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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Brad Pitt scraps Brazil film promo amid unrest
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― U.S. Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt has scrapped a plan to come to Brazil to promote his new film “World War Z,” the movie’s distributors said Saturday, citing social unrest in the country.A statement issued by Paramount said Pitt would not make a planned trip to Rio because of “ongoing events in Brazil.”The country is awash with protests after more than a million people took to the streets in recent days to decry poor public services and corruption as well as transport fare
PeopleJune 23, 2013
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Historic places in N. Korea listed as UNESCO world heritage sites
Historic sites in North Korea's ancient city of Gaeseong were added to the world heritage list of UNESCO on Sunday, official sources said.The decision was made during the 37th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, earlier in the day, sources following the event said. The session is set to continue until Thursday.The decision has been widely expected as the sites were recommended last month by the Paris-based International Council on Monuments and Sites, an advisor
CultureJune 23, 2013
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Rooftop revolution
Cherry tomatoes, still green, soak in the summer sun, taking their sweet time to ripen. Romaine lettuce blooms in long, emerald stalks. The roof garden at Garosu-gil-based cafe Able is a pastoral scene of rustic charm, a scene that seems to be in tune with today’s “healing” and “well-being” trends. “We felt the need to not waste anything, to use everything,” Able co-owner Cha Eun-young said on how the garden came into being when the flower shop-cafe opened in Seoul last summer. “We decided we co
FoodJune 21, 2013
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Theater“A Tale of Two Cities”: “A Tale of Two Cities,” a musical based on the novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, is being restaged in Seoul after its first run in the city last year. The piece is set against the conflicts between the rebels and aristocracy during the French revolution and its parallel world in 18th-century London. It tells the story of Sydney Carton, a shrewd young English lawyer who develops a strong, unrequited love for Lucie Manette, a young, loving French woman who
CultureJune 21, 2013
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Box Office: Cold Eyes, White House Down, World War Z
Cold Eyes, Opening July 4Crime. Action. Directed by Joh Ui-seok and Kim Byeong-seo. In a remake of the 2007 Hong Kong film “Eye in the Sky,” rookie detective Ha Yoon-ju (Han Hyo-joo) joins a special crime unit within the police department that specializes in surveillance of high profile criminals. Soon, a bank is robbed by armed men. Detective Ha teams up with Hwang Won-jin (Sol Kyung-gu), the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down the criminal organization led by cold-hearted leade
FilmJune 21, 2013
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Tyrell pays tribute to Cahn on new albumSteve Tyrell“It‘s Magic: The Songs of Sammy Cahn”(Concord)Late blooming crooner Steve Tyrell burnishes his reputation as one of the finest interpreters of the Great American Songbook with this tribute marking the centennial of the birth of Sammy Cahn, the lyricist who gave voice to Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the early 1960s.Tyrell’s rough-hewn baritone - with the slight twang of his native Texas - gives him the swagger to put his own stamp on such C
PerformanceJune 21, 2013
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Billy Crystal’s new ‘Monster’ project
It’s been a dozen years since the release of Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.,” but it didn’t take much for Billy Crystal to get back into the spirit to voice Mike Wazowski for the follow-up film “Monsters University.” He’s seen “Monsters, Inc.” many times with his grandchildren. What was important to him was that he wanted to do a movie suitable for all grandchildren.Crystal’s sad there aren’t a lot of movies in theaters that he considers true family films.“We are seeing the disintegration of the family
FilmJune 21, 2013
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63% of Koreans plan summer vacation
Are you planning to get away this summer? If you are, you are one of 63 percent of people in Korea set to take a summer vacation this year. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, 62.7 percent of 1,004 people surveyed on May 27-30 said they were planning or highly likely to take summer leave this year, which is about 12.1 percentage point ups from 2012. Most of the respondents were planning to take days off between July 29 and Aug. 4,
TravelJune 21, 2013
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South Korea’s northernmost island surprisingly peaceful
BAENGNYEONGDO ISLAND ― Baengnyeongdo Island is approximately 226 km off the coast of Incheon, in Ongjin County and stands as the northernmost territory of South Korea. Located near the Northern Limit Line ― a demarcation line in the Yellow Sea separating the South and the North ― the remote island is actually north of the Demarcation Line and at its closest, is only a mere 13 km from North Korea’s mainland.On an island where the general population is outnumbered by the number of military station
TravelJune 21, 2013
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Around the hotels
Spa for men at Park Hyatt SeoulThe hotel presents “Park Club Spa for Men,” which includes a 60-minute full body treatment plus a 30-minute facial treatment. Highly trained therapists will provide customized treatments based on the guest’s physical condition and preferences. Facial treatment provides a deep cleansing to remove excess sebum and debris. Those who visit Monday through Friday before 8 p.m. will receive a complementary shirt dry cleaning and shoe-shine service. The package also includ
TravelJune 21, 2013
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Conversations simmer at communal tables
Mary Altman and John Pinson, though each traveling alone on business, savored some conversation with their barbecue last week as they sat together at one of 4 Rivers Smokehouse’s large picnic tables in Winter Park, Florida.The two discovered they both live in Jacksonville, Florida, so they chatted about their lives there.“When you’re by yourself, it’s nice to meet somebody and, coincidentally, to meet somebody from your own hometown,” said Pinson, a salesman in his 70s.Diners such as Pinson are
FoodJune 21, 2013
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Jjukkumi guui, (spicy grilled baby octopus)
I know that a lot of people are intimidated about cooking octopus. If you’re one of them, I urge you to try cooking with baby octopus, “jjukkumi.” Baby octopus is naturally tender and easy to handle. If you prefer, you can also use small squid for this recipe. Here, they are marinated in a spicy gochujang sauce and seared quickly on the grill. Marinating helps tenderize the octopus, so give it sufficient time to marinate. You will have tender baby octopus with a burst of flavor in every bite!2 t
FoodJune 21, 2013
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Tony Soprano more than a memorable TV character
NEW YORK (AP) ― James Gandolfini’s portrayal of Tony Soprano represented more than just a memorable TV character. He changed the medium, making fellow antiheroes like Walter White and Dexter Morgan possible and shifting the balance in quality drama away from broadcast television.The passage of time since “The Sopranos” ended in 2007 brought all of that into sharp relief even before Gandolfini’s death of a heart attack while vacationing in Italy on Wednesday.Television characters certainly weren’
FilmJune 21, 2013
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Downey Jr. signs on for 2 more ‘Avengers’
NEW YORK (AP) ― Robert Downey Jr. has signed up for two more “Avengers” films.Marvel announced Thursday that the actor will reprise his role as Iron Man/Tony Stark for “The Avengers 2” and “The Avengers 3.” Downey Jr. has played the character in a trilogy of “Iron Man” films, as well as the first superhero ensemble “Avengers” film, which made $2.7 billion worldwide.Joss Whedon is to return as director of the next “Avengers” film. He is writing the screenplay now. Production is to begin in March,
FilmJune 21, 2013
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In Stephen King’s new horror house, it’s the everyday eeriness that grips
When it comes to Stephen King, I’m partial to the smaller efforts: novellas, short novels, experiments, the quieter, more interior stuff. It’s not that I don’t like his big books ― especially “The Shining,” which remains the scariest thing I’ve ever read, and the 1996 novel “Desperation,” an overarching consideration of sin and sacrifice and redemption, set in a Nevada mining town. Still, what makes King resonate for me is the detail work, the way he can get inside the most mundane situation and
BooksJune 20, 2013
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A community pulled apart by racism
Until She Comes HomeBy Lori Roy (Dutton)Lori Roy mixes lyrical prose, a noir approach and gothic undertones for an urban story set in 1958 about a community pulled apart by racism, fear and image in her second novel. As she did in her 2011 Edgar-winning debut “Bent Road,” Roy delivers a timeless story that gives shape to those secrets and tragedies from which some people never recover.Detroit’s Adler Avenue is the kind of neighborhood where a woman makes a roast beef dinner twice a month for the
CultureJune 20, 2013
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A novel of family, conflict in Sri Lanka
On Sal Mal LaneBy Ru Freeman (Graywolf Press)In her rewarding new book, novelist Ru Freeman plunks readers “On Sal Mal Lane,” a tropical effusion of foliage and children growing up in Sri Lanka, the island off India’s southern tip. Colonialists once called the place Ceylon and prized its tea; Freeman, who grew up in the capital, Colombo, has something more pointed in mind.Her story moves chronologically toward July 1983, or “Black July,” when riots in Colombo ignited a civil war lasting nearly 2
CultureJune 20, 2013
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New book examines Korean monochromatic painting
The first in-depth examination of Korean monochromatic painting is being published by an American art history professor in July, shedding new light on the Korean modern artistic movement that shaped what people view as today’s Korean abstract art. “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method,” written by Joan Kee, an art history professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, offers a fresh interpretation of the movement’s emergence and meaning that sheds new light on the hi
CultureJune 20, 2013
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Site of Pocahontas rescue to be preserved
GLOUCESTER, Virginia (AP) ― A farm field overlooking the York River in Tidewater Virginia is believed to be where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue English Capt. John Smith from death.On loan to archaeologists for more than a decade, these 23 privately owned hectares will be preserved forever under an agreement years in the making and to be officially announced Friday. The deal is important for Native Americans because they believe their story has been overshadowe
CultureJune 20, 2013
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Festival set to embrace college orchestras
Members of Hanyang Philharmonic Orchestra gathered at the college Wednesday afternoon for practice ahead of the upcoming University Orchestra Festival. About 100 musicians practiced Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture, Op.84” and Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “The Choral,” for which words were taken from “Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy),” a poem by Friedrich Schiller.The members comprised of Hanyang University students have been practicing intensively for the past two weeks for the festival that ru
PerformanceJune 20, 2013