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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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Camping in the city opportunity at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill
The hotel is holding a camping promotional event which offers a unique camping experience at its River Park surrounded by Mt. Acha and the Han River. Available from Oct. 12, the camping is suitable for people who wish to get away from the city, but can’t afford to leave Seoul to camp. Guests will be provided with camping equipment as well as top-quality barbecue. There will be three different grilled dishes offered with a wide choice of quality meat and side dishes. Ingredients include lobster,
FoodOct. 12, 2012
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Halloween party at JW Marriot’s Bar Rouge
The Bar Rouge will hold two Halloween parties with the theme of movie heroes and villains. The event will feature a variety of fun events including cocktail shows by hotel bartenders, awards for best-dressed guests and a dancing king and queen. Winners can get dining and accommodation vouchers. During the party, makeup artists will offer free Halloween face painting. Tarot card readings will be available for 1,000 won. The Halloween party will start at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 and 27 with an admissi
FoodOct. 12, 2012
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Nakji bokkeum, (Stir-fried baby octopus)
“Nakji bokkeum” is stir-fried baby octopus with various vegetables and seasonings. There is a saying: “If you feed three or four octopi to a scraggy cow, it will soon have strength.” Octopus has been enjoyed as a health food since the olden days. It tastes best in the autumn and winter. Octopus can also be grilled, or served raw and sliced.Ingredients● 2 1/4 baby octopus● 1 tbsp salt● 2 tbsp wheat flour● 1/2 onion head● 1 1/2 ea green pepper● 1 ea red pepper ● 1 tbsp edible oil● 1 tsp sesame oil
FoodOct. 12, 2012
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Domestic India pale ale a beer breakthrough
Korea’s first production-licensed craft beer company launches its canned IPA in HomeplusUntil now, ale in the can or bottle was a niche market restricted to imported brews. India pale ale ― that hopped-up brew hailing from 18th and 19th century England ― even more so. Then one South Korean brewery changed the course of history last Thursday with the launch of its very own IPA in cans. 7brau (also known as Sevenbrau) ― a craft beer company that first made a name for itself with draft beers sold t
FoodOct. 12, 2012
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Afghan filmmakers fear for cinematic history
BUSAN ― Afghan director Siddiq Barmak remembers watching helplessly as reel upon reel of film footage was taken outside and burned in the street after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan.He also remembers the effort it took to save other films from destruction after the extremist forces marched into Kabul in 1996.Barmak and other Afghan filmmakers this week warned that efforts to save Afghanistan’s film history were being undermined by government inaction and concerns about security ahead of a
FilmOct. 12, 2012
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Song Hyang-keun to lead Sejong Hakdang Foundation
Professor Song Hyang-keun of Busan University of Foreign Studies on Thursday was appointed the chief of the Sejong Hakdang Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the day. The newly established foundation will inherit the works and personnel of the International Korean Language Foundation that overlooked the general management of Sejong Hakdang, or institute in Korean, including the development of textbooks, curriculum and teacher training on Korean language educatio
PeopleOct. 12, 2012
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Tom Hanks to make Broadway debut next year
NEW YORK (AP) ― Tom Hanks will play a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist when he makes his debut on Broadway in the spring. Producers of Nora Ephron’s play “Lucky Guy” announced Thursday that Hanks will play Mike McAlary in the stage biography. Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, had been in negotiations for the role when Ephron died this summer. Previews begin March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre and an opening night is set for April 1. McAlary, the city’s one-time dominant tabloid reporter, got
FilmOct. 12, 2012
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Brad Pitt becomes first male face of Chanel No.5
Brad Pitt is set to become the first male face of Chanel No.5, a role previously filled by such fellow Hollywood luminaries as Marilyn Monroe and Nicole Kidman.A new 30-second ad campaign for the iconic women‘s perfume is to be unveiled online via the French fashion house’s YouTube page at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) Friday and then on television later in the day.The decision to choose Pitt to head the campaign was announced back in May.After campaigns depicting actress Estella Warren as red riding-hood,
Arts & DesignOct. 12, 2012
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Fat acceptance makes for happier sex lives
Lady Gaga made headlines recently by posting photographs of herself in a bra and underwear and confessing to suffering from eating disorders since she was 15. The move followed news reports scrutinizing the pop star‘s recent weight gain.Fans have heeded Gaga’s call for a “body revolution” by posting photographs of themselves that reveal bodies that are disabled, sick, healing, tattooed, fat and skinny.While the virtues of the pop star‘s campaign are subject to debate, similar calls for embracing
CultureOct. 12, 2012
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Holmes begins ‘Dead Accounts’ rehearsals
Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes began rehearsals Monday for the Broadway comedy “Dead Accounts,” the show‘s producers said.Theresa Rebeck’s play is being directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O‘Brien.Co-starring Judy Greer, Josh Hamilton and Jayne Houdyshell, “Dead Accounts” is to begin previews Nov. 3 in preparation for a Nov. 29 opening night at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.“Jack‘s unexpected return throws his family into a frenzy, and his sister Lorna needs answers,” a synopsis said
FilmOct. 12, 2012
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Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Literature Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Chinese author Mo Yan on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for writing that mixes folk tales, history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced.“Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition,” the Swedish Academy
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Mo Yan: Chronicler of chaotic Chinese century
BEIJING (AFP) ― Mo Yan has focused an unflinching eye on what he calls the darkness and ugliness of 20th-century Chinese society in a prolific writing career that on Thursday landed him the 2012 Nobel prize for literature.Mo Yan, one of China’s leading writers of the past half-century, became the first Chinese national and just the second Chinese-language writer to be awarded the coveted prize.The 57-year-old, whose real name is Guan Moye, is perhaps best-known abroad for his 1987 novella “Red S
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Another disappointing year for Koreans
It is another disappointing year for Ko Un, one of the nation’s most acclaimed living poets.He has been regarded as a potential winner for the Nobel Prize in literature by local media since 2002.As of Thursday, Korea remains the only country in Northeast Asia without a Nobel laureate in literature. Japan’s Oe Kenzaburo won the award in 1994 and now China claims a laureate in literature with Wednesday’s win by Mo Yan.“Oe Kenzaburo and Haruki Murakami have been vocal about international issues and
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Korean couple part of lab team of U.S. scientist who won Nobel in chemistry
A Korean couple worked together on the lab team of U.S. scientist Robert Lefkowitz, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Lefkowitz was recognized for identifying a class of cell receptor, yielding vital insights into how the body works at the molecular level.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize on Wednesday to Lefkowitz at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and another scientist, Brian Kobilika, at Stanford University. Kobilika worked for Lefkovitz at
PeopleOct. 11, 2012
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Poets select 240 poems by Ko Un
Like a Day of Feast, By Ko Un, (Changbi Publishers) Five poets selected 240 works by renowned poet Ko Un, who has been writing poems for the last 55 years, for publication. The newly published collection, titled “Like a Day of Feast,” is a joint project by poets Lee Si-young, Kim Seung-hee, Ahn Do-hyun, Park Seong-woo and Ko Hyeong-ryeol. Seoul National University professor emeritus Baek Nak-cheong also participated in the selection process.The collection begins with “Tuberculosis,” which is the
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Wisdom from a Navy SEAL
The Warrior’s Heart, By Eric Greitens, (Houghton Mifflin)Eric Greitens came from the humblest of beginnings to become a Rhodes scholar, a national boxing champion, a PhD, a Navy SEAL, an Iraq war veteran, a humanitarian and a bestselling author from writing about his experiences.Now the 38-year-old is back with “The Warrior’s Heart,” a young-adult adaptation of his bestselling memoir for adults, “The Heart and the Fist,” that offers living proof of its tag line: Becoming a Man of Compassion and
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Riverside inspires hometown girl author Straight
Susan Straight lives mere blocks from where she was born in the Inland Empire town of Riverside. She says there are two types of people, those who stay and those who leave. Straight has always stayed.“All I am is a writer and a mom,” says Straight, the author of eight novels, divorced mother of three daughters and a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside.On a recent Monday afternoon, just a few days before the release of her latest novel, “Between Heaven and Here” (McSweeneys, $24), Strai
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Early 20th-century Korea seen through British painter’s eyes
By Claire Lee Looking at her paintings is almost like watching a documentary about early 20th-century Korea. From a wedding feast in Korea’s countryside in 1921 to a picturesque night sky in Wonsan, Gangwon Province, British painter Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956)’s works exhibit her obvious attachment and understanding of Korean culture and its people. Some of her paintings, especially the portraits of the ordinary, are almost journalistic in nature, capturing the essence of her subjects. She drew
BooksOct. 11, 2012
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Google launches online ‘Cultural Institute’ chronicling 20th century
WARSAW (AFP) ― Google on Wednesday launched its online “Cultural Institute,” a digital visual archive of landmark 20th century events and personalities, created in cooperation with 17 museums and institutes from across the globe.The archives focus on legends like Anne Frank, the young Jewish-Dutch Holocaust victim whose famous diary chronicled her plight; South African freedom icon Nelson Mandela; as well as lesser-known heroes like Jan Karski, a Polish anti-Nazi partisan who brought the Allies
CultureOct. 11, 2012
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N.Y. college gets Adams photos
NEW ROCHELLE, New York (AP) ― A small New York college has been given a rare collection of 75 signed Ansel Adams photographs, selected as a set by the artist himself, the college announced Tuesday.Among the images is the famous “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’’ as well as several well-known scenes of Yosemite National Park and photographs of artist Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.The College of New Rochelle said that the gift, worth $2.5 million, is from Caryl Horwitz, former
PerformanceOct. 11, 2012