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[Exclusive] Korean adoptee sisters meet for the first time in 39 years
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Yoon calls for measures to protect Koreans amid escalating Iran-Israel conflicts
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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Civil servant’s death linked to workplace bullying
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[Weekender] Walk around Korea to really get to know the country
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N. Korea slams Seoul-Washington joint air exercise
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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[Herald Interview] K-pop’s 'best years are ahead of us': Spotify’s general manager for Asia Pacific
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Blackpink Rose's 'APT.' hits No. 4 on British singles chart
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Korean films lure record number of viewers
South Korean movies attracted a record number of viewers in August as several big hits dominated the local box office, a market tracker said Monday.Korean films drew a combined audience of 20.44 million from Aug. 1 to Aug. 25, or 78.9 percent of the people who saw films in local theaters, according to the Korean Film Council, a state agency for promoting Korean films.The number broke the previous monthly record of 18 million for February this year, when such Korean films as "Miracle in Cell No.
FilmAug. 26, 2013
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Jin Meyerson explores overcoming boundaries in exhibition
American artist Jin Meyerson is holding a solo exhibition titled “Endless Frontier” from Aug. 28 to Oct. 6 at Hakgojae Gallery in Sogyeok-dong, central Seoul.The artist takes images from the media, particularly magazines, television and the Internet, and then distorts them by stretching them out, reducing them, layering and recoloring them. His digital experimentation using a computer combined with the traditional hands-on technique of oil painting creates complex, multidimensional pieces. The f
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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Brazil’s top modern artist gets Rio homecoming
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― She’s the toast of New York and beloved in Paris and London, but Beatriz Milhazes thinks there’s no place like home.More than a decade after her last show in her native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s highest-paid artist is gearing up for a homecoming of sorts, a major retrospective spanning most of her 30-year career. The exhibition, opening Thursday at the Paco Imperial Cultural Center in downtown Rio, brings together more than five dozen paintings, silk screens and collages cov
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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Renoir’s personal items to be auctioned in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AFP) ― A mass of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s personal items will be auctioned in New York next month in what is billed as the biggest collection of the French Impressionist artist’s memorabilia.The Renoir Estate Collection of 143 lots is set to be sold on Sept. 19, for an estimated $3 million.The sale includes 20 original sculptural plaster maquettes created during Renoir’s final years with the help of a young assistant, Richard Guino, at the painter’s Les Collettes home in the southeaster
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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Hip-hop world caught up in a cutthroat ‘diss war’
The local hip-hop scene has been explosive this past week with disses flying in every direction as several popular rap stars decided to carry out their feuds publicly, and with some pretty harsh verses. It all started two weeks ago with the release of the hip-hop track “Control,” by American rap artists Big Sean, featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The single basically called out a handful of the new rappers in the U.S. music industry, such as Wale, Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and D
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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Timberlake, ’N Sync take over Video Music Awards
NEW YORK (AP) ― Miley Cyrus’ foam finger, Lady Gaga’s thong, Taylor Swift’s mean streak and the look on Rihanna’s face while Drake performed will surely be remembered, but these MTV Video Music Awards belonged to Justin Timberlake.Timberlake briefly reunited with ’N Sync, won moonman trophies including top honor video of the year for “Mirrors” plus the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and managed to overshadow most of today’s top pop stars while doing it. “I don’t deserve the award, but I’m
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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‘Amelie’ director ‘disgusted’ by plans for Broadway musical
PARIS (AFP) ― The director of “Amelie” has said he is “disgusted” by plans to turn the hit French movie into a Broadway musical, but sold the rights anyway to support a charity.Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he hated Broadway with a passion and had a horror of musicals, but had finally decided to sell and use the proceeds to fund medical treatment for children.“I hate Broadway. I think it is the very incarnation of tackiness,” said the acclaimed French director in a radio interview.“For a long time I r
PerformanceAug. 26, 2013
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Kim Bong-ryol appointed chief of arts university
Kim Bong-ryol, a Korea National University of Arts professor, was appointed the president of the school on Monday, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said. The inauguration ceremony will take place on Thursday. Kim will serve a four-year tenure. The 55-year-old Seoul National University graduate has been teaching at the KNUA since 1997. He is an authority on Korean architecture. Kim designed the presidential guesthouse, “Samcheongjang,” the Korean garden in Frankfurt as well as KNUA cam
PeopleAug. 26, 2013
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Samsung chief off world's top 100 billionaire list
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, South Korea's richest person, has fallen off the list of the world's top 100 wealthiest people due to a slump in the group's key unit, Samsung Electronics Co., data showed on Monday.Lee's assets were estimated at US$10.2 billion and ranked 107th as of Friday, according to a daily ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled by Bloomberg. The figure was down $1.2 billion from the end of last year.The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of
PeopleAug. 26, 2013
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Exhibition ponders a life in art through waterdrops
Artist Kim Tschang-yeul holds a retrospective that looks back on his artistic career, following his grand retrospective held in Taiwan earlier this year. The exhibition presents some 40 works that cover each stage of the 84-year-old artist’s career, including those from the early 1970s which saw the birth of his signature “Waterdrops” series to the present, shedding light on the transformation of Korean contemporary art as well. The retrospective at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts featur
PerformanceAug. 25, 2013
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25 years in making, Hindu encyclopedia is complete
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) ― A comprehensive encyclopedia of one of the world’s major religions is set to be unveiled next week in the U.S. The 11-volume work covers Hindu spiritual beliefs, practices and philosophy, and is the culmination of a 25-year academic effort.The encyclopedia is written in English and includes about 7,000 articles on Hinduism and its practices. The work also deals with Indian history, languages, art, music, dance, architecture, medicine, and women’s issues. The entir
CultureAug. 25, 2013
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Dan Messe to compose score for musical based on ‘Amelie’
NEW YORK (UPI) ― Dan Messe, the pianist for New York band Hem, announced he’s composing the music for the adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film “Amelie” for Broadway.Messe, who also plays accordion and glockenspiel for Hem, told Paste.com he’s been a longstanding fan of the 2001 French film starring Audrey Tautou and Mathieu Kassovitz.He said he had already written a song ― “Half Asleep” ― for Hem inspired by a scene in the movie.“I wrote that imagining that scene where Amelie and Nino are spe
CultureAug. 25, 2013
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Ben Affleck to play Batman in ‘Man of Steel’ sequel
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ― Actor Ben Affleck will play Batman in an upcoming Superman sequel that will see the two caped crusaders face off against each other, film studio Warner Bros Pictures said on Thursday. Affleck, 41, will take on the role of reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter-ego, in director Zack Snyder’s 2015 sequel to this year’s Superman reboot “Man of Steel,” starring 30-year-old British actor Henry Cavill. “We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Co
FilmAug. 25, 2013
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‘Show Me the Money’ exposes good and bad of the industry
This is the third in a series on producers, MCs, DJs and artists working in the Korean underground hip-hop scene. ― Ed.Despite high ratings and relative success, hip-hop artist MC Meta ― one half of established duo Garion ― said a lot needed to be done for future seasons of Mnet hip-hop audition show “Show Me the Money.”While the hip-hop talent search program, which just wrapped up its second season, did put more up-and-coming underground artists in the limelight, Meta said for him as a producer
PerformanceAug. 25, 2013
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Homegrown characters go global
Everyone has a favorite cartoon character from childhood that occupies a special place in their memories. Until 2000, characters that reminded many Koreans of their childhood were not Korean creations. Most were Japanese or American, from the classic Tom and Jerry and Thomas and Friends to Pokemon and Digimon. Amid the swarm of foreign characters, the Korean character Dooly was rare in remaining popular since its debut in 1983 through a televised animation series on KBS. But for those who spent
CultureAug. 23, 2013
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Adventures of two larvae capture commuters’ hearts
Two little brave larvae, Red and Yellow, embark on an adventure out into the world from the sewage drain in which they live.They fly out of the sewer after turning into butterflies, but in the blink of an eye, they lose their wings in an airplane accident, and begin an urban adventure facing a series of dangers in a large metropolitan city. Their tales of everyday survival play out continually in “Larva,” featured on screens in Seoul’s subway and buses. “They make everyone laugh. It doesn’t targ
Arts & DesignAug. 23, 2013
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Classics served up new
At 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Bicena, a contemporary Korean restaurant in Hannam-dong, Seoul, is abuzz with staff preparing for the lunch guests. A woman places vases holding pastel-colored flowers on the tables, another is busy vacuuming a room. There is a din of activity in the kitchen.Sitting at a table next to the kitchen entrance is a young woman poring over a pile of galley proofs ― Lucia Cho, president of Bicena, is proof reading the restaurant’s autumn menu.If she looks a tad bit frazzled,
FoodAug. 23, 2013
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Festivals“Seoul Fringe Festival”: The Seoul Fringe Festival will provide a showcase of independent artists. Individual artists or groups can freely perform drama, dance, mime, music and arts at the festival, which will allow the performers and the audience alike to enjoy the freedom of expression and selection. A total of 140 individual artists and teams will put on performances in various indoor and outdoor venues like small theaters, live clubs, galleries and streets near Hongik University in
CultureAug. 23, 2013
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Box Office
Now You See MeCrime. Mystery. Thriller. Directed by Louis Leterrier.Opened Aug. 22Four magicians are invited to an obscure address for a meeting filled with secrets. One year later they return as the famous illusionists of the Four Horsemen and pull off a variety of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their big performances. In the middle of their shows, the stolen goods are distributed among the audience. FBI officer Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent)
FilmAug. 23, 2013
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Eyelike: EXO’s new album catchy
EXO’s new album catchyEXO“The 1st Album ‘XOXO (Kiss&Hug)’ Repackage”(KMP Holdings)EXO’s 14-track repackaged album is a mainstream mix of hip-hop, R&B, pop and dance and is definitely for the younger crowd. You won‘t find depth and complexity in terms of music or lyrics, but mature listeners nonetheless will find some tracks irresistibly catchy. Title song “Growl” is a dance track with an urban R&B sound and describes a man not wanting his lover to be stolen away. “LUCKY” has a rhythmical melody
PerformanceAug. 23, 2013