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Seoul vows action over Naver's Line, Yahoo dispute
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[KH Explains] Hyundai Motor’s plan for new landmark keeps hitting bumps
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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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Key S. Korean, USFK special operations officials to hold rare meeting amid NK threats
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Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
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In Beijing, S. Korean top diplomat aims to jumpstart ties with China
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NewJeans' members' parents complained to Hybe, email shows
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Controversy brews over shakeup of prosecutors amid probe of first lady
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Suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested
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Prosecutors summon pastor involved in Dior bag scandal
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Brit singer Pixie Lott enchants Korean audience
Pixie Lott, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Britain, captivated the Korean audience with her signature husky voice and adorable smile at her album showcase in Seoul on Wednesday evening. The singer, who gained popularity around the world with her hit-song “Mama Do (Uh oh, Uh oh),” was in Seoul for four days this week to promote her special album “Young Foolish Happy” released only in some Asian countries including Korea, Japan and Taiwan. She left Korea on Thursday for Malaysia, her next de
PerformanceMay 24, 2012
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Jang Dong-gun gets first ‘proper’ kiss scene
After a 12-year hiatus, Jang takes on rom-com with new SBS dramaIt would come as a major shock if SBS’ latest weekend installment, “A Gentleman’s Dignity,” failed to make a strong showing this Saturday. When one of South Korea’s most beloved actors returns to the small screen after a 12-year hiatus, the public is bound to tune in. Especially if over the past decade he has starred in a major international action flick and married an equally popular South Korean actress, Ko So-young. The question,
TelevisionMay 24, 2012
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Chimpanzees have human-like personalities
Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people," British researchers say.The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behavior is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, they said.Using a statistical method to remove any biases in human observers of apes' behavior, researchers at the U
CultureMay 24, 2012
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Woman, 84, trapped in chair for two day
An 84-year-old Swedish woman who fell through the fabric of a chair on her balcony was stuck for two days, friends said.Neighbors in Karlskrona told the Kvallsposten newspaper they became concerned when they noticed the woman's newspaper hadn't been brought inside and the woman failed to show up for church on Sunday, The Local.se reported Wednesday.Friends and neighbors contacted the building's ca
PeopleMay 24, 2012
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JYJ Junsu to hold concert in Thailand
Junsu, a member of the group JYJ, will hold the “XIA 1st Asia tour in Thailand” on May 27, marking the second venue for his much-anticipated music tour following performances for his Korean fans in Seoul May 19-20. Cjes Entertainment said the concert in Thailand would host 4,000 seats and offer the same 90-minute performance that Junsu showcased in Seoul. “The first batch of tickets for the concert in Thailand sold out in just 10 minutes, and local fans are responding positively to Junsu’s innov
PerformanceMay 24, 2012
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Eminem to hold first Seoul concert
Superstar rapper Eminem will perform for the first time in Seoul in August, concert organizer Hyundai Card said Thursday.The rapper will go onstage at Jamsil Sports Complex on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.The Super Concert series started in 2007, and invites big stars from overseas to perform for Korean music fans. Musicians who have performed with Hyundai include pop singers Lady Gaga, Steve Wonder and Beyonce, and classical musicians Sumi Jo and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Tickets range from 110,00
PerformanceMay 24, 2012
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Hot dogs fall from the sky in Detroit
To celebrate a Detroit restaurant's 95th anniversary, 955 raw hot dogs were dropped from a hovering helicopter onto a soccer field Wednesday morning.The stunt, arranged by WKQI-FM, Detroit, honored the American Coney Island restaurant, whose third-generation owner, Grace Keros, noted the famed eatery has "been at the same location for the past 95 years."The hot dogs, referred to at the restaurant
FoodMay 24, 2012
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Warm words for Obama but no endorsement yet: Powell
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had praise but no endorsement Tuesday for President Barack Obama, saying he plans to “keep my powder dry” as he weighs whom to back in November’s election.Powell, himself once widely touted as a prospect for the White House, and who endorsed Obama in 2008’s presidential race as a “transformational figure,” said the president by-and-large has lived up to that billing.“There are some things that he has done I wish he had not done. For
PeopleMay 23, 2012
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Architecture, a cultural animal
Following is the third in a series of articles in which leading architects discuss their representative work. ― Ed.Architecture is a projection of rationalized fantasies onto the world. It consists of spaces that started as programs, budgets and rules; they became characters, animals, labyrinths and more.In 2006 we designed our first project in Seoul; a house we called Godzilla, for its sleepy-dragon appearance, but also for the hard time our first Korean construction experience gave us. The p
PerformanceMay 23, 2012
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British artist brings two celebrated Korean writers into his world
Artist highlights writers’ artistic agonies and sufferings mixed with his ownThe multi-talented British artist Billy Childish sheds new light on two prominent Korean writers of Korea’s modern literature, Yi Kwang-su and Yi Sang, at his first exhibition in Seoul. “I wanted to make some paintings that related directly to the people who would be coming to see the exhibition,” Childish said at the opening event for his exhibition “Strange Bravery” in Seoul on May 11.Studying the two writers’ litera
CultureMay 23, 2012
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Haneke, Loach among Cannes’ early highlights
CANNES, France (AP) ― The first half of the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival has completed a life cycle in films that range from the motivating spark of child birth to the despair of slow death in old age. The latter came by way of Michael Haneke’s “Amour,’’ which is by wide consensus the favorite thus far for the festival’s top honor, the Palme d’Or. Such an outcome would make the Austrian filmmaker, who won three years ago for his previous film, “The White Ribbon,’’ the seventh director to win
FilmMay 23, 2012
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Actress returns in another racy period thriller
Jo Yeo-jung stars in Kim Dai-seung’s highly convincing noir ‘The Concubine’Despite the media frenzy and concern for her “going nude too often,” actress Jo Yeo-jung appears to have a fine taste in selecting her roles.After breaking into Korea’s film scene by going nude in her 2010 erotic period drama “The Servant,” the actress has chosen another period thriller with explicit sex scenes. But despite the media hype about Jo’s graphic nude scenes, “The Concubine” is actually an alluring thriller rev
FilmMay 23, 2012
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Canada bus killer says he believed the victim was alien
A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.Vince Weiguang Li (second from left)In 2009, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the death of Tim McLean, a 22-year-old carnival worker who was sittin
PeopleMay 23, 2012
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Chinese actress Li Bingbing at Canne festival
Alessandra Fisher Li Bingbing arrives at the 65th Canne international film festival,in southern France on Thursday. (Yonhap News)China's actress and singer attended the 65th Canne international film festival in France on Thursday.
FilmMay 23, 2012
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Green Plugged Festival to bedazzle rock fans
The Green Plugged rock festival will run Saturday and Sunday in Seoul Nanji Hangang Park.Over a hundred teams will be performing on five different stages amid the greeneries for the festival, run annually under the motto “The Goodwill and Small Deed for a Better Tomorrow.”The lineup includes famous Korean bands such as Jaurim, No Brain, Crying Nut and Boowhal. Up-and-coming bands such as Ulala Ses
PerformanceMay 23, 2012
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Is Superman gay? DC comics to announce gay superhero
An unnamed character from DC comics will officially come out of the closet in a future issue, the company has announced.The comic book giant includes iconic superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman.“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June,” Courtney Simmons, DC Entertainment’s senior vice president of publicity, told ABC news.
CultureMay 23, 2012
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Alert in Chile over half a million abandoned pigs
Chile declared a health alert at a site where 500,000 pigs, abandoned by a slaughtering company, were dying in large numbers until authorities stepped in Tuesday.Health Minister Jaime Manalich visited the plant in Freirina, 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Santiago in the parched Atacama region, and said that without food, water, cleaning or care the pigs had started to die.The incident began w
TravelMay 23, 2012
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K-pop Star winner heads to JYP
Park Ji-min, the 15-year-old winner of SBS’ TV audition show “K-pop Star” signed a contract with JYP Entertainment led by singer and producer Park Jin-young, the broadcast company said on Tuesday. Baek Ah-yeon and Park Je-hyeong, the two other contestants for the TV shows also signed their contracts with JYP, it added. “We have concluded that JYP fits very well with Park and the music she plans to pursue,” SBS said in a statement. The news comes less than a week after Lee Ha-yi, 16, who came in
PerformanceMay 22, 2012
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2PM, miss A to travel Korea with foreign K-pop fans
Members of the K-pop boy band 2PM and girl group miss A will participate in a tour program designed to promote Korean culture to foreign K-pop fans in June, Korea Tourism Organization said on Tuesday. Serving as goodwill ambassadors to the state-run travel agency, members of the two groups will accompany groups of foreign fans of K-pop selected through a video contest in May. The odds of getting selected were 310-to-1, KTO said. The program will invite seven winners of the contest and eight cand
PeopleMay 22, 2012
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Soprano Jo Sumi hospitalized, cancels concert
Soprano Jo Sumi was taken to hospital on Tuesday with acute appendicitis and underwent surgery on the same day, her agency said.The Korean artist arrived in Seoul from Paris late last month to start her tour of major cities in Korea including Gwangju and Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The 50-year-old soprano’s last concert of the tour at Sungsan Art Hall in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, on Thursday has been cancelled due to her health condition, SMI Entertainment said on Tuesday.The Changwo
PerformanceMay 22, 2012