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Hybe acquires US PR agency
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Yoon, Fiala seek wider range of cooperation beyond nuclear energy
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40% of Korea's workers who reported bullying faced retaliation: survey
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Over 82,000 Korean young people unemployed, not searching for job long-term
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600 evacuated as heavy rain floods roads, homes in southern regions
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S. Korea, Czech Republic to increase direct flights
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Seoul, Prague to team up throughout nuclear energy project delivery
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[Weekender] Young Koreans more open to Japanese cultural products
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S. Korea to inject $37m in joint R&D projects with Czech Republic
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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Kevin Oh to release debut single
Singer-songwriter Kevin Oh is getting ready for his debut. The 26-year-old won Mnet’s music competition show “Superstar K” last year and will unveil his first single next week, according to his entertainment agency CJ E&M on Thursday. Produced in collaboration with hip-hop artist Primary, the upcoming track “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” is expected to boast Oh’s soft ballads which allowed him to rise to the top in “Superstar K.” Primary has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Korean h
Nov. 10, 2016
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Se7en to release Japanese album
Se7en has had a busy year. After returning with his first Korean EP “I am Se7en” in over four years in October, the singer is set to release a new Japanese album next month. During a fan meeting held at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Japan on Wednesday, Se7en announced his plans for the upcoming studio album “Danger Man,” according to the artist’s management agency Eleven 9 Entertainment on Thursday. “The new album will include everything from rhythm-and-blues to dance to punk music,” he told his
Nov. 10, 2016
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Elton John's photo trove displays beauty in black and white
LONDON (AP) -- He's one of the most colorful figures in rock ‘n’ roll, but when it comes to photography, Elton John embraces black and white.Scores of vintage images from the musician's collection are on display in “The Radical Eye,” an exhibition opening this week at London’s Tate Modern. The show displays more than 190 photos that usually line the walls of John's 18,000 square foot (1,670 square meter) Atlanta apartment, one of his several homes.If stark black and white seems too plain a palet
Nov. 10, 2016
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Attic Caravaggio to go on display in Italy
MILAN (AFP) -- A painting discovered in a French attic that was controversially deemed to be a Caravaggio will go on display at a top Milan museum from Thursday alongside authenticated works by the Renaissance master.“We do not want to take part in the debate over the authenticity of the painting, we just want to allow it to be compared to contemporaneous works by Caravaggio,” said a spokesman for Milan’s Brera museum of painting, where the work will be on display until Feb. 5.The 400-year-old t
Nov. 10, 2016
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‘Lazarus’: David Bowie’s musical legacy opens in London
LONDON (AFP) -- David Bowie’s musical “Lazarus” has arrived in London, with an opening line evoking the spirit of the late British star: “Look up here, I’m in heaven.”The play’s run in the British capital brings Bowie’s legacy back to his home city nearly a year after he died on Jan. 10 following a 10-month battle with cancer.Bowie, who grew up in London’s Brixton neighborhood, made his last public appearance at the show’s gala night in New York on Dec. 7 last year.The somber musical is inspired
Nov. 10, 2016
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Austria busts gang selling fake Picassos
VIENNA (AFP) - Austrian police said Monday that they have busted a gang allegedly trying to sell off forgeries of famous artists such as Pablo Picasso for millions of euros.The six men were arrested in a hotel room near Vienna airport as they tried to pass off five Picasso paintings for 50 million euros ($55 million), police said.The buyer was in fact a police officer in disguise. Police commandos arrested the five Austrians and one Slovenian “in case they were armed,” a statement said.Subsequen
Nov. 8, 2016
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MAMAMOO denies dating abuse controversy over new song
Girl group MAMAMOO said on Monday that the controversial elevator kiss scene in the music video of its new song “Decalcomanie” was intended to show another variation of the video concept and not dating abuse. The music video of “Decalcomanie,” the lead song of the band's fourth and latest EP “Memory,” played more into the seductress theme, at the expense of the group’s trademark lampoon of male-dominant social biases, best shown in “Um Oh Ah Yeh” and “1cm Taller than You.”The bone of contention,
Nov. 8, 2016
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'Mozart 225' contains all of his music in 200-CD box set
What measures 11 inches square and 7 inches high, weighs 21 1/2 pounds and takes 10 days and nights to play?Answer: A new box set jam-packed with 200 CDs that contains every note composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his short 35 years of life. Just in time for the 225th anniversary of the composer's death on Dec. 5, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon have combined forces to issue this compilation, mind-boggling in its thoroughness and admirable in its scholarly depth. There are other “Complete Moza
Nov. 8, 2016
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Disputed Caravaggio discovered in France on display in Milan
MILAN (AP) - The director of the Brera Art Gallery in Milan is courting controversy by including in a new show a painting whose attribution to Caravaggio is disputed. Critics charge the decision to display “Judith Beheading Holofernes,” discovered two years ago in an attic in southern France, legitimizes its attribution to Caravaggio and would drive up the work‘s price were it to be put on the market. A prominent art historian has quit the Brera’s scientific committee over the decision. But gall
Nov. 8, 2016
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Page from Tintin moon adventure may raise $1m at auction
PARIS (AFP) - A page of original comic strip drawings from one of the best Tintin adventures, “Explorers on the Moon,” is expected to sell for up to $1 million when it goes under the hammer later this month.The page, entitled “We walk on the moon,” has the boy reporter, his dog Snowy and blundering sidekick Captain Haddock making their first moon walk from their red and white rocket.With the 1954 book regarded as one of the artist Herge‘s very best, the Paris auction house Artcurial said it coul
Nov. 8, 2016
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Bieber tops MTV Europe awards, as Beyonce snubbed
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) - Pop superstar Justin Bieber beat out Lady Gaga at the MTV Europe Music awards Sunday, snapping up the lion’s share as megastar Beyonce was left empty-handed.In the high-energy show in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, the chart-topping Canadian singer’s legendary army of fans dubbed “Beliebers” helped him slay Gaga’s “monsters” to see him win three awards, including for Biggest Fans.Bieber also managed to beat off competition from Adele’s “Hello” to win Best Song for hi
Nov. 7, 2016
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Sistar's Hyolyn set to drop new album
Hyolyn of girl group Sistar will release a new album at midnight, her management agency said Monday, marking the artist’s solo return after a three-year hiatus.The mini album, titled “It's Me,” will be unveiled at 12 a.m. Tuesday, featuring six songs, including the title track “Paradise,” “Love Like This” and “One Step,” according to Starship Entertainment.Well-known musicians, including American composer Melanie Joy Fontana and European composers Erik Lidbom and Andreas Oberg, took part in its
Nov. 7, 2016
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Hockney, de Kooning highlight NY contemporary art auction
NEW YORK (AP) -- Works by Gerhard Richter, Willem de Kooning and David Hockney will highlight Sotheby's contemporary art auction later this month. The Nov. 17 auction also will feature paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Sotheby’s expects a large-scale landscape by Hockney titled "Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006" to set a new auction record for the British artist. It believes the painting will bring between $9 million and $12 million.The current Hockney auction record
Nov. 7, 2016
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Seeking strong female role, Fleming turns to life of O'Keeffe
NEW YORK (AFP) - Tired of an opera repertoire in which women are so often portrayed as young and vulnerable, Renee Fleming is premiering an original piece on Georgia O'Keeffe, the painter whose life was momentous and multidimensional.Fleming, often considered the greatest US soprano of her generation, has increasingly branched out from the traditional canon as she strives to challenge herself and ensure the contemporary relevance of opera.“Letters from Georgia,” a song cycle by rising composer K
Nov. 7, 2016
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Electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey dies at 87
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Jean-Jacques Perrey, the French composer and pioneer of electronic pop music who was best known for co-writing “Baroque Hoedown” used as the music for the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney theme parks, has died at age 87. Perrey died in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday “from a very quick and violent lung cancer,” his daughter, Patricia Leroy, said. Electronic music composer Dana Countryman, in a tribute to his frequent collaborator posted on Facebook, noted tha
Nov. 6, 2016
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MMCA denies allegations of ‘Beautiful Woman’ forgery
The state-run National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art rejected forgery allegations against the late Korean artist Chun Kyung-ja’s renowned painting “Beautiful Woman” on Nov. 4. After visiting the museum to gather information about other collections by Chun in September, the Paris-based Lumiere Technology reported to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul last week that “Beautiful Woman” was not a genuine work by Chun. The French company came to that conclusion after inspecting some 1,60
Nov. 6, 2016
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Neil Young relents on streaming
Folk rock icon Neil Young has relented and returned his music to leading streaming sites, a year after declaring that the fast-growing format was grating to his ears.The vast catalog of the prolific 70-year-old rocker including his latest, the hard-charging environmental album “Earth,” was available as of Friday on leading streaming site Spotify and rivals such as Apple Music.Young had previously streamed his music only on Tidal, the upstart service led by rap mogul Jay Z that boasts of higher-q
Nov. 6, 2016
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France's only erotic museum shuts down
France’s only erotic museum is closing its doors, its owners said Thursday, after passions flagged in the “city of love” for its titillating though surprisingly tasteful collection of artefacts.Just down the street from the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret in Pigalle, the closure hastens the shift of Paris’ naughtiest neighborhood toward respectability.Owners Jo Khalifa and Alain Plumey, a former porn star, who founded the museum nearly 18 years ago, said the double whammy of falling tourist numbers
Nov. 6, 2016
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K-pop agencies deny alleged political ties to Choi Soon-sil scandal
Multiple K-pop management agencies are facing fast-spreading rumors about their alleged links to powerful political figures, including the recently arrested presidential confidante Choi Soon-sil. In response, many are denying these rumors. The influence-peddling scandal stemmed from a four-decade friendship between President Park Geun-hye and Choi. It is spilling over to the Korean entertainment industry. One example involves a celebrity football club, named Hoeori, which has been accused as ser
Nov. 6, 2016
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g.o.d to go on nationwide tour next January
The members of veteran K-pop group g.o.d will be gathering again to tour the country next January and February.The group will kick off the tour from Jan. 6-8 at Seoul’s Jamsil Arena and subsequently perform in Incheon, Daegu, Ilsan, Gwangju, Busan and other cities, concert planner SJ Entertainment announced Friday. K-pop band g.o.d (Sidus HQ)“Fans can look forward to the five members dressed up in elegant tuxedos,” the agency said. It added that g.o.d will be performing some of its biggest hit s
Nov. 4, 2016