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Thousands rally in Seoul to call for Yoon's resignation
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed in Beirut strike, Israel's military says
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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Suicide attempts spike among youth in Korea
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[Weekender] How Seongsu, once an industrial zone, has become ‘Seoul’s Brooklyn’
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Delta Air Lines to launch new Incheon-Salt Lake City route in June next year
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S. Korea to showcase Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile on Armed Forces Day ceremony for 1st time
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4 in 10 illegal aliens entered S. Korea without visas last year: data
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Korea, China, Japan vow to address yellow dust and climate change
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Trade ministers of S. Korea, China hold talks in Beijing
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Overseas deals hit record high at Seoul fashion event
A Korean fashion event drew the curtains after achieving a record-high number of export deals from foreign fashion businesses, state data revealed Wednesday. Some 400 international fashion buyers surged to the 2016 F/W Fashion Code hosted by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and jointly organized by the state-run Korea Creative Content Agency and the Council of Fashion Designers of Korea, a private organization. Seoul Fashion Week (Yonhap)A total of 90 local fashion brands part
IndustryMarch 30, 2016
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Sales at department stores, outlets dip in February
Korea's major department stores and discount chains saw their sales decrease in February from a year earlier due to reduced holiday shoppers, government data showed Wednesday.The combined sales of three department stores -- Hyundai, Lotte and Shinsegae -- edged down 1.9 percent on-year last month, while those of major discount stores of E-Mart, Lotte Mart and Home Plus fell 7 percent, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Lotte Department Store (Yonhap)The
IndustryMarch 30, 2016
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Korean finance minister vows to contribute to anti-tax avoidance movement
Korea's finance minister said Wednesday that his country will increase participation in the global movement to cope with base erosion and profit shift (BEPS) issues in a bid to keep pace with global efforts to build a fair taxation system.BEPS refers to tax avoidance strategies employed by multinational companies that weaken a country's tax base. Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho (Yonhap)Last year, leaders of the Group of 20 agreed to give countries the tools they need to ensure that the so-called Goog
March 30, 2016
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Drivers subscribing to KakaoTaxi enjoy profit surge
Local taxi drivers registered with Korea's top taxi-hailing application KakaoTaxi saw their profit rise 13.4 percent after joining the platform, the operator said Wednesday, adding it also made cab rides more accessible to a wider scope of users.Under the survey conducted on 9,730 taxi drivers who are members of KakaoTaxi, their daily profit reached 125,807 won ($109) on average, compared with the 110,894 won posted before the launch of the application. The figure translates into an annual profi
IndustryMarch 30, 2016
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NK‘s provocation, war rhetoric aim to elicit internal solidarity
South Korea said Wednesday that North Korea's latest provocations and bellicose rhetoric appear to aim to elicit stronger internal solidarity ahead of the North's key party event slated for May.North Korea fired off several short-range and ballistic missiles this month in an apparent show of defiance against tougher U.N. sanctions over the North's January nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. It has also threatened to make a pre-emptive strike against Seoul and Washington.The Ministry of Un
North KoreaMarch 30, 2016
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Government to support self-driving cars
(Yonhap)The government plans to establish a new team under the Transportation Ministry to exclusively support self-driving and eco-friendly cars, according to officials Wednesday. The ministry said it plans to create a high-tech auto technology division in May at the latest, with the aim of backing the autonomous and eco-friendly vehicle industry, which is still at a nascent stage here. “We plan to separately manage autonomous car technologies, which have so far been supervised together with oth
MobilityMarch 30, 2016
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Sushi for W390 in Korea
Korea’s retail giant Homeplus launched an expanded line of sushi, which will sell for 390 won (30 cents) each until April 6. Homeplus announced Wednesday that it built on their existing sushi line “Chef Sushi,” which was originally limited to 16 types, to 34 variations. These bite-sized delicacies include localized specialties such as tuna-mayonnaise and beef bulgogi sushi, which will cater to the tastes of children and customers who seek something other than seafood on their sushi rice. (123rf
IndustryMarch 30, 2016
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Gov't vows to crack down on election irregularities
The government said Wednesday it will take stern measures against all election law violations that can adversely affect the April 13 parliamentary elections.In a statement released by Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong and Interior Minister Hong Yun-sik at the government complex in Seoul, the government stressed it will mobilize all possible forces to crack down on bribe-giving, the use of unauthorized methods to sway votes and the spreading of false rumors. "Election law violators will be punis
PoliticsMarch 30, 2016
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Myanmar pagoda re-clad with gold blocks as devotees look to gain spiritual credit
YANGON (AFP) - Teetering on bamboo scaffolding, expert craftsmen are busy attaching blocks of gold to a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Yangon, burnishing one of the city's major landmarks and racking up spiritual credit for devotees. The five-yearly renovation at the Sule Pagoda sees the monument shed its weather-damaged frontage. It is re-clad in several hundred solid gold plates -- each costing around $1,100 -- and thousands of squares of gold leaf. The cost is significant in the impoverished Sou
CultureMarch 30, 2016
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Why green ogres keep bringing Jeffrey Katzenberg back to Paris
When Jeffrey Katzenberg needs green ogres, talking penguins or kung-fu-fighting pandas, he heads to an old brick building in Paris. For 25 years, the head of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has made his way to the elite photography school Les Gobelins in Paris’s 13th arrondissement in search of animation skills with a distinctly French touch. Building on the country’s age-old tradition of fine art and graphic novels, Les Gobelins has spawned Oscar-winning animators and last year topped a ranking o
FilmMarch 30, 2016
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Author writes that rape in her novel came from her life
NEW YORK (AP) -- The author of the best-selling novel "Luckiest Girl Alive" posted an essay online Tuesday saying that the gang rape in high school her character suffered was based on an assault in her own life. Jessica Knoll, writing on a website for young women that's co-managed by Lena Dunham, said that since the book came out last year she has deflected questions about similarities between herself and the protagonist, TifAni. "I’ve been running and I've been ducking and I’ve been dodging be
BooksMarch 30, 2016
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Weezer, Panic! at the Disco to headline Pentaport fest
American bands Weezer and Panic! at the Disco will be headline acts at the Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival this year, performing alongside big names in the Korean indie scene such as the Koxx and Peppertones. On Tuesday, the festival’s website announced the first lineup of bands slated to appear at the event, which is one of Korea’s largest annual rock festivals. It will take place from Aug. 12-14. The first lineup features six bands, including Korean indie band We Are The Night and rising Eng
PerformanceMarch 30, 2016
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Tilda Swinton, new face of Korean department store
British Actress Tilda Swinton will be the main model of Hyundai Department Store, one of South Korea’s three major luxury goods handlers, HDS announced Wednesday. Swinton is the first high-profile celebrity to model for the department store since it first opened in 1985. For over 30 years the company had only worked with professional models who were not widely known. Tilda Swinton on the cover of W Korea magazine (W Korea)HDS’ marketing strategy manager Jeong Ji-young said Swinton’s composed and
IndustryMarch 30, 2016
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Swedish DJ Avicii announces final tour
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- One of the world’s top DJs, Avicii, says he will quit touring at the age of 26, having told fans “the music industry will never be the same again.” In a lengthy message posted on his website Tuesday, the Swedish house DJ announced he would hang up his headphones after his 2016 tour. While he will continue to make music, he has decided “this 2016 run will be my last tour and last shows,” the message said. “Two weeks ago, I took the time to drive across the U.S. with my friends
PerformanceMarch 30, 2016
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Woody Allen’s 'Cafe Society' to open Cannes film festival
PARIS (AFP) - Woody Allen’s Hollywood love story “Cafe Society” will open the Cannes film festival in May, its organizers said Tuesday. The movie starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg tells the story of a young man who goes to Los Angeles in the 1930s in the hope of working in the film industry. The 80-year-old New Yorker has already opened Cannes -- the world’s leading film festival -- twice with “Hollywood Ending” (2002) and “Midnight in Paris” (2011), his love letter to the French capi
FilmMarch 30, 2016
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Haunted Mansion comic book unearths history behind the Disney ride
Early in the first issue of Marvel Comics’ “Haunted Mansion,” a new one-off, five-issue series inspired by the Disneyland staple, readers encounter a ghost. This is expected. After all, as Haunted Mansion lore tells us, there are 999 of them living inside the manor. Only this ghost isn’t of the grim, grinning sort, as described in the attraction’s popular song. This ghost is all bones and menace, with a foreboding cape and a sword flailing wildly. It’s the Haunted Mansion Disney aficionados know
BooksMarch 30, 2016
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Red Riding Hood packs heat in US gun group’s reinvented fairytale
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Here is Little Red Riding Hood, rifle slung over her shoulder, confidently striding through the forest. Now we see her granny, taking aim with a shotgun at the Big Bad Wolf. What’s that? You don’t recall your favorite Brothers Grimm characters packing heat? Then you must not have read the versions of classic fairy tales that have been reworked by the National Rifle Association, to help empower children by teaching them that well-armed citizens -- even in the world of storybo
BooksMarch 30, 2016
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Behind the scenes of CIA briefings
“The President’s Book of Secrets” By David Priess PublicAffairs (384 pages, $29.95) On Aug. 6, 2001, the third day of his August vacation in Texas, President George W. Bush welcomed two visitors into the living room of his ranch house. Steve Biegun, the executive secretary of the National Security Council, was filling in for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Michael Morell was a CIA analyst assigned to brief Bush daily on intelligence developments. He handed Bush the President’s Daily
BooksMarch 30, 2016
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Life in 1930s China made relatable through simple details
“Half a Lifelong Romance” By Eileen Chang Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (400 pages, $12.33) “Half a Lifelong Romance” is broad in its scope and exceptionally moving in its characterizations, painting a picture of life in China in the 1930s. The novel, by Eileen Chang, was originally published in serialized form in Shanghai in 1950, under the name “Eighteen Springs (Shiba chun).” A translated U.S. edition recently was released. “Half a Lifelong Romance” introduces a broad cast of characters a
BooksMarch 30, 2016
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Popular Korean poet’s works translated into English for the first time
“No Flower Blooms Without Wavering” By Do Jong-hwan, translated by Brother Anthony and Jinna Park Seoul Selection (182 pages, 11,000 won, $18)Do Jong-hwan’s poems have been translated into English for the first time in “No Flower Blooms Without Wavering,” a bilingual compilation of the popular poet’s most recognized work. Overall, the translation stays faithful to the text, never veering too far from the literal definition. The book is divided into four chapters, each containing poems that cente
BooksMarch 30, 2016