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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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‘Unbowed’ flying high at box office, reviving attention to forgotten case
“Unbowed,” a low-budget South Korean film based on the true story of the so-called “crossbow terror”incident of a college professor, is heating up the local box office, drawing renewed public debate over the 2006 incident.The movie claimed the No. 2 spot by bringing in more than 1 million viewers at local cinemas as of Wednesday, a week after making a robust debut, the Korean Film Council, a government agency in charge of promoting domestic films, said on Thursday.The 1 million viewers is double
Jan. 26, 2012
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‘Hugo,’ ‘Artist’ inject nostalgia to Oscars
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) ― American master Martin Scorsese journeyed to France, putting Hollywood’s newest technology to work for his dazzling 3-D re-creation of 1930s Paris in “Hugo.’’ French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius came to America, reviving old-time Hollywood with his charming resurrection of early cinema in the silent film “The Artist.’’The two films now head a 21st century Academy Awards show whose top nominees offer loving looks back to the infancy of moviemaking, when flicks re
Jan. 25, 2012
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Movie bash brings top anime filmmakers
Eighth Japanese Film Festival features top worksThis will be a thrilling week for Japanese movie buffs in Korea, as the annual J-cinema event returns to Seoul on Thursday, bringing with it some of the most celebrated Japanese anime filmmakers. The 8th Japanese Film Festival, which is being hosted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, along with Korea’s CJ CGV, Busan Cinema Center and Japan Image Council, features 18 films this year. Notably, a separate event will be held in Busan for the first
Jan. 25, 2012
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Smartphones help directors look at films from new angles
Mobile gadgets become new source of experience for pro and amateur filmmakersIt’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s accessible. Welcome to smartphone-filmmaking, which has become the new trend for both amateur and professional filmmakers in the past year. The trend ― which started about a year ago upon the domestic release of Apple’s iPhone 4 and its local carrier KT’s aggressive-creative promotion of the products ― is becoming even bigger as more capital and talents are getting involved.In the beginni
Jan. 20, 2012
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I Don’t Know How She Does It (U.S.), Opening Feb. 2.Comedy. Directed by Douglas McGrath. Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is one busy woman. She is a high-earning financial executive at a Boston-based financial management firm, a devoted mother of two young children, and a supportive wife of her out-of-work architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear). She manages to be on top of her schedule every day, and is used to hearing people say ‘I don’t know how you do it.” Yet things begin to change when
Jan. 20, 2012
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Making up with sadnessChrystal Ship (Sujeongseon)“Reconciliation”(Sony Music)Chrystal Ship’s music is sad ― sad enough to be completely engulfed in the misery, yet sometimes, enough to give up being so sad. With a voice of a person who clearly knows one cannot be sure of everything in life, Chrystal Ship, a former member of Reverberation, sings 10 tracks that attempt to “make up” with sadness after a long period of aching. “What I Want Myself to Be” describes the confusion among two desires insi
Jan. 20, 2012
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Max von Sydow graces ‘Extremely Loud’ with silence
His voice is deep, sonorous, rumbling with quiet gravitas.Few actors are as readily recognizable by their vocal cords as Max von Sydow, the great Swedish actor who arrived on the international scene in 1957, as a knight who encounters Death ― and plays chess with him ― in Ingmar Bergman’s classic, “The Seventh Seal.”Von Sydow would make 10 more films with Bergman (“Without him, I would certainly not have been here today,” he says). And he would make his mark in big commercial films, playing a sl
Jan. 20, 2012
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Sundance Fest opens with 4 films, new snow
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ― A fresh dusting of snow over Park City heralded the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday.Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford opened the festival by characterizing the slate of 117 feature films as products of “dark and grim’’ times and the “suffering from a government that’s in paralysis.’’“Even though the work reflects hard times, there’s not paralysis here,’’ the 75-year-old filmmaker said at an afternoon news conference. “They’re breathing life into
Jan. 20, 2012
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YouTube plots ‘Your Film Festival’ for users
NEW YORK (AP) ― YouTube is launching a film festival that will play out online and ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival.The Google Inc.-owned video site announced Thursday that Your Film Festival will take submissions of short films up to 15 minutes in length between Feb. 2 and March 31. Fifty semi-finalists will be selected by Scott Free Productions, Ridley and Tony Scott’s production company.Those 50 films will form a channel on YouTube: www.YouTube.com/yourfilmfestival. Th
Jan. 19, 2012
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Sundance time: Indie film world gathers
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ― Independent films that may have been years in the making get their first audiences at this week’s Sundance Film Festival. That could also mean careers in the making for unknown directors and actors whose movies connect with the right crowds. Robert Redford’s independent-cinema showcase was opening Thursday with 117 feature-length films, 64 short films and a lot of anxious filmmakers on the agenda during its 11-day run.Some are established directors showing their latest wor
Jan. 19, 2012
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Depp, Paradis ‘living separate lives’: report
Hollywood star Johnny Depp and longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis have split after a 14-year relationship, according to reports.Speculation of the break-up has grown as it as became increasingly rare for the couple to make public appearances together. Although both Paradis, 39, and Depp, 48, were in Paris last November, she didn’t attend the French premier of The Rum Diary, a film Depp both produced and starred in. Instead, the French actress and singer reportedly went to a concert. Paradis wa
Jan. 19, 2012
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Paramount Insurge’s niche: Cheap films that promote themselves
LOS ANGELES ― The weekend before last, Paramount Insurge released the No. 1 movie in America. This past weekend it was shooting test footage of a talking dog.Formed in the wake of 2009’s ultra-low-budget surprise hit “Paranormal Activity,” Insurge is an experimental label within movie giant Paramount Pictures that aims to make youth-oriented films developed outside the traditional Hollywood system on a fast schedule and at low cost.Paramount is hardly the first studio to try to turn a surprise m
Jan. 17, 2012
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The starlight is blinding at Sundance Film Festival
When the Sundance Film Festival launches its annual 10-day run Thursday, it will mark the independent film event’s 34th, 27th or 23rd year ― depending on whether you’re counting from the founding of the U.S. Film Festival in 1978, its takeover by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute in 1985, or its renaming to “Sundance” in 1989. What’s evident from this year’s lineup is that well-known names have increasingly come to dominate the proceedings, which will make tiny, oxygen-deprived Park City, Utah
Jan. 17, 2012
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‘The Artist’ makes a loud noise at Golden Globes
The black-and-white silent film “The Artist’’ came away with the most prizes with three wins at the Golden Globes, but the show spread the love around among a broad range of films and TV shows.Ricky Gervais, who has ruffled feathers at past shows with sharp wisecracks aimed at Hollywood’s elite and the Globes show itself, returned as host for the third-straight year.Wins for “The Artist’’ included best musical or comedy and best actor in a musical or comedy for Jean Dujardin, while the family dr
Jan. 16, 2012
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Dressed-up stars arrive for glitzy Golden Globes
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) _ A glamorous group of A-list stars including Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Sofia Vergara picked their way across the Golden Globes' red carpet on Sunday night. Even the dog from “The Artist” was spotted doing tricks.Clooney, who come to the awards armed with nomi
Jan. 16, 2012
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Jane Fonda had French film on her ‘bucket list’
PARIS (AFP) ― Veteran Hollywood actress Jane Fonda, returning to the screen in a French film about a band of friends in their 70s, said making the movie was on her “bucket list” of things to do before she dies.Set for release next Wednesday, “Et si on Vivait Tous Ensemble” (Why Don’t we all Live Together?) tells of a group of friends who decide to move in together, to share the joys and challenges of old age.It is Fonda’s first French film since the 1972 release, “Tout Va Bien,” by the New Wave
Jan. 15, 2012
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Lions Gate buying ‘Twilight’ maker Summit
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Movie and TV studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is creating a Hollywood powerhouse focused on young adult audiences with its purchase of Summit Entertainment, maker of the teen hit “Twilight’’ series, for $412.5 million, which the companies confirmed Friday.The cash and stock deal brings the “Twilight’’ franchise ― which has grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide since the first movie blew out of the gates in late 2008 ― under the same roof with Lions Gate’s upcoming four
Jan. 15, 2012
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BOX OFFICE
I Don’t Know How She Does It (U.S.), Opening Feb. 2Comedy. Directed by Douglas McGrath. Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is one busy woman. She is a high-earning financial executive at a Boston-based financial management firm, a devoted mother of two young children, and a supportive wife of her out-of-work architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear). She manages to be on top of her schedule every day, and is used to hearing people say ‘I don’t know how you do it.” Yet things begin to change when s
Jan. 13, 2012
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‘Artist’ wins 4 trophies at Critics’ Choice Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― “The Artist’’ waltzed away with its first wins of Hollywood’s awards season.The black-and-white ode to the silent-film era directed by Michel Hazanavicius led winners with four honors at Thursday’s 17th annual Critics’ Choice Awards, which are presented by the 250 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association.“The Artist’’ took the evening’s top prize, best picture, as well honors for best score, costume design and director.“I made a silent movie,’’ French director Hazanav
Jan. 13, 2012
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Jolie, Pitt meet Obama in Oval Office
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. President Barack Obama took a break from the affairs of state to rub shoulders with Hollywood royalty Wednesday, meeting Angelina Jolie and her beau Brad Pitt at the White House.Jolie was in Washington for the launch of her new movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and the couple were seen through the paneled windows of the Oval Office by reporters and photographers.“President Obama spoke with Ms Jolie about her work to raise the profile of preventing mass atrocities and
Jan. 12, 2012