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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] ‘Smart branding essential in innovative economy’
In an innovative global economy, branding is no longer a nicety, but a necessity that guarantees the success of companies and countries worldwide, Danish business consultant Martin Roll argued.A long-time resident of Singapore, Roll, who authored “Asian Brand Strategy,” has offered advice for navigating the volatile international marketplace to Fortune 500 companies and leading Asian enterprises and family-owned businesses with a focus on Asia. “It’s time for Korea to project confidence for what
Social AffairsDec. 17, 2015
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] Korea’s tumultuous years in photos
Japanese photojournalist Shisei Kuwabara, 79, has documented postwar Korea since the 1960s, capturing major historical moments such as massive pro-democracy protests, the dispatch of soldiers to the Vietnam War and Seoul’s urban redevelopment projects. Born in Shimane prefecture, the part of Japan nearest to the Korean Peninsula, Kuwabara has traveled to Korea more than 100 times. His photos have been an honest window into the turbulent time of Korea’s modern history -- major social, political a
PerformanceDec. 17, 2015
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[Herald Interview] 'Just go for it'
This is the second installment in a three-part series featuring athletes who help people transform their lives. – Ed. In November 2010, Lim Gye-sook received the call of a lifetime from KT Sports, the sports unit of KT, Korea’s largest telecom, asking her to come back to the sport of women’s field hockey.KT Sports wasn’t asking Lim to grab her hockey stick again and play on the field, but to lead a team of 11 young female players to victory.Lim was apprehensive, as her glory days in the sport we
More SportsDec. 16, 2015
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[Herald Interview] After 8 months, Laboum returns more mature
Six-member girl group Laboum has returned to the stage with a retro pop song called “Aalow Aalow.” Their new two-track single comes eight months after “Sugar Sugar,” a long hiatus considering that they had promoted three tracks -- “Pit a Pat,” “What About You” and “Sugar Sugar” -- between their debut in November 2014 and March.“During the break, we really felt how precious each performance was,” member Yulhee told The Korea Herald on Monday at the offices of NH EMG, the group’s label.The long br
PerformanceDec. 15, 2015
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[Herald Interview] ‘I’m survivor, not victim’
In Park Yeon-mi’s defection from North Korea, she encountered a South Korean pastor. The compassionate minister had told the then-teenage girl, who had just escaped the clutches of one of the most secluded and oppressive regimes in the world, that she deserved a “second chance.” “What second chance? I’m not a criminal. It was not my choice to be born in North Korea,” she told The Korea Herald in an interview after giving a speech last month at an international forum in Bangkok.The conversation w
PeopleDec. 13, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Kim Jo-han continues cooking-up music with ‘no MSG’
At a time when rhythm and blues music was virtually nonexistent in the Korean music scene, Solid, the now-defunct vocal trio of Korean-American singers, became one of the pioneering forces of Korean soul with its debut in 1993. Former Solid members Kim Jo-han, Jeong Jae-Yoon and Lee Joon, whose debut album was aptly titled “Give Me a Chance,” are, to this day, still regaled as among the country’s most influential figures in introducing the R&B genre to Korean listeners. Solid was short-lived. T
PerformanceDec. 11, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Korean iron man Park Byung-hoon on life after triathlon
This is the first installment in a three-part series featuring athletes who help people transform their lives. – Ed. Park Byung-hoon doesn’t have a special high-tech suit of armor to keep himself strong and invincible like the Tony Stark character in “Iron Man.” Park, who is considered a legendary Asian iron man triathlon athlete with some records that still stand, had relied only on his physical and mental strength -- backed by his family’s love -- to cycle, swim and run the Ironman’s high-inte
PeopleDec. 9, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Yoon Kye-sang on playing the ordinary man
As a member of the sensationally popular band g.o.d, whose success peaked in the early 2000s, Yoon Kye-sang seems anything but ordinary. Yet somehow, ordinary is what many say he does best in his acting, which started after leaving the idol group in 2004.“It’s because of my ordinary looks, and my ordinary body,” Yoon said at a group interview at a Seoul cafe on Tuesday. Yoon is good-looking, but in the scruffy boy-next-door way that lends him authenticity when he plays unglamorous but likeable r
FilmDec. 3, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Korean-Canadian director readies for Korean debut
“In Her Place,” the sophomore feature-length presentation by Korean-Canadian director Albert Shin, has been making its way through the international film festival circuit after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Along the way, it has picked up awards at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema, the Taipei Film Festival and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. Ironically, the one place that Shin, 31, had not been to show the movie was where it was filmed: Korea.He finally got
FilmDec. 3, 2015
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[Herald Interview] State-authored textbooks monopolize interpretation of public memory
The South Korean government’s move to publish state-authored textbooks mimics tactics used by countries that attempt to control public memory of the past following their transition from dictatorships to democracies, a leading political theorist said. John Keane, political science professor at the University of Sydney who authored “The Life and Death of Democracy,” stressed that democratic societies must allow people with different viewpoints to debate over different interpretations of history.
PoliticsNov. 29, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Pianist Barakatt to present ‘visual’ symphony
Canadian pianist and composer Steve Barakatt and the Herald Philharmonic Orchestra are combing forces once again in performance of the musician’s new visually revamped 16-movement symphony “Ad Vitam Aeternam” in January. Canadian pianist and composer Steve Barakatt poses during an interview with The Korea Herald at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. (Chung Hee-cho/The Korea Herald)Barakatt’s upcoming concert follows the pianist’s previous concert in March, in which he celebrated 20 years since his debut
PerformanceNov. 29, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Malaysia seeks investment from Korea's small, mid-sized firms
Malaysia is a highly attractive investment location for South Korea’s small and medium-sized enterprises looking to expand their business in Southeast Asia, the head of its state-run investment promotion agency said Monday. “Malaysia is particularly looking at smaller Korean companies -- which are seeking expansion elsewhere due to limited room for growth at home -- as key potential investors,” the Malaysian Investment Development Authority CEO Azman Mahmud said in an interview with The Korea He
IndustryNov. 24, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Suzy’s latest movie is her own story
Bae Suzy rose to fame simply as Suzy, debuting as a member of top girl group Miss A in 2010. In 2012, she reclaimed her last name when she caught her big break as an actress in the film “Architecture 101,” where she played the classic girl-who-got-away and earned the nickname “Korea’s first love.”In her latest film, “The Sound of a Flower,” she plays a very different character from that early role. She becomes Jin Chae-seon, the first woman in Korean history who performed pansori -- a traditiona
FilmNov. 24, 2015
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[Herald Interview] The science and art of kimchi
For Lee Sun-hee, the sous chef at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel, making Korea’s favorite side dish, kimchi, is all about science and art.She uses statistical data and historical documents that recorded the cooking techniques of dishes served for Joseon Dynasty royalty to sustain the traditional taste of the hotel’s kimchi.Lee has been making kimchi at the hotel for nearly two decades. Not only does she continuously search for academic papers for new culinary insights, but actually wrote a
FoodNov. 20, 2015
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[Herald Interview] World latte art champion reveals secrets to success
Caleb Cha (Seoul International Cafe Show) Three things led to Caleb Cha’s win at the World Latte Art Championships this year: eye-catching designs, confidence and endless practice. “I practiced on around 300 cups of coffee a day, seven days a week, for nearly two months,” said the Melbourne-based barista, who was here to participate in this year's Seoul International Cafe Show, in an interview with The Korea Herald last week. “That made for over 12,000 cups of latte art.” Cha, a Korean national
FoodNov. 18, 2015
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[Herald Interview] iKON upgrades with ‘Apology’
It‘s difficult to think of YG Entertainment’s latest boy band iKON as just another rookie group.After topping the charts with their warm-up single “My Type” released Sept. 15, they enjoyed another hit with hip-hop track “Rhythm Ta” on their debut half-album released Oct. 1. Now they’ve hit No. 1 again with the single “Apology,” released Monday. Even before coming out with their first full album, the group already had a debut concert at the Gymnastics Arena in Olympic Park, a venue usually reserv
PerformanceNov. 17, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Looking for silver lining in climate change
When it comes to curbing climate change, Norwegian scientist Jorgen Randers is a disbeliever. “I’m a pessimist because I do not think humanity will go the extra lengths to stop the earth from degenerating,” the coauthor of influential book “The Limits to Growth” (1972) told The Korea Herald on Thursday. “But I’m working hard and hoping that it will. Humanity is capable of preventing such scenarios. The question is whether they will decide to do so.”The 70-year-old professor at the BI Norwegian B
TechnologyNov. 13, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Humor under gloom
Korean literature, along with Korean cinema and art, is typically known to be full of doom and gloom, reflecting the country’s struggles with Japanese occupation, postwar poverty or, more recently, post-IMF depression. Translator Sora Kim-Russell, however, believes that underneath “han” -- which, roughly translated as “angst and sorrow,” is an emotion that has come to exemplify the Korean arts -- there is a subtle but rich undercurrent of humor.“I think that different readers and translators see
BooksNov. 10, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Smart city planning key for growth
Amid the prolonged global economic downturn, a global expert on sustainability notes that smart city development could be one of the key drivers for growth that countries should focus on. “Actually, there are three drivers for economic growth. One is increasing population, and the second is industrial productivity,” Roland Busch, a member of the managing board of Siemens, told The Korea Herald in a recent interview. Roland Busch, a member of the managing board of Siemens (Siemens Korea)Busch vis
Nov. 9, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Xuefei Yang wants her music to pull ‘Heartstrings’
Critically acclaimed Chinese classical guitarist Xuefei Yang wants her presence to become more known to Korean audiences with her latest album, “Heartstrings.” A big-time classical music icon across Asia and parts of Europe, Yang is considered one of the classical guitar world’s leading musicians, having been acclaimed as among the “most extraordinary instrumentalists in the world” and the “most impressive advocate for her instrument.” Yet, in Korea, the 38-year-old guitarist has yet to establi
PerformanceNov. 9, 2015