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Iran’s president found dead at helicopter crash site
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Seoul rolls out W250b package in bid to lure foreign talent
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N. Korea slams US subcritical nuclear test, vows measures to bolster nuclear deterrence
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Korea's increasing US investment mutually beneficial: report
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Minister warns against trusting NK stated intentions, says Moon misguided
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AI Seoul Summit to discuss ways to make AI equitable in Global South
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South Korea bans viral North Korea propaganda video praising Kim
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Hermes celebrates craftsmanship
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After 6-year hiatus, Kia to return to Paris Motor Show in Europe push
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Govt. calls for junior doctors who left worksites to return to hospitals by Monday
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Woman spends summer as mermaid
An Oregon woman who has been seen swimming in public pools while dressed as a mermaid said she is living out a childhood fantasy.Pauline Long, 56, said she wanted to be a mermaid as a child and she decided to spend this summer swimming in Portland pools while wearing her homemade fins, which were inspired by a woman she met a few years ago, KGW, Portland, reported Monday.Long, who said she is part of a 23-strong group known as The Northwest Mermaids, said she knows she isn‘t a real mermaid, but
PeopleAug. 7, 2012
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Christian website changes Tyson Gay to Tyson Homosexual
An American Christian website prompted a public uproar after its automated filter changed a U.S. sprinter’s name.OneNewsNow, the news site run by the American Family Association, posted a story about Tyson Gay who joined the London Olympics this year. However, the website’s system changed the sprinter’s family name to “homosexual” as the word "gay" is forbidden.The website has since run the story with the right name.“We don’t object to the word ‘gay,’” the news director of OneNewsNow explained.
PeopleAug. 7, 2012
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Lunch not ‘just lunch’ for ex-lovers
Eating food with an ex-lover sparks more jealousy with one‘s current partner than meeting that same person for coffee, U.S. researchers suggest.Study co-authors Kevin M. Kniffin, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics, and Brian Wansink, the director of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab, measured the amount of jealousy reported by current romantic partners if one of them were contacted by an ex-lover and subsequently engaged in several food- and drink-base
CultureAug. 7, 2012
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Enquirer defends Macaulay Culkin drug report
The National Enquirer says it is standing by a report which claims Macaulay Culkin is addicted to heroin, despite the U.S. actor's insistence he is not.The former child star's representative told E! News last week the story is "not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious." The National Enquirer"We beseech the responsible media to consider the source
FilmAug. 7, 2012
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Girl tricked into dating another girl speaks out
A victim of a bizarre case where a girl posing as a boy tricked two of her female friends into dating her said she never suspected her "boyfriend" to be a girl, Daily Mail reported Monday.Earlier this year, British police arrested who they thought was a 19-year-old boy Aaron Lampard on suspicion of sexual assault to his teenage girlfriend Alice. However, when the police ran a strip search on Lampard, they found out that "he" was actually a woman. Police found that the suspect, Gemma Barker had b
PeopleAug. 7, 2012
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DreamWorks to make ’Kung Fu Panda 3’ in China
DreamWorks Animation and Chinese partners announced plans Tuesday to co-produce the next “Kung Fu Panda” movie and develop an entertainment district in Shanghai, expanding Hollywood’s fast-growing ties to China.Hollywood studios have announced a flurry of deals with local partners to gain access to Chinese financing and a government-controlled film market that is growing strongly at a time of weak ticket sales in the United States and Europe.“Kung Fu Panda 3” will be produced in China and releas
FilmAug. 7, 2012
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Unfriending with ex-lovers on Facebook gives distress
After breakups, almost 90 percent of people check up regularly on their ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends on Facebook, according to a master’s thesis by a student at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.For her thesis named “It’s Complicated: Romantic Breakups and their Aftermath on Facebook,” Veronika Lukacs, 25, a media studies graduate, surveyed 107 people who had experienced a breakup in the past 12 months.Of those surveyed, 88 percent said they keep an eye on their former lovers on Fac
CultureAug. 7, 2012
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Former Defense Minister Chang dies
Former Minister of National Defense Chang Do-yong passed away in Orlando, Florida on Friday. Chang, 89, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Chang was the one of the last retired generals imprisoned by the Park Chung-hee administration in the early 1960s on charges of anti-revolutionary activities against the coup led by the late former president. Chang was the Army chief of staff at the time of the coup on May 16, 1961, and was appointed as minister of defense, and chairman of the revol
PeopleAug. 6, 2012
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Marilyn Monroe honored on 50th anniversary of her death
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Some 300 Marilyn Monroe fans gathered Sunday at the Los Angeles cemetery where she is buried, commemorating the iconic sex symbol on the 50th anniversary of her death. Culminating a week of celebrations organized by various fan clubs, the ceremony was held at her final resting place in Westwood Village Memorial Park, a small patch of greenery between a parking lot and a residential part of the city.Fans as well as friends and relatives paid homage to the actress, who died on
CultureAug. 6, 2012
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Hudson Yards: New York’s town within a city
NEW YORK (AP) ― New York lost the 2012 Olympics, but the city’s bid for the summer games spurred another, visionary venture: building up the largest undeveloped parcel in Manhattan.While London got the games, New York was left with the best opportunity for development remaining in town.On Manhattan’s West Side, the old Hudson rail storage yards are surrounded by potholed roads, warehouses, low-rent brownstones, cheap delis and strip clubs. Crowds waiting for discount buses line 10th Avenue. And
Arts & DesignAug. 6, 2012
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Capturing man’s encounters with ocean giants
Underwater photographer Chang Nam-won’s humpback whale photographs on displayKorea’s first underwater photographer Chang Nam-won will offer a journey into the deep blue sea with awe-inspiring photos of humpback whales this month. Chang’s photographs will be on display at Lotte Gallery from Wednesday, allowing audiences a moment to cool down from the heat and dive into the rarely-exposed world of humpback whales. Chang spent five years capturing humpback whales living off Vauvau Island of the Ki
PerformanceAug. 6, 2012
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‘Dark Knight’ on top for third straight week
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― “The Dark Knight Rises” topped the box office for the third week in a row, making $36.4 million this past weekend.The finale in Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy has now made nearly $355 million in the U.S. alone, according to Sunday estimates from Warner Bros.“Total Recall,” starring Colin Farrell in a new take on the thriller that provided Arnold Schwarzenegger with one of his best-loved actions roles in 1990, opened in second place with $26 million, Columbia Pictures
FilmAug. 6, 2012
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K-pop stars attract 100,000 in Tokyo
A performance featuring K-pop singers who belong to the same entertainment agency has attracted more than 100,000 fans in Tokyo, the organizer said Monday.The concert was held at Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital on Saturday and Sunday as part of a world concert tour organized by the S.M. Entertainment Agency to capitalize on the rising boom of the Korean pop culture.During the “SM Town Live World Tour III in Tokyo” concert, the crowd enthusiastically sang along with the singers, waving colorfu
Aug. 6, 2012
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Festival celebrates Korean musicals
Seoul Musical Festival to hold conferences, workshops for local musical directorsFrom “Gwanghwamun Younga” to “200 Pounds Beauty,” local musicals have been finding their niche in Korea’s performing arts scene in the past few years, in spite of the dominance of big-scale, imported foreign productions, such as “Wicked” and “Elisabeth.”To support local musical productions and boost their ticket sales, the Culture Ministry and Seoul Metropolitan Government together organized an eight-day festival, c
PerformanceAug. 6, 2012
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Korean nuclear scholar wins award for paper
Lee Kyoung-ook, post doctorate research scholar at North Carolina State University, was awarded the 2012 Mark Mills Award by the American Nuclear Society, the U.S. university said on its website Saturday. Established by ANS in the late 1950s, the award recognizes a graduate student author who submits the best original technical paper contributing to the advancement of science and engineering related to the atomic nucleus. Lee won the honors with his dissertation paper, titled “Particle Tracking
PeopleAug. 5, 2012
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Over 1m foreign tourists visited South Korea in July
More than 1 million foreign tourists visited South Korea in July, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Sunday, marking the first time the monthly figure has topped the 1-million mark.“The number of foreign tourists who visited the country in July is estimated at 1.02 million,” a ministry spokesman said. “It is the first time more than one million foreign tourists have visited the country on a monthly basis.”The previous record was 970,000 set in April.Ministry officials attributed th
TravelAug. 5, 2012
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NMOCA holds summer culture festival
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, will hold a summer culture festival on Saturday nights, featuring music concerts, movie screenings and performances in its outdoor sculpture garden. The festival titled “Kill Your Stress, Heal Your Heart” aims to let visitors fight off stress through participating in a variety of cultural events and recharge themselves in natural surroundings. Various programs run from 5-10 p.m. on Saturdays from Aug. 11-25. It will feat
CultureAug. 5, 2012
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Blessings in Chinese art
National Museum showcases 100 Chinese artifacts wishing good fortuneCount the five Chinese blessings: Happiness, longevity, wealth, joy and professional success.The people’s yearnings for these blessings and fortune were often expressed in works of art, from paintings to sculptures, and even in wedding robes. In these items, auspicious spirits would appear in the form of a dragon or a phoenix, and sometimes a bat. The National Museum of Korea is holding a special exhibition featuring some 100 Ch
PerformanceAug. 5, 2012
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‘The Thieves’ breaks 6m viewers barrier
A South Korean box office hit continued breaking records with over 6 million viewers in the first 11 days of its release, official statistics showed Sunday.“The Thieves,” featuring 10 Korean and Chinese thieves teaming up to steal a valuable diamond necklace at a Macao casino, drew 6.2 million viewers in the first 11 days until Saturday, data from the Korean Film Council showed.The film directed by Choe Dong-hoon, who is known for “Tazza: The High Rollers” and “The Big Swindle,” has been drawing
FilmAug. 5, 2012
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Seung-ri hosts Japanese TV shows
Big Bang member Seung-ri is now serving as an MC for two TV shows in Japan, according to YG Entertainment, Big Bang’s agency. Seung-ri is hosting “V. I. FROM BIGBANG,” a reality show broadcast by Japanese music channel Space Shower TV. The show, which premiered last Thursday, illustrates the steps Seung-ri takes to make his own show. Seung-ri also serves as the special MC of “Sakigake! Ongaku Banzuke Eight,” a popular music variety show of Fuji Television. “Seung-ri recently interviewed Oguri Sh
PerformanceAug. 5, 2012