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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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[Photo News] Seoul seeks 'best sleeper'
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US expert says N. Korea might ignore Trump if he returns to White House
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Yoon vows to advance freedom, welfare to uphold spirit of 1980 pro-democracy uprising
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[Photo News] Jeon Hyo-sung of Secret shows off her moves
Jeon Hyo-sung of K-pop girl group Secret performs at the group’s first concert in Singapore last Friday.(Photos: TS Entertainment) <관련 한글 기사>전효성의 폭발적인 솔로무대, 영상 공개시크릿의 소속사 TS 엔터테인먼트는 5일, 지난달 29일 싱가포르에서 열렸던 첫 단독 콘서트 영상을 공개했다.이날 시크릿 멤버들은 솔로무대와 히트곡들을 선보였으며, 리더 전효성은 비욘세의 ‘Crazy in Love’를 라이브로 선보였다.
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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JYJ wrapped up Tokyo Dome concert
JYJ, South Korea’s three-member boy band, successfully wrapped up a series of massive concerts called “The Return of the JYJ” at Tokyo Dome, drawing in a huge number of Japanese fans. The concert series started on Tuesday and went through Thursday, sparking keen interest among the group’s fans in Korea and Japan. Fans expressed excitement over the media attention to the performances because JYJ hasn’t appeared in the media for about three years due to a legal battle with Japanese management agen
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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‘Superstar K’ singer Hong Dae-gwang debuts with duet song
Former “Superstar K4” contestant Hong Dae-gwang made his debut as a singer on Friday with digital single “Good Bye."The duet song, featuring So-yu from K-pop girl group Sistar, is the first track released from Hong’s debut album, “Meoreojida (Falling out),” which will be available on April 19.The song is written by Hong, who reflected his personal experience of a breakup in the lyrics.Upon release, “Good Bye” took the country’s top music charts by storm. It ranked seventh on digital music provid
PerformanceApril 5, 2013
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Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies at age 70
Roger Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded America's most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.Ebert, who had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, his office said. Only a day earlier, he announced on his blog that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence
FilmApril 5, 2013
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Book builds on masterful world
AngelopolisBy Danielle Trussoni(Viking)John Milton, the 17th-century writer and poet, is perhaps most responsible for giving Satan and his rebel angels celebrity status. In “Paradise Lost,” Milton imagines the fallen angels as “all monstrous, all prodigious things,” presenting them as the heroes of his epic work explaining humanity’s fall from grace and justifying “the ways of God to man.” From the novels in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series to films like “The Matrix,” Milton’s masterp
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Missing woman shakes up Southern town
The Next Time You See MeBy Holly Goddard Jones (Touchstone Book)The small-town setting of “The Next Time You See Me,” Holly Goddard Jones’ debut novel, is no place for the faint of heart. The more we see of the people who live here, the easier it is to understand what one character means when he says it’s best to lay low and live “a small life, a sad life.”Especially if you’re different. Because Roma, Kentucky, circa 1993, is a place where cruelty is “the way of the world” and kindness “an anoma
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Americans caught in Great Recession undertow
In the official estimation of government economists, the Great Recession ended in 2009. But in Barbara Garson’s new book, it lives on. And for the people whose stories she tells, the Great Recession may never die.“They didn’t retire, and they didn’t find jobs,” Garson writes, describing the four New York professionals whose stories open “Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession.” They call themselves “The Pink Slip Club.” It’s a group that never loses any members, because n
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Poet finds new muse
Atlanta poet Collin Kelley was at a London gallery in 2010, taking in a retrospective of photographer Sally Mann, when he was gobsmacked by something in the Virginia-born artist’s otherworldly, black-and-white images. He saw eerie parallels to his own work ― the poetry he’d set aside years earlier to focus on writing fiction.He had a collection of poems that had been “kind of floating around” since 2008, enough for a book. He’d given it a couple of titles, combined different poems, changed the s
BooksApril 4, 2013
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Film director Martin Scorsese appeals for ‘visual literacy’
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Film director Martin Scorsese urged Americans on Monday to pay greater heed to “visual literacy” and to embrace their rich cinema heritage before it literally fades away.Scorsese appealed for a greater national commitment to film restoration and preservation when he delivered the annual Jefferson humanities lecture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.Like never before, people today are buffeted by images, said the 70-year-old Oscar-winning direc
FilmApril 4, 2013
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Ozawa says he has time ‘given by God’
TOKYO (AFP) ― Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa said Wednesday he wants to use the time he “has been given by God” after surviving cancer to teach the next generation of musicians.The 77-year-old, who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophagus in 2010 and was treated for a hernia in 2011, said he will invite 24 of Asia’s most talented young string players to attend his chamber music academy in Japan.Ahead of his full-scale comeback planned in August, he will conduct Tchaikovsky’s “Ser
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Louvre names antiquities expert as its new director
PARIS (AP) ― France’s Louvre museum is getting a new director ― the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some of the institutions latest efforts to expand its reach.Jean-Luc Martinez, a French specialist in Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities who has worked at the Louvre since 2007, was appointed by President Francois Hollande for a three-year term. Martinez, 49, is leading the restoration of the famed headless Winged Victory of Samothrace
CultureApril 4, 2013
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Bolshoi Ballet Academy to open Korean branch
The Bolshoi Ballet Academy plans to open its Korea branch in Songdo International Business District, a new city built on reclaimed land on the west coast of Incheon.The Russian institution, one of the oldest and best-known schools for classical ballet, reportedly signed an MOU with Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority in Moscow to open a Korea branch. Local ballet troupe Universal Ballet Company told The Korea Herald that it was collaborating with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in creating the progr
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Ballerina beguiling as Hindu temple dancer
Ballet dancer Lee Eun-won achieved a lot of things early in her life. Undoubtedly one of the most stellar dancers in the local ballet scene, Lee was only 18 when she joined the Korean National Ballet as an apprentice in 2010. She made her lead debut as Marie in the “Nutcracker” in the same year, and was promoted to prima ballerina in 2012 ― just two years after her debut. In spite of her principal dancer title, the 21-year-old is still the youngest member of the company. Her talent was obvious t
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Korean films attract record-high 39.4m in Q1
The number of moviegoers for Korean films here marked a record-high of 39.4 million from January through March, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Thursday. The figure topped the previously held record of 37.2 million set in the third quarter of 2012.Seven Korean films were ranked among the top 10 movies, accounting for 69.4 percent of the audience, the authorities said. The biggest hit was “Miracle in Cell No.7” with 12.7 million audiences, followed by “Berlin File” with 7.1 milli
CultureApril 4, 2013
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Digital music fees daze and confuse
May 1 will be a pivotal day for the music industry, the day a pay-per-stream fee system will replace the current flat-rate program for online music streaming services. While online music distributors fear that the government-led change will dry out the industry, customers are anxious about whether it will result in a price hike.According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s March 19 blueprint, online music streaming service providers such as Melon, Mnet and Bugs Music should pay 3.6
PerformanceApril 4, 2013
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Popular singer-actor Im files for divorce
South Korean singer and actor Im Chang-jeong has filed for divorce from his wife Kim Hyun-ju, his agency said Wednesday.“He has reached the decision (to divorce) after failing to overcome personality differences with his wife,” said an official from Im’s agency Wellmade StarM.Another official said that the 40-year-old singer was currently staying in an unspecified location in the countryside to “settle his feelings.” Im tied the knot with 29-year-old Kim in March 2006. The popular singer and the
PeopleApril 4, 2013
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Head of Oxford receives honorary doctorate from Yonsei University
Andrew Hamilton, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, received an honorary doctorate from Yonsei University on Thursday, the Korean school announced.Yonsei University said that Hamilton received an honorary Ph.D. in science for his contribution in chemistry research, also recognizing his leading role at the top British school.On Thursday, in his first visit to Yonsei University, Hamilton also delivered a special lecture under the title “Broad Horizons: How universities can survive and th
PeopleApril 4, 2013
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Legendary thief caught stealing again
Cho Se-hyung, a famous thief who daringly robbed the homes of wealthy and influential figures in the 1970s and 1980s, was arrested for stealing tens of millions of won worth of valuables at an upscale house Wednesday. Seocho Police Station said Thursday that they caught the 75-year-old breaking into a house for burglary. Cho has so far been convicted 10 times for theft. According to police, he broke into a deluxe villa in Seocho, one of Seoul’s posh southern districts, at around 8:30 p.m. Wedne
PeopleApril 4, 2013
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Ex-leader of Wonder Girls having baby
Former leader of Wonder Girls Min Sun-ye is having a baby. The singer posted on Twitter about her pregnancy on Thursday, saying that she is three months pregnant. Sun-ye and her husband James Park, a Korean-Canadian missionary, had their wedding on Jan. 26. She wrote “I respect all mothers around the world who have experienced the mystery of life. (God has) allowed us a honeymoon baby.” She also asked her fans to “pray for the baby to grow up healthy.” The couple has been living in Montreal, Can
PeopleApril 4, 2013
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Fun Korean neologisms
Many fun, unique words are popping up almost every day, reflecting the trend of people’s use of language. One of such phrases in the United States is “D’oh,” a classic exclamation from “The Simpsons.” The immense popularity of the sitcom even led the expression to be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002. In Korea, there are also a number of newly coined words that are widely used by all age groups. The following are some of the most popularly used terms:1. Gomunkwan: Gomunkwan, or adv
CultureApril 4, 2013