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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Webcam to broadcast from Andy Warhol’s U.S. grave
PITTSBURGH (AP) ― The Andy Warhol Museum is launching a live video feed from the pop artist’s gravesite to honor his 85th birthday.The project, a partnership with the EarthCam webcam network, was to go live Monday at midnight, the museum said.Warhol museum director Eric Shiner said the project is titled “Figment” because of a Warhol quote in which the artist said, “I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say, ‘Figment.’”The s
Aug. 6, 2013
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Box set recalls Elvis sessions at famed studio
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) ― It was 1973, and Elvis Presley’s comeback was in fifth gear.After years of making mediocre movies, he had returned to touring and performing in Las Vegas. In January of that year, he staged the “Aloha from Hawaii” concert live via satellite, viewed by a billion people worldwide.But, due to a contractual obligation, he also needed to create new material. He and manager Col. Tom Parker decided that Presley’s beloved Memphis, Tennessee, was the place to do it.The result wa
Aug. 6, 2013
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O2 music fest offers alternative to summer rock circuit
With the summer music festival calendar crowded with large-scale rock events, a new music fest being inaugurated later this month promises a welcome break from the usual ear-splitting sounds of the season. The O2 Nami Island Music Festival 2013 was designed as a two-day summer music festival for those looking for non-rock music performances.Filling the small island with the sounds of folk music and easy-listening classical pieces, the O2 music festival offers music lovers an opportunity to camp
Aug. 6, 2013
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Pyeongchang Special Music Festival features artists with disabilities
Organized by Special Olympics Korea and Love We Can, a group that specializes in setting up cultural events for those with intellectual disabilities, Pyeongchang Special Music Festival began Tuesday morning for a five-day run through Aug. 10 at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. Artists with intellectual disabilities from 12 different countries, as well as mentors and volunteer workers, will join in the festival, bringing 300 participants. The festival will include a wide variety
Aug. 6, 2013
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[Photo News] Lim Kim to release new album in September
Singer Lim Kim announced Tuesday that she will release her second mini-album as a solo artist next month. “My second mini-album is slated to come out in September. I’m recording it right now, so please look forward to September!” Kim, whose real name is Kim Ye-rim, said via her Facebook page. Mystic89, the 20-year-old singer’s agency, said that Kim is currently putting the finishing touches on her new album. Kim is best known to the public as a member of singing duo Togewol. She and her band mat
Aug. 6, 2013
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NOVUS Quartet to play ‘The Art of Fugue’
NOVUS Quartet, the first Koreans to receive an award at the Osaka International Chamber Competition, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s very last work, “The Art of Fugue,” on Thursday.Considered one of the most notable Korean chamber music ensembles, NOVUS Quartet is comprised of violinists Kim Jae-young and Kim Young-uk, violist Lee Seung-won and cellist Moon Woong-whee. The young musicians met each other while studying at the prestigious Korea National University of Arts.The upcoming perform
Aug. 5, 2013
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Battle of the music festivals
Ever since the Jisan Valley Rock Festival started in 2009, the talk of every summer has been, “Which was better, Jisan or Pentaport?” This summer is no different. Even in the midst of an outpouring of music festivals this summer, Jisan ― now dubbed the Ansan Valley Rock Festival with its new location ― and Pentaport were still two of the biggest festivals to catch. And the debate continued as the two went back-to-back in the last weekend of July and the first weekend of August. There was plenty
Aug. 5, 2013
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Royalty seduced by death
The first Korean run of German musical “Elisabeth” last year was enormously successful, sweeping many awards including the Best Musical, at last year’s Musical Awards. The show is back in Seoul in a bigger venue this year ― Seoul Arts Center’s Opera Theater ― starring some of last year’s cast and newly added actors and actresses. Musical actress Ok Ju-hyun, who won the Best Actress last year for her performance in the piece, once again played the beautiful yet unhappy Austrian empress ― “the 19t
Aug. 4, 2013
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John Park to record ‘Sipping My Life Away’ in Korean
Korean-American singer John Park, who was a semi-finalist on season nine of “American Idol,” and the runner-up of the local singing audition program “Superstar K2,” has announced that he will record a Korean version of his recently released English single “Sipping My Life Away.”“I had been working on my first full album for the past year and a half, and it was my first attempt at writing and composing some of my own songs,” Park announced on his agency’s website. “As the popularity of ‘Sipping M
Aug. 4, 2013
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YB Band announces 3-day garage gig
In honor of the band’s newest album release, “Reel Impulse,” the five rockers of YB Band will be putting on a special three-day garage concert performance from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1 at the Sungsoo-dong Daelim Garage. The “YB Garage Concert ‘Garage Chaos’” is a 19-and-older restricted performance intended to be an all-out loud, hard-core warehouse rock show in celebration of the band’s comeback album. YB Band, also known as the Yoon Do-hyun Band, released its ninth studio album, “Reel Impulse,” on J
Aug. 4, 2013
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Eyelike: Brown Eyed Girls 5th album is solid
Brown Eyed Girls 5th album is solidBrown Eyed Girls“Black Box”(LOEN Entertainment)As veterans in the K-pop arena, Brown Eyed Girls has come back with a solid nine-track album.Unlike “Sixth Sense,” their last album from 2011, “Black Box” is a rather safe album with no standouts and sticks to a rather basic pop sound, making for a good summer listen. Although the music video is stunning in terms of style, inspired by the movie “Kill Bill,” the title track itself is your average, catchy pop tune wi
Aug. 2, 2013
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Bayreuth’s ‘Ring’ director pokes fun at audience
BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) ― Frank Castorf, the controversial German theater director who staged Richard Wagner’s “Twilight of the Gods” at this year’s Bayreuth Festival, poked fun at audience for booing the premiere on Wednesday.When Castorf, the 61-year-old enfant terrible of German theater, took his curtain call at the end of the 6 1/2 evening, he was met with an deafening chorus of boos and whistling from the audience of nearly 2,000 people. Initially, he and his production team stood motionles
Aug. 1, 2013
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Milton Greene slides of Marilyn, others snag $1.8m
NEW YORK (AP) ― Tens of thousands of negatives of Marilyn Monroe and other stars by celebrity photographer Milton Greene have sold at auction for $1.8 million.The archive includes 3,700 negatives and slides of Marilyn Monroe. All the material was sold with copyright.Profiles in History auction house says the highlights included a collection of color transparencies of the Hollywood siren with Laurence Olivier from the movie “The Prince and the Showgirl.’’ It sold for $42,000.A group of transparen
Aug. 1, 2013
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Bringing reggae back
In the land of K-pop, one wouldn’t expect to find a strong following for reggae. However, reggae duo Skull and Haha, both 33, are striving to prove that perception wrong.The husky-voiced reggae artist Skull and funny “Running Man” co-host Haha released their new single “REGGAErilla” on June 27, their latest since the single “2013 First Melody” in January, and “Ya Man” EP in July 2012. They have built up a steady following, holding a guerilla concert in Hongdae, performing on music programs, appe
Aug. 1, 2013
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Boos for Kalashnikovs, crocodiles in Bayreuth’s ‘Siegfried’
BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) ― Frank Castorf’s new production of “Siegfried,” the third part of Richard Wagner’s monumental “Ring” cycle, drew deafening boos at its premiere late Monday for featuring copulating crocodiles and Kalashnikov rifles.One audience member had to be carried out after collapsing when the opera’s eponymous hero shoots down his opponent Fafner with a machine gun in gang warfare.The program had carried a warning about the use of gunfire in the production, but insisted that specta
July 31, 2013
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‘Written on Skin’: Opera’s new masterpiece
LONDON (AP) ― If opera is a dead art form, somebody forgot to tell George Benjamin.The English composer’s new opera, “Written on Skin,’’ has taken the music world by storm, hailed by critics, embraced by audiences and sprouting up in performance seemingly everywhere.Since its premiere last summer in Aix-en-Provence, France, it’s been staged in London; Amsterdam; Toulouse, France; Vienna, and, most recently Munich, where a sell-out crowd cheered wildly after the last of three performances at the
July 31, 2013
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Korean modern print works on exhibit in Manila
An extensive collection of Korean print works that date from the 1950s to present is on view in Manila as part of Korea’s cultural promotional event taking place throughout Southeast Asia. The art exhibition, “Fifty Years of Korean Contemporary Printmaking,” showcases about 80 prints that illustrate both the artistic heritage and development of Korean printmaking spanning some 50 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. “I am hopeful that the exhibition of ‘Fifty Years of Korean Contemporary
July 30, 2013
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Vienna Boys’ Choir facing serious money problems
VIENNA (AFP) ― The sailor-suited Vienna Boys’ Choir, one of Austria’s best-selling musical exports, is facing serious financial problems, its director warned in a newspaper interview Monday.“The Vienna Boys’ Choir is a well-run institution but financial resources are very scarce,” Walter Nettig told the Die Presse daily.The “Wiener Saengerknaben” and an attached school, with roots going back to the 13th century, is classified as a non-profit association. It relies on income from its many concert
July 30, 2013
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Wagner fest seeks new audiences with ‘pocket’ operas
BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) ― Mini versions of Richard Wagner’s best-known works are on offer in Bayreuth this year for those who baulk at the prospect of sitting through operas lasting five hours and more.While Wagnerians from all over the world traipse up to Festspielhaus theater built to the composer’s own designs on the town’s Green Hill, children and opera novices can get a taste for his music in slimmed-down arrangements of two of his greatest masterpieces.The Bayreuth Festival’s highly succes
July 30, 2013
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59th Newport Jazz Fest stars Cole, Hancock
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) ― Roger Lewis has hauled his baritone saxophone to gigs in far-flung places, from England to Japan to New Guinea. He’s played so many places he’s lost count of precisely where he’s been. But he’s never forgotten Newport.Lewis, a member of New Orleans’ Dirty Dozen Brass Band, returns to Rhode Island’s city-by-the-sea again this weekend for the Newport Jazz Festival, an event he calls “one of the greatest festivals in the world.’’“I remember listening to that Ray Char
July 30, 2013