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Qoo10 liquidity crisis sparks massive complaints, fears of wider damage
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Yoon urges municipalities to embrace foreigners
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S. Korea to consent to Japan's Sado mines gaining World Heritage status: official
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Korea unveils tax reform bill to spur economy
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Actor’s excessive airport security sparks probe into human rights violations
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Actor Yoo Ah-in accused of sexual attack
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Man who let his father die due to financial difficulties to be released on parole
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S. Korea, China shifting from tensions to cooperation: Seoul
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LG Electronics achieves record earnings in Q2
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Staying in the city for big break
Chuseok surely is a huge deal in Korea, filled with family joys and the signature holiday food.Yet for Seoulites who choose not to visit their family in the countryside, or expats who don’t plan to travel, the holiday leaves them with little to do.Seoul, however, offers a number of options for those who choose to stay in the city for the holiday, from an expat-oriented film festival to English-language musicals. This year’s Chuseok break ― Wednesday to Friday ― is unusually and luckily long, as
Sept. 13, 2013
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Dance“SIDance”: The annual Seoul International Dance Festival (SIDance) is returning in October, featuring a total of 51 dance companies from 16 countries. The opener this year is a performance by Canadian troupe Cas Public, with its stylish variation of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Other invited troupes include France’s Cie Heddy Maalem, Finland’s Dance Theatre Auraco, and Italy’s Ambra Senatore. This year’s SIDance runs from Oct. 7 to 27 at Gangdong Arts Center, Seoul Art Center and Goyang A
Sept. 13, 2013
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Musicals, games, films, named ‘killer content’
The government on Thursday selected online games, films, animated films, the character business, broadcasting and musicals as well as converged content as Korea’s “killer content,” subject to tailored support in the future. The authorities will also discover and develop storytelling in content that has a uniquely Korean appeal in order to enhance global competitiveness, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry Science, ICT and Future Planning said in a press briefing on Thurs
Sept. 12, 2013
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State portal to provide information about 300,000 heritage assets
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Wednesday started releasing comprehensive information about the country’s cultural heritage through its portal site, www.culture.go.kr, giving the public wider and easier access to the country’s traditional cultural assets.Currently, photos and details about 300,000 items are available. The Cultural Heritage Administration and the National Museum of Korea will share their databases in order to provide a broader range of information about the artifac
Sept. 11, 2013
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Asia’s top broadcasting fair opening in Seoul
Asia’s largest broadcast visual content market will kick off its three-day run on Wednesday at COEX B Hall in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul. More than 170 visual content providers including BBC Worldwide, NHK Enterprise, Asahi TV, CITVC and TV5 will be participating in Broadcast Worldwide, BCWW2013, organized by the Korea Creative Contents Agency. About 90 domestic content distributors and manufacturers such as terrestrial TV, cable TV, general programming TV stations and production companies wi
Sept. 9, 2013
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S.M. Entertainment’s content exports hit W100 billion
Thanks to the growing global popularity of K-pop, exports of Korean cultural content marked a remarkable success last year, with one exporter hitting 100 billion won ($92 million) in exports for the first time in the industry, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Sunday.According to an administrative report to Rep. An Min-suk of the Democratic Party, S.M. Entertainment, the country’s most profitable showbiz agency with stars such as SNSD, TVXQ and Super Junior, marked 103.6 billion w
Sept. 8, 2013
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History of Chuseok gifts
Thanksgiving on the lunar calendar has been celebrated all across Asia for a very long time. It was the time when people ― even married women who were tacitly restrained from visiting their mothers and fathers after getting married and living with the in-laws ― got together and tried to convey their good status by giving gifts. “After women served all the holiday visitors they were allowed to visit their own parents for a short period of time. Longing for that day for a year, the daughters would
Sept. 6, 2013
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Chuseok, sharing the spirit of gratitude
From Sept. 18 through 20, the country will be filled with the holiday spirit as families gather, share love, news and, most of all, holiday presents over Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving.Families will visit their hometowns or gather at their parents’ houses, enjoy holiday meals, watch TV and play games, share conversation to catch up on each other’s lives, take a break from their daily routines and then return home with a sense of fulfillment. And of course, their hands will be full with presents
Sept. 6, 2013
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Classical Music“Countertenor Andreas Scholl Recital”: Prominent German countertenor Andreas Scholl will have a recital on Sept. 23 at Seoul Arts Center’s Concert Hall. A specialist in Baroque music, world-renowned countertenor Scholl is known for having a singing voice equivalent to that of a female contralto or mezzo-soprano. The program for the recital will include notable German lieder such as Haydn’s “Despair,” Schubert’s “Du bist die Ruh D. 776,” Brahm’s “Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2” and Mozar
Sept. 6, 2013
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Over 200 languages lost in diverse India, study finds
NEW DELHI (AFP) ― More than 200 languages have vanished in India over the last 50 years, a new study says, blaming urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues.The extensive study, conducted throughout the country over four years and released this week, has found 230 languages have “elapsed” while another 870 have survived the test of time in richly diverse but rapidly modernizing India, home to a vast number of indigenous or tribal peoples.Ganesh Devy, who
Sept. 5, 2013
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Louvre’s ‘Winged Victory’ flies off for restoration
PARIS (AP) ― “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” the hulking Hellenistic sculpture that dominates the Louvre Museum’s most frequented staircase, is taking flight ― away from tourists’ gazes for a restoration project.Officials at the famed Paris museum said the 2nd-century B.C. sculpture was set to be dismantled, hoisted onto rollers and wheeled into a closed cabin in another Louvre gallery for structural work and a meticulous cleaning to restore the original hues to its marble over the next nine mon
Sept. 4, 2013
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New work sets timeline for the first pharaohs
PARIS (AFP) ― Archaeologists drawing on a wide range of tools said on Wednesday they had pinpointed the crucial time in world history when Egypt emerged as a distinct state.Experts have wrangled for decades as to when turbulent upper and lower Egypt were brought together under a stable, single ruler for the first time.Conventional estimates, based on the evolving styles of ceramics found in human burials, vary hugely, from B.C. 3,400 to 2,900.A team led by Oxford University’s Michael Dee, report
Sept. 4, 2013
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KNUA to recruit foreign professors
The Korea National University of Arts will hire more professors from outside the country over the next five years, its newly appointed president Kim Bong-ryol said Wednesday. Aiming to recruit “masters” and “rising stars” in the international art scene to share their knowledge and know-how, the school will establish a special fund to meet international standards of pay, Kim said at a press conference. There are currently 146 professors at the school and Kim plans to raise the number to 165 in th
Sept. 4, 2013
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Abandoned casts of Angkor Wat treasures come out of hiding
PARIS (AFP) ― Forgotten and abandoned for over 70 years, casts of the art treasures at the Khmer temple complex at Angkor in Cambodia are coming out of storage to be rediscovered in a Europe that first shunned them.The statues, reliefs and temple decorations in the style of the original ninth to 15-century monuments at the site in northern Cambodia are to be exhibited in Paris’ Musee Guimet in all their splendor.The casts made between 1870 and the late 1920s were commissioned by Frenchman Louis
Sept. 3, 2013
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History goes up in smoke at Egypt’s sacked Mallawi museum
MALLAWI, Egypt (AFP) ― Magdy Tahami looks in disbelief at what remains of Egypt’s tiny Mallawi museum.The ground is littered with glass from the display cabinets, which once housed its precious collection, after a mob attacked and looted the building, during a nationwide crackdown on Islamist protesters. Before, hundreds of antiquities, statuettes, gold and jewels told the history of Egypt, from pharaonic times to the Muslim caliphs, from the Omayyad dynasty in the 7th century to the Fatimids in
Sept. 3, 2013
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Scholar suggests name change for Tripitaka Koreana
An American scholar on Tuesday suggested that the Tripitaka Koreana, the English name for the “Palmandaejangyeong (80,000 canons),” be changed to simply “Goryeo Daejanggyeong” or the Korean Buddhist Canon. Scholars from Korea, the U.S. and Japan also urged academia to launch comprehensive, transdisciplinary studies into the world’s oldest wooden canons, consisting of some 1,514 texts carved on 81,258 individual blocks and bundled into 6,815 fascicles at the 2013 Tripitaka Koreana Festival, Inter
Sept. 3, 2013
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Communication key to Korea’s image: CICI president
As president of the Corea Image Communication Institute, Choi Jung-wha has made it her life’s mission to take whatever steps necessary to promote Korea internationally. Whether it be by awarding people or entities for their impact on the country’s overall image, or inviting a small group of leading figures in various fields from around the world to come and see Korea for themselves, Choi believes that even the smallest forms of communication can have a big impact. “Small drops of water can turn
Sept. 3, 2013
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CCF panel debates traditional vs. modern Korea
The fourth annual Culture Communication Forum organized by the Corea Image Communication Institute wrapped up on Tuesday with a panel discussion by the 16 foreign delegates who got to experience Korean culture over three days. The CCF participants held the discussion at the Westin Chosun hotel under the theme “Old vs. New: Presenting the Case for Traditional or Modern Culture.” The guests, ranging from a wine critic to a playwright, were invited to this year’s event in the hope of increasing the
Sept. 3, 2013
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Antique furniture displayed as art in hanok
Set in some of Seoul’s most picturesque hanok in Seongbuk-gu is the Korea Furniture Museum. The museum housed in 10 small traditional Korean houses displays a stunning array of the country’s most prized and brilliantly crafted antique furniture dating back to the Joseon period. The Furniture Museum was one of the many stops made by the Culture Communication Forum participants to learn about the creativity and intricacies of the design of Korean furniture in a non-museum-like atmosphere. During t
Sept. 3, 2013
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Culture key to greater exchanges between countries
Exploring different societies and the relations between cultures and countries are the focus of Indian documentary filmmaker Archana Kapoor’s works. She has recently produced a 15-minute documentary on the 40 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and India that was commissioned by India’s Ministry of External Affairs.Kapoor became interested in Korea when she visited for the first time in 2008. “Different from the neighboring countries, there is a lot of humility here. I think we share the
Sept. 1, 2013