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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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Doctors defend colleague accused of blacklisting non-strikers
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Italy earthquake kills at least 159, reduces towns to rubble
Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble Wednesday. The death toll stood at 159, but the number of dead and missing was uncertain given the thousands of vacationers in the area for summer’s final days.Residents wakened before dawn by the temblor emerged from their crumbled homes to find what they described as apocalyptic scenes ``like Dante’s Inferno,’’ with entire blocks of buildings
World NewsAug. 25, 2016
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Government postpones decision on Google’s map info export request
The government has postponed its decision on Google’s request to export map information from Korea to allow further review of the issues, the Transport Ministry announced Wednesday following a meeting of a pan-government review committee.The consideration period before the final decision will be extended another 60 days until Nov. 23. “After in-depth discussions about the effect of exporting map information on national security and the spatial information industry, it was agreed that the final d
IndustryAug. 24, 2016
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[Graphic News] KEPCO suffers deficit from investment business
Korea Electronic Power Corp. has suffered a deficit in its investment business while it has drawn massive business from the power rate hike and the increase in the demand for power, data showed Wednesday. According to the National Assembly and KEPCO, the state-run company’s sales rose by 11.4 percent to 483,655 gigawatt-hour last year over the past five years while the revenue soared by 44.3 percent to 54 trillion won ($48 billion).The power rate, in the meantime, increased by nearly 30 percent
IndustryAug. 24, 2016
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America overlooked Riccardo Chailly, but Europe has wisely avoided that mistake
LUCERNE, Switzerland -- The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a reputation, in America, as an also-ran. Over the years his name surfaced as a likely candidate in music director searches for the great orchestras of Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. He got none. But he hasn’t done so badly in Europe. He now heads the world’s most famous opera company, La Scala in Milan, and last weekend he began his tenure as music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, one of the most prestigi
PerformanceAug. 24, 2016
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US judge: Renowned artist did not create disputed painting
CHICAGO (AP) -- A US judge said Tuesday that a celebrated artist was right when he insisted he did not paint a work now owned by a retired prison worker, a finding that likely ensures the piece will now be worth a fraction of the previous estimated value of $10 million or more. The ruling came at the end of an unusual bench trial in Chicago that pitted Scottish-born Peter Doig against Canadian Robert Fletcher, who paid just $100 in the 1970s for the desert landscape painting and had hoped for a
PerformanceAug. 24, 2016
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'Miss Saigon' to appear on movie screens before Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) - American audiences will get the rare chance to catch a sneak peek of the new “Miss Saigon” before it opens on Broadway next spring. They just have to go to a movie theater.A filmed version of the musical's live 25th-anniversary celebration in London will make its world premiere on some 175 US movie theaters on Sept. 22, some six months before the same production with the same leading actors lands on Broadway.The show captured the performance at the Prince Edward Theatre in London
FilmAug. 24, 2016
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Artday to hold August auction
Herald Artday, a subsidiary of Herald Corp., is holding an online auction from Aug. 26-30, presenting major artworks by modern and contemporary Korean artists. The art auction will feature numerous works of renowned Korean artists, including Choi Ssang-jung, Lim Jik-soon, Kim Tae, Kim Won, Park Deuk-soon, printmaker Lee Hang-sung and Kim Chang-young, who is known for his experimentation with sand. Additionally, the event will highlight globally-recognized pop artist Lee Dongi’s 2006 piece “Flowe
PerformanceAug. 24, 2016
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Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book
BURGOS, Spain (AFP) - It's one of the world’s most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one -- not even the best cryptographers -- has cracked.Scholars have spent their lives puzzling over the Voynich Manuscript, whose intriguing mix of elegant writing and drawings of strange plants and naked women has some believing it holds magical powers.The weathered book is locked away in a vault at Yale University's Beinecke Library, emerging only occ
BooksAug. 24, 2016