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Actor Song Jae-rim dies at 39
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'Are you a T?' is a new put-down in S. Korea
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Bitcoin hits record in Korea, even without ‘kimchi premium’
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Trump sours K-food outlook in US
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Korean study finds 'obese' BMI may actually be healthiest
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Boston Dynamics robot dog joins Trump’s security detail
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Suneung for all: Opportunity, redemption and the right to dream
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Hyundai’s Atlas robot takes the spotlight as Tesla's Optimus stumbles
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Korean model admits drug use, seeks help from embassy in Manila: report
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[Herald Interview] 'Korea, don't repeat Hong Kong's mistakes on foreign caregivers'
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J.Lo, reported beau tweet that age doesn't matter
Hollywood superstar Jennifer Lopez, 42, and the 24-year-old back-up dancer reported as her new flame say age doesn't matter -- and they have proudly tweeted it. In this June 7, 2011 photo, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez attend the Samsung Hope for Children Gala in New York. The stars, who announced
Jan. 20, 2012
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Smithsonian to open video games exhibit
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Smithsonian American Art Museum is holding its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games.The unusual exhibit opens March 16 and will be on view in Washington through Sept. 30.“The Art of Video Games’’ will focus on the graphics, technology and storytelling of some of the best games for systems ranging from Atari to the PlayStation 3. It will include 80 video games that were selected with help from the public, which voted online last year.The museum
Jan. 19, 2012
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Photos by censored Chinese artist to show
NEW YORK (AP) ― Photographs by the wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo will be shown at Columbia University next month.Beijing artist Liu Xia has been under house arrest since shortly after her husband was awarded the peace prize. Her photos were smuggled out of China just before she was placed under house arrest.Liu’s works are censored in China. The series of 25 photos depict lifelike dolls in various settings. One shows her husband holding a doll. In another, a tied-up
Jan. 19, 2012
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Hockney goes back to his roots
LONDON (AFP) ― Britain’s greatest living artist, David Hockney, has swapped the Californian sunshine for the landscape of his native Yorkshire for a blockbuster exhibition which goes on show this week.Hockney has portrayed country lanes and hedgerows in a riot of colour that leaps off the wall at the Royal Academy of Arts, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in London.In the show, “A Bigger Picture,” Hockney and his team also show the countryside shifting through the seasons on a giant bank of v
Jan. 18, 2012
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Domingo to conduct NYC kids orchestra
NEW YORK (AP) ― Opera superstar Placido Domingo is getting ready to conduct 35 New York City schoolchildren who are studying music five days a week under a program inspired by Venezuela’s acclaimed youth orchestra program, El Sistema.Domingo will conduct the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from Public School 129 in Harlem and Public School 152 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, at a fundraiser Wednesday for their after-school music program, called Harmony.The children will play Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus
Jan. 18, 2012
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Musical about Austrian empress to charm Seoul
Pop star-turned musical actress Ok Ju-hyun to star in ‘Elisabeth’After welcoming the local adaptations of Czech musical “Hamlet” and London’s West End musical “Zorro“ recently, Korea’s theater scene is seeing the arrival of another European show, this time about the real-life 19th-century legendary Austrian empress Elisabeth (1837-1898).Starring former girl group FIN.K.L. member-turned-musical actress Ok Ju-hyun, actor Song Chang-ui and K-pop group JYJ member and rising musical star Kim Jun-su,
Jan. 18, 2012
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Facebook makes listening to music downright social
LOS ANGELES ― Everywhere you look, people are going about their lives to the tunes of their own personal soundtrack. They sweat through “YMCA” at the gym, pound out programming code to Rammstein’s brutal beats and nurse broken hearts with a mournful Bach cello concerto.In the last few decades, technology has transformed music from a social gathering experience to an intensely solitary one in which donning a pair of headphones in public is equivalent to shouting, “Leave me alone!”But in a move th
Jan. 18, 2012
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‘Spider-Man’ producers punch back at Julie Taymor
NEW YORK (AP) ― Producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’’ have fired back in their legal fight with one-time director Julie Taymor, claiming the woman who they once called a visionary later failed to fulfill her legal obligations, wrote a “disjointed’’ and “hallucinogenic’’ musical, and refused to collaborate on changes when the $75 million show was in trouble.In a countersuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Taymor and her company
Jan. 18, 2012
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Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public
CLEVELAND (AP) ― The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts’’ as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.Thousands
Jan. 18, 2012
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Schoenberg collection goes to North Texas
DENTON, Texas (AP) ― Arnold Greissle-Schoenberg can still picture his grandfather, composer Arnold Schoenberg, raising his finger to command attention.“Whenever Schoenberg wanted to say something he would raise his finger and everybody would fall silent and then he would have his say,’’ said Greissle-Schoenberg, whose childhood memories include watching his grandfather holding court with other musical luminaries.The 88-year-old grandson of the famous 20th century composer remembers a side of Sch
Jan. 17, 2012
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JYJ sets box office record for South America tour
Some 5,000 tickets to Korean boy band JYJ’s upcoming tour of South America sold out in less than two days, breaking the record for foreign artists, the group’s agent said Monday. “We began selling the tickets last Thursday (Jan. 12) for the tour in South America and the seats were sold out in two days,” C-JeS Entertainment said in a press release. It was reported that some fans camped overnight to buy VIP tickets for seats closer to the stage. Peru’s El Comerico news published an article stating
Jan. 16, 2012
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American art takes the stage at the Louvre
PARIS (AP) ― American tourists fill the galleries of the Louvre Museum, yet American art is surprisingly scarce.Paris’ premier museum and three U.S. art institutions are seeking to change that with an exhibit tracing the birth of American landscape painting and its influences.“As soon as I arrived at the Louvre, I noticed that American art was not displayed at the level it merits,’’ said Louvre director Henri Loyrette.Even the exhibit’s English-French melange of a name breaks tradition: It’s cal
Jan. 16, 2012
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‘Our home’ captured from above
French aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand showcases beautiful views of EarthLiving in the urban jungle, occupied with trivial, everyday matters, rarely do we realize how many grand and beautiful things we overlook. French aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand reminds us of what we have been missing out on through photos of different landscapes that are so mystical that they seem almost fictional. At his first-ever solo exhibition here titled “Earth from Above ― It’s My Home,” currently
Jan. 16, 2012
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Gugak can heal, inspire: Lee Tong-bok
National Gugak Center’s new director seeks blend of Korean music with other artsIt’s been almost two months since the National Gugak Center’s new director and scholar Lee Tong-bok took office. The position might have been a challenging one for Lee, a professor at Kyungpook National University in Daegu since 1984. Yet he says it’s as if he has returned home.“I was a performing member of the National Gugak Center from 1979 to 1982,” Lee told The Korea Herald at the institution on Wednesday. “So it
Jan. 15, 2012
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Lopez, Anthony promoting new project
PASADENA, California (AP) ― Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were together again on Saturday ― at least to promote their new project.The stars, who announced last summer they were ending their marriage after seven years, appeared on a stage Saturday to talk briefly about a new music series they are doing together. “Q’Viva! The Chosen’’ premieres on Univision on Jan. 28.Anthony reached down to offer his hand and help Lopez climb three stairs to the stage, and later admired the four sparkling rings
Jan. 15, 2012
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Theater“Park Wan-suh: Read by Actors”: Four of the celebrated late author Park Wan-suh’s literary works are currently being staged as theatrical plays in Daehangno, Seoul. The four featured novellas ― “For Solitude,” “Mother and Daughter Tea Time,” “You and the Eight Hats” and “The Pasqueflower of the Combative Days” ― are recited in their entirety by one actor throughout the show, while the other actors and actresses act out what’s happening in the narrative at the same time. The short stories
Jan. 13, 2012
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Blue Ivy Carter becomes youngest ever on Billboard
In this Jan. 11, 2009 file photo, Beyonce, left, is joined by husband Jay-Z, as she arrives at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California (AP)NEW YORK (AP) _ She's not even a week old, but Blue Ivy Carter is already making music history.Billboard says that thanks to her dad, Ja
Jan. 13, 2012
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Damien Hirst connects the dots in global exhibit
NEW YORK (AFP) ― British artist and self-marketing genius Damien Hirst looks to connect the dots in a big way with the opening Thursday of a global show for his body of colored spot paintings.The Gagosian Gallery network, with 11 locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong, has been turned over entirely to Hirst’s geometric blizzard of round spots.At a media preview Wednesday in one of the New York galleries, Damien Hirst posed for photographs and spent
Jan. 12, 2012
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Exhibition sheds new light on Joseon Dynasty paintings
Hakgojae Gallery presents orchid, bamboo paintings in New Year celebrationsHazy moonlight shimmers on a tranquil bamboo forest. The bamboo, so upright and leafy, seem to be swaying gently in the night breeze, but never losing grip completely. Haegang Gim Gyu-jin’s ten-fold-screen depicts a sentimental yet calm night that invites viewers into a moment of fantasy. Bamboo and orchids were some of the subjects highly favored by Joseon Dynasty artists and scholars, including Gim, to feature in their
Jan. 12, 2012
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Korean-initiated int‘l art fair to launch in Hong Kong in May
HONG KONG (Yonhap) -- A South Korean-led international art fair will open in Hong Kong in May, in a bid to provide a platform where participants in the art industry can meet and exchange views, organizers said Wednesday.The Hong Kong Contemporary art fair, arranged by Moon Eun-myung, a South Korean art dealer operating in the special administrative region, will run from May 17 through 20.The event will take place alongside the city’s renowned Hong Kong International Art Fair and the Christie‘s A
Jan. 11, 2012