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Qoo10 liquidity crisis sparks massive complaints, fears of wider damage
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Yoon urges municipalities to embrace foreigners
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What is happening at Hybe?
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S. Korea to consent to Japan's Sado mines gaining World Heritage status: official
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Korea unveils tax reform bill to spur economy
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Actor’s excessive airport security sparks probe into human rights violations
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Man who let his father die due to financial difficulties to be released on parole
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Actor Yoo Ah-in accused of sexual attack
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S. Korea, China shifting from tensions to cooperation: Seoul
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LG Electronics achieves record earnings in Q2
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[Herald Interview] Williams encourages people to appreciate Korea’s treasures
Aside from being the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the most renowned and best-known museums in the world, attracting more than 6.2 million visitors every year. As the Met’s chief audience development officer, Donna Williams says she has had a number of opportunities to work closely with her local Korean-American community, adding that the establishment of its Asia Wing has “built a very big connection” with it. “We had this wo
CultureSept. 3, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Breathing life back into museums
Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija breaks the typical museum stereotypes. He cooked and served Thai curry to visitors at a gallery in New York in the early 1990s. What many thought was an opening event continued throughout the exhibition. He loves eschewing the usual museum paradigm: an artist, artwork and audience. He turned an exhibition space into a live radio broadcasting studio at the Guggenheim Museum in 2005. He set up a bookstore at the 2009 Venice Biennale and a pingpong table at the 2012 Gwangj
FilmSept. 1, 2014
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[Herald Interview] ‘Security concerns should not delay mobile messenger payment’
The Korean government is advised to push for the growth of the mobile payment market, not to hold back on security concerns. “Too many concerns over security online may hamper the mobile massenger payment market in an infant stage of growth,” Kim Yeong-rin, president of the Financial Security Agency, told The Korea Herald in a recent interview.His remark came amid growing security concerns over the financial services to be offered by the nation’s most-used mobile messenger, Kakao Talk.Kim Yeong-
IndustryAug. 31, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Searching for meaning through documentaries
An international documentary festival was held last week in Seoul, bringing filmmakers, documentary fans and producers together under the theme of “hope lies within us.” The 11th EBS International Documentary Festival, which screened presentations in theaters and on TV at the same time, featured over 50 documentaries from 23 countries for seven days. Among the participants at this year’s edition, head judge Victor Kossakovsky, judge David Royle from Smithsonian Channel and director Talal Derki h
FilmAug. 31, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Count on ingenuity to create new experience: 4:33 chairman
Kwon Joon-mo, founder and chairman of 4:33, a Korean mobile game developer, presents himself as a man of mystery.He does not know exactly which direction he will take his venture or what specific games he will introduce next.Like going through a maze of uncharted territory in games he loves to play three hours a day, he likes to use his creative ingenuity to keep guessing what path he will take.Kwon said all he knows is that 4:33’s games will stay true to being “socially interactive and entertai
TechnologyAug. 27, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Song Hye-kyo faces the music
Actress Song Hye-kyo was careful to begin her interview with The Korea Herald on Monday with an apology. A week has passed since news of a tax evasion scandal involving the actress shocked many of her fans. The timing was especially unfavorable for Song, who was set to promote her new movie “My Brilliant Life” ahead of its Sept. 3 release.She nevertheless decided to open up to the media to apologize multiple times. She admitted it was a big mistake and said she regretted that she disappointed ma
Aug. 27, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Gyeonggi a test bed for coalition politics
Gyeonggi Province, the largest local jurisdiction in South Korea, has recently become a test bed for a political coalition between the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy. This rather radical idea came from Gyeonggi’s new governor Nam Kyung-pil, a former ruling Saenuri lawmaker, as he is seeking cooperation from the provincial council, which is dominated by opposition members. To promote bipartisanship and cooperation, Nam announced that he would form
PoliticsAug. 26, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Korea’s agricultural community revival movement goes global
South Korea’s iconic community development movement ― Saemaul Undong ― is to be expanded to developing countries in a joint effort with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, according to a top banker on Tuesday. “The global spread of the Saemaul Movement in partnership with the IFAD is very meaningful for South Korea, the only nation to have transformed into an aid donor from a recipient,” Seop Shim, senior executive director of Korea Eximbank, told The Korea Herald at the bank’s
IndustryAug. 26, 2014
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[Herald Interview] LX KCSC eyes second leap in Information Age
Ever wondered how properties are divided and borders are set?Ever asked who those people are standing in the middle of the road with a tripod looking as though they are taking a picture?Land surveys, measurements and management have been led by Korea Cadastral Survey Corp. in South Korea for over 100 years.With some 4,000 experts in geospatial science and technology, the quasi-government entity known as LX, which stands for Land Expert, aims to make a second leap into the Information Age.“We wil
TechnologyAug. 24, 2014
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[Herald Interview] ‘Do everything to fulfill your passion’
The name Jamal Sims was not familiar to people in Korea until he appeared on “Dancing 9,” a dance survival show on cable channel Mnet, as a judge for the final round.But he is an established choreographer in the United States, where his recent projects include choreographing the “Step Up” film series and “Footloose,” and working with stars like Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Usher and the Spice Girls. As a dancer and choreographer for more than 20 years, he knows about maintaining a solid career in a
PerformanceAug. 21, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Descendant of U.S. missionary happy with Korean citizenship
For U.S. lawyer David Linton, last week was a meaningful step toward more involvement with his expertise in South Korea. The 42-year-old was given special naturalized Korean citizenship in gratitude for his ancestor’s contribution to the country’s independence movement during the Japanese colonial rule. A total of 15 other foreign nationals ― also descendants of Korean independence supporters ― became naturalized citizens here on the same day. “It is nice to have that final, closest connection w
Social AffairsAug. 20, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Ex-U.N. rights expert urges Tokyo to resolve sex slavery dispute
COLOMBO ― A former top U.N. expert on women’s rights urged Japan to come up with a resolution to a decades-long dispute over its wartime sex slavery, criticizing Tokyo for moving “backwards” with its historic revisionism. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women from 1994-2003, warned that the issue of the so-called comfort women would “come back to bite” Japan if it continues attempting to whitewash its imperial past and undermine earlier apologies. “Recently,
Foreign AffairsAug. 20, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Korea expands global presence in eco-friendly technology
The global demand for green products and services has sharply expanded in recent years as the world strives to meet its needs for economic growth and environmental protection.Korea’s environmental industry is stepping up a foray into the flourishing market, especially in developing countries, capitalizing on technology, knowledge and experience accumulated through the country’s rapid industrialization and fight against pollution.At the vanguard of the efforts is the state-run Korea Environmental
Social AffairsAug. 19, 2014
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[Herald Interview] No way out of labor strife for Hyundai Motor?
Hyundai Motor Group has notched up a number of achievements in its carmaking business over the past decade, becoming the world’s fifth-largest automaker in 2009.However, one area in which it has failed to make progress is labor relations. The automotive group is poised to set a national record, as its union prepares for its 24th annual strike this month ― the most strikes for a single company in Korea. The group’s unionized workers, most of whom are production workers, have taken industrial acti
BusinessAug. 19, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Ivy finds her place in ‘Chicago’
Three hours before show time, the lobby of the D-Cube Art Center is dark, with hardly any sign of human presence. But this is when the backstage area comes to life. One by one, cast members arrive for the night’s show ― “Chicago,” a timeless Broadway hit now on its 10th run in Korea. Ivy, who plays the show’s lead character Roxie Hart, is one of the first to arrive. With a friendly and cheerful hello, she greets everyone she meets, even the cleaning ladies. “It almost feels like I have become an
CultureAug. 19, 2014
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[Herald Interview] KOICA seeks balanced, sustainable aid
Korea’s 2010 enrollment in the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee was a milestone in the history of its economic growth, epitomizing its unprecedented ascent from a war-stricken backwater to an aid donor. The country has since been scaling up its aid commitments and personnel to help the developing world fight poverty, disease, climate change and other grave challenges. Last year, it doled out more than $1.74 billion in official development assistance as the world’s 16th-largest patron.At t
Foreign AffairsAug. 18, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Central Asia, Korea bolster forest partnership
South Korea aims to bolster its forest partnership with Central Asia by sharing its forest expertise and boosting cooperation in restoring the region’s damaged forest ecosystem, the national forestry chief said.“Central Asia is becoming an important region to South Korea as a growing number of Korean companies have been making inroads into the countries, which have abundant natural resources and high growth potential,” said Shin Won-sop, minister of the Korea Forest Service, in an interview with
IndustryAug. 18, 2014
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[Herald Interview] No room for N. Korean nuke test: CTBTO chief
Amid persistent concerns over its fourth underground blast, North Korea should put a moratorium on nuclear testing and join a global treaty to outlaw it, the head of the agency monitoring the ban said Wednesday. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, called for greater international pressure to stop Pyongyang from further beefing up its nuclear capabilities, saying that North Korea was the only country that has
North KoreaAug. 13, 2014
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[Herald Interview] ‘3-D thinking’ key to sustainable future
The future has always been uncertain. And with the rapid advancements in technology, it is even harder to predict. This is why Lee Kwang-hyung, head of KAIST’s Graduate School of Future Strategy, called for the development of new scientific and technological skills to enable the next generation to think creatively by converging their knowledge in various fields.Through such “convergent thinking,” people and businesses can better picture the future as it becomes more complex and sophisticated, he
TechnologyAug. 13, 2014
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[Herald Interview] ‘Korea must widen its view of future’
James Dator is dubbed as one of the inventors of futures studies, but what he has tried to do for the past 40 years is to persuade people that the future cannot be predicted.Instead he found that all images of the future can be clustered into four categories, which he calls continued growth, collapse, disciplined society, and transformation.In an interview with The Korea Herald, the futurologist warned against the dangers of sticking to the dominant image of continued growth, a view based on the
TechnologyAug. 13, 2014