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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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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
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Writing is like going to dark place: Murakami
KYOTO, Japan (AFP) ― Bestselling author Haruki Murakami said Monday that writing a novel is like descending to a very dark second basement of your psyche, when you are not even sure where the corridors are.In a rare public appearance by the publicity-shy but wildly popular writer, Murakami spoke at a seminar entitled “Observe soul, write soul” in the ancient city of Kyoto.“For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get in
BooksMay 7, 2013
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Culture officials call for preservation of Bangudae engravings in Ulsan
The Cultural Heritage Administration and local authorities at Ulsan are locking horns over the preservation of a group of ancient carvings that are candidates for the UNESCO World Heritage list. Until President Park Geun-hye expressed interest, the engravings on the rock face of Bangudae, located on Daegokcheon Stream cliff in Ulsan, were merely a subject of a decade-long, little publicized issue between cultural experts and local administrators. But it has become a battlefield where environment
CultureMay 7, 2013
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Lee Hyori’s ‘Miss Korea’ dominates charts
K-pop diva Lee Hyori has made her way back to the stage after a three-year hiatus from the music scene with her newest single “Miss Korea,” which was unveiled on Monday. “Miss Korea,” a pre-release single from her soon-to-be-released fifth studio album, achieved an “all-kill” almost immediately upon its release by topping all the major Korean music charts including Melon, Daum, Bugs and Mnet. “Miss Korea” was both written and composed by the diva herself and arranged by her jazz guitarist boyfri
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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Lee Hi to take on first solo concert
The 16-year-old Lee Hi continues to soar as one of last year’s most successful debut singers, and is scheduled to take the stage for her first live solo concert at Sogang University’s Mary Hall on Sunday in front of 500 fans. The up-and-comer took to the spotlight as the first runner-up of the reality TV competition show “Survival K-pop Star.” After signing with YG Entertainment, Lee released her first single “1,2,3,4” on Oct. 28 and became an instant sensation. The track reigned at the top of t
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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Will Smith shares his parenting philosophy
Working together with his son for a sci-fi movie was a “difficult mental, emotional and spiritual shift” for him, said Hollywood actor and rapper Will Smith in Seoul on Tuesday.“My most important job was parenting,” said Smith, who visited Seoul with his teenage son, Jaden Smith, to promote their sci-fi thriller “After Earth” ― in which they co-starred as father and son. “But sometimes parenting conflicts rather aggressively with producing. The greatest challenge for me was overcoming the warrio
FilmMay 7, 2013
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Park to get rights award for N.K. pro-democracy campaign
A South Korean activist who has been engaged in sending pro-democracy leaflets into North Korea will receive an international human rights award.The Fighters for Free North Korea said Monday that its representative Park Sang-hak will be awarded the 2013 Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in Oslo, Norway on May 15.The group said it received an official notification from the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation on Sunday and said Park will be leaving for Norway on Saturday to take part in the a
PeopleMay 7, 2013
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Mamma Mia!: ABBA The Museum opens in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM (AP) ― You can thank ABBA for the music. And so much more. A museum devoted to the pop superstars opening in Stockholm on Tuesday will celebrate the band’s long list of hits. But it will also show off paraphernalia, including the helicopter featured on the cover of its “Arrival” album, a star-shaped guitar and dozens of glitzy costumes the Swedish band wore at the height of its 1970s fame. Some gear is definitely not on show. With a smirk on his face, band member Bjorn Ulvaeus says cer
PeopleMay 7, 2013
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Seven-time Italian P.M. Giulio Andreotti dies at age 94
ROME (AFP) ― Giulio Andreotti, a Machiavellian seven-time Italian prime minister who dominated the political scene for decades, died on Monday at the age of 94.Andreotti, a top figure in the once-dominant Christian Democratic party, died at his home in Rome. He had suffered ill health in recent years and was hospitalized last year with heart trouble.A private funeral will be held on Tuesday in Andreotti’s local church for the staunchly pro-Catholic politician, who had close ties with the Vatican
PeopleMay 7, 2013
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Will and Jaden Smith visit YG Entertainment
Hollywood actor Will Smith made a surprise visit to South Korean agency YG Entertainment on Monday with his son Jaden Smith.YG Entertainment posted photos on its official blog, YG LIFE, showing Will, Jaden Smith and its Korean singers and producers getting together at its recording studio.In the unofficial visit, the two Smiths and YG members shared their musical interest while the emerging hip-hop artist Jaden played his music. They ate Korean traditional dishes like bibimbap and bulgogi togeth
PerformanceMay 7, 2013
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New York’s Met to return Cambodian sculptures
NEW YORK (AFP) ― New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Friday it was returning two 10th century Khmer sculptures to Cambodia that the country insisted had been looted from a jungle temple.The renowned institution announced that the two Koh Ker stone statues of “Kneeling Attendants” would be sent back after 20 years on display in the Met’s Asian Wing.They were donated piece by piece to the museum in the late 1980s and 1990s and were considered legal. However, “the Met recently came into poss
PerformanceMay 6, 2013
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Chamber music fest offers solace for the forlorn
With spring finally here, it is time to sit back, relax and listen to music. The Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music will be held from May 14-26 at various spots in Seoul, bringing noted musicians from around the world to perform one of the most intimate genres of classical music under the theme of “Far from Home.”Music written by composers who stayed far away from their homelands will be interpreted by musicians who are always on the road performing. Featured musicians include violinist Kang
PerformanceMay 6, 2013
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TED tailors lectures for TV audience
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― The prestigious TED gathering known for perspective-shifting presentations by the brilliant and famous is tailoring “ideas worth spreading” for a television audience.TED teamed with the U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting to create an education-focused version of its real-world conferences for a show set to air on PBS stations nationally on Tuesday and again on Thursday.“Re-imagining education is the key to a more hopeful future,” said TED curator Chris Anderson.“What
TelevisionMay 6, 2013