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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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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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S. Korea, Czech Republic to increase direct flights
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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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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Maestro Chung to be grilled over defamation charge this week
Maestro Chung Myung-whun will be questioned later this week on defamation accusations by the former head of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office in charge of the case said Monday.“Maestro Chung will be summoned for questioning as the accused at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday,” a prosecutor said. The accusations against Chung and his wife, surnamed Koo, were made in March by former SPO CEO Park Hyun-jung, who quit as SPO chief over alleged sexual and verbal harassment o
July 11, 2016
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F.T. Island releases teaser poster
Gearing up for its return to the spotlight, five-member Korean rock band F.T. Island unveiled a teaser poster for the lead track “Take Me Now” from its sixth full studio album “Where is the Truth?” on Monday. Composed by the band’s member Lee Hong-gi, “Take Me Now” is a hard rock tune that embodies the band’s explosive energy, said the group’s management agency FNC Entertainment in a press release. Since the group’s official debut in 2007, F.T. Island has been gaining global acclaim with hit tr
July 11, 2016
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I.O.I’s Yu Yeon-jung to join Cosmic Girls
K-pop group I.O.I’s Yu Yeon-jung will be joining another girl group Cosmic Girls as its 13th member, announced the singer’s management agency Starship Entertainment on Monday.“We came to this decision after evaluating the synergy created between Cosmic Girls and Yu Yeon-jung, and ask fans for their support for the new 13-member Cosmic Girls,” said Starship Entertainment in a press release. I.O.I, which debuted in May, was created through Mnet’s reality K-pop group survival show “Produce 101.” Fo
July 11, 2016
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Creator of Broadway hit ‘Hamilton’ says goodbye, quietly
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” made a subdued final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars in the show that has become a cultural phenomenon.The performance Saturday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre was also the last for Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony Award as Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo, a Tony nominee who portrayed Eliza Schuyler. The three -- plus an ensemble member -- took their bows together but none said anything.Mi
July 11, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Korean indie's awkward couple
The members of indie duo Kim Sawol X Kim Haewon were nearly complete strangers when they recorded their award-winning album “Secret” back in the summer of 2014 in a cramped studio in Seoul. At first, it was “intensely awkward” to be cooped up together, writing songs and recording for long hours that often stretched into dawn, the band told The Korea Herald in an interview last week at a café in Itaewon. But if it hadn’t been for that shabby room, the sweltering heat and that tension between them
July 10, 2016
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Big Bang makes Forbes’ 2016 Celebrity 100 list
The five-member K-pop band Big Bang will be included in Forbes’ 2016 Celebrity 100 issue, which analyzes and ranks the world’s top 100 highest-earning entertainers and celebrities. This will be the first time a K-pop group is featured on the annual list and Big Bang’s ranking position will be revealed when the list is announced on Tuesday.The band made $44 million in pretax earnings from June 2015 to June 2016, according to a recent Forbes article. This is over $10 million more than the annual i
July 10, 2016
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Thousands strip and paint themselves blue for U.K. art event
LONDON (AP) -- Thousands of people have stripped naked and painted themselves in four shades of blue to celebrate the English city of Hull’s relationship with the sea. Hull City Council says some 3,200 people took part in the art installation, staged by New York artist Spencer Tunick on Saturday. The work is called “Sea of Hull” and was commissioned by the Ferens Art Gallery to mark the city’s celebration next year as the U.K. City of Culture.Tunick says the resulting photos incorporate some of
July 10, 2016
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Eyelike: Maxwell, Sara Watkins, Tribute to Dennis Brown
Another slice of timeless neo-soul Maxwell“blackSUMMERS’night” (Columbia) Maxwell isn’t all that concerned with timeliness. When the neo-soul pioneer launched his “BLACKsummers’night” trilogy in 2009, no one really expected him to take seven years to release the next installment. But the second part, “blackSUMMERS’night” (Columbia), is so sleek and well-crafted that it’s hard to complain. The first single, “Lake by the Ocean,” is really the only track that seems touched by current sounds and sad
July 8, 2016
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[Highlights] Arts and entertainment calendar
Exhibitions Installation view of artist Gwon O-sang’s solo exhibition “New Structure and Relief” at the Arario Gallery in Seoul. (Arario Gallery) “New Structure and Relief”: Artist Gwon O-sang, known for his sculptures made with photographs, is presenting his new series in a solo exhibition at Arario Gallery Seoul until Aug. 21. The artist presents his reinterpretation of Alexander Calder’s iconic stationary sculpture “Stabile” in his new series of photograph sculptures “New Structure” that con
July 8, 2016
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Retired freighter transformed into rest spot for museum visitors
A retired cargo ship that operated between Mokpo and Jejudo Island for 35 years has become an architecture installation that serves as a summertime shelter in the courtyard of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. The installation “Temp’L” by Shinslab Architecture, led by architect duo Shin Hyung-chul and Claire Shin, is the winning design project of this year’s Young Architects Program. The Korean edition of the program, launched by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1
July 7, 2016
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Prince backup band The Revolution to reunite for 2 shows
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The band that helped catapult Prince to international superstardom is reuniting in his memory.The Revolution, which backed up Prince in the 1980s, will play two shows from Sept. 2-3 at First Avenue, the downtown Minneapolis nightclub where Prince and the Revolution filmed “Purple Rain.” The Revolution said Wednesday that they and the world mourned Prince “with profound loss and apocalyptic grief” after learning of his death in April.The shows will feature Wendy Melvoin, Lisa
July 7, 2016
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Replacement conductor found for legendary Wagner festival
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The Bayreuth Festival, the legendary summer music festival dedicated exclusively to the works of Richard Wagner, said it had found a replacement conductor for a new production of “Parsifal” just three weeks before it is scheduled to open.Festival organizers said in a statement late Tuesday that east German-born conductor Hartmut Haenchen would take over from Latvian shooting star Andris Nelsons, who withdrew unexpectedly a week ago due to unspecified “differences.”“We are very
July 7, 2016
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Adventurous Aussie wins over new audiences at Berlin opera
BERLIN (AFP) -- The edgiest of Berlin’s three opera houses has been pulling in the crowds since Australian Barrie Kosky began unearthing a little-known repertoire from the turbulent 1920s and 1930s.The openly gay Melbourne native with a Jewish background has turned the opera scene in the German capital -- not to mention traditional business acumen -- on its head since he took over the Komische Oper four years ago.His signature contribution has been programming previously obscure operettas, a lot
July 7, 2016
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Batik reinterpreted with digital technology
An unusual exhibition of batik-meets-digital was held June 30 at the Art and Technology Expression Center, Seoul Institute of the Arts in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.“Batik: Accumulation of Time – Meeting the soul of Indonesia’s traditional arts,” explored the textile design method of Batik, which dates back to the 5th century. It is still popular in its home country, and is a UNESCO-designated cultural heritage. SIA, a prominent arts college that strives to make traditional art come alive for pre
July 6, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Park Yoo-jin blazes trail for violins in jazz
While the thought of jazz may conjure up images and sounds of Miles Davis on the trumpet and John Coltrane on the saxophone, it’s a safe bet to say few would ever consider, or know of, a jazz violinist. The jazz scene is dominated by the uniquely free-styled sounds of brass, woodwinds and percussion. Up-and-coming Korean jazz violinist Park Yoo-jin is looking to slowly tear away at this genre stereotype. “It is true that the world does not have that many well-known jazz violinists, I mean you ca
July 6, 2016
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Smokey Robinson honored with national pop music prize
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whether he was singing his own compositions or writing for other artists, Smokey Robinson was instrumental in shaping the Motown sound that changed American popular music in the 1960s. Now, his accomplishments have won him the pop music prize from the national library.The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that Robinson, 76, is this year's recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The lifetime achievement award is named for the duo of George and Ira Gershwin and was
July 6, 2016
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Seventeen returns to spotlight with repackaged album
Two days after releasing the repackaged version of the group’s first album “Love & Letter,” 13-member K-pop boy band Seventeen is returning to the stage.Starting with a performance on MBC’s weekly music program “Show Champion” on Wednesday, the group is scheduled for more broadcast appearances, including Mnet’s “M Countdown,” KBS2’s “Music Bank,” MBC’s “Show! Music Core” and SBS’ “Inkigayo” in the coming weeks. The repackaged album includes five additional tracks: “Very Nice,” “No F.U.N,” “Heal
July 6, 2016
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Snoop Dogg to play at Clinton convention party
NEW YORK (AFP) - Snoop Dogg, the rap superstar and outspoken marijuana aficionado, will perform in support of Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the Democratic Party convention later this month.Snoop Dogg will headline a “convention unity party” in Philadelphia on July 28, a day after Clinton is expected to accept the presidential nomination.Three so-called political action committees that spend on behalf of Democratic candidates -- Priorities USA Action, Senate Majority PAC and House Majority
July 6, 2016
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New era of multinational K-pop groups dawns
A new generation of multinational K-pop groups is emerging, ready to take on the global music scene.Some earlier experimental groups, such as girl group ChoColat, created by Paramount Music in 2011, included members of German, Italian and Puerto Rican descent. The group, however, has not been active since 2013. Miss A, one of K-pop’s most popular multinational groups with Chinese members Fei and Jia, is facing a shaky future with Jia having left the group’s agency JYP Entertainment in March. On
July 5, 2016
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[Hallyu Power] B-boy Wing helps Korean break dancing take flight
When it was first introduced by young street dancers in New York City in the early 1970s, the distinctive art of break dancing, or B-boying, was widely seen as a nonglamourous, low-level style of street dance. Despite its absence from the mainstream pop culture spotlight, B-boying eventually made its way to Korea in the ’80s. For decades, however, break dancing was far from the mainstream and had just a small following among young, amateur dancers whose only opportunities to perform were on the
July 5, 2016