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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Middle East’s big AI push lures Korean tech firms
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Pikki Pikki dance: Korean cheerleader dance routine takes social media by storm
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[Herald Review] 'Culinary Class Wars': fresh, creative survival show minus the drama
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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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Man arrested 16 years after murdering girlfriend, hiding body in cement
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[Grace Kao] NewJeans fights Hybe for their survival
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NK nuclear test 'possible' around US election in Nov., says Yoon aide
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[News Focus] Ex-Moon aide slammed from both sides over remarks on leaving Koreas divided
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What will Yoon, Han talk about at dinner?
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Crime is stranger than fiction
“Murder at the 42nd Street Library”By Con Lehane; Minotaur (320 pages, $25.99)The beautiful and iconic New York Public Library on 42nd Street in Manhattan -- with its stone lions in front, multiple levels and history -- makes a stimulating setting for the launch of what should be a lively series about librarian Raymond “Ray” Ambler. The series is certainly off to a good start as “Murder at the 42nd Library” is fueled by an energetic plot, an evocative setting one can literally get lost in and re
BooksJuly 13, 2016
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The good, the bad, the difficult
“Dinner With Edward” By Isabel VincentAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill (213 pages, $23.95)Isabel Vincent's marriage was on the verge of ending when a friend introduced her to Edward, a man whose wife had just died. The attraction was immediate. What followed was not a romance -- Isabel was in her 40s, Edward in his 90s -- but a close relationship that can only be called love.In her memoir, “Dinner With Edward,” Isabel -- a hard-nosed, hard-boiled investigative reporter and former war correspondent
BooksJuly 13, 2016
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Honest observations on farming life
“Dear County Agent Guy” By Jerry NelsonWorkman (207 pages, $14.95)I should have seen this coming, seen that Jerry Nelson's essays about farming weren’t quite what they seemed. I' a farmer’s daughter, and familiar with the irresistible corniness that comes with telling stories about rural life -- the “don‘tcha knows” and the punchlines about winter temps rivaling Siberia -- “and that was just in my bedroom.”Many of the essays in “Dear County Agent Guy” have been published in various farm magazine
BooksJuly 13, 2016
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Prosecutors to summon Volkswagen chief
[THE INVESTOR] South Korean prosecutors will soon summon Johannes Thammer, the CEO of Audi Volkswagen Korea, to question him over his involvement in the widening probe into the German carmaker’s cheating emission scandal. Seoul’s Central District Prosecutor’s Office on July 13 said Tamer is suspected of colluding with a VW executive, identified only by his surname Yoon, to manipulate software of the gasoline model Golf 1.4 TSI to meet the emission and noise level standards. Audi Volkswagen Korea
MobilityJuly 13, 2016
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Ikea refuses to recall dressers in Korea after selling 100,000 units
[THE INVESTOR] Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant, has sold some 100,000 units of dressers that have been blamed for the deaths of at least six toddlers in falling accidents. While the company is extending its recent recall to China, it is still reluctant to do so in Korea, citing local regulations. Ikea’s recalled dressersRep. Kwack Dae-woon of the ruling Saenuri Party on July 13 urged the company to recall the Ikea dressers, saying all the products, about 36 million units, are recalled in the U
IndustryJuly 13, 2016
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[EQUITIES] LIG Investment sees turnaround of W36.2b at SK Networks in Q2
[THE INVESTOR] LIG Investment & Securities has forecast that SK Networks will turn its business around in the second quarter with operating profit reaching 36.2 billion won (US$ 31.45 million). Based on improved performance in information communications, gas stations and car-related businesses, LIG said SK Networks is likely to post a 9 percent increase in sales to reach an annual 21.56 trillion won in 2017, while operating profit climbs 29.9 percent to 237.5 billion won. For the past three year
July 13, 2016
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S. Korea’s home-backed loans reach record high
[THE INVESTOR] South Korea’s household debt secured against residential properties broke the 500 trillion won (US$ 436 billion) mark for the first time in June, central back data showed on July 13. According to the Bank of Korea, household debt secured against residential properties rose 4.8 trillion won in June to reach 500.9 trillion won. Overall household debt hit 667.5 trillion won, up 6.6 trillion won from May. Compared to end of June 2015, the figure is 28.4 trillion won higher. Experts sa
July 13, 2016
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‘Hamilton: The Revolution’: How a hip-hop Broadway musical became an American obsession
“Hamilton: The Revolution” By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarterGrand Central Publishing (288 pages, $40)The revolution started with the idea that a hip-hop-Broadway marriage was the perfect vehicle for the story of Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who created America’s monetary system. The genius who came up with the idea and executed it to groundbreaking, earth-shaking, money-making success is Lin-Manuel Miranda, so it should come as no surprise that he gets “Hamilton” in book
BooksJuly 13, 2016
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Korea renews investments in display, semiconductor industries
[THE INVESTOR] The Korean government is renewing its commitment to the display and semiconductor sectors where Chinese players are fast catching up with their Korean rivals.Korea has reduced related government budgets as Korean companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and LG Display became top players in the fields. Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor plant in Xian, ChinaDuring the years, Chinese companies have grown rapidly largely boosted by their government’s full support. The governmen
TechnologyJuly 13, 2016
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Seomun Night Market in Daegu aims to become a tourist hotspot
Ever since the Seomun Night Market first turned on its lights on June 3, the nighttime skies above Daegu have remained as bright and welcoming as the noonday sun.Selected as the first “Global Luxury Market” in a contest hosted by the Small and Medium Business Administration, the Seomun Night Market is the largest night market in Korea, with over 80 sellers, 65 types of food, 15 official product categories, and countless vendors and stalls. Seomun market, Daegu, South Korea (Yonhap)In addition t
TravelJuly 13, 2016
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‘Uncontrollably Fond’ captures Chinese audience
Despite lower-than-expected ratings on home ground, the first two episodes of the new KBS series “Uncontrollably Fond” attracted more than 40 million paid viewers on one of China’s biggest online video platforms, Youku Tudou, according to an announcement by the public relations company 3HW this week. “On the first day of broadcast, there was an overflow of traffic and the server of Youku crashed,” said a company official to a local news outlet. “Also, real-time replies from viewers flooded (the
TelevisionJuly 13, 2016
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Liam Neeson explains decision to star in Korean War film
It is not every day that a Hollywood heavyweight stars in a Korean film, particularly one retracing real-life events in Korean history. But Liam Neeson, who portrays the legendary Gen. Douglas MacArthur of the U.S. Army in the upcoming war drama flick “Operation Chromite,” says he was made an offer he “couldn’t refuse.”The film’s director Lee Jae-han and producer Jung Tae-won, who helms the production company Taewon Entertainment, were “very, very persuasive, let’s just put it that way,” said th
FilmJuly 13, 2016