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Psy's touch or new trend in music? P Nation’s solo stars lose their shine
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Seoul to hold grand military parade on Tuesday, disrupting major city routes
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Park Zi-a, the actor who played 'The Glory' heroine's mother, dies
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Shut up and dance
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NewJeans fans corner Hybe amid PR backlash, looming National Assembly audit
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Israel targets Palestinian group in first strike on Beirut center
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Brit pop legend Oasis to perform in Seoul next year
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BTS’ Suga fined W15m for e-scooter DUI
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[KH Explains] Is Hyundai-GM partnership win-win to beat Tesla, Chinese rivals?
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Court rules Itaewon tragedy was 'foreseeable'
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[Noah Smith] Japan must cease support of zombie companies
Imagine that you’re a Japanese 26-year-old with big dreams. You graduated from Waseda University, an elite private school, with a degree in electrical engineering. You and your college buddies used to hang around your apartment, watching anime on your LCD television, which was made by Sharp Corp. — the world’s 10th-largest LCD TV manufacturer. Even then, you had ideas about how to improve the product. Now, after graduating and working for four years in the research division of an LCD manufacture
ViewpointsJan. 24, 2016
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Exploring diversity of Korean art
While Korean monochrome art, dansaekhwa, movement continues to garner international attention as a unique abstract art movement in Asia, curators and art critics in Korea are looking to highlight other important artistic movements. Gana Art Center is presenting works of eight artists who led the minjung art movement and realism art that reflected Korea’s fast-changing social and political environment in the 1980s and 1990s. Another exhibition, also backed by Gana Art Foundation, an affiliate o
PerformanceJan. 24, 2016
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[Rachel Marsden] Senseless worries about Iran
Iran effectively rejoined the international community a few days ago, as longstanding U.S. and European sanctions were lifted and the country was granted access to $32 billion of its previously frozen assets. It’s the razing of the Berlin Wall all over again, as another country is opened up to the global market without any shots being fired. But why isn’t there nearly as much celebration over Iran’s economic liberation as there was with the fall of the Soviet Union? Russia even kept its nukes.
ViewpointsJan. 24, 2016
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Who lost support of white working class?
Why did the white working class abandon the Democrats?The conventional answer is that Republicans skillfully played the race card.In the wake of the Civil Rights Act, segregationists like Alabama Gov. George Wallace led Southern whites out of the Democratic Party. Later, Republicans charged Democrats with coddling black “welfare queens” (the term gained traction during Ronald Reagan‘s 1976 presidential campaign), being soft on black crime (George H.W. Bush’s “Willie Horton” ads in 1988) and tryi
ViewpointsJan. 24, 2016
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Hillary Clinton wraps herself in Obama
The once-inevitable Hillary Clinton is feeling the Bern in Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s gotten so that if President Obama were bath oil, Hillary would bathe in him. She’d cut a TV spot for the South Carolina Democratic primary, her face framed by soothing suds, announcing the Obama bath oil beads make her feel like a natural woman president. “Because I’m a woman who’ll be president, and because Obama bath oil beads are so refreshing after a long day defending Barack,” Hillary might tell voters f
ViewpointsJan. 24, 2016
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KAIST professor heads new futures studies society
The Korea Association of Futures Studies held a launching ceremony Friday and elected Lee Kwang-hyung of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as its founding president.Lee, currently a dean of KAIST Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy, will head the group devoted to research in the field of future studies, including establishment of state-level strategy, education in the field and hosting conferences. He will lead the group for two years. Lee Kwang-hyungProfessors at colle
PeopleJan. 24, 2016
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SK Telecom, Cisco join hands to develop IoT solutions
SK Telecom said Sunday it has teamed up with Cisco Systems International, the U.S. networking giant, to develop new solutions for the Internet of Things technology that connects all machines via the Web. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at SKT’s Seoul headquarters on Friday. The new solutions would combine SKT’s ThingPlug, an IoT platform that allows different devices and mobile apps to work together, and Cisco’s infrastructure application technology Fog Computing that off
TechnologyJan. 24, 2016
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Equity crowdfunding poised for takeoff
Crowdfunding, a global fad of people clubbing together to fund projects of all kinds, will reach new heights in Korea, when the country opens the door for start-ups to issue shares through the fledging capital-raising method.Dubbed equity crowdfunding, as it offers investors an equity stake in return for cash investment rather than rewards, products or interest payments, the new scheme goes into effect Monday, with the effectuation of a related law. Hopes are high that it would channel much-need
Jan. 24, 2016
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Pantech to return with new budget phone
Pantech, the nation’s smallest smartphone-maker, which found a new owner while on the verge of bankruptcy last year, is poised to return to the market with a new phone in the summer. The new phone, the first new model since the Vega Pop-up Note phablet in November 2014, aims to target the fast-growing budget-phone market, the company’s CEO Moon Ji-wook said Friday. “This is the right timing to enter the budget phone market. We will be betting on phones that big companies such as Samsung and LG w
TechnologyJan. 24, 2016
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Hanwha invites Chinese social media stars to new duty-free store
Hanwha Galleria, the retail business arm of Hanwha Group, has ramped up its online marketing efforts to lure more Chinese tourists to its new urban duty-free store located in the iconic 63 building of Yeouido, southwestern Seoul. The Galleria Duty Free 63, Hanwha’s first duty-free store, opened on Dec. 28. Hanwha said Sunday it invited 20 Chinese SNS stars, so-called “content creators” whose online videos are shared across Chinese social media and online networking platforms, to its duty-free
IndustryJan. 24, 2016
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Big Bang members invest W3.6b in YG affiliates
Two members of Big Bang, one of South Korea’s most popular K-pop boy groups, are set to become shareholders of two subsidiaries of their agency YG Entertainment by investing around 3.6 billion won ($3 million). YG Plus, a YG affiliate listed on Korea’s secondary bourse KOSDAQ, revealed in a regulatory filing last Friday that it will issue 845,588 shares to G-Dragon and 110,294 shares to Taeyang -- for 2,720 won per share -- as part of its capital raising efforts. YG Plus announced the same day
IndustryJan. 24, 2016
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[Editorial] Fund promotion
Financial service firms including first-tier banks have actively recommended that customers invest in equity funds. Bank counselors often claim that some popular fund products guarantee high returns compared to installment savings. Amid the record low deposit rates, the sales volume of equity-linked securities surged to a historic high last year. Investors in the ELS funds will gain or lose according to the stock markets’ performance in Korea and overseas. Meanwhile, a lingering problem is that
EditorialJan. 24, 2016
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[Editorial] Dismissal plans
The government has unilaterally publicized its new labor standards on giving enterprises the authority to lay off underperforming workers, despite a recent breakdown of the tripartite dialogue also involving labor and management. The guidelines provide employers with the authority to sack employees when their job performance is judged as poor. Among a batch of labor reform schemes, it is this core article that has received the toughest backlash from labor advocates over the past few months. The
EditorialJan. 24, 2016
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Zion.T unveils third Winner pre-release cover
YG Entertainment released a video Saturday titled “Zion.T – ‘Baby Baby’ by Winner Cover 03” on its official blog, www.yg-life.com. This is the third time that other musicians have released their own version of Winner’s upcoming song “Baby Baby.” A still from “Zion.T-‘Baby Baby’ by Winner Cover 03” (YG Entertainment) The prerelease promotion of the album by Winner, a five-member idol group affiliated with YG Entertainment, began Jan. 21. The promotion presents part of Winner’s new song “Baby Baby
PerformanceJan. 24, 2016
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[Photo News] Lotte sponsors 2018 Winter Olympics
LOTTE SPONSORSHIP FOR WINTER OLYMPICS -- Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin (right), who also leads the Korea Ski Association, talks with the South Korean Olympics alpine skiing team during the opening ceremony of the Jeongson Alpine Center in Gangwon Province on Saturday. Lotte plans to give 5 billion won ($4.17 million) in sponsorship to a set of test events scheduled to kick off at the center starting with the International Ski Federation’s Alpine World Ski Championships on Feb. 6. (Lotte Gro
IndustryJan. 24, 2016
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[Photo News] SK Chemical holds blood donation event
SK CHEM’S BLOOD DONATION — SK Chemical holds a blood donation event at the company’s Eco Lab in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, on Sunday. Some 140 employees at SK Chemical and its affiliates reportedly took part in the event. The collected blood will be delivered to the Korean Red Cross. (SK Chemical)
IndustryJan. 24, 2016
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Korea urges Japan to resolve history issues for regional cooperation
South Korea has urged Japan to work toward resolving historical disputes to further regional cooperation in Asia, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.Rep. Choi Kyung-hwan of the ruling Saenuri Party, a special envoy of President Park Geun-hye, made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos that ran through Saturday. Choi said the historical disputes with Japan must be resolved to establish the economic cooperation system of East Asian countries.Choi also called for gl
Foreign AffairsJan. 24, 2016
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‘Opposition unity’ deal seen taking shape
The opposition circles, already divided into The Minjoo Party of Korea and independent Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo’s forthcoming People’s Party, are facing yet another snag -- the potential emergence of a new group led by Minjoo defectors. Holding the key is Chun Jung-bae, a former justice minister and a fifth-term lawmaker representing the progressive-leaning Gwangju region, who will soon be kicking off a new political party. Chun is expected to announce within the week a trilateral solidarity with inde
PoliticsJan. 24, 2016
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Cold wave sweeps South Korea
SEOUL/JEJUDO ISLAND-- The number of frozen-pipe accidents and hypothermia patients soared while operations at the Jeju International Airport were paralyzed following the biggest snowfall in the region in three decades Sunday, as the nation experienced the coldest weather this winter. Just a day after the Korea Meteorological Administration issued a cold wave warning for Seoul, temperature in the capital dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius on Sunday -- the coldest since January 2001. Also on Sund
Social AffairsJan. 24, 2016
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[NEWS FOCUS] War of nerves brewing over North Korea approach
A war of nerves appears to be brewing between the allies -- South Korea and the U.S. -- and China over their approach to North Korea, spawning concerns that any discord would hurt the ongoing efforts to adopt stringent sanctions for Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test.Since President Park Geun-hye expressed skepticism over the efficacy of the long-stalled six-party talks and called for five-party talks -- excluding North Korea -- last Friday, the allies and China seem to be split with Beijing in fav
North KoreaJan. 24, 2016