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Bae Yong-joon, Park Soo-jin welcome first son

Oct 24, 2016

Actor Bae Yong-joon and his wife, singer-turned-actress Park Soo-jin, announced Monday they have welcomed a baby boy into their family. “Park gave birth to a baby boy at a maternity clinic in Gangnam,” Bae’s management agency Keyeast Co. said, referring to an uptown neighborhood in southern Seoul. “Both the mother and baby are healthy.” The two tied the knot in July last year and announced Park...
Swiss billionaire fined $4 M over undeclared artwork: reports

Oct 24, 2016

GENEVA (AFP) -- Swiss customs authorities have slapped a billionaire with a $4 million fine for failing to properly declare some 200 artworks imported into Switzerland, according to media reports confirmed by officials Sunday. Financier Urs Schwarzenbach has for years been bringing precious artworks by the likes of Yves Klein and Giovanno Segantini into Switzerland without declaring them to cust...
Jeju plays host to Royal Salute Polo Cup

Sept 25, 2016

JEJU CITY, Jejudo -- Team Time led by David Ko won the fifth Royal Salute Polo Cup at KPCC on Jejudo on Friday. Team Time beat Team Royal, led by Malcolm Borwick, one of the top professional polo players in the world and former captain of the British national polo team, in a two-day match that ended with Team Time winning 12 to 10 against Team Royal. Ko received the MVP award. Polo is still a r...
[Contribution] What is Myeongri theory?

Sept 8, 2016

Myeongri theory is a philosophy that studies fortunetelling that has been passed down from ancient times in the East. Just as tarot card readings in the West, Myeongri theory in the East reads the combination of the Chinese sexagenary cycle and yin and yang with Five Elements. It teaches that the logos of the universe resides in the earth, that of earth in humans and that of humans in their brigh...
Pirelli’s starry calendar focused on acting talent, not skin

Aug 29, 2016

LONDON (AP) -- Pirelli has unveiled a star-studded lineup for its 2017 calendar that looks more like the ultimate Oscar red carpet than the stuff of salacious pinups. Among the subjects announced Sunday are actresses Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Chastain, Lea Seydoux, Zhang Ziyi and Charlotte Rampling....
In world of life coaching, Jen Sincero is the royal badass

Jul 21, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – We’ve got a world of life coaches out there offering a world of inspirational and instructional ways to make our many and varied “journeys” meaningful through self-help. And then there’s Jen Sincero, the sassiest of them all. She curses, she quotes Kirk Cobain and her friend Cynthia (“I'm okay, I’m not okay”) along with lofty authors and philosophers, and she titles chapters of ...
Samsung heir, mother donate 4 bln won to charity

Jul 20, 2016

Lee Jae-yong, the de facto heir of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group, and his mother donated a combined 4 billion won (US$3.5 million) to a local charity group, justice ministry officials said Wednesday. Hong Ra-hee, wife of ailing Chairman Lee Kun-hee, and the younger Lee each donated 2 billion won to the Korea Juvenile Protection Association, according to the Ministry of Justice. T...
Veritas releases first album

Jul 7, 2016

Veritas, a Christian music group of Kwangshin University, has released its first full-length album “Psalm 95.” Famed veteran singer Yoon Bock-hee, who debuted in 1967 and was one of the first Korean singers to perform abroad in Vietnam and the U.S., has expressed her strong support for the album. Yoon praised the album, describing the tracks as “God’s will” and a “hymn of youth’s grace that wil...
CNBlue singer Jung grilled over allegation of insider trading

Jun 29, 2016

Prosecutors on Tuesday summoned Jung Yong-hwa, the leader of the Korean boy band CNBlue, alleged to be involved in insider trading. He is suspected of having earned some 200 million won ($170,000) last year in illegal use of information on his entertainment agency’s plan for a contract with another celebrity. Jung reportedly bought 21,000 shares of the agency, to which he belongs, before July l...
Bill Cunningham, NY Times fashion photographer, dies at 87

Jun 26, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York, has died. He was 87. Cunningham died Saturday in New York City, according to Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the newspaper. He had been hospitalized recently after suffering a stroke. “To see a Bill Cunningham street spread was to see...
Winners of 2016 Young Architects Award unveiled

Jun 22, 2016

The Culture Ministry announced five winners of the 2016 Korean Young Architects Award on Wednesday. The winners were Kim Hyun-seok of June Architects and architect duos Shin Min-jae and Ahn Kee-hyun of AnLstudio as well as Lee Seung-taek and Lim Mi-jeong of STPMJ Architecture. Lim Mi-jeong (left) and Lee Seung-taek of STPMJ Architecture (Korea Architects Institute) Shin Min-jae (left) and Ahn...
[Hallyu Power] What it takes to be a K-pop fan

Jun 21, 2016

Scandal-ridden celebrities disappoint loyal fans who have followed them for years
Longoria asks film grads to use Rita Moreno as guiding light

Jun 16, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Eva Longoria has some advice for new graduates of the American Film Institute: Use Rita Moreno as a guiding light to use myriad points of view. Longoria presented the legendary stage and screen actress with an honorary doctorate of fine arts Wednesday in Los Angeles. “As you go on to write and direct and produce ... rise above caricature, as she does. Create complete and com...
Writers Morrison, Coates and Sanchez talk art, Orlando, Ali

Jun 16, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Speaking on stage at Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre, Ta-Nehisi Coates remembered studying at Howard University and being mesmerized by a few lines from the poem “Personal Letter No. 3.” “We are what we are what we never think we are.” The poet, 81-year-old Sonia Sanchez, was seated on one side of Coates on Wednesday night. On the other side sat a Nobel laureate and one of Howard...
Actor Lee Min-ho wins in Weibo Movie Awards

Jun 15, 2016

Korean actor Lee Min-ho has been named the most influential Asian film industry figure at a movie awards ceremony hosted by Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, his agency said Wednesday. Lee was chosen as the “Asian Cinema Pioneer” at the inaugural Weibo Movie Awards Ceremony held in Shanghai on Monday night, MYM Entertainment said. Winners were selected based on an online vote of 100 mil...