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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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Is FTC's conglomerate listing a boon or bane for Hybe?
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NewJeans to headline palace show
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Coupang's Kim Bom escapes chaebol chief designation again
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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CIO chief nominee to explain allegations at confirmation hearing
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Yoon vows to run country 'rightly' on Buddha's birthday
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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The Westin Chosun offers engraving service for VIPs
The hotel is presenting amenities engraved with the names of their VIP customers as it launches the Personal Touch of Chosun service from Jan. 1. The service, introduced for the first time in Korea, will be offered to hotel guests with frequent and long stays. According to the hotel, about 50 percent of the foreign guests are frequent guests, staying more than 25 nights a year at the hotel. The service includes personalized slippers, mugs, towels, bathrobes, bed sheets and more, which are worth
TravelJan. 4, 2013
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Kimchi mandu (Korean dumplings)
The Korea Herald is starting a new series, Korean Home Cooking, in which Ro Hyo-sun, author of the Korean Bapsang blog, explains how to make quick Korean comfort foods. The recipes are designed for people who are not familiar with Korean cooking and ingredients. ― Ed.Kimchi mandu is a variation of Korean dumplings made with kimchi as the main ingredient. The key to making good kimchi mandu is to use fully fermented kimchi for the extra kick that this mandu is known for. Kimchi mandu is especiall
FoodJan. 4, 2013
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Belgian chocolatiers face up to changing tastes
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Belgium is rightly proud as producer of some of the world’s finest chocolate but changing tastes and new markets in Asia and the Arab world are shaking up its somewhat predictable scene.“Belgian traditional chocolates? Some people still do them really well, such as the major brands,” said Laurent Gerbaud, one of the new generation of chocolatiers trying to keep up with a discerning clientele.In his workshop in the centre of Brussels, a customer will find few traces of the Manon,
FoodJan. 4, 2013
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The story behind a Korean-American mom’s passion for cooking
Ro Hyo-sun is a Korean American mother of two who currently works as a government professional specializing in contracting and auditing in Washington, D.C. However, aside from being a full-time worker and a mom, Ro is also a dedicated food blogger.It started when her two children, who are now grown up and living away from home, wanted to start learning how to cook the food they grew up eating. Her children would call around dinner time asking how to prepare certain dishes. They complained there
FoodJan. 4, 2013
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2 Israeli documentaries shortlisted for Oscar
JERUSALEM (AP) ― The Mideast conflict has done little to help Israel’s image in the world, but the way local filmmakers deal critically with the Israel-Palestinian issue has won wide international praise ― and this year, recognition from the top of the movie industry.Two Israeli-produced documentaries about the conflict have been shortlisted for possible nomination in this year’s Academy Awards. Few Israeli films have contended in the Best Documentary category before. The shortlisted films repre
FilmJan. 4, 2013
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Mehta wishes for peace in Korea
Internationally-acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta on Friday expressed concerns over the tension between the two Koreas and called for peace, possibly through music. “I know there are things going up and down here,” the maestro said at the press conference held at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Friday, a day before his New Year Gala Concert with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. “I still remember when my brother, who was working as the secretary general for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, visited
PeopleJan. 4, 2013
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Report: Professors have least job stress
University professor is the least stressful job available to U.S. workers in 2013, a job-search website said Thursday.CareerCast.com said teaching at the college level combines relatively high pay with a median annual salary of more than $62,000, prestige and a comfortable environment."Their students are largely those who choose the classes they attend, and thus want to be in class," the website said. "Unlike elementary and secondary educators, the performance of college professors isn't evaluat
CultureJan. 4, 2013
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Adele’s 2011 holdover ‘21’ still tops in 2012
Turns out Adele ruled 2012, too _ and set a record while she was at it.The British singer’s “21” was the highest-selling album in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, according to 2012 sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Thursday. That’s a first in the SoundScan era.Adele sold 4.4 million copies of the album in 2012 after selling 5.8 million in 2011. She crossed the 10 million threshold in November and was only rivaled by Taylor Swift, whose “Red” was second on the list. If her a
PerformanceJan. 4, 2013
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Romanian film director Sergiu Nicolaescu dies
Sergiu Nicolaescu, a prolific and popular Romanian director known for his historical epics who also served as a Senator, died Thursday. He was 82.The Elias Hospital said Nicolaescu died from heart and lung complications following surgery for digestive problems.Nicolaescu quit politics in December, having been Senator for the Social Democracy Party since 1992.Nicolaescu made some 50 movies in his lifetime, and despite his career in politics, continued to direct films such as the “Orient Express”
FilmJan. 4, 2013
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Potential dangers don’t bother world traveler Pam Houston
Pam Houston has always stirred a healthy dose of reality into her fiction, and so when you read her latest novel and note that there are several near plane crashes in it, you have to ask: How many of those actually ― gulp ― happened?World traveler that she is, Houston replies: all of them.“I’ve been in all those circumstances and more that were too repetitive to include,” she says of the most unsettling chapters in “Contents May Have Shifted.” “I’ve been in the crash position on commercial airli
BooksJan. 3, 2013
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An American family saga
The Twelve Tribes of HattieBy Ayana Mathis(Knopf)In “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” first-time author Ayana Mathis walks upon some of the richest thematic terrain America’s history can offer a novelist.Her protagonist, Hattie Shepherd, arrives in Philadelphia from Georgia in the mid-1920s, one of a legion of travelers in the great migration, that movement of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to the promise and relative freedom of the North.The great migration gave us the Harlem Renaissanc
BooksJan. 3, 2013
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19th century Korea seen through eyes of foreign women
Among all of the U.S. Ambassadors to Korea since 1883, John M.B. Sill (1831-1901) served during one of the most turbulent periods of Korean history. During his stay in the country ― from 1894 to 1897 ― Korea went through the Sino-Japanese War, the Gabo Reform, the murder of Queen Myeongseong, and King Gojong’s refuge in the Russian legation.Written and compiled by freelance writer and history researcher Robert Neff, “Letters from Joseon” features personal letters written in Seoul by Sill’s wife
BooksJan. 3, 2013
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McPartland bio hits all the right notes
Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartlandBy Paul de Barros(St. Martin’s Press)Paradise may be a great place to live, but the implicit lack of conflict makes it a lousy home for a dramatist. In similar fashion, it’s challenging for any biographer to take on the life of an exemplary human being and fashion a compelling story out of it.Consider the case of Marian McPartland, pianist, composer and longtime host of NPR’s peerless “Piano Jazz” series. For
BooksJan. 3, 2013
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Hong Ra-hee, Suh Do-ho named leading art figures
Hong Ra-hee, the director of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, has been named the most influential figure in the Korean art circle, according to a survey. The survey of 3,368 visitors to art museums, galleries and fairs was conducted by the Korea Art Price Appraise Association during last year. According to the art evaluation agency, Hong was also voted as the most influential figure every year between 2005 and 2009. Hong’s museum attracted more than 260,000 visitors in 2012 with major exhibitions s
PerformanceJan. 3, 2013
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Edvard Munch still struggles to win favor in native Norway
OSLO (AFP) ― He may be acclaimed in the art world and coveted by thieves but Edvard Munch is starved of recognition in his native Norway, where squabbles have delayed a new museum worthy of his oeuvre.This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the expressionist master, who painted the now iconic “The Scream.” But the anniversary is clouded by the city of Oslo’s inability to provide a proper setting for the art gems the painter left in his will.Munch, who died in 1944, bequeathed an en
CultureJan. 3, 2013
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Gwageo: Gateway to success in Joseon
Long before the college scholastic ability test, TOEIC or TOEFL, there was Gwageo, a civil servant examination in Korea. Launched in 958 benchmarking the Chinese model, Gwageo became the official gateway to public officialdom, which was regarded as the “only honorable way” for noblemen to live in the Joseon era (1392-1910). It was abolished in 1894 when Westernization of the government system kicked off and the exam was named one of the bad, old customs. The National Library is holding a special
CultureJan. 3, 2013
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‘Lincoln,’ ‘Les Miz,’ ‘Argo’ earn producers’ honors
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The Civil War saga “Lincoln,’’ the musical “Les Miserables’’ and the Osama bin Laden thriller “Zero Dark Thirty’’ are among the nominees announced Wednesday for the top honor from the Producers Guild of America.Other best-picture contenders are the Iran hostage-crisis thriller “Argo’’; the low-budget critical favorite “Beasts of the Southern Wild’’; the slave-turned-bounty-hunter saga “Django Unchained’’; the shipwreck story “Life of Pi’’; the first-love tale “Moonrise Kingdom
FilmJan. 3, 2013
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Al-Jazeera acquires Al Gore’s Current TV
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to rebrand the left-leaning news network that cofounder Al Gore couldn’t make relevant.The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shared Current TV’s mission “to give voice to those who are not typically heard;
TelevisionJan. 3, 2013
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Phantom looks to transcend time and space
The name of hip-hop rookie trio Phantom does not refer to the definition for “ghost” that first comes to mind. Rather, it’s rooted in science, describing the dispersing of energy. The band’s vocalist Sanchez selected the name. While he was attending college, he developed an interest in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which is where the group’s name originated. He remembers one day watching a documentary in which he learned about the effects of time and space, and more specifically, phantom ener
PerformanceJan. 3, 2013
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American University alumni group elect Suh as president
Suh Young-duk, a Korean lawyer, was elected as the new leader of an association of Korean alumni of American University in Washington D.C., the association said Thursday.He will succeed Chung Joo-taek, president of Hansung University in Seoul, to head the association.The 53-year-old Daegu native is an auditor of the National Health Insurance Service and also sits on the board of the Korean Bar Association. He recently opened a practice in Seoul.He unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate f
PeopleJan. 3, 2013