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Travel industry discusses tourism’s ability to change the world

BANGKOK -- The travel and tourism industry today generates over $7.6 trillion globally, supporting over 292 million jobs, and has outstripped the growth of the global economy in the last six years. ...

April 27, 2017
Culture
2,917 stairs to the top of Korea’s highest skyscraper

Over 950 people from around the world gathered Sunday at Lotte World Tower to do one thing: climb up 123 floors -- or 2,917 stairs to be exact. Gripping banisters and taking the stairs two at a time...

April 26, 2017
Culture
Park Chan-wook appointed to Cannes jury

Korean director Park Chan-wook is to sit on the jury of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival that kicks off next month. Director Park Chan-wook (Yonhap) The international festival said Tuesday that Park w...

April 26, 2017
Film
G-Dragon confirms global tour

G-Dragon is set to kick off a world tour of 19 cities across the globe in June, his agency YG Entertainment said Tuesday. A promotional image for G-Dragon’s upcoming world tour. (YG Entertainment) ...

April 25, 2017
Music
MBLAQ’s Seungho steps into acting career

Seungho of MBLAQ sealed a deal with Will Entertainment to start his acting career. Seungho of MBLAQ (Herald DB) The agency said Tuesday that it would fully support Seungho’s plan to build his caree...

April 25, 2017
Music
VIXX to embark on Southeast Asian tour

VIXX is set to embark on a tour of Southeast Asian countries in July, according to the group’s agency Jellyfish Entertainment. VIXX (Jellyfish Entertainment) The agency said Monday “VIXX Fan Meetin...

April 24, 2017
Music
BTS wins 9th Shorty Awards

BTS has been recognized as the most influential musician on social media by the ninth Shorty Awards. BTS delivers an award acceptance speech in a YouTube video posted Sunday after winning the ninth ...

April 24, 2017
Music
Click here to subscribe - and learn how to drive

Imagine the shock when a boy, 8, drove up to a local McDonalds drive-through and asked for a Happy Meal. The news of the Ohio boy who learned how to drive on YouTube to get a late-night snack was a ...

April 23, 2017
Culture
Recreating fragments of a bygone empire

At the turn of the century, Emperor Gojong declared Joseon an empire in a last-ditch attempt to retain independence. A re-enactment of foreign envoys’ audience with Emperor Gojong (Cultural Heritage...

April 23, 2017
Culture
Soo Ae may star in ‘Upper Class’

Soo Ae is considering returning to the big screen with the upcoming movie “Upper Class” (unofficial title), according to her agency Star J Entertainment. Soo Ae (Herald DB) The agency recently said...

April 23, 2017
Film
Mamamoo to return in June

Mamamoo is set to return in June, according to the group’s agency RBW Entertainment. Mamamoo (Yonhap) The agency said Thursday the group is currently working on a new album, while the exact date fo...

April 20, 2017
Music
Amazon expands literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche

SEATTLE - The literary translation community in the US has a tradition of being highbrow, a carefully tended yet narrow reflection of the stirrings of global culture beyond the Anglosphere. Then Ama...

April 20, 2017
Books
A week of Beethoven

Paris-based Korean pianist Paik Kun-woo is back performing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. This is not the first time Paik is playing the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle -- he played the 32 pi...

April 19, 2017
Music
10 K-pop springtime tunes

Cherry blossoms have peaked and are falling, marking the arrival of spring. In celebration of warmer days, The Korea Herald has compiled a list of 10 K-pop tunes -- old, familiar, lesser known and ne...

April 18, 2017
Music
[Herald Interview] Kim Ki-soo, blurring gender barriers with makeup

Kim Ki-soo makes sure to captivate the audience when he films a makeup tutorial: he winks, chortles, bats his eyelashes and daintily lifts a brush with impeccably manicured fingers. “Smudge, smudge, ...

April 18, 2017
Culture

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