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South Korea confirms North Korea’s latest spy satellite launch failed
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Financially active women bear fewer children, report finds
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Leaders agree to revive 3-way cooperation, reaffirm security efforts
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[Feature] Ignorance about Africa still rampant in Korea
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S. Korea's exports set to maintain growth in May: trade minister
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Aespa breaks silence on Hybe chairman’s remark to ‘crush’ them
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Special counsel bill on death of Marine fails to pass in Assembly revote
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Korea ushers in new space era with KASA launch
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South Korea flies fighters near border over North Korean spy satellite alarm
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S. Korean biz leaders meet with UAE president
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Wonder Girls to make Japan debut in July
K-pop group Wonder Girls will be hitting Japan with their album titled “Nobody for Everybody” on July 25, Oricon reported Thursday.The Japanese version of their hit song “Nobody” is expected to be highlighted as their debut song.“In Korea the Wonder Girls are at a stage where they have reached their peak, and now we are ready for a bigger challenge,” Park Jin-young, CEO of the group’s label JYP Entertainment, stated.“We are very excited to meet our Japanese fans,” said Sohee, a member of the gro
May 10, 2012
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G-Cup news anchor boosts NHK ratings
NHK’s news broadcast viewer ratings have been hugely boosted since glamorous news anchor Yuki Sugiura took over the morning news program “Ohayo! Nippon” (Good Morning! Japan) on April 1, media reports said.The 28-year-old was once Sophia University’s beauty pageant winner, and has worked at NHK after graduating in 2006. G-컵 NHK 女아나운서 ‘시청률 제조기’일본 NHK의 유명 아나운서 스기우라 유키가 네티즌들 사이에서 화제를 모으고 있다.보도에 따르면 단
May 10, 2012
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Ministry to investigate showbiz agencies
The Culture Ministry said on Wednesday it will conduct an investigation to root out criminal entertainment agencies as crimes against trainees becomes a growing concern.The government, in cooperation with two representative organizations from the country’s entertainment industry, will investigate some 1,000 entertainment companies that are mostly not registered as show biz firms and are not known to the two industry groups. The two associations will create a black list of entertainment companies
May 9, 2012
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Yo-Yo Ma and Paul Simon win 2012 Polar Music Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Acclaimed Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma and “world-class songwriter” Paul Simon, also of the United States, have won this year’s Polar Music prize, organisers said in Stockholm Tuesday.Born in Paris to Chinese parents and having grown up in the United States, “Yo-Yo Ma has dedicated his virtuosity and his heart to journeys of musical exploration and discovery around the world,” the jury said in its citation.“With a cello and curiosity in his wake, Yo-Yo Ma has ... united pe
May 9, 2012
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Marilyn Monroe ‘last’ pics fail to sell
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Nude photos from what is said to have been Marilyn Monroe’s last formal photo shoot, just six weeks before her 1962 death, failed to sell at auction Tuesday in New York.The collection on sale as “Marilyn Monroe ― Last Sitting” had an estimated value of between $18,000 and $25,000 at the Bonhams auction. However, the lot “failed to meet its reserve price,” spokeswoman Julie Saunders Guinta said.The photographs were taken by Bert Stern during a marathon session for Vogue magazine
May 9, 2012
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Ulala Session releases debut mini album
Quartet describes the album as ‘buffet’ of different genresUlala Session, the winner of the nation’s famous TV audition program “Superstar K3,” has made their professional debut with their first mini album on Thursday. “We are so overwhelmed by the release of our debut album. The mini album is the start of our journey in our music career,” said the group’s leader Yim Yoon-taek at a news conference on Wednesday. The quartet, which consists of Yim, Kim Myung-hoon, Park Seung-il and Park Kwang-sun
May 9, 2012
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TV celebrity Ko denies rape charges
Ko Young-wook has denied allegations that he intentionally got an 18-year-old female entertainer-aspirant drunk to rape her at his home.The former member of K-pop group Roo’Ra was under police investigation on Wednesday morning, after the alleged victim sued Ko for rape.“I am wondering why the accuser sued me, even though she knows the entire truth,” Ko said in a statement on his management agency’s website.“I cannot reveal every detail of the situation to the public but I want to make it clear
May 9, 2012
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Performance artist unveils plan for N.Y. art center
NEW YORK (AP) ― Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million center in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of duration-based works of art lasting from six hours to several days.She unveiled the design for The Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art at MoMA PS 1 on Monday.In a phone interview last week, Abramovic said the architectural firm OMA will transform a former tennis center in Hudson, New York _ about two hours north of Ne
May 8, 2012
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South Korean movie ‘Unbowed’ to open FIFF
“Unbowed,” a South Korean movie directed by Chung Ji-young, has been selected as the opening film of the Focus on Asia, Fukuoka International Film Festival (FIFF) to be held in Fukuoka, Japan from July 6-15, movie industry sources said Tuesday.Unbowed is a box-office hit that has drawn 3.5 million viewers since it first screened in Korea in January. Veteran actor Ahn Seong-gi, who played the title role, will attend the opening ceremony. Unbowed is the real-life story of an altercation involving
May 8, 2012
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Former NBC exec and ‘Friends’ tell TV history
NEW YORK (AP) ― After being fired as NBC entertainment president toward the end of the “must see TV’’ period in 1998, Warren Littlefield packed photos, papers, awards and other memorabilia into a self-storage unit and turned the key.For 10 years he paid the rent and never stopped by. Finally he unlocked the vault and began combing through the boxes ― a process of rediscovery that eventually led to his new book, “Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV.’’Jerry Seinfeld, Kelsey Gr
May 8, 2012
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Broadway show ‘Once’ will tour US in 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- The small-budget film that became an album and then a Broadway musical is now becoming a U.S. tour.Producers of the show ``Once‘’ announced Monday that a national tour will launch in 2013. Dates and locations will be revealed later.The news comes less than a week after ``Once‘’ became the top-nominated show of this year‘s Tony Awards, with 11 nods.The musical starring Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti is based on the 2006 film about an unlikely romance between a Czech flower selle
May 8, 2012
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JK Film sues director over copyright
CEO-director Yoon Je-kyoon and filmmaker Lee Myeong-se battle over 10 billion won filmProduction company JK Film on Monday filed a copyright lawsuit against director Lee Myeong-se, who dropped out of a big budget movie project last month.The lawsuit is aimed at regaining the copyright of the 10 billion won ($8.8 million) movie, titled “Mister K,” from Lee, who “illegally and secretly registered” himself as its copyright holder in April, according to the production house. The legal battle was spa
May 8, 2012
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Ryu Si-won’s drama starts with embarrassing viewer ratings
Hallyu star Ryu Si-won’s ambitious TV drama “Good-Bye My Wife” aired its first episode with dismal viewer ratings of less than 1 percent. According to ratings research firm AGB Nielsen Media Research, the drama’s first episode, aired on Monday evening, took 0.84 percent of the viewership nationwide.Considering the drama was the first TV program for the Korean Wave star after a four-year absence from the small screen, the ratings were seen as weak.“Good-Bye My Wife” also drew attention prior to a
May 8, 2012
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Adam Yauch was a Beastie Boy tamed by age, wisdom
LOS ANGELES ― Most fans of the Beastie Boys’ early hits know Adam Yauch, or MCA as he was known, for a few choice boasts, like “I got more juice than Picasso’s got paint” (from the 1986 song “The New Style”). Despite the group’s early reputation as party animals, however, peace, mindfulness and positive energy were subjects the rapper wanted to represent in his work.Any remembrance of Yauch has to focus on the more spiritual lines he wrote, as on 1998’s “Intergalactic,” where he perfectly descri
May 7, 2012
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Will Smith gets ‘jiggy wit it’ in Seoul
Top Hollywood stars in town for world premiere of ‘Men in Black 3’As one of Hollywood’s top actors, it comes as no surprise that Will Smith can instantly turn a crowd of stern reporters into laughing fans during a press conference in Seoul on Monday.Once voted Hollywood’s most powerful actor, Smith is once again stepping into the comical and familiar shoes of Agent J in his upcoming sequel “Men In Black 3.”Before the conference even started at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Smith’s unmistakable shouts
May 7, 2012
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Will Smith, Ewan McGregor in Seoul
Hollywood celebrities Will Smith and Ewan McGregor visited Korea on Monday -- one to promote his new film the other for a department store event.Will Smith poses at a press conference in Seoul, Monday, on the upcoming film, “Men In Black 3.” (Yonhap News)Smith, who arrived in Incheon with his wife and a daughter, had a press conference in Seoul to promote the upcoming move “Men In Black 3.”Will Sm
May 7, 2012
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DSO names violinist Song as concertmaster
DETROIT (AP) ― The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has chosen violinist Yoonshin Song as its concertmaster.Music Director Leonard Slatkin announced the appointment Sunday after intermission at the symphony’s final performance of ``Pictures at an Exhibition.’’The 30-year-old Song, a native of South Korea, is a member of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She served as guest concertmaster during this weekend’s performances.The Detroit symphony says that Song will take the position in September and will
May 7, 2012
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'Avengers' smashes record: $200.3 million debut
Hulk, smash.That's what Captain America tells the Incredible Hulk to do in “The Avengers,” and that's what the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up did at the box office, smashing the domestic revenue record with a $200.3 million debut.It's by far the biggest opening ever, shooting past the previous record of $169.2 million for the debut of last year's “Harry Potter” finale.“The Avengers” added $151.5
May 7, 2012
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It’s all about the fans
Japanese band L’Arc-en-Ciel returns to Korea to connect with local fansFrom start to finish, it was obvious what brought Japanese band L’Arc-en-Ciel back to Seoul on Saturday night: the fans.They came en masse, decked out in the band’s t-shirts and towels. A few imitating vocalist Hyde’s notorious dark, vampiric style, while a few others were decked out in kimonos. And they left just as happy and excited as they arrived.The show started off jam-packed with energy and with explosive technology.
May 6, 2012
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From Hongdae to Texas
Korean indie band Galaxy Express gains confidence after U.S. tourGalaxy Express, one of the leading indie rock bands based in Hongdae, wondered why they had to go to the U.S. to perform when they were first offered the chance two years ago.“We were asked to participate in a project called SEOULSONIC designed to bring Korean rock groups to North America. But we said, ‘No. Why do we have to? We are already doing great and busy here,’” said Park Jong-hyun, the band’s guitarist and vocal.The band wh
May 6, 2012