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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Is it a man’s world? Berlin film festival asks
BERLIN (AFP) ― Does the world treat men and women differently? Drag king pioneer Diane Torr not only believes so but in an experiment in front of the camera empowers women to test out her theory.The documentary “Man For A Day,” which has premiered at the Berlin film festival, follows a group of very different women who sign up for a workshop on how to assume the persona of a man.“Gender is a culture-given thing, it’s not natural,” German director Katarina Peters told AFP of her just over 90-minu
Feb. 14, 2012
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Drug use might have killed Whitney Houston
As fans await autopsy results that may not come for weeks, speculation raged Monday that pop legend Whitney Houston may have died from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol. A T-shirt, flowers and notes are left at a makeshift memorial for Whitney Houston outside the Beverly Hills Hilt
Feb. 14, 2012
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‘Barriers of artistic institutions coming down’
Director of audiences and media at London’s Tate galleries talks about communicating with public in digital eraThe audience is completely changing, said Marc Sands, director of Audiences and Media at Britain’s Tate, just as it was when Tate Modern opened in 2000. “That was the moment when the audience changed both in terms of numbers and the type of people that came. Tate Modern brought contemporary art from the fringes of culture to the mainstream,” said Sands at a press conference on Monday at
Feb. 13, 2012
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Paik Hae-sun to return to Korea for recitals
Paik Hae-sun, one of Korea’s favorite pianists, is well-known for her powerful and large-scale performances that produce great enthusiasm among audience members. The 46-year-old artist, who left the country in a surprise move seven years ago to concentrate on her performances, says her new life in New York has changed her and her music.“I used to give dramatic comparison during the recitals, but now I want to play the music with my free spirit and my life full of experiences and feelings,” Paik
Feb. 13, 2012
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Overseas quiz games aim to help spread Hallyu
South Korea will hold a round of quiz games in about 20 nations with questions and answers on the “Korean Wave,” in its latest effort to raise global awareness of Korean pop culture, officials said Monday.In a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave or “Hallyu” in Korean, South Korean TV dramas, movies
Feb. 13, 2012
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British Bob Marley documentary electrifies Berlin
BERLIN (AFP) - A hotly awaited documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to reggae superstar.“Marley” by Oscar-winning Scottish film-maker Kevin Macdonald is a two-and-half-hour-long tribute to a child of the Kingston ghettos who made reggae a global phenomenon by the sheer force of his talent and charisma.“For me, Bob is really one of the greatest cultural figures of 20th century. I don‘t think anyone i
Feb. 13, 2012
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Streep and ‘The Artist’ triumph at Britain‘s BAFTA awards
LONDON (AFP) - Silent movie “The Artist” and US actress Meryl Streep continued their march towards Oscar glory on Sunday after scooping top awards at the BAFTAs, the biggest night of the British film industry.At a celebrity-packed ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London, “The Artist” won seven gongs including best film, best director and best original screenplay for Michel Hazanavicius and best actor for Frenchman Jean Dujardin.Dujardin -- who is also nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal
Feb. 13, 2012
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Adele sweeps 6 Grammy Awards
Whitney Houston’s death casts shadow on awards show as performers pay tributeLOS ANGELES (AP) ― Adele, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trifecta of record, song and album of the year.The singer, who also made a triumphant comeback from vocal cord surgery on the Grammy stage, sobbed as she won the night’s final award, album of the year, for “21.’’ It was last yea
Feb. 13, 2012
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Actor Cho to teach at university
Actor Cho Jae-hyun will teach at Sungshin Women’s University’s College of Convergence Arts, the school announced last week.The 46-year-old will be teaching two acting courses ― basic acting and “acting and documentaries” ― starting next month at the school’s department of acting for visual media. The Convergence Arts College was founded last year, with Son Seung-hwan, CEO of PMC Production and the producer of homegrown hit musical “Nanta,” taking charge as its president.Cho, who holds a master’s
Feb. 13, 2012
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Adele top winner with 6 Grammys
Adele, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trifecta of record, song and album of the year.Musician Adele poses with her six trophies at the 54th Grammy Awards in Los A
Feb. 13, 2012
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Houston in posthumous movie about drug fallout
Whitney Houston will star in a posthumous movie she finished working on before her death, poignantly about a singing group dealing with the troubles caused by fame and drugs. Whitney Houston (AFP)“Sparkle,” due out in August, is a remake of a 1976 film loosely based on the story of the Supremes, fol
Feb. 13, 2012
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Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said Houston was pron
Feb. 12, 2012
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Exhibitions"Dutch Magic Realism: Past toward Contemporary": Museum of Art in Seoul National University presents 71 Dutch paintings and sculptures from ING Banks’s collections. The show will trace 80 years of figurative art, from Dutch realism to recent works, by displaying artworks by the European country’s representative artists including Carel Willink, Wim Schuhmacher and Philip Akkerman. The exhibition runs through April 12 at Seoul National University’s Museum of Art in Sillim-dong, souther
Feb. 10, 2012
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U.S. to begin full-scale probe into alleged dumping by Samsung, LG
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- U.S. trade authorities on Friday announced a full-fledged investigation into allegations that major South Korean firms Samsung and LG have violated anti-dumping rules here."The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has made affirmative determinations in its preliminary phase anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations concerning certain large residential washers from Korea and Mexico," the agency said in a press release.The move came after Whirlpool Corp.,
Feb. 10, 2012
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Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, under fierce election-year fire, on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.Obama's compromise means ultimately that women would still get birth control without having to pay for it, no matter where they work. The presid
Feb. 10, 2012
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Lim looks back on decade as pianist
Lim Dong-hyek“10th Anniversary Edition”(EMI)Lim Dong-hyek, one of Korea’s promising classical artists, has released the special album “Dong-hyek Lim: 10th Anniversary Edition,” to celebrate his past decade as a professional pianist.The new album consists of three CDs with pieces he had already released with EMI Classics over the past 10 years. Lim released his first CD in 2002 including compositions by Chopin, Schubert and Ravel. In 2004, Lim recorded Sonata in B minor and other small works of C
Feb. 10, 2012
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Box Office
Howling (Korea) Opening Feb. 16Crime. Thriller. Directed by Yoo Ha. Detective Sang-gil (Song Kang-ho), who is desperate for promotion, gets annoyed when he is assigned to work with an inexperienced junior Eun-young (Lee Na-young) for what looks like a suicide case. Eun-young finds out that it is in fact a murder case involving a giant wolf-dog. Being the only female detective in her team, socially inept Eun-young endures the low expectations, lewd jokes and even sexual harassment by her macho te
Feb. 10, 2012
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Swedish director Daniel Espinosa took an unusual approach with ‘Safe House’
When Universal Pictures hired Daniel Espinosa to direct its rogue CIA agent thriller “Safe House,” the studio knew it was rolling the dice. The Swedish filmmaker had never made an English-language feature, he hadn’t worked with stars near the magnitude of “Safe House” leads Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, and he was graduating from a $4-million Nordic drug drama to an $85-million production.None of that prepared executives for the first batch of footage Espinosa sent back to California from
Feb. 10, 2012
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Swedish director Daniel Espinosa took an unusual approach with ‘Safe House’
When Universal Pictures hired Daniel Espinosa to direct its rogue CIA agent thriller “Safe House,” the studio knew it was rolling the dice. The Swedish filmmaker had never made an English-language feature, he hadn‘t worked with stars near the magnitude of “Safe House” leads Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, and he was graduating from a $4-million Nordic drug drama to an $85-million production.None of that prepared executives for the first batch of footage Espinosa sent back to California from
Feb. 10, 2012
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Why is K-pop going to America?
Although Asia-centric, major entertainment companies seek to reap U.S. benefitsSince Girls’ Generation appeared in two major U.S. talk shows and Wonder Girls launched their TeenNick television movie, “The Wonder Girls,” last week, the buzz has been overwhelming. Yet, underneath all the hype lies a question: Why is Korean pop looking to America? “Insofar as America is the world’s biggest music market, we, as a company and for our artists, want to take it on,”said an S,M. Entertainment representat
Feb. 10, 2012