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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Leaders of S. Korea, Angola agree to boost economic, trade cooperation
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‘Fairytales for adults’
Artist Park Hyun-woong’s paintings look more appropriate for a child’s room than a museum. His paintings are pretty. They depict candy, cute elephants and bears, and European castles that little girls dream about. This is why children’s hospitals and Save the Children are among the major collectors of his works. “Actually my paintings are intended for adults. Every adult has bits of their childhood memories, like elephants they saw at a zoo or travels with parents,” Park said. “My paintings are
April 29, 2014
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Outkast returns to home state for CounterPoint
ROME, Georgia (AP) ― Despite the wet and muddy conditions, the energy was high for Outkast’s performance in their home state at the CounterPoint Music & Arts Festival. Organizers suspended the festival due to heavy rain and inclement weather, pushing Outkast’s set back more than an hour Sunday night. But the Grammy-winning rap duo still put on an energetic show that kept the crowd jamming in the late hours. Outkast was one of the final acts to close out the three-day festival in Rome, Georgia, w
April 29, 2014
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Jazz pianist Giovanni Mirabassi to stage concert in Seoul Cathedral
This spring, jazz music will fill the air of an unusual concert venue ― a grand cathedral.Giovanni Mirabassi, a renowned Italian jazz pianist, will stage a concert titled “Jazz Standards in the Church” at the Seoul Cathedral Anglican Church of Korea on May 21. Considered one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Korea, the building is particularly known for its excellent acoustics.The upcoming concert is scheduled to feature a string of familiar jazz tunes from Giovanni’s new album which was recor
April 29, 2014
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Picasso’s Guernica used as backdrop to dance
MADRID (AFP) ― Pablo Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece “Guernica,” one of the world’s most iconic paintings, on Sunday served as a backdrop to a dance performance for the first time in its 77-year history.About 80 people sat on the floor or stood as Josue Ullate, a bare-chested dancer in black tights, jumped and leapt in front of the large black-and-white canvas at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum.The 20-year-old performed “Quiebro,” a piece lasting about five minutes and inspired by a song written by la
April 28, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Ahn Trio returns
In their teen years, the three sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn, a.k.a. the Ahn Trio, graced the cover of Time Magazine as “Asian-American whiz kids.” In their 20s and 30s, this classical trio built a reputation in the classical music world and beyond, with genre-crossing programs, collaborations with a variety of artists ― not just musicians but dancers, visual artists and many others ― and their attractive looks and fashion. Now in their 40s, the trio is coming back to Korea, their birth c
April 27, 2014
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[Band Uprising] English teachers by day, rock stars by night
As the Korean music market begins to receive more international recognition, the local band scene is looking to rise up and represent the next generation of Korean music. This is the ninth installment in a series of interviews with Korean rock, acoustic and alternative bands. ― Ed. When multicultural eclectic concepts meet unexpected sounds and abstract lyrics, the end result becomes the psychedelic post-modern rock band Magna Fall. Expats David Holden of Ireland and Kevin Heintz of the U.S. ini
April 27, 2014
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Eyelike: MC5‘s Wayne Kramer returns with jazz album
MC5’s Wayne Kramer returns with jazz albumWayne Kramer“Lexington”(Industrial Amusement)It’s been 14 years since Wayne Kramer released an album, and the former MC5 guitarist says he expects fans of his work with that seminal punk-metal band might be annoyed with his journey into improv jazz in “Lexington.”Baffled might have been a better word choice, but those who stick around until the end will be pleasantly surprised -- and rewarded.Kramer, who in recent years has been busy scoring films such a
April 25, 2014
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‘Rebuilding broken lives’
In the wake of disasters, people, whether directly involved or not, are affected in one way or another. For Sendai-based Japanese artist Aono Fumiaki, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami was an unforgettable disaster. The tsunami washed away parts of his studio and his wife’s family home, leaving only linoleum flooring and some bathroom tiles. The artist started to collect debris and destroyed objects from tsunami-hit areas. He restored them, not to their original forms, but as repu
April 24, 2014
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Bach meets modern ballet
After its season-opening gala “Thank You!” in February, Korea’s Universal Ballet Company is premiering a new piece choreographed by Spanish artist Nacho Duato. Titled “Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness,” the dance features well-known Baroque compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and aims to deliver the emotional essence of his music and important moments of the legendary composer’s life. Universal Ballet is the fifth troupe to perform the piece choreographed by Duato, following the Na
April 24, 2014
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Shakespeare’s Globe takes ‘Hamlet’ to 200 nations
LONDON (AP) ― Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain’s best-known export, his words and characters famous around the world. It’s fitting they were first staged at a playhouse called the Globe. Now the modern-day Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London is setting out to test the Bard’s maxim that “all the world’s a stage” by taking “Hamlet” to every country on Earth, more than 200 in all. The company describes the plan as “insanely ambitious.” Some suspect it’s impo
April 24, 2014
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Reality beyond statistics
We live in a world of statistics. Statistics expressed in the form of percentages, graphs and pie charts are everywhere. Their stated aim is to paint an accurate picture of reality with numbers. But European avant-garde theater group Rimini Protokoll challenges this notion and aims to show what the dry statistics fail to show. With its series of “100% city” shows, it has been giving faces to the numbers, by putting 100 people of a city on stage to answer questions that go beyond regular statisti
April 23, 2014
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Neil Patrick Harris crushes it in ‘Hedwig’
NEW YORK (AP) ― It’s obvious from the first moments of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” that star Neil Patrick Harris is doing something special. And it’s not just trying on a new role. He is lowered to the stage in a jumpsuit and ferociously feathered blond wig and immediately begins the show’s first rock-punk song, getting down on all fours, grinding into the microphone stand or licking the guitarist’s strings. The crowd inside of the Belasco Theatre, where the show opened Tuesday, loses its mind,
April 23, 2014
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Amsterdam chief conductor Mariss Jansons to step down
THE HAGUE (AFP) ― The chief conductor of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, is to step down at the end of the season after leading the world-famous ensemble for a decade, the RCO announced on Tuesday.“Today ... chief conductor Mariss Jansons informed the musicians and staff members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra that Maestro Jansons will resign his position after the 2014-2015 season,” the RCO said in a statement.Health concerns were believed to be the reason for hi
April 23, 2014
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A Polish take on ‘Macbeth’
Murder, betrayal, sex and vengeance ― no story shows the savage behavior that some humans succumb to in order to fulfill their ordained prophecies or the unrelenting grasp that evil can have on one’s soul like the power-hungry tale of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”“Let not light see my black and deep desires,” Shakespeare wrote in the depiction of Macbeth’s inner turmoil as he longed to murder the king and overtake his throne. Considered one of Shakespeare’s most diabolical and compelling trag
April 23, 2014
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Exhibit recreates Warhol’s 1964 World’s Fair mural
NEW YORK (AP) ― Even for a 1964 New York World’s Fair that celebrated “The World of Tomorrow,” Andy Warhol may have been ahead of his time. His monumental piece commissioned specifically for the fair ― a mural depicting mug shots of the New York Police Department’s 13 most-wanted criminals ― was deemed too edgy for the family friendly event and was painted over just before opening day. Now, 50 years later, the work is the focus of a museum exhibition being staged on the very fairgrounds where th
April 22, 2014
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Tom Petty reflects on 40 years of songwriting
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Forty years of practice has made songwriting harder, not easier, for Tom Petty. “As life goes by, you get a little more carefree or distracted by other things and you have to really police yourself ― I do ― into sitting down and doing something that pleases me,” the 63-year-old rocker said. “Plus, I’m trying to do things that I haven’t done before and not go over the same ground.” The writer behind such hits as “American Girl,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “I Need to Know” wil
April 22, 2014
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Bid, Dick, bid: ‘Dick and Jane’ artworks for sale
BROOKLINE, New Hampshire (AP) ― In the portrait, the little boy’s blue eyes twinkle as he looks straight ahead. His apple cheeks shine. There’s a gap in his teeth, and his reddish-brown hair is just slightly tousled. He’s an all-American boy. He’s Dick, of the illustrated “Dick and Jane” series that helped teach generations to read from the 1930s to the 1970s. He’s also Nancy Childress’ childhood neighbor and the model for the drawing by her father, Robert Childress, that along with Jane, Sally,
April 21, 2014
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‘Landscape of Desire’
A young man follows a middle-aged woman from a distance. She moves through a park in a wheelchair. Once she enters her apartment, she fastens the sturdy door lock tight, making a few blunt clicking sounds. She gets out of her wheelchair and finds a beam of sunlight shining directly into her eyes. The light is reflected off a window in the building across from her apartment block. Behind the window stands the man who was following her through the park. He is tilting the window to point the light
April 21, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Indie rapper dreams big
Korean-American rapper Snacky Chan, 33, has always been an independent artist. From his start in the Boston underground hip-hop scene in the late ’90s to his move to Korea in 2008 and up to today, he said he’s never been out to get signed. Instead, he relies solely on himself. “When I first started ― first debuted ― the whole system kind of changed. People were doing stuff independent and building their own fan base, getting on the radio without depending on your label’s backing,” he said in a r
April 21, 2014
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Iran to let underground singer perform in public
TEHRAN (AFP) ― An underground Iranian pop singer will be allowed to perform in public for the first time, it was reported Sunday, prompting him to announce a concert that quickly sold out. Xaniar Khosravi, whose work has until now been confined to the Internet and illicit venues, announced on Facebook that he would play a gig in Tehran on April 24, after the official IRNA news agency said his concert had been approved. “Khosravi has previously released his work online, unofficially or in other w
April 21, 2014