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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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SeaWorld gets a black eye in new documentary
Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was something of a “SeaWorld mom.” She’d taken her kids to the San Diego location of the popular theme park corporation, “planted us firmly in the Shamu splash zone. We all just ate it up.”Then she read of SeaWorld Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau’s grisly death by orca in February 2010. She “just couldn’t come to terms with it. I could not understand how a highly intelligent, beloved mammal could make that decision. I was confounded. Was he playing? Did she drown
July 12, 2013
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Homegrown tech brings gorilla to life
Korean moviegoers have seen Richard Parker, the stunning CG tiger in Ang Lee’s 2012 3-D adventure drama “Life of Pi.” On screen, the CG animal looked nothing less than a flesh-and-blood Bengal tiger. Just about a year later, moviegoers are being introduced to Ling Ling, a CG gorilla created using local technology. Director Kim Yong-hwa’s (“Take Off,” “200 Pounds Beauty”) ambitious and expensive 3-D project, titled “Mr. Go,” was unveiled to the press on Monday, ahead of its scheduled opening on J
July 10, 2013
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Weinstein, Warner Bros. spar over ‘The Butler’
NEW YORK (AP) ― With the drama of a summer blockbuster, the dispute over the rights to a film title has turned into a public battle between Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros.Disputed is the claim to the title “The Butler,’’ which the Weinstein Co. has promoted as the name of an upcoming drama about a White House butler. An arbitrator last week ruled Warner Bros. has the right to “The Butler,’’ having released a so-named silent short in 1916.Weinstein, appalled that his potential Oscar bait could
July 10, 2013
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Statue of Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy rises from lake
LONDON (AP) ― It’s Colin Firth, but not as we know him. He’s 3.7 meter tall and made of fiberglass.A statue of brooding Mr. Darcy, the character played by Firth in “Pride and Prejudice’’ was installed Monday in London’s Serpentine lake.The figure shows Darcy emerging from the water in a soaked shirt, recreating a scene from the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.The scene helped turn Firth into a sex symbol and is regularly voted among Britain’s most memorable TV moments.One of th
July 9, 2013
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Macau hosts glittering Indian film awards
MACAU (AFP) ― Romantic comedy ‘Barfi!’ swept almost all the major gongs, including best picture, at India’s answer to the Oscars on Saturday as Bollywood celebrates its centenary.Bollywood royalty converged on the Chinese gambling hub of Macau for the 14th edition of the Indian International Film Festival, held in the territory’s glittering Venetian resort.“Barfi!” won six awards, including the prize for best actor and best director.The light-hearted film, about a deaf and mute man from Darjeeli
July 7, 2013
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Box Office: Mr. Go, Side Effects, Cold Eyes
Mr. GoComedy. Drama. Directed by Kim Yong-hwa.Opening July 17The film revolves around a young circus ringmaster Wei Wei and her special gorilla friend Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in the Great Sichuan earthquake leaving an insurmountable debt, Wei Wei depends on Ling Ling as her only family member. The two enjoy playing baseball and are quite good at it since Wei Wei‘s grandfather was a huge fan of baseball. Story of the two is introduced in Korea and the materialistic sports agent Sung
July 5, 2013
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‘Way, Way Back’ a romance that’s nostalgic for the present
A person can come of age at any time. But in the movies, a lot of that growing up seems packed into the summer months. Especially for boys. That’s when a lad can hang out on the beach, come to some sort of arrangement with girls and endure entirely too much of his closely-observed family for his own good.“The Way, Way Back” is a semi-nostalgic coming-of-age dramedy from the folks who wrote “The Descendants.” It’s about a shy, put-upon lad, his long-suffering mother, the mom’s difficult new beau
July 5, 2013
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Oscar winners Rash, Faxon make directorial debut
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ― Way, way back before they were Oscar winners, back when they were honing their skills as members of The Groundlings comedy troupe, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash started writing together.This was even before Rash’s role as Dean Pelton on NBC’s “Community’’ or Faxon’s starring turn on the short-lived “Ben and Kate,’’ and years before they joined director Alexander Payne to co-write 2011’s “The Descendants,’’ the best-picture nominee that won the Academy Award for adapted screenplay
July 4, 2013
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48 Meters: Between life and death
Located on the border between North Korea and China, the Amnok River, or Yalu River in Chinese, separates the two countries by just 48 meters. The river is the shortest route of escape for many North Korean defectors, who risk their lives to cross the border to China. Tens of thousands of North Korean defectors are currently believed to be hiding in China, where many of them are caught and repatriated to the North to face severe punishment, torture and even execution. An upcoming film, titled “4
July 3, 2013
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Won Bin, Lee Na-young dating: agency
The agency of South Korean movie stars Won Bin and Lee Na-young on Wednesday confirmed reports that the two stars are an item. The admission came just hours after a local tabloid published photos of the stars on a date.“The two (Won and Lee) are just starting their relationship,” Eden9 Entertainment said in a statement. “They recently grew fond of each other after frequently bumping into one another while working at the same agency.”Eden9 CEO Kim Nam-kyung had previously denied the reports that
July 3, 2013
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Box office sales near 100 million in first half
Nearly 100 million movie tickets were sold at cinemas in the first half of this year, with more than half of them seeing Korean films, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Tuesday. Inspired by the record-breaking number, the authorities have been pushing a number of policies to support the local filmmaking industry, including subsidies, stipulation of fair contracts and encouragement of exports. According to the ministry, the number of cinemagoers marked 98.5 million between January
July 2, 2013
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Actress Song talks about working with director Wong
Actress Song Hye-gyo on Sunday downplayed rumors of her quarrel with Wong Kar-Wai, but admitted there had been “some difficulty” with the Chinese director, Hong Kong media reported.Song said there was “a bit of friction and misunderstanding” with Wong while filming his recent flick, adding that the difficulties helped her mature. “It has not been easy. For me, it was the first time working with Wong. Since their (movie makers in Hong Kong) way of filming was different from that of Koreans, there
July 2, 2013
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Korean director wins award at Moscow film fest
Korean filmmaker Jung Young-heon won the best director award at the Moscow International Film Festival for his movie “Lebanon Emotion” on Saturday.The film was among 16 movies that received awards at the 35th edition of the festival, which started in 1959 as the biggest movie festival in Eastern Europe. “Lebanon Emotion” depicts the complex emotional changes of a man and a woman in both urban and rural settings. Despite its title, the film features no scenes based in Lebanon. The movie won the C
July 1, 2013
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R-rated coming-of-age musical to get Korean premiere
Korea may not be the most gay-friendly country in the world, but the cast of adult-themed Broadway musical “Avenue Q,” which deals with homosexuality along with racism and pornography, says they are regardless very excited to premiere the show in Seoul. “I think what we know is that some of the subject matters will certainly push the envelope and be somewhat challenging (for the local audience),” Paul Warwick Griffin, the upcoming show’s associate producer, said during a press meeting last week
June 30, 2013
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48th edition film festival opens at Czech spa town
PRAGUE (AP) ― An international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is bestowing its Crystal Globe awards on actor John Travolta and director Oliver Stone for outstanding contributions to world cinema.Travolta is receiving his award on Friday, the opening day of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Stone has to wait for the final day, July 6.Fourteen movies are competing for top honors, including “A Field in England” directed by Ben Wheatley, and U.S.-Swedish product
June 30, 2013
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Alec Baldwin apologizes to NY gay group for tweets
Alec Baldwin has apologized to a New York City-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group for a series of tweets that could be interpreted as homophobic.Baldwin's messages were directed at a newspaper reporter who accused his wife of tweeting during the funeral for the former star of ``The Sopranos'' James Gandolfini. Baldwin says in a letter to GLAAD posted on its website Friday his tweets didn't have anything to do with "issues of anyone's sexual orientation."The former "30 Rock
June 29, 2013
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Box office: Side Effects, Cold Eyes, White House Down
Side EffectsOpening July 11Thriller. Crime. Drama. Directed by Steven SoderberghEmily Taylor (Rooney Mara), despite having recently reunited with her husband Martin Taylor (Channing Tatum) after his release from prison, is severely depressed. To treat her condition, her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), prescribes an unconfirmed new medication called Ablixa. But Emily’s world turns upside down when the side effects of the drug lead her to kill her husband while sleepwalking. In a plea bar
June 28, 2013
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Bullock and McCarthy bull their way to laughs in ‘The Heat’
Give it up for Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. You’ll never see them work harder at comedy than in “The Heat,” a stumbling, aggressively loud and profane cop buddy picture where they struggle to wring “funny” out of a script that isn’t.Plot? It’s more a collection of scenes that force the stars to riff and riff until something coarse and amusing comes out, topped by something else coarser and more amusing. Instructions must have read, “Sandy and Melissa go to a dance club, where Melissa hac
June 28, 2013
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Operas make switch to the movie screen
Opera halls have always been a little distant to those who are unfamiliar with either opera or the venue. Cinemas are now moving to bring people closer to opera as video footage is made available by the world’s top opera companies, armed with state-of-the-art video and audio technologies to convey an equal level of emotion to the audience. Megabox, the country’s second-largest cinema chain, will screen Verdi’s opera “Un Ballo in Maschera” from June 29 and “La Traviata” from July 6 at its COEX, C
June 27, 2013
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‘Secretly, Greatly’ to get overseas release
Korean film “Secretly, Greatly” will be released overseas, according to the movie’s producer Showbox/Mediaplex.The film, starring national heartthrob Kim Soo-hyun in the lead, tells the story of three young and attractive North Korean spies who disguise themselves as a rock musician, a high school student, and an intellectually challenged young man, in South Korea. It is based on the popular 2010 webtoon series “Convertness” by artist HUN.The movie will be released in the U.S. and Singapore on J
June 27, 2013