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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Jennifer Lopez shares journey to self-acceptance
NEW YORK (AP) ― Jennifer Lopez wants to share a life lesson with her fans: Learn to love yourself first. “I promise that if you get into it, if you tap into it, it’s gonna make your life better,” she says. The actress, singer and producer sat down for an interview about “True Love,” her new book that was originally intended to be a piece of memorabilia about the 2012 Dance Again World Tour that she embarked on in the wake of her split from husband Marc Anthony. But then it became much more. “It
PerformanceNov. 6, 2014
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Super Junior’s Shindong to join Army
Shindong. (SM Entertainment)Just months after the group’s “Mamacita” return, Super Junior’s agency has confirmed that member Shindong will be enlisting in the Army on Nov. 25 for his mandatory military service.According to an announcement by SM Entertainment, Shindong will begin his five-week training period with the 306th Army Battalion in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, at the end of the month, before going on active duty to complete his 21-month stint as a soldier. As he prepares for his enlist
Nov. 6, 2014
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Super Junior’s Kyuhyun going solo with debut EP
Popular Super Junior idol and TV personality Kyuhyun is returning to the stage ― only this time, he’ll be performing solo. Officials at SM Entertainment on Thursday revealed that Kyuhyun will be debuting as a solo artist, dropping his first solo EP “At Gwanghwamun” on Nov. 13. As part of his role in Super Junior, one of the country’s most successful K-pop acts, Kyuhyun has been praised for his vocal abilities, lending his voice to a number of Korean drama soundtracks as well as taking on musical
Nov. 6, 2014
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Mamamoo returning with new album this month
Mamamoo. (WA Entertainment)The rookie four-member girl group Mamamoo is gearing up for its sixth release of the year with its upcoming album on Nov. 20. Despite being only weeks away, WA Entertainment officials have yet to release any other details regarding the group’s upcoming return.Mamamoo is still new to the K-pop scene, having officially debuted in June with the single “Mr. Ambiguous,” off the group’s EP “Hello.”Before the group’s debut, the girls released various collaborative singles wit
Nov. 6, 2014
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Brief Chaplin bio captures essence of ‘the Tramp’
In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and “Mabel’s Strange Predicament,” are far less memorable than the character they helped to introduce: the Tramp. Wearing oversized shoes and baggy clothes, carrying a cane, and sporting a derby and just a dash of moustache, actor Charlie Chaplin waddled onto the screen. Two years and dozens of shorts later, Chaplin was a global favorite. Over time, the
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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Marlon James writes Jamaican epic
It’s around 3 p.m. on Oct. 1, the biggest day in Marlon James’ career ― if not his life. His third novel, “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” hit bookstores with more buzz than a swarm of bees.James is on his phone with prominent Jamaican blogger Annie Paul, who has just published her interview with him online. The blog post, in which James discusses his novel about the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Kingston, has upset editors at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, e
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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Book collects best of Vanity Fair
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair Edited by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press)Before Buzzfeed, before Spy, before Rolling Stone and the Paris Review, there was Vanity Fair. The smart-set magazine launched a century ago became famous as a sort of barometer of the Jazz Age and for its murderers’ row of heavy-hitting contributors. Dorothy Parker, Carl Sandburg, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein were just a few who wrote for the magazine. “Bohemians” collects
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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‘Spoiled Brats’ is original, hilarious
Spoiled BratsBy Simon Rich(Little, Brown and Co.)Feel the humiliation of the widowed guinea pig, so beaten down he contemplates suicide and questions his Christian faith. See through the eyes of the doting parents, who look past the signs of demonism ― the pentagram birthmark and grasping claws ― to find a flawless little boy. Befriend a tortured Christmas elf who is caught in a boy’s sick, sexual exploits. Simon Rich gives us each of these characters in “Spoiled Brats,” an anthology as endlessl
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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‘Sometimes the Wolf’ tells engrossing story
Sometimes the WolfBy Urban Waite (William Morrow)A father-and-son relationship, perhaps broken beyond repair, fuels Urban Waite’s engrossing novel that skillfully exposes the complicated emotions that can stymie a once close family while also working as a superb action-adventure tale. In “Sometimes the Wolf,” the sins of the father have rained down on Bobby Drake for 12 years. Bobby, a sheriff’s deputy in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, wonders what his life would have been like had his f
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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‘Killer Next Door’ is gripping mystery
The Killer Next DoorBy Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)Desperation brings six people to a decaying Victorian apartment house where the tenants’ desolation pales in comparison with one neighbor’s despicable acts. Alex Marwood’s second stand-alone novel delivers a multilayered plot that succeeds as crime fiction, a gothic tale and a village mystery ― all with an edge. With the apartment building substituting for a village, “The Killer Next Door” balances a shrewd look at people living on the edge of s
BooksNov. 6, 2014
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Faithful pooch gets ‘new life’ via cloning
Davis Hawn arrived at the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Guro district, Seoul, at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. He was planning to ask South Korean veterinarian Hwang Woo-suk to clone his faithful 10-year-old dog Booster. Davis Hawn (right) shakes hands with scientist Hwang Woo-suk at Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul on Wednesday. The American is visiting to clone his dog Booster. (Park Hyun-koo/The Korea Herald) Hwang is one of the top minds in animal cloning despite his checkered ca
PeopleNov. 6, 2014
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Selfie for a happy finale
Singer-actor Jung Ji-hoon, better known as Rain, posted a selfie with fellow actors in SBS rom-com “My Lovely Girl” on Instagram on Thursday. In the photo, Rain strikes a friendly pose with actress Cha Ye-ryeon and singer-actor Alex. Jung Ji-hoon (left), Cha Ye-ryeon (center) and Alex. (Jung's Instagram) With the selfie Jung wrote, “The hyeong (elder brother) who is so like the youngest brother,” pointing at Alex. Directed by Park Hyung-gi and written by No Ji-seol, My Lovely Girl stars sever
Nov. 6, 2014
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S. Korea eyes World Heritage status for ancient fortress wall
South Korea will apply for an ancient defensive wall encircling its capital city to be given World Heritage Status in 2016, a government committee said Thursday. The Seoul City Wall, an 18.6-km-long wall surrounding Hanyang, the former capital of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) and present-day central Seoul, was chosen during a meeting on Tuesday to be, among all other heritage items, on South Korea's application for the UNESCO heritage listing for 2016, the Cultural Properties Committee said.
CultureNov. 6, 2014
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[Design Forum] Design resembles nature in Paju Book City
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” Winston Churchill said in October 1943 as he promised to reconstruct the British Parliament building, which had been destroyed by bombs during World War II.Against a backdrop of hasty urban planning, lousy buildings and a clutter of signboards that mirror Korea’s turbulent modern history, pricey structures continue to rise over each other in Seoul as if to compete to become a landmark of the capital.Min Hyun-shik, architectural magnate and form
Arts & DesignNov. 5, 2014
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[Design Forum] Removing the unnecessary brings out the essence of design: architect
This is the third in a weekly series that examines the expanding role of design in the run-up to the Herald Design Forum 2014 on Nov. 26. ― Ed.“Less is more.”Joon Paik’s simple answer epitomizes what he puts above all else in architectural design.“It’s actually easy to add things. But if you keep adding, you end up with just a mixture of everything with no clear point,” said Paik, vice president of Seoul-based Chang-jo Architects.“The essence of a design unveils itself when unnecessary bits are
Arts & DesignNov. 5, 2014
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Shipwreck thought to date back to Joseon found
A shipwreck with more than 100 pieces of earthenware, presumed to date back to 18th- or 19th-century Korea, has been found in western waters in what archeologists say could be the first discovery of a Joseon-era ship. The National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage said Wednesday that its underwater research team discovered what appeared to be a vessel’s stern and some wooden beams on the seabed off Mado Island, Taean County, South Chungcheong Province.“A pilot excavation of the sh
CultureNov. 5, 2014
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A modern take on love story ‘Chunhyangjeon’
Romanian-born American theater director Andrei Serban has compared the famous classical Korean love story “Chunhyangjeon” to freely adapted works of Shakespeare. “Like Shakespeare’s stories, you can turn the story upside down, improvise and do the craziest experiments to recreate,” Serban said in a press conference on Wednesday about his new production “Andrei Serban’s Different Chunhyang,” which will be staged with the National Changguek Company from Nov. 20 to Dec. 6. “But at the end of the da
CultureNov. 5, 2014
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Small port occupies museum space
The vast 17-meter-high space dedicated to site-specific installations at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea looks like it’s been filled with water and floating boats with blinking lights. As the idea of filling the exhibition space with water is counterintuitive, the scene challenges our usual perceptions of space. Up close, what appears to be a night scene at a small port turns out to be carefully arranged installation pieces by Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich. The square museum
PerformanceNov. 5, 2014
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North Korean paintings on display in London
LONDON (AFP) ― North Korea’s embassy in Britain offered the public rare access this week to an exhibition featuring four socialist realism artists and their takes on classic London cityscapes as part of a cultural thaw between the two countries.Some 60 paintings by Jon Pyong-jin, Kim Hun, Ho Jae-song, Hong Song-iI and other artists including landscapes of their communist homeland went on display in the anonymous two-floor, red-brick townhouse in the Ealing suburb of west London.The artists dress
PerformanceNov. 5, 2014
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Indie star duo 10cm to release third album
Acoustic and drum duo 10cm, one of the indie music scene’s most successful acts, will release its latest full-length album titled “3.0” on Nov. 19. According to press agency I-Je Company on Tuesday, the indie hipsters Kwon Jung-yeol and Yoon Cheol-jong are finally ready to release their third album after unveiling their new singles at a special “teaser concert” at the end of August. After the conclusion of the beloved acoustic duo’s sold-out, two-day performances, the members claimed that the tr
PerformanceNov. 5, 2014