress finishes filming a movie “Untitled Elmore Leonard Project” in Connecticut on March 8. The ceremony will be small scale, the source said. “Jennifer admires him because he is seriously intelligent and so different from most of the men you meet in Hollywood,” one of her fr
Feb. 28, 2013
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Fox unveils first foray into Korean market
Fox International Productions’ first locally produced film was finally unveiled on Tuesday, featuring Park Chan-wook’s “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” star Shin Ha-gyun in the lead.An international production umbrella unit of America’s major film production house Fox Filmed Entertainment, FIP produces and distributes local language films around the globe. Known as one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox blockbusters include “Avatar,” “Titanic” and “Star Wars.”T
Feb. 26, 2013
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Critics blast Academy Awards for off-color jokes, dull show
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Critics blasted Oscars host Seth MacFarlane on Monday for “crudely sexist antics” and peddling “offensive” Jewish stereotypes, as the Academy Awards post mortem got into full swing.Others said the “Family Guy” creator, brought in to appeal to younger viewers with edgy humor, was simply dull ― while satirical website The Onion had to apologize for an expletive tweet about the youngest-ever Oscar nominee.“Well, that didn’t work,” wrote the Los Angeles Times’ television critic a
Feb. 26, 2013
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U.K. actor claiming to suffer from ‘sexsomnia’ jailed
British actor Simon Morris was jailed for raping a 15-year-old girl in 2011, despite insisting that he had no recollection of the incident because he was fast asleep, British media reported Monday. The 42-year-old actor was sentenced on Sunday to eight years in prison by Cardiff Crown Court in southern London, after the court dismissed his claims that he had suffered from “sexsomnia,” the medical condition where people engage in sex acts while still asleep.“You told an endless number of glib lie
Feb. 26, 2013
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Affleck’s ‘Argo’ wins best-picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Ben Affleck’s “Argo,’’ the story of how Hollywood, Canada and the CIA teamed up to rescue six Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis, has earned best picture at the Academy Awards.From the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson to help present the final prize.“There are eight great films that have every right, as much a right to be up here as we do,’’ Affleck said of the other best-picture nominees.In share-the-wealth mode, Oscar voters spread Sunday
Feb. 25, 2013
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‘Silver Linings’ leads Spirit Awards with 4 prizes
The oddball romance “Silver Linings Playbook” was named best picture Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film, Hollywood’s last pre-game show before the Academy Awards.“Silver Linings Playbook” led with four wins, including best actress for Jennifer Lawrence and director and screenplay for David O. Russell.Lawrence is the best-actress favorite at Sunday’s Oscars for her role as a young widow in a shaky new relationship with a man fresh from a mental hospital.“The Sessions” earned
Feb. 24, 2013
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Translating Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook describes his ability as “more than perfect.” Actress Mia Wasikowska said working with him was so “easy and seamless.”Of the many who worked behind the camera for Park Chan-wook’s Hollywood debut “Stoker,” one of its co-producers and interpreter Jeong Won-jo is the one who witnessed the English-language film’s production from the very beginning to the end. Throughout the project, he was the famed director’s “all-around aide-de-camp”; all of Park’s directions were delivered to the
Feb. 24, 2013
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Adele, 'Les Miserables' cast sing on Oscar stage
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was an extra starry, musical day at the Dolby Theatre as Adele took the stage first Friday, followed by the cast of "Les Miserables,'' singing together of the first time.Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, along with co-stars Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham-Carter, Sasha Baron-Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit and Samantha Barks rehearsed their performances on the Oscar stage. They were backed by members of the musical's stage productions from Lon
Feb. 23, 2013