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Now is no time to add pressure on businesses: top executives
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CJ CheilJedang to spur overseas growth with new Hungary, US plants
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Seoul to host winter festival from Dec. 13
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Blackpink's solo journeys: Complementary paths, not competition
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Nationwide rail disruptions feared as union plans strike from Dec. 5
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N. Korea, Russia court softer image: From animal diplomacy to tourism
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Jennie, Lisa invited to Coachella as solo acts
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Smugglers caught disguising 230 tons of Chinese black beans as diesel exhaust fluid
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Actor Song Joong-ki welcomes second child in Rome
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Main opposition pushes to ease, not postpone, tax on crypto gains
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Spring colors for your lips
The biggest makeup trend for 2012 is well-moisturized, glowing skin to accentuate your lips with point colors. Try orange, peach tone lip colors this spring to add brightness and fun to your face, make-up artists say.“Peach tone lipstick is the ‘it’ product for this season. However, you need to skip other colors when applying point color lipsticks. Use only eyeliners and mascara to complete your doll-like eye look,” said Lee Jin-soo, chief make-up artist for Hera.The androgynous look from the 20
April 20, 2012
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Design world steels for austerity at Milan fair
MILAN (AFP) ― Austere furniture for austere times was the message from this week’s Milan design fair, where the aesthetics of the sober 1940s and 1950s prevailed and extravagance gave way to functionality.“Design needs to take into account a significant economic crisis which has led to a re-interpretation to make products more functional while avoiding provocations,” architect Marco Romanelli, a fair organiser, told AFP.“The attention is increasingly on the materials,” Romanelli said.The yearly
April 19, 2012
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From bling to diets, image shapes French campaign
PARIS (AP) ― Should you judge a book by its cover? France’s presidential candidates certainly think voters do, and more than ever have tried to get their political message across through their image.With unemployment and economic woes topping voter concerns, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to change from a Rolex-wearing president with a supermodel wife to a more humble, discreetly dressed man listening to the needs of the people.Almost conversely, Francois Hollande ― the Socialist who tops
April 18, 2012
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IKEA furniture integrated with sound systems, Internet and more
STOCKHOLM (AP) ― Already the one-stop shop for smart and compact home furnishing, IKEA is venturing into the world of technology ― with the IKEA TV.The new furniture range, named UPPLEVA, the Swedish word for experience, integrates an LED TV, a sound system with wireless bass speakers, an internet connection and CD, DVD and Blu-ray players ― all in one self-assembly piece.Although the TV and the other electronics are made by Chinese manufacturer TCL, IKEA has built everything around them, hiding
April 18, 2012
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Tinted gold passes for precious stones
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AFP) ― All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for colour-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds.The tinting can increase the value of gold by a factor of five, meaning the chemically-altered precious metal is likely to appear in jewellers’ display windows worldwide soon, according to University of Antioquia engineers.“It does not involve painting the gold or covering it with some mat
April 11, 2012
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‘Little Paris Kitchen’ spells success for young British chef
PARIS (AFP) ― From au pair to television chef of the moment, Rachel Khoo has come a long way since she landed in Paris from London six years ago, armed with schoolgirl French and a love of cooking.With a bestselling recipe book and BBC series, “The Little Paris Kitchen,” now under her belt, the 31-year-old looks well placed to be the next big thing on the television chef scene. Or rather, the next small thing.For Khoo’s new-found fame comes courtesy of the micro-restaurant which the bubbly brune
April 11, 2012
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Designers show mixed bag of goodies
Organza, dots lend light mood to dark palettes of winter monthsGlobal warming, or more accurately, global climate change must have been on the minds of many designers presenting their fall/winter collections during last week’s Seoul Fashion Week.Never mind the unseasonably cold and windy weather ― the gusty wind knocked out a wall of a tent at Olympic Park that housed the press room ― the audiences were treated to some delightful lightness afforded by the use of organza, fine silk, punched fabri
April 11, 2012
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Colorblocking makes a bold spring style statement
A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers 'NAH' during a Fashion Week in Bishkek, on April 4 2012. (AFP)Most of us can pair one bold color with another -- it just takes a little confidence. But colorblocking, that’s more of an art, and it’s one to be mastered this spring season.The highest standard of colorblocking was set by Yves Saint Laurent, who transferred the graphic, pop-ar
April 6, 2012
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Seoul Fashion Week off to lackluster start
Lack of big buyers and little media attention brings down event, but some menswear collections shineThe unexpected April sleet and gusty wind hindered some from visiting this season’s Seoul Fashion Week, but the biggest disappointment so far is the lack of influential buyers and press. The number of visiting foreign buyers is 37, and press 16, which is about half the size of the previous season. Up until about five days before kick-off, organizers said that Jay Bell, vice president of U.S. depa
April 4, 2012
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Fashion guru to bring look of Italy in July
Italian fashion figure Alberto Scaccioni to showcase some 20 Italian brands in SeoulSome are able to express themselves through clothing while others simply find their dresses a uniform or a shelter, said Alberto Scaccioni, chief executive officer of Ente Moda Italia. Ente Moda Italia is an Italian company which organizes fashion trade fairs abroad to help the globalization of small and medium sized Italian enterprises.“I think that the real challenge for us who work in the fashion system is to
April 4, 2012
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Paris show bets on green, sustainable luxury
PARIS (AFP) ― Luxury and sustainable development may sound like polar opposites, but green pioneers gathered at a Paris show at the weekend were betting on a cleaner, fairer future for the industry.Created in 2010, the four-day Paris event, dubbed “1.618 Sustainable Luxury,” brought together some 40 firms, inventors and foundations, that aim to reconcile luxury with ethics and environmental good practice.One of these was Bruno Pieters, a Belgian fashion designer who in January launched Honest by
April 1, 2012
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Nothing special makes it cool
Scandinavian designs hot in furniture and household itemsIt is not difficult to detect a notable trend in the living section in department stores and in design magazines: a lot of things have gone extremely simple, eco-friendly, with few vivid accent colors. Because most of the popular furniture and warm and cozy household items like lamps and rugs with such designs are made by brands based in northern European countries, they are summed up as “Scandinavian” or “Nordic” designs and are stirring
March 30, 2012
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Seoul Fashion Week features new designers at new runway
The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with a tent each dedicated to Seoul Collecti
March 28, 2012
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Revamped Seoul Fashion Week changes venue to Olympic Park
Seoul mayor to model at Donation Runway The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with
March 28, 2012
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Rainbow of denim is shading spring style
NEW YORK (AP) ― Your attention, please: One of the easiest ways to spruce up your wardrobe this spring is with a splash of color. It doesn’t have to go on your lips or over your shoulder ― and not across your chest, either. This season, the place for bold color is on the bottom.Colored denim and, by extension, every other kind of pants and trousers in hues as bright as the rainbow are a key look in stores at every end of the shopping spectrum. Part of the pervasiveness is that it’s pretty democr
March 26, 2012
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Kashmir scientists clone rare cashmere goat
Scientists said Thursday they have cloned a rare Himalayan goat in Indian-controlled Kashmir, hoping to help increase the number of animals famed for their silky soft undercoats used to make pashmina wool, or cashmere.The March 9 birth of female kid “Noori,” which means “light” in Arabic, could spar
March 16, 2012
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Right at Home: Ceramics strong this spring
Ceramics are always a great supporting player on the home decor stage, but this season they’re grabbing more of the spotlight.Today’s ceramists are exploring creative textures and finishes, and even the mass market is offering exciting new examples of the pottery arts. From velvety soft, lacy tealight holders to chunky, colorful platters, there’s something for everyone.You can choose to feature pottery prominently or enlist it as punctuation to other colors and textures in your room.A piece with
March 14, 2012
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Doghouse designed by Wright rebuilt for film
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Fallingwater home in southwestern Pennsylvania. But a child’s doghouse?Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of landmark buildings and homes during a prolific career that spanned more than seven decades. But in what is widely considered a first and only for the famed architect, Wright indulged a young boy’s humble request for a dog house in 1956 and sent him designs for the structure.“I was probably his youngest client an
March 12, 2012
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Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit: It’s the bag, stupid
PARIS (AP) ― “Fashions fade, style is eternal,’’ Yves Saint Laurent once said.An immutable fashion list must include the Ls Vuitton bag, on display demurely but proudly in Paris’ Decorative Arts Museum like the historical artifact it should be.The bag pattern was first patented in 1877 but it can still be seen ― almost unchanged ― on the Parisian boulevards more than 130 years later. This is thanks to house founder Louis Vuitton, and since 1997, creative director Marc Jacobs.Both their stories a
March 12, 2012
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Chanel and McQueen entice fantasy in Paris shows
PARIS (AP) ― With only one day to go, the final furlong of Paris’ roller coaster nine-day long fashion week has produced strong and fantastical ready-to-wear offerings from the houses of Alexander McQueen and Chanel.Inspiration for the collections spanned the terrain, and beyond ― from a cosmic ice palace to the organic depths of the earth.Sarah Burton further consolidated her position as one of the most imaginative designers working in the French capital, with a weightless flight through textur
March 7, 2012
