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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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British TV chef Nigella Lawson faces drugs probe
LONDON (AFP) ― British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson faces a police investigation into claims of cocaine use which emerged during her personal assistants’ fraud trial after a U-turn by Scotland Yard, the Sunday Telegraph reported.Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo were cleared Friday of fraudulently spending 685,000 pounds ($1.12 million) on a company credit card owned by Lawson’s then-husband, the millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi.The assistants claimed Lawson had allowed t
PeopleDec. 22, 2013
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Positive comments on Sunfull website tops 5m
The Sunfull Movement, which promotes a positive online culture, said Saturday that the total number of encouraging comments posted on its website topped 5 million on Dec. 9.Sunfull is currently driving a campaign urging young students to leave encouraging messages on its online bulletin board in a bid to prevent school violence and help with their personal development. The number of postings exceeded 4 million in April.The group plans to include parents and other members of the public across the
PeopleDec. 22, 2013
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Faces of modern China
Portraits have been a popular medium for Chinese artists in expressing the political and social transitions experienced by modern China. China’s top-selling contemporary artists Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi have conveyed the underlying conflicts behind those political and social changes in portraits that reflect social tension. But the strong expressions of social messages have gradually receded in paintings of emerging artists, who focus instead on emotions generally shared by an international au
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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Momentum gains to unite ancient Cambodian statues
PREAH VIHEAR PROVINCE, Cambodia (AP) ― Rising out of the jungle on white pillars, the new Preah Vihear Museum’s largest building stands empty. But Cambodian officials hope that one day it will be the place where nine ancient statues depicting a dramatic battle scene are reunited from around the world.They came a step closer to that goal last week, when Sotheby’s auction house in New York agreed to return one of the statues to Cambodia, ending a heated legal battle that began when the U.S. govern
CultureDec. 22, 2013
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Christie’s to auction trove of 85 Joan Miro works
LONDON (AP) ― A trove of 85 works by Spanish surrealist master Joan Miro acquired by the Portuguese government from a failing bank is up for auction with an estimated value of 30 million pounds ($49 million).Christie’s auction house said Friday the collection is “one of the most extensive and impressive offerings of works by the artist ever to come to auction,” and covers seven decades of Miro’s career.The Barcelona-born artist was influential in the surrealist movement in the 1920s and develope
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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Vienna Philharmonic strips ex-Nazis of honors
VIENNA (AP) ― The famed Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has quietly stripped six former senior Nazi officials of honors awarded them ― a late act of contrition for its embrace of the Hitler era that included purging Jewish members from its ranks.The decision was divulged to the Associated Press by an orchestra member on Friday and confirmed by historian Oliver Rathkolb.Rathkolb led research earlier this year documenting the orchestra’s close cooperation with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbel
CultureDec. 22, 2013
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Christie’s values Detroit’s art at $454m-$867m
DETROIT (AP) ― The nearly 2,800 city-owned artworks at the Detroit Institute of Arts are worth $454 million to $867 million, with one masterpiece by Van Gogh worth up to $150 million, Christie’s auction house said in a report released Thursday.The New York-based auction house spent months determining the collection’s fair market value after Detroit filed for bankruptcy last summer. Its findings were submitted in the long-awaited report to Detroit’s state-appointed emergency manager, Kevin Orr.Th
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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‘Koreans are most frequent moviegoers’
Koreans watch an average of 4.12 films at cinemas a year, the most in the world, a report said Sunday. According the Screen Digest report, Koreans topped the list with 4.12 films, followed by Americans with 3.88 films, Australians with 3.75 and the French with 3.44. This is the first time for Koreans to claim the title of most enthusiastic moviegoers. According to the Korean Film Council, more than 200 million tickets were sold in cinemas this year as of Dec. 18, boosting the domestic movie thea
CultureDec. 22, 2013
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Billboard names Biggest-Selling K-pop Songs in America in 2013
To little surprise, the YouTube sensation Psy dominated the K-pop singles rankings in the U.S. this year, taking three of the top 10 spots on Billboard’s list of 2013’s Biggest-Selling K-pop Songs in America.Psy’s mega international hit singles “Gangnam Style” and “Gentleman” were listed at the No. 1 and 2 spots, respectively, as 2013’s biggest-selling K-pop singles in the U.S. The Korean rapper’s past-time single “Right Now,” which was released in 2010, also came in at No. 8, passing the locall
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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‘The Attorney’ attracts more than 540,000 in single day, sets record
“The Attorney,” loosely based on the early years of the late President Roh Moo-hyun, set a Korean box office record for attracting more than 540,000 movie goers on Saturday, the highest gross attendance for a single day in December.According to the Korean Film Council, the directorial debut film of webtoon artist Yang Woo-seok drew 541,614 movie watchers on the day, far outnumbering its competitors “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and “About Time,” which marked 151,839 and 132,722, respecti
FilmDec. 22, 2013
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45RPM still here and not going anywhere
This is the 20th article in a series on producers, MCs, DJs and artists working in the Korean underground hip-hop scene. ― Ed. The hip-hop scene in Korea was very different when rap group 45RPM first started in 1999. The group ― consisting of members Smash, J-Kwondo and Red Roc ― said back then hip-hop was a culture shock to Koreans who had never experienced it before. At the time only a small number of Koreans listened to hip-hop, and there weren’t many rappers or dancers. Back then, there were
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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[Photo News] K-pop stars take photos with Choo Sa-rang
Dasom, a member of the popular K-pop girl group Sistar, posted a photo taken with the 2-year-old starlet Choo Sa-rang and her father Choo Sung-hoon on her Twitter on Saturday. The two-year-old daughter of Korean-Japanese fighter Choo Sung-hoon won an annual KBS awards on Saturday for her soaring popularity. The starlet, known as “Little Choo,” gained fame for her appearance in the variety TV show “Superman is Back.” Kwanghee from the boy band group ZE:A also took a snapshot with her and uploaded
TelevisionDec. 22, 2013
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Founder of anti-inheritance campaign contemplates roots of personal wealth
Very few people manage to do it. The richer they are, the more difficult it is, they say. But more people are vowing to leave no inheritance for their children and donate everything to society when they die, carrying out the concept of “noblesse oblige” in Korea, where inheriting wealth is still regarded as a natural way of showing one’s love and passing down tradition to the next generation. “It is pretty tough at the beginning but once you understand that everything you have in fact came from
PeopleDec. 20, 2013
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Celebrities and fans find common ground in philanthropy
Many Korean celebrities and even ordinary fans regularly take part in charitable giving throughout the year.But with the holiday season just around the corner, the spirit of thankfulness and being mindful of those less fortunate is more alive and present than at other times. Pop singer Kim Jang-hoon, is one of the nation’s best-known celebrity philanthropists. Often referred to as the “Donation Angel” Kim has reportedly donated more than $10 million to charity during his more than 20 years as a
CultureDec. 20, 2013
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Calendar
Pop music“2013 Psy Concert All Night Stand”: Psy will be ringing in the holiday season by holding a special four-day solo concert series in December. The upcoming performances will mark his first concerts in Korea in nearly eight months after his globally broadcasted “Happening” show in April, where he attracted around 45,000 concertgoers and more than 130,000 fans who tuned in online for the live feed. The rapper has been busy this year promoting his single “Gentleman,” which was nominated for
CultureDec. 20, 2013
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A life devoted to ballet
In 1996, at the age of 37, Choi Tae-ji was appointed the new director of the Korean National Ballet. The Japanese-born ballet dancer did not have much experience in administrative affairs, spoke Korean with difficulty, and was the youngest person ever to serve in the position. She hung up her pointe shoes and never looked back; her life in suits and high heels began. Now 54, Choi is in her last month as the company’s artistic director, after spending a total of 12 years as its head. Her first te
PerformanceDec. 20, 2013
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Eyelike: Zion.T brings back old school in ‘Mirror Ball’
Zion.T brings back old school in ‘Mirror Ball’Zion.T“Mirror Ball” (Loen Entertainment)With his distinctive voice, rising hip-hop star Zion.T has released his latest EP “Mirror Ball,” surprising listeners with his take on throwback, old-school trot sounds. The four-track EP feels like a tribute to 1930s Korea, with the album lead track, “Miss Kim” incorporating the traditional sounds of Korean trot-style beats and the artist’s reggae-soul infused voice to create a truly unique addition to today’s
PerformanceDec. 20, 2013
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Box Office: The Attorney , The Hobbit, Way Back Home
The Attorney Opened Dec. 18Drama. Directed by Yang Woo-seokIn 1981, Busan-based tax lawyer Song Woo-seok ends up defending young students who have been tortured for possession of “illegal” literature and suspicion of being communist sympathizers. Before getting involved in the case, Song had been very successful as a tax lawyer, but his experience defending the young men makes him consider specializing in human rights cases. The movie is loosely based on late President Roh Moo-hyun’s early years
FilmDec. 20, 2013
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Spike Jonze opens up about ‘Her’ ― sort of
Spike Jonze is reluctant to call his new film “Her” ― a melancholy romance about a man who falls in love with a sentient, learning and loving operating system ― “science fiction.”He doesn’t want to talk about technology and the modest leap it makes from our cloud- and smart phone-obsessed present to a digitally romantic future.“It’s not about technology,” he says. Then he corrects himself. “It is, obviously, ‘about’ technology. Just not to me. It’s such a big idea ― that you could, one day, have
FilmDec. 20, 2013
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2014 travel: Sochi, Brazil, Berlin, Sarajevo
NEW YORK (AP) ― The Olympics, the World Cup and commemorations of World War I, D-Day and the fall of the Berlin Wall are some of the events that will spotlight destinations like Sochi, Brazil, Sarajevo, Normandy and Berlin in 2014.Elsewhere abroad, a potentially game-changing high-speed rail service has just launched linking Paris and Barcelona. Some travelers may now prefer the train over a plane, with the train ride cut in half to just over six hours between the two cities.Back in the U.S., St
TravelDec. 20, 2013