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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Diesel signs deal to restore Venice’s Rialto Bridge
ROME (AFP) ― Italian jeans maker Diesel signed a deal with Venice city council on Tuesday to fund a five-million-euro ($6.5-million) project to restore and clean the floating city’s famous Rialto Bridge.“Today a fundamental collaboration for the safeguarding of our common heritage comes to life,” mayor Giorgio Orsoni said after Renzo Rosso, founder and owner of Diesel, signed the contract.The work on the centuries-old bridge will begin in early 2014 and last approximately 18 months, according to
CultureMay 8, 2013
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Author Hwang wants his book off the shelves after hoarding scandal
Celebrated author Hwang Sok-yong said he wants his best-selling novel “Yeowoolmoolsori” off the shelves after a TV program accused his publishing house, Jaeum & Moeum, of hoarding copies of the novel. Jaeum & Moeum CEO Kang Byung-cheol has offered to resign from his position. According to news reports, author Hwang said he was shocked and outraged to find out about the alleged hoarding and wants to cancel his deal with Jaeum & Moeum. “I wrote the novel ‘Yeowoolmoolsori’ to celebrate the 50th ann
BooksMay 8, 2013
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Two Rodin sculptures fetch $16 million in N.Y. auction
NEW YORK (AP) ― Two early casts from Auguste Rodin’s masterpiece “The Gates of Hell’’ have sold for a total of more than $16 million at a New York City auction.“The Thinker’’ sold Tuesday for $15.3 million, a new record for the figure. Sotheby’s hasn’t said who bought it.A later cast of the statue was auctioned for just under $12 million in 2010.The full-scale sculpture was commissioned by publishing magnate Ralph Pulitzer in 1906 and made under Rodin’s supervision.“Ugolino and His Children,’’ f
PerformanceMay 8, 2013
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Cannes film festival to pay tribute to Alain Delon
PARIS (AFP) ― French actor Alain Delon will be honored at the Cannes film festival later this month with a screening of “Plein Soleil,” Rene Clement’s 1960 adaptation of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” in which he starred.The tribute will be paid to the 77-year-old Delon, who now lives in Switzerland, as part of the Cannes Classics series, festival organisers said Tuesday, confirming a newspaper report.“Plein Soleil” (Purple Noon) marked a turning point in Delon’s career and led to the critically acc
FilmMay 8, 2013
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Cho Yong-pil to play first rock festival
Cho Young-pil and his band will perform at the Super! Sonic 2013 music festival in August, according to the festival’s PR company. This will be the 63-year-old veteran singer’s first-ever performance at a rock festival.Fortune Entertainment unveiled the first lineup of this year Super! Sonic on Tuesday which includes Cho as well as British pop duo Pet Shop Boys and the electronic band Two Door Cinema Club, and Korean artists 10cm and the semifinalist of “Superstar K4” DICKPUNKS. The annual even
PerformanceMay 8, 2013
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Delispice and HY to perform in Seoul
Veteran four-member Korean rock band Delispice and Japanese group HY will be performing in Seoul at a special joint Seoul-Okinawa concert showcase on May 31. The concert will be held in the Live Hall at the KT&G SangsangMadang Center in Mapo-gu at 7:30 p.m. Making their start playing in various clubs in Hongdae, Delispice released its first studio debut in 1997 with the lead single “Chau Chau,” from its first, self-titled album. Now more than 15 years later, Delispice is one of the nation’s big
PerformanceMay 8, 2013
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Michael Jackson show in Vegas more of a good thing
LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Michael Jackson spent his life breaking music industry records. Four years after his death, the pop star’s estate has delivered another first: Jackson is now the only person, place or thing to have inspired two Cirque du Soleil shows.The Montreal-based acrobatic-theater company presented a sneak peak of its new Jackson tribute show, “One,’’ at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday.The show shares many features with “Immortal,’’ another Cirque production that capi
PerformanceMay 8, 2013
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Rodman urges N.K. friend to free Bae
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman, who forged an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a recent trip, appealed Tuesday for the freedom of an American sentenced to 15 years.“I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him ‘Kim,’ to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose,” Rodman tweeted.Bae, whose Korean name is Pae Jun-ho, was sentenced last week to 15 years of hard labor on charges that he tried to topple the North Korean regime.
PeopleMay 8, 2013
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Hollywood special effects master dies at age 92
LONDON (AFP) ― U.S.-born “king of stop-motion animation” and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died aged 92 in London on Tuesday, his family announced.Hollywood tributes flooded in for Oscar-winner Harryhausen, who is best known for his work on “Jason and the Argonauts” and “Clash of the Titans.” “Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry,” said Star Wars mastermind George Lucas.“The art of his earlier films, which most of us grew up on, inspired us so much. Wit
PeopleMay 8, 2013
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Dalai Lama calls for respect for nonreligious
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AFP) ― The Dalai Lama on Tuesday called for the teaching of secular values in education, saying that it was critical for the world to respect all religions ― as well as the right not to believe.Despite devoting his life to the study of Buddhism, Tibet’s spiritual leader said he was convinced that all people ― and often even animals ― shared basic moral values regardless of their religion.“In the West, there is some connotation that secular means a little negative, or disr
PeopleMay 8, 2013
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Japanese ex-chief secretary who tried to resolve sex slave issue dies
Kozo Igarashi, a former Japanese chief cabinet secretary who worked to resolve issues regarding the “comfort women,” who were forced by Japan into sexual slavery during World War II, died of pneumonia at a Sapporo hospital on Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported. He was 87. Igarashi was chief cabinet secretary in the administration of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who apologized for Japan’s colonial rule and invasion of neighboring countries. During his tenure as chief cabinet secretary from
PeopleMay 8, 2013
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David Chang, Paul Kahan tie for top U.S. chef honor
NEW YORK (AP) ― Food may not have been their first calling, but coming late to the culinary scene clearly hasn’t slowed David Chang and Paul Kahan.On Monday, the two were jointly honored as the nation’s most outstanding chefs by the James Beard Foundation, an exclamation point on circuitous careers that began in other fields _ Chang in finance and Kahan in computer science ― but saw them quickly ascend to the top of the restaurant world.The men ― only the third pair to tie for the top chef award
PeopleMay 8, 2013
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Rain performs at ‘World Peace Arirang Festival’ in U.S
Singer Rain joined nine other celebrity military servicemen in performing at the "World Peace Arirang Festival" on Tuesday at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.The festival commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice and the Korea-U.S. Alliance featured a hanbok fashion show along with a special commemoration of the 21 different countries that fought in the Korean War.Rain emceed the first half of the festival and gave a special performance in the latter half. Singers Sang
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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Three celebs accused of propofol abuse
Movie actress Jang Mi-in-ae as well as two other female celebrities, Lee Seung-yeon and Park Shi-yeon, are under investigation for recreationally abusing the drug propofol, an anesthetic used in surgeries. Police revealed that the stars received propofol injections at various hospitals even though they were not undergoing any type of surgery. According to news reports, the police have found that Jang had 95 administrations of propofol from December 2011 to September 2012. Park was reported to h
TelevisionMay 7, 2013
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Super Junior member Ye Sung starts military service
Super Junior member Ye Sung, 28, left the spotlight temporarily to fulfill his two-year mandatory military service. Ye Sung enlisted with the 35th division in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, on Monday for four-week basic military training. After basic training he will serve 23 months in a public service position. The night of his enlistment, Ye Sung wrote a message to his fans on his Twitter account: “I will miss it all. Stages, songs... I look forward to the day we meet again, ELF. No worries,
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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Trot queen goes ahead with show despite damaging leak
Singer Jang Yoon-jeong’s pre-interview for SBS talk show “Healing Camp” was leaked last week, exposing her family’s private matters. The news was that the trot queen was heavily in debt due to her mother and brother. During the pre-interview, Jang cleared up rumors about her fiance approaching her for her money. “One day I checked my bank account and all I saw was a negative balance of 1 billion won. At this news, my father suffered a stroke,” she said. Since then her parents have filed for divo
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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Britain to get a taste of K-music
Sounds of Korea will be heard in London during “The K-Music Festival 2013” to be held from June 14-22.The festival celebrating the 130th anniversary of Korea-U.K. diplomatic relations will be subtitled “War and Peace” in honor of the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire in the Korean War, a war in which the U.K. participated as part of the U.N. forces.The festival will introduce a selection of Korea’s most talented artists, from the traditional to the contemporary, to help boost understanding of Ko
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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‘Medea’ shifts the stage to get closer to audience
Greek epics are full of upheavals, but White Box Theater has been completely overhauled for Probationary Theatre’s production of Liz Lochead’s “Medea.” The stage has been moved to a different side of the theater from which it pushes out into the audience. “That’s the one thing that theater has over film,” said director Robbie Quinn. “We don’t have a screen in the way, so we can get the actors as close to the audience as possible.”“The space has presented problems, but it has created an incredibl
Expat LivingMay 7, 2013
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Filmmakers seek hit with ‘Amiss’
New movie “Amiss” could take Korea’s burgeoning community of expat filmmakers to the next level.The film, directed and produced by Raoul Dyssell and Will Sonbuchner, who works under the name Sonny, is a revenge tale played out in Korean and English.After his daughter kills herself, a Korean father kidnaps key figures from her life and imprisons them in a warehouse, where he begins to interrogate them to find the person responsible for her death and take revenge. His captors are forced to comply,
Expat LivingMay 7, 2013
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Portraits by Alice Neel get Asian premiere at Gallery Hyundai
Portraits by Alice Neel are on exhibit for the first time in Asia at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. The exhibition “People and Places: Paintings by Alice Neel,” which began on May 2, features 15 portraits of Neel’s family, friends and lovers that are regarded as unique in the expression of her subjects’ inner personalities. Neel, who didn’t receive much attention during her lifetime, is now considered one of the greatest portrait painters of the 20th century, along with Lucian Freud, for her distinctiv
PerformanceMay 7, 2013