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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Haeundae Beach to become sand art museum in late May
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Hostilities get out of hand as YouTuber murders another outside courthouse
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Medical professors set to take day off amid protracted walkouts by junior doctors
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Police officer jumps barefoot into drainage tunnel to save man
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Yoon interacts with public for 1st time since election defeat
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Lee Sun-kyun's posthumuous film to hit theaters in August
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State-led adoption system to be established to ensure adoptees' well-being, minimize overseas adoption
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Mexico federal police, troops to patrol Acapulco
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Federal police and soldiers will take over policing duties in the resort of Acapulco to ensure the safety of tourists amid a wave of violence and protests that has scared away visitors, Mexican authorities said. Troops and federal police will also take over policing in 20 more townships north of Acapulco in a region known as Tierra Caliente, or the Hot Lands, which is plagued by drug cultivation, trafficking and cartels. The region covers parts of the states of Guerrero, Micho
TravelDec. 5, 2014
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See splendid Turkey on a budget: Take the bus
CAPPADOCIA, Turkey ― If all of Turkish history were on this bus, I’d be sitting next to sultans, whirling dervishes, Silk Road caravanners, Greek shopkeepers, apostles and olive growers.Instead, I’m sitting next to a guy from New York and a couple from Toronto. We’re coming up on a bathroom break at a rest stop in central Turkey.“Fifteen minutes!” our guide says as the bus doors swing open. “Do not be late.”I join the crowd hurrying to the ladies’ room, passing shopkeepers’ shelves of merchandis
TravelDec. 5, 2014
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Affordable Dim Sum on Garosu-gil
At lunch time, despite the recent chill, hungry diners wait outside for one of a few seats inside Jooo’s Dim Sum and Noodles. The wait is clearly worth it. Not only does Jooo’s owner-chef Lee Byung-joo serve up tasty soup dumplings and fragrant bowls of hot noodles, each dish only sets one back an affordable 3,500 won to around 9,000 won, keeping lunch generally under 10,000 won. Wallet-friendly prices and tasty grub clearly makes for a winning combination, but that is not all that makes Jooo’s
FoodDec. 5, 2014
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Chew on this: ‘Sweet Potatoes’ author debunks yam myths
Hillsborough, North Carolina, cookbook author April McGreger wants to settle the confusion about yams and sweet potatoes.First, McGreger says, they are not the same vegetable. Sweet potatoes are grown in the U.S. Yams are a tropical plant, grown in Africa and Asia, and they look much different from sweet potatoes.“Unless it’s buff-colored, the size of a football and hairy, it is a sweet potato,” said McGreger, who has just published her first cookbook, “Sweet Potatoes,” part of the UNC-Press Sav
FoodDec. 5, 2014
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Around the hotels
Korean and Chinese restaurants reopen at Sheraton Grand Walkerhill Sheraton Grande Walkerhill reopened the Korean restaurant Ondal and Chinese restaurant Geumryong after six months of renovation on Dec. 1. The Korean restaurant Ondal presents Korean royal cuisine based on the recipes of an aristocratic family of the Joseon era. Ondal also serves the head chef’s “Summit Luncheon,” which was served during the G20 Seoul Summit and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Korea. Geumryong (Golden Dra
FoodDec. 5, 2014
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Seoul Philharmonic CEO claims artistic director behind accusations
Park Hyun-jung, CEO of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, who faces demands for her resignation from employees accusing her of sexual harassment and arbitrary personnel management, said Friday that artistic director Chung Myung-whun may have been behind the recent accusations against her.She also refused to step down and vowed to cooperate with investigations into the complaints.“I am willing to cooperate with the national auditing agency, prosecutors or anyone in investigating this case,” she sa
CultureDec. 5, 2014
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You Hee-yeol to hold first concerts in 7 years
The highly respected veteran singer-songwriter-pianist You Hee-yeol is slated to host his first solo concerts in more than seven years, commemorating his recently released seventh full-length album, “Da Capo.” You, who performs under the name Toy, will put on three concerts at Seoul Olympic Park’s Gymnastics Stadium next year from April 2 to 4. As of Friday morning, Toy was ranked No. 1 in the country in terms of ticket sales. You Hee-yeol. (Antenna Music)Toy’s latest album marked a monster com
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Next Bond film gets retro name: ‘SPECTRE’
LONDON (AP) ― James Bond is back, in a new film with a retro title that evokes the series’ past. The next 007 adventure will be called “SPECTRE,” the dastardly fictional terrorist organization featured in “Dr. No” and other early Bond films. Director Sam Mendes announced the name of the 24th official Bond movie Thursday at Pinewood Studios near London, along with the identity of several new cast members and a new version of Bond’s iconic Aston Martin car. Academy Award-winning Austrian actor Chr
FilmDec. 5, 2014
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Witherspoon loses her vanity and herself in ‘Wild’
Reese Witherspoon finds a role worthy of her in “Wild,” playing a woman who hikes her way out of a tragic past, one painful, traumatic step at a time.A find-yourself-by-testing-yourself drama in the “Into the Wild” or “The Way” mold, “Wild” sends Cheryl (Witherspoon) on a self-imposed spiritual quest to make amends for the damage she’s done to herself and others. A hiking novice with a writerly bent, she is drowning in a quagmire of needle drugs and degrading sexual encounters when she sets out
FilmDec. 4, 2014
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Work on Rome subway digs up ancient farm, tools
ROME (AP) ― Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient commercial farm in the heart of modern Rome, taking advantage of subway construction to explore deeply in urban settings. They worked some 20 meters down near St. John in Lateran Basilica. Today’s Rome rests upon medieval layers and, under those, more ancient strata of life. Rossella Rea, the dig’s leader and a culture ministry official, said Wednesday that archaeologists discovered a first-century agricultural business, the closest to Rome’s
CultureDec. 4, 2014
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Outdoor play returns to indoor theater
During the fall harvest season and in the first month of the lunar year in Korea, people used to gather at their village square and watch art puppet dances, mask dances or acrobatic shows, all to the beats of various traditional percussion instruments. Some would dance to the music and beat instruments in time with energizing refrains, “Ul-ssi-gu!” or “Ul-ssu!” to interact with the performers in the madangnori, a traditional outdoor performance. “Simcheongjeon,” a famous classical story about fi
CultureDec. 4, 2014
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EXO nabs 4 awards at MAMA
South Korean music band EXO pose for the photographers after winning the Album of the Year at the 2014 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong on Thursday. (AP-Yonhap)South Korean boy band EXO proved its stature as a K-pop sensation across Asia by nabbing four awards at the 2014 Mnet Asian Music Awards held in Hong Kong on Wednesday. EXO won four major prizes ― Best Asian Style, Best Male Group of the Year, Asian Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for its third EP, “Overdose.”The Asian Artist
Dec. 4, 2014
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U2 to return to road four years after record tour
NEW YORK (AFP) ― U2, whose last tour in 2009-2011 was the highest-grossing ever, on Wednesday announced concerts in 2015 across North America and Europe and promised variety in its sets.The tour plans indicate that front man Bono expects a full recovery after a bicycle accident last month. He was replaced by Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay’s Chris Martin during a surprise show for AIDS relief Monday in New York.The Irish superstars announced shows in 19 cities starting with Vancouver’s Rogers Are
PerformanceDec. 4, 2014
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‘Gangnam Style’ gallops beyond YouTube counter
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Just how big a hit was “Gangnam Style”? So mammoth that the Internet literally wasn’t ready to handle it.YouTube said that the 2012 song by South Korea’s Psy ― accompanied by a horse-riding-like dance that became a global sensation ― this week reached the maximum number of views that its counter had imagined to be conceivable.The video-sharing site shows that the official version of the video has had more than 2.15 billion views ― the equivalent of one-third of the world’s popul
PerformanceDec. 4, 2014
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‘There Was and There Was Not’ crosses Turkish-Armenian divide
At the Armenian-American camp Meline Toumani attended each summer in Massachusetts, she and her fellow campers knew exactly what bonded them as a people. And no, it wasn’t just their adult-sized noses, at least one of which elicited the nickname “Gonzo” back at school.It was the need for recognition ― from Turkey and the world ― that the Armenian genocide had indeed happened. Even by grade school, Toumani knew certain truths that others denied or were oblivious to: One and a half million Armenia
BooksDec. 4, 2014
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Brother Anthony translates two poetry anthologies
Brother Anthony of Taize, a translator of Korean literature and emeritus professor of English at Sogang University, recently translated two poem anthologies: “Shadows of the Void” and “Patterns.”As one of the first non-Korean translators, Brother Anthony has published around 30 books of Korean poetry and works of fiction into English over more than 20 years, including noteworthy works by Ku Sang, Ko Un and Yi Mun-yol. Brother Anthony of Taize at his office in Seoul in August. (Kim Myung-sub/The
BooksDec. 4, 2014
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Pirie on the case in ‘The Skeleton’
The Skeleton RoadBy Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)Author Val McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel that gives equal attention to each genre. McDermid pulls together a complicated tale of war and its aftermath for a plot that feels both intensely personal and global. “The Skeleton Road” moves at a brisk pace, giving attention to each of its myriad characters as the action moves from Scotland to England to Croatia.Detective Chief Inspector Kar
BooksDec. 4, 2014
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‘Big Finish’ keeps tension high
The Big FinishBy James W. Hall (Minotaur)Living in the “shadowy world” has always worked well for Thorn, the taciturn hero making his 14th appearance in James W. Hall’s series. Living in a “primitive cracker house” in Key Largo, scraping out a living by tying bonefish flies, Thorn’s mellow persona is only a veneer for the violence that can rear when he or his friends are threatened.Being “a hard-core loner” has suited him fine, but Thorn has recently discovered he has a grown son and that solita
BooksDec. 4, 2014
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‘Ralph Peer’: Roots music mogul
Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music By Barry Mazor (Chicago Review Press)Do you love Bruce Springsteen? B.B. King? Garth Brooks? Ruben Blades?No doubt you answered yes to at least one of those, but it’s quite likely you do not know the name of the visionary record-industry mogul who set the stage for those artists to succeed ― and perhaps even to exist at all.That would be Ralph Peer, the Kansas City “A & R man” (artists and repertoire) who in the 1920s virtually invented country an
BooksDec. 4, 2014
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‘Midnight in Siberia’ eyes Russia today
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaBy David Greene (W.W. Norton)As the West nervously watches a newly aggressive Russia, many commentators are trying to figure out what Vladimir Putin is thinking. But “Midnight in Siberia” reminds us of another important question: What are the Russian people thinking?David Greene took a 6,000-mile train journey from Moscow to Vladivostok to find out, and the result is a mesmerizing, confounding, comforting and thought-provoking book. Gr
BooksDec. 4, 2014