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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Brazil’s top modern artist gets Rio homecoming
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― She’s the toast of New York and beloved in Paris and London, but Beatriz Milhazes thinks there’s no place like home.More than a decade after her last show in her native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s highest-paid artist is gearing up for a homecoming of sorts, a major retrospective spanning most of her 30-year career. The exhibition, opening Thursday at the Paco Imperial Cultural Center in downtown Rio, brings together more than five dozen paintings, silk screens and collages cov
Aug. 26, 2013
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Renoir’s personal items to be auctioned in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AFP) ― A mass of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s personal items will be auctioned in New York next month in what is billed as the biggest collection of the French Impressionist artist’s memorabilia.The Renoir Estate Collection of 143 lots is set to be sold on Sept. 19, for an estimated $3 million.The sale includes 20 original sculptural plaster maquettes created during Renoir’s final years with the help of a young assistant, Richard Guino, at the painter’s Les Collettes home in the southeaster
Aug. 26, 2013
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Hip-hop world caught up in a cutthroat ‘diss war’
The local hip-hop scene has been explosive this past week with disses flying in every direction as several popular rap stars decided to carry out their feuds publicly, and with some pretty harsh verses. It all started two weeks ago with the release of the hip-hop track “Control,” by American rap artists Big Sean, featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The single basically called out a handful of the new rappers in the U.S. music industry, such as Wale, Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and D
Aug. 26, 2013
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Timberlake, ’N Sync take over Video Music Awards
NEW YORK (AP) ― Miley Cyrus’ foam finger, Lady Gaga’s thong, Taylor Swift’s mean streak and the look on Rihanna’s face while Drake performed will surely be remembered, but these MTV Video Music Awards belonged to Justin Timberlake.Timberlake briefly reunited with ’N Sync, won moonman trophies including top honor video of the year for “Mirrors” plus the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and managed to overshadow most of today’s top pop stars while doing it. “I don’t deserve the award, but I’m
Aug. 26, 2013
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‘Amelie’ director ‘disgusted’ by plans for Broadway musical
PARIS (AFP) ― The director of “Amelie” has said he is “disgusted” by plans to turn the hit French movie into a Broadway musical, but sold the rights anyway to support a charity.Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he hated Broadway with a passion and had a horror of musicals, but had finally decided to sell and use the proceeds to fund medical treatment for children.“I hate Broadway. I think it is the very incarnation of tackiness,” said the acclaimed French director in a radio interview.“For a long time I r
Aug. 26, 2013
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Exhibition ponders a life in art through waterdrops
Artist Kim Tschang-yeul holds a retrospective that looks back on his artistic career, following his grand retrospective held in Taiwan earlier this year. The exhibition presents some 40 works that cover each stage of the 84-year-old artist’s career, including those from the early 1970s which saw the birth of his signature “Waterdrops” series to the present, shedding light on the transformation of Korean contemporary art as well. The retrospective at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts featur
Aug. 25, 2013
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‘Show Me the Money’ exposes good and bad of the industry
This is the third in a series on producers, MCs, DJs and artists working in the Korean underground hip-hop scene. ― Ed.Despite high ratings and relative success, hip-hop artist MC Meta ― one half of established duo Garion ― said a lot needed to be done for future seasons of Mnet hip-hop audition show “Show Me the Money.”While the hip-hop talent search program, which just wrapped up its second season, did put more up-and-coming underground artists in the limelight, Meta said for him as a producer
Aug. 25, 2013
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Eyelike: EXO’s new album catchy
EXO’s new album catchyEXO“The 1st Album ‘XOXO (Kiss&Hug)’ Repackage”(KMP Holdings)EXO’s 14-track repackaged album is a mainstream mix of hip-hop, R&B, pop and dance and is definitely for the younger crowd. You won‘t find depth and complexity in terms of music or lyrics, but mature listeners nonetheless will find some tracks irresistibly catchy. Title song “Growl” is a dance track with an urban R&B sound and describes a man not wanting his lover to be stolen away. “LUCKY” has a rhythmical melody
Aug. 23, 2013
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Crayon Pop captivates foreign media
The almost embarrassingly silly concept of the nation’s latest girl group craze Crayon Pop has managed to grab the attention of overseas broadcasters. Journalists from the U.S.’ ABC News as well China’s Shanghai TV came to Korea on Thursday to spend the day with the five ladies of Crayon Pop since the quirky choreography to the group’s hit single “Bar Bar Bar” has begun to blow up virally, resulting in people asking whether it may follow in the footsteps of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and “Gentleman.”
Aug. 23, 2013
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Tony Bennett to attend March on Washington
NEW YORK (AP) ― Tony Bennett plans to travel to the U.S. capital to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. as the March on Washington marks its 50th year.Bennett, who marched with the civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, is scheduled to perform as part of Saturday’s festivities commemorating the historic march and King’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.The entertainer said Thursday he wants to honor King‘s humanitarian message, but will also be in Washington as part of
Aug. 23, 2013
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E-sens attacks Gaeko, former agency with version of ‘Control’
Rapper E-sens on Friday bashed his recently-parted agency Amoeba Culture and Gaeko of Dynamic Duo in a fashion befitting his hip-hop roots: releasing a diss track that sampled rapper Big Sean’s “Control.”“Amoeba Culture. Kiss my a--. You’ll just go to the press like you always have. You’ll make me look like an ungrateful bastard,” read the lyrics of the 26-year-old rapper’s track “You Can’t Control Me.”The Control fad was kick-started by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, who called out a number of
Aug. 23, 2013
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Art students open exhibition in Seoul City Hall
United Exhibition, a group of 80 art students from Seoul National University, Kookmin University, Hongik University and Ewha Womans University, are holding an exhibition titled “How Dare You” in Seoul City Hall’s Citizen Gallery from Aug. 20 to 29. Sponsored by Seoul City, the exhibition includes a wide range of creative work. “Cut Me” by Hongik University student Kim Ji-yeon features strings sewn onto a canvas with scissors hung beside it. Visitors are encouraged to take the scissors and cut so
Aug. 22, 2013
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New York Met expands live opera broadcast program
NEW YORK (AFP) ― New York’s Metropolitan Opera said Wednesday it has expanded its program of live broadcasts for the 2013-2014 season, with 10 operas to be shown in 1,900 movie theaters in dozens of countries.The season kicks off on Oct. 5 with a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and wraps up on May 10 with Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.”The Met will unveil four new productions including Verdi’s “Falstaff” conducted by music director James Levine, who has been absent for nearly three y
Aug. 22, 2013
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Spanish artist to share riches from botched fresco makeover
MADRID (AFP) ― An 82-year-old Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a painting of Christ made her a global laughing stock is to reap nearly half the riches from worldwide merchandising of the monkey-like image.Cecilia Gimenez took it upon herself a year ago to fix up Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), a flaking, century-old fresco of Christ painted on a pillar in a church in Borja, northeastern Spain.The touched-up result resembled a pale-faced ape with cartoon-style eyes and mouth and a crooked s
Aug. 22, 2013
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Berlin to build museum for 20th-century masterpieces
BERLIN (AFP) ― Berlin agreed Wednesday to build a new museum for 20th-century masterpieces by artists including Rothko, Magritte and Dali donated by a wealthy couple, potentially resolving a years-long dispute.The state museums foundation put forward a proposal for the cash-strapped city to create a 130 million euro ($174 million) home for the collection directly behind the already overflowing New National Gallery at the Cultural Forum in central Berlin.The works themselves belonging to milliona
Aug. 22, 2013
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Metallica to headline at the Apollo
NEW YORK (AP) ― There will be a different type of Sandman featured at the Apollo next month.Metallica is set to rock the legendary Harlem venue on Sept. 21. They will promote their 3-D concert-action film “Metallica Through the Never,” released in IMAX on Sept. 27 and other theaters a week later. It will also air live on a special temporary Metallica channel on SiriusXM.The Apollo, revered for its place in black entertainment and historic performances from the likes of James Brown to Michael Jac
Aug. 22, 2013
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The Killers to bring 'hot fuss' to Korea with first concert
American rock band The Killers, who brought listeners hits “Somebody Told Me” and “Mr. Brightside,” will be hitting the stage in Seoul for the band’s first concert in Korea on Oct. 5. The upcoming concert is the 12th installment of the “Hyundai Card Culture Project” series, which in the past brought acts such as Keane, John Legend, Ke$ha, Jason Mraz, Kraftwerk, Mika and Damien Rice. Formed in Las Vegas in 2001 by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers and guitarist Dave Keuning ― later joined by Mark Sto
Aug. 22, 2013
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Picasso murals at heart of debate after Breivik bombing
OSLO (AFP) ― Five Picasso murals that survived Anders Behring Breivik’s bombing of an Oslo government block in 2011 are now at the heart of a divisive debate in Norway on the buildings’ fate.The murals drawn by the Spanish master in the late 1950s and 1960s ― “The Beach,” “The Seagull,” “Satyr and Faun” and two versions of “The Fishermen” ― risk being removed from the location for which they were conceived if the damaged buildings are torn down.The government is currently mulling whether to demo
Aug. 21, 2013
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Girl’s Day to perform in support of women’s issues
As the current honorary ambassadors of children’s development and child sponsorship programs for Plan Korea, the four members of Girl’s Day are holding a special guerilla concert on Aug. 20 at Everland’s Caribbean Bay.The concert is being held as part of Plan Korea’s “Because I am a Girl” campaign to raise awareness and support young girls in need around the world. Plan Korea will also be hosting a special Facebook event along with Everland, aiming to get more fans involved with the campaign. Sh
Aug. 20, 2013
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G-Dragon donates 80m won to charity
K-pop superstar G-Dragon of Big Bang recently celebrated his birthday in the spirit of charity by donating 81.8 million won ($72,000) to the Seungil Hope Foundation, a rehabilitation hospital for Lou Gehrig’s disease patients.The donation amount represented the star’s birth date, Aug. 18. Representatives of G-Dragon’s agency YG Entertainment announced that the entertainer decided to make the birthday donation as a sign of gratitude and appreciation to all of his fans. In return, members of the s
Aug. 20, 2013