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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Foo Fighters plan U.S. baseball stadium tour
NEW YORK (AFP) ― The Foo Fighters, touring to promote an album that delves into the roots of U.S. music, will play some of the country’s most historic baseball stadiums starting next year.The band, led by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, on Tuesday announced shows on July 18 and 19 at Fenway Park, the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball and home of the Boston Red Sox.A show at another historic stadium, the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field, was earlier announced and is sold out. The band also a
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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A dance with Daddy: Federal inmates get chance to go to the ‘ball’
MIAMI ― In a Federal Bureau of Prisons first, inmates serving time in a Miami federal detention center were allowed to dance with their daughters for an afternoon as part of a reentry program. The theme: There’s still time at the ball, still time to take an active role in their daughters’ lives.Inmate Ernest Williams, serving a 41-month drug sentence, had long stopped asking his family ― a wife and five children ― to come see him at the Federal Detention Center Miami. The visits, he says, left h
CultureNov. 19, 2014
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Art of therapy practiced through pictures
DALLAS ― Rachel Nash is a licensed professional counselor. She works with a diverse group of clients, including children, adults and the elderly. She talks with them. She builds relationships with them. She guides them through discerning their own complex emotions.In these ways, she is similar to other counselors.What separates Nash from her colleagues are the art supplies that accompany her in every therapy session. Nash is an art therapist.Art therapy is a well-established but sometimes overlo
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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Accessible home sits sky-high over Seattle
SEATTLE ― Anne and Brom Wikstrom have lived in the city’s Magnolia neighborhood for a very long time. They’re used to beautiful views. Blue water. Purple mountains. Rising city.So when they started talking about a new place, they didn’t talk about a nice view. They didn’t want a nice view.They wanted a stunning view. This view: Puget Sound from Seattle’s shipping terminals, across Alki Beach, the sweep out to Bainbridge Island, Olympic Mountains, around to Queen Anne Hill, over the Space Needle,
CultureNov. 19, 2014
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Actress Kim Ja-ock mourned at funeral
Family members and friends flocked to a funeral parlor at a Seoul hospital on Wednesday to bid their final farewell to late actress Kim Ja-ock. The funeral at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in southern Seoul was also attended by celebrities. The mourners wailed and hugged each other when the hearse left the hospital for a nearby crematorium. Kim died of lung cancer three days earlier at age 63. She underwent successful surgery for colorectal cancer in April 2008 and resumed acting the following month
TelevisionNov. 19, 2014
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Filmmaker explores meaning of freedom in ‘Haebangchon’
A drug crime movie set in Haebangchon might sound like the tawdry imaginings of a xenophobic campaign group, but the plot in “Haebangchon: Chapter 1” seems to have more to do with the area’s Korean-influenced nickname ― Liberation Village.“Each individual person in this film needs to find their own individual freedom. That’s what the film is really about. That’s what the premise is, to be able to be free,” said director James Williams III by phone from the United States.The film, to get its Seou
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Expats join in Seoul kimchi-making blitz
Koreans and expats gathered to make kimchi in Seoul and Cheonggye plazas on Friday as part of the Seoul Kimchi Making and Sharing Festival.The event continued at Seoul Plaza through Sunday. In total, 9,000 people made 260 tons of kimchi to be given out to 22,000 underprivileged families, city officials said.The collective making of kimchi ― known as “gimjang” ― is a tradition that goes back centuries and was recently recognized by UNESCO, which listed it as an intangible cultural heritage item l
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Seoul food tourism groups offer training to migrant wives
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has teamed up with a group of organizations to provide training for migrant wives as food tour guides.Participants will learn how to explain the story of Korea through cuisine in the program, organized by the Seoul Business Association, Seoul Creative Lab and Korea Culinary Tour Association.The program will train 25 people in the history of traditional markets, Korean cooking and ingredients, hospitality and related topics.Instruction will be led by Korean Culin
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Disney lets N.Y. theatergoers switch tickets
NEW YORK (AP) ― Disney is giving an early Christmas present to theatergoers in New York ― the gift of flexibility. Disney Theatrical Productions is letting ticketholders to its Broadway shows ― “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” ― the chance to switch the dates they see the musicals for any reason as long as it’s done two hours before the performance. The offer, unprecedented for the commercial part of Broadway, starts immediately. Usually such flexibility with tickets on the Great White Way has been
PerformanceNov. 18, 2014
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Translation award honors Suh Ji-moon
When emeritus professor Suh Ji-moon first began translating Korean literature into English in the 1970s, she used to write by hand or use a typewriter, which required writing and retyping over and over again before submission. Though times have changed, the prominent Korean scholar with a 40-year career in teaching, research and literary translation still admits that translating is difficult, often accompanied by frustration and distress. Yet, it is a fulfilling experience, just like a time-cons
BooksNov. 18, 2014
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Nine-taled fox to join Avengers superheroes in U.S. comic series
A cartoon character based on the Korean myth about a nine-tailed fox will be joining Spiderman, Ironman and other superheroes in Marvel’s “Avengers” comic book series, the U.S. firm’s executive said Tuesday. The character, White Fox, is a heroin appearing in “Avengers Electric Rain,” a Web-based cartoon series published on the Korean web portal Daum. “Avengers Electric Rain” is the first localized series of the U.S. comic series Avengers and is being written and drawn by Korean cartoon artist Ko
CultureNov. 18, 2014
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Cumberbatch ‘bowled over’ by reaction to engagement
NEW YORK (AP) ― Benedict Cumberbatch fans might be weeping on the inside over the “Sherlock” star’s engagement ― but he’s seeing nothing but their love, he says. “It’s a crazy old love bomb to drop and the amount of love that comes back to you, that was the thing that (fiancee Sophie Hunter and I) are both just sort of bowled over by. It’s wonderful.” Cumberbatch and Hunter announced their engagement by posting an eight-line notice on the births, deaths and marriages page of The Times newspaper
TelevisionNov. 18, 2014
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Pharrell Williams, Plant to play Latin Lollapaloozas
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Robert Plant and Pharrell Williams will be among the Lollapalooza headliners in March in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, among the first dates on the global festival calendar.The South American editions of Lollapalooza, which started as a traveling alternative rock festival before finding a permanent home in Chicago and expanding overseas, will take place in Santiago on March 14 and 15, in Buenos Aires on March 21 and 22 and in Sao Paulo on March 28 and 29.The headliners ― the same
PerformanceNov. 18, 2014
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Matthew McConaughey gets Hollywood star
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey capped off a blockbuster year Monday as he received a star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame.“It’s a special day, great moment in my career and for my family,” McConaughey, dressed in a light-colored suit with an open collar, said, as some of Tinseltown’s biggest names looked on.Hundreds of fans also turned out and McConaughey was accompanied by his Brazilian wife Camila Alves and their three children, Levi, Vida and Livingston.The 4
FilmNov. 18, 2014
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GOT7 seeks niche with ‘Identify’
The seven members of GOT7 are taking another stab at solidifying their identity with the release of their first full-length album, “Identify.” This time around, the boys are leaving behind the high-flying martial arts dance moves that they so enthusiastically highlighted when they debuted, referring to their complex choreography as one of the aspects that made them different from other K-pop boy bands. The 11-track album, which includes GOT7’s previously released singles “A” and “Girls Girls Gir
Nov. 18, 2014
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Sandara Park, Steven Yeun’s video gets million hits
Sandara Park and Steven Yeun stars in the video. (BeFUNNY Studios)A video series featuring Sandara Park, a member of the K-pop girl group 2NE1, and actor Steven Yeun has received a total of more than 1 million views just four days since its release.Released last week under the title “What’s Eating Steven Yeun?” by BeFUNNY Studios, the video series gained immediate attention from viewers.The series, composed of three parody videos and a highlight episode, tells the comical yet serious story of Ye
Nov. 18, 2014
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Water politics: Exhibition highlights how shortages affect us all
“Trans-border Migrant Tool” by Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 helps Mexican immigrants to find the location of water using the GPS-installed mobile device when they cross the border through the harsh desert.Hundreds of Mexican immigrants die in their deadly crossing across the Mexican and the U.S. border every year. Non-governmental organizations estimate that more than 10,000 people have died so far before they make it to the border. Some of them die without water in the blazing desert that
PerformanceNov. 17, 2014
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July Jung’s ‘A Girl at My Door’ wins award in Stockholm
Korean filmmaker July Jung won the Best First Film award on Friday at the Stockholm International Film Festival for her feature directorial debut “A Girl at My Door.” The movie deals with social justice, child abuse, small-town politics and migrant worker issues. The 34-year-old director is the first Korean to receive the award at the festival, which is in its 25th year. The jury recognized her for taking a new approach to characters and settings.“There is an existential excitement in seeing the
FilmNov. 17, 2014
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‘Dumb and Dumber To’ tops U.S. box office
NEW YORK (AP) ― At the movies, idiocy never goes out of style. Twenty years after the 1994 original, “Dumb and Dumber To” opened with $38.1 million at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Universal sequel debuted almost exactly two decades after the Farrelly brothers first introduced the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels low-IQ duo. “Dumb and Dumber To” edged out the animated Disney adventure “Big Hero 6,” which took in $36 million in its second week. Christopher Nolan’s s
FilmNov. 17, 2014
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Knowles weds video director
Solange Knowles. (AP-Yonhap)NEW YORK (AP) ― Solange Knowles is known for her fashion as much as her music, and her weekend wedding didn’t disappoint. Her publicist confirmed Sunday that the 28-year-old singer (and sister of Beyonce) wed 51-year-old video director Alan Ferguson over the weekend. The bride and groom both wore ivory, a color also worn by key attendees, including the bride’s mother, Tina; brother-in-law Jay Z and niece Blue Ivy. This is the second marriage for Knowles, who has a 10-
PerformanceNov. 17, 2014