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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Scorsese‘s ’Hugo‘ named best film by NBR awards
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Board of Review picked Martin Scorsese’s 3-D ``Hugo‘’ as the year‘s best film, an unusually kid friendly choice sure to add further intrigue to the Oscar hunt.The group also picked Scorsese as best director for his whimsical film about an orphan who lives in a 1930s Paris train station. It’s the director‘s first film in 3-D but one in which the adventure leads back to the early days of cinema and the wondrous films of French filmmaker George Melies.It had been anoth
Dec. 2, 2011
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‘Mr. Nice Tom’ brings fourth installment of ‘Mission Impossible’
Hollywood star Tom Cruise, who is widely nicknamed “Mr. Nice Tom” by the local media for the friendly manners he has shown during his previous visits to Korea, said he loves his nickname and was excited to bring the fourth installment of his famous “Mission Impossible” series to the country.“I just want to say I love coming here and I love my nickname -- thank you,” the Hollywood star told reporters during a press conference held at Grand Hyatt Seoul Friday. “I didn’t know I had a nickname and i
Dec. 2, 2011
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Potter attraction on way to Universal Hollywood
Visitors walk through the Universal Studios Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida, U.S. (Bloomberg)LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Comcast Corp. is in the final stages of a deal to bring Harry Potter's magic to life in Hollywood.The owner of Universal Studios is to announce before year's
Dec. 2, 2011
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N.Y. film critics pick ‘The Artist’ as best film
NEW YORK (AP) ― The New York Film Critics Circle named the silent film ode “The Artist’’ the year’s best film Tuesday, giving the nostalgic black-and-white movie an early boost to its already promising Academy Awards prospects.“The Artist,’’ which is silent like the films to which it pays homage, also earned best director for the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius.“It’s a celebration of cinema,’’ said John Anderson, chairman of the group and critic. “It’s clever and it’s upbeat and all that, b
Nov. 30, 2011
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Tom Cruise to visit Korea
Tom Cruise will arrive in Seoul on Thursday to promote the fourth installment in the film series “Mission: Impossible.”Co-star Paula Patton and director Brad Bird will join Cruise in Seoul.According to the local promoter of the upcoming film, Cruise, Patton and Bird will attend a red-carpet event at Yeongdeungpo Times Square in Seoul at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Cruise, who is scheduled to leave Korea right after the event, is unlikely to hold any press meetings during his stay in Seoul, the promoter
Nov. 29, 2011
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Two share top prize at Gotham Film
New York (AP) ― In truly independent fashion, the Gotham Independent Film Awards ended with a tie for Best Feature. Terrence Malick’s highly imaginative “The Tree of Life,’’ and Mike Mills’ flashback comedy, “Beginners,’’ both received the night’s high honor.The unprecedented ruling was announced via video screen to the audience by jury member Natalie Portman who said her peers were “stuck’’ when it came to selecting a winner, so they “chose to honor both.’’“The Tree of Life,’’ starring Brad Pit
Nov. 29, 2011
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Director explores ‘my father’s house’
KangYu’s award-winning personal documentary features generation gap, lives of ‘house poor’This is the fourth article in a series on up-and-coming Korean filmmakers. ― Ed.It took making a film for director Kang Yu Ga-ram to understand her father’s life.The two did not share much in common to begin with. Her father is a firm supporter of the conservative Grand National Party; KangYu has worked with progressive NGOs and film production houses. He spent most of his life on construction sites; she ob
Nov. 28, 2011
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Archaeologist traces Pocahontas wedding site
Archeologist William Kelso is certain he's discovered the remains of the oldest Protestant church in the United States, standing between two holes he insists once held wooden posts.In 1614, Pocahontas was "married right here, I guarantee," Kelso told AFP at the Jamestown, Virginia archeologica
Nov. 28, 2011
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Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell daughters star at Paris ball
Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell daughters star at Paris ballPARIS (AFP) -- Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, stepped out as the teen star of the Debutantes Ball in Paris Saturday, alongside Andie MacDowell’s youngest, Margaret Qualley.Held each year at the Crillon Hotel on Paris’ Place de la Concorde, the ball is a highlight of Europe‘s high-society calendar that updates a custom stretching back to the royal courts of France and England.Clad in sumptuous
Nov. 27, 2011
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‘The Unjust’ best picture at Blue Dragon Awards
Kim Ha-neul, Park Hae-il hailed best actress, actorDirector Ryu Seung-wan’s crime thriller “The Unjust” won Best Picture at the 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards on Friday, while actress Kim Ha-neul and actor Park Hae-il received the top acting honors in a repeat of last month’s Daejong Film Awards.An incisive portrayal of corruption and extortion of public officials surrounding a serial murder case, “The Unjust” also won Best Director and Best Screenplay.Ryu, who was reportedly on a business trip i
Nov. 27, 2011
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Korean documentary wins top prize at IDFA 2011
Korean documentary “Planet of Snail” won the top prize at the world’s largest documentary film festival in the Netherlands on Saturday, becoming the first Asian film to win the award.An everyday portrayal of a hearing and visually impaired man and his partner by director Yi Seung-jun, the film won the Best Feature-Length Documentary prize at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Yi received a $16,600 cash prize.The film previously won the UNICEF Special award at last yea
Nov. 27, 2011
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1(U.S.)Opening Nov. 30Fantasy. Romance. Directed by Bill Condon. Newly married Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) go off on their honeymoon to a private island off the coast of Brazil. While enjoying herself with her husband, Bella realizes she may be pregnant with a half-vampire baby. As Bella gets confirmation that she is actually pregnant, the couple immediately leave the island and return to their home. Worried that the baby, w
Nov. 25, 2011
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Williams prepared by immersing herself in all things Monroe
Her eyes were searching the grounds of the Beverly Hills Hotel, peeking over the bougainvillea at a row of terra cotta-roofed buildings.“I always wonder which bungalow was hers,” said Michelle Williams, staring into the distance at a lodging that could have been home to Marilyn Monroe. The icon, whom Williams plays in the film “My Week With Marilyn,” lived at the hotel in the late 1950s while in production on the movie “Let’s Make Love.”“Is it too pretentious to say I feel I have a relationship
Nov. 25, 2011
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McAvoy feels duty to voice any film animated in the U.K.
“The Last King of Scotland” (2006) made Scottish actor James McAvoy a film star, and “Wanted” (2008) made him a bankable Hollywood name. He does most of his work, these days, in American projects such as “X-Men: First Class” and “The Conspirator.”But he’s not forgetting where he came from. At 32, he’s starring in his fellow Brit Danny Boyle’s heist picture, “Trance.” And any time there’s a bit of animation to be done in the UK, count him present. From the sleeper hit “Gnomeo and Juliet,” which m
Nov. 25, 2011
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Sienna Miller says paper hacked her emails
LONDON (AFP) ― Actress Sienna Miller told an inquiry Thursday her emails and phones were hacked by the News of the World as part of a “web of surveillance” that led her to make paranoid accusations against her friends.It is the first time the inquiry has heard evidence that emails were hacked as well as phone voicemails, and came shortly after British police said they had made their first arrest in a computer hacking probe linked to the paper.Miller, the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood star Jude Law,
Nov. 25, 2011
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JK Rowling: UK press left me feeling under siege
LONDON (AP) _ Writer J.K. Rowling and actress Sienna Miller have given a London courtroom a vivid picture of the anxiety, anger and fear produced by living in the glare of Britain's tabloid media, describing how press intrusion made them feel like prisoners in their own homes.J.K. Rowling (Bloomberg
Nov. 25, 2011
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Kermit the Frog was green before green was cool
LOS ANGELES ― Kermit the Frog is cooling his cloth-and-cotton heels in the Beverly Hilton hotel room.“Miss Piggy apologizes. She’s delayed. Actually she’s standing right outside the door. She wants to make a special entrance,” Kermit says.As if on cue, the door flies open and Miss Piggy enters like a beauty queen making her first trip down the runway. She stops and asks how long we’ve been waiting. Upon hearing it’s been only 30 seconds, Piggy turns and leaves.The move doesn’t surprise Kermit. T
Nov. 24, 2011
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Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial
MILAN (AP) — George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis are among more than 200 witnesses accepted Wednesday by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.Clooney has said he was approached by Berlusconi'
Nov. 24, 2011
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An ode to silents, the mute ‘Artist’ sings
NEW YORK (AP) ― The best validation for the nostalgia of “The Artist” is the film itself.A silent movie in tribute to silent movies, “The Artist” puts its money where its mouth is, so to speak. Or not to, rather.Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white, near-wordless film is a loving, irresistibly charming ode to a long-ago movie era that not only summons the dormant conventions of silent moviemaking, but makes them dance again.The film opens with old-style titles and the first bursts of Ludovic Bou
Nov. 23, 2011
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Honorary BIFF chief awaits his film debut
Kim Dong-ho shares founding of BIFFHe is soft-spoken, extremely polite and remembers your name only after a quick phone call.Meet Kim Dong-ho, the founding director of Busan International Film Festival and one of the pioneer figures in the Korean film industry.On a bright Monday afternoon, Kim, who now serves as the festival’s honorary chief, sits in the cafe located in the Plaza Hotel, central Seoul. Dressed in a suit and his hair tidily gelled down, the 74-year-old greets all with a warm hands
Nov. 23, 2011