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Over 82,000 Korean young people unemployed, not searching for job long-term
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40% of Korea's workers who reported bullying faced retaliation: survey
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600 evacuated as heavy rain floods roads, homes in southern regions
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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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[Weekender] Young Koreans more open to Japanese cultural products
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Jeju's solo traveler-friendly spots offer solitude as well as camaraderie
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Doctors defend colleague accused of blacklisting non-strikers
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Beast to make comeback as five-member group
K-pop boy band Beast is working on a new album to be released this summer. The group recorded the lead song of its upcoming album on Tuesday, according to a local report quoting an industry insider. The lead song is written by Yong Jun-hyung of the group, who produces the band’s albums. K-pop boy band Beast (Cube Entertainment) The upcoming album is their first as a five-member group after Jang Hyun-seung left to pursue a solo career. It is also the first album since their eighth mini album “Ord
May 4, 2016
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Seoul Open Art Fair to highlight young talents
The Seoul Open Art Fair returns to Coex in Samseong-dong for its 11th edition, running from May 10-14. A total of 90 Korean and overseas galleries will be participating in the country’s second-largest art fair, presenting some 5,000 pieces of art by 4,000 artists. In keeping with its reputation as an event to discover emerging artists, the art fair each year selects talented young artists through a contest. This year, 21 young artists working with diverse mediums will be introduced at the fair.
May 4, 2016
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Ballet Festival Korea to kick off sixth year highlighting contemporary trends
From a classical homage to Bolshoi to the modern-day high octane choreography of Nacho Duato in “Duende,” the upcoming sixth annual Ballet Festival Korea promises to be a feast for all tastes. Raising its curtain on May 13 at the Seoul Arts Center, this year’s festival will involve 13 performances throughout the month. They will be held in various SAC theaters including the Opera Theater, the CJ Towol Theater, the Jayu Theater and the Shinsegae Square Outdoor Stage. A scene from “The Edge of th
May 3, 2016
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BTS breaks into iTunes Charts abroad
K-pop boy band BTS’ special album “Young Forever” swept domestic music charts and broke into the iTunes top 30 albums in 17 countries, the group’s agency Big Hit Entertainment announced Tuesday. The album topped the iTunes top albums charts in Singapore and Taiwan, ranked second place in Indonesia, third place in Finland, fourth place in Thailand and Hong Kong, and 18th place in the U.S. “Fire,” the lead song of the band’s special album released Monday, immediately topped seven domestic music ch
May 3, 2016
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Artist Eliasson plans gigantic fountain for Versailles
PARIS (AFP) -- Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, who wowed New Yorkers with his 10-story urban waterfalls and Londoners with his giant trippy sunset at Tate Modern, said Monday he wanted to “make dreams come true” with his latest project in France. He plans to follow Anish Kapoor’s controversial “Queen’s vagina” sculpture at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris with “an incredibly high” fountain in its gardens. But he refused to say how big the jet of water which will be shot from the top of the
May 3, 2016
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FBI returns to home of man linked to $500m Boston art heist
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Federal authorities returned on Monday to search the Connecticut property of a reputed mobster suspecting of having knowledge about the largest art heist in U.S. history. FBI agents went to the Manchester home of Robert Gentile. It wasn’t immediately clear why they were there. Agents sent up a small tent in the front yard. Federal prosecutors believe the 79-year-old Gentile knows about the still-unsolved 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. T
May 3, 2016
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[Herald Review] KNB combines classic with contemporary in ‘Serenade & The Rite of Spring’
The Korean National Ballet unveiled its combined performance of “Serenade & The Rite of Spring” over the weekend, showcasing a night of blissful classical ballet and unorthodox modern dance. While the KNB’s past performances of Stravinsky’s wildly unexpected avant-garde ballet “The Rite of Spring” were coupled with the performance of the Beethoven classic “The Seventh Symphony,” this season’s replacement and premiere of “Serenade” was a much-welcomed surprise when it was staged at the LG Arts
May 2, 2016
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Jazz fest’s last day finishes soggy, but strong
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Wind, rain and a lightning strike beside the stage where Bonnie Raitt was singing didn’t stop the soggy last day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival from rollicking to a close. Lightning hit the scaffolding for a giant TV screen showing fans close-ups of Raitt and the band performing “Keep Your Mouth Shut.” People nearby jumped backward at the bright flash at the screen’s top outer corner. Then came a thunderclap, sounding like a brief explosion. Raitt kept singing
May 2, 2016
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Art against the system
Chinese artist Liu Wei has been at the center of controversy in the Chinese contemporary art world. In 1999, he and fellow artists put up a radical exhibition that displayed a dead fetus on an ice bed, with human and animal parts hanging from the ceiling. Liu also presented a video installation showing naked people crawling on the floor like bugs.Liu Wei poses in front of “Merely a Mistake.” (Plateau) The exhibition prompted the Chinese government to enforce a legal ban on “bloody, brutal disp
May 2, 2016
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Salonen, a conductor in demand, eyes more time to compose
NEW YORK (AFP) - As one of the leading lights in contemporary classical music, Esa-Pekka Salonen is in an enviable position where he can pick and choose at will. The 57-year-old Finn is in New York conducting the Metropolitan Opera’s triumphant production of “Elektra,” the challenging Strauss work that Salonen said had figured on a list he jotted down in his 20s of operas he hoped to perform. But Salonen, who led the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 17 years, during which he was hailed for putting t
May 2, 2016
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Family Guy creator to sing with Boston Pops opening night
BOSTON (AP) -- Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is helping the Boston Pops kick off its spring concert series. The 42-year-old actor and filmmaker will be the orchestra's opening night guest on Friday. He’ll be singing a selection of popular songs from the 1940s and 1950s, according to the ensemble. The New England native is no stranger to the orchestra: He also appeared with them over the summer. MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in
May 2, 2016
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Akdong Musician to hold mini concert
Music duo Akdong Musician will be holding a mini concert ahead of the official release of their new album, the duo’s agency YG Entertainment announced on their official blog www.yg-life.com. The poster on the agency’s blog reads “See you on Children’s Day in Seoul Forest/ enter adolescence” and announces the concert schedule. Poster for Akdong Musician’s mini concert (YG Entertainment) The duo, consisting of siblings Lee Chan-hyuk and Lee Su-hyun, won the first prize in season two of SBS’ auditi
May 1, 2016
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4 whaling paintings by J.M.W. Turner to be united
NEW YORK (AP) -- Four whaling paintings by the British artist J.M.W. Turner will be united for the first time in an upcoming exhibition in New York City. “Turner’s Whaling Pictures” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens May 10 and runs through Aug. 7 The paintings were created toward the end of the artist’s career. Seascapes and other marine subjects were among Turner’s favorite subjects. The whaling paintings were exhibited in pairs at the Royal Academy in London in 1845 and 1846. One of th
May 1, 2016
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Jazz fest: Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dog acts canceled by rain
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Thunderstorms forced the cancellation of Saturday's late acts at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, including scheduled appearances by Stevie Wonder, rapper Snoop Dogg, Beck and others. Overcast skies turned to rain around 3 p.m. but that didn’t stop the music as fans reveled in such acts as New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia, Dr. John and the Nite Trippers and Hurray for the Riff Raff. But all that changed an hour later as heavier rain barred performances by Wond
May 1, 2016
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Copyright expires on Bolero, world's most famous classical crescendo
PARIS (AFP) - Almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright ran out on Sunday on one of the most popular and unique pieces of classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero.” “We are accustomed to say that a performance of Bolero begins every 10 minutes in the world. As the work lasts 17 minutes, it is therefore playing at all times somewhere,” said Laurent Petitgirard of France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. “And it is likely that we will hear it even more now, i
May 1, 2016
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Giant Chinese zodiac sculptures are turning heads in Boston
BOSTON (AP) -- A dozen giant bronze animal heads representing the signs of the Chinese zodiac are stopping people in their tracks in downtown Boston and sparking conversations. “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” by contemporary Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, is the latest in a series of outdoor public art projects on the Rose Kennedy Greenway intended to delight, awe and educate the thousands of tourists and workers who walk through the park daily. “The goal of all public art
May 1, 2016
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‘Amadeus’ musical stars team up for duo concert series
Two stars of the international-hit rock musical, “Amadeus: Mozart, L’ Opera Rock” are teaming up for a live duo concert series in Korea this summer. Italy-native Mikelangelo Loconte and French musical star Laurent Ban recently wrapped up the Seoul run of “Amadeus,” the first time the production was performed by its original French cast here. The duo is scheduled to hold eight shows from June 30 to July 5 at the KT&G Sangsang Art Hall in Seoul. “Korean fans are unlike fans anywhere else in the
May 1, 2016
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Eyelike: Beyonce, Rufus Wainwright, Jayhawks
Beyonce again proves to be center of pop universeBeyonce “Lemonade” (Parkwood, Columbia)Beyonce doesn’t simply release albums anymore, she unleashes events. And so it was this weekend, amid deep mourning for a lost icon, music’s queen dropped “Lemonade,” an arresting display of what technically qualifies as videos and singles, but is better described as a work of art that appeared deeply personal, yet is a bold social and political statement as well. It contains revenge anthems for scorned wive
April 29, 2016
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Pompidou Center to open first Asian branch in Seoul next year
The Pompidou Center in Paris will open an exhibition space in Seoul next year, the museum’s first outpost in Asia. “The Centre Pompidou has been for several months in negotiations with a Korean partner, Mr. Sounjou Seo, to open a branch in Seoul for five years, possibly renewable,” Denis Berthomier, executive director of the Centre Pompidou, confirmed in an email to The Korea Herald. The location of the Seoul branch hasn’t been decided yet, but Seo, who will serve as the director of the Centre
April 28, 2016
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New Paris museum for one of world's top art collections
PARIS (AFP) - One of the world's biggest private art collections, amassed by French billionaire Francois Pinault, is to be housed in a new Paris museum a stone’s throw from the Louvre, the city's mayor said Wednesday. Luxury goods mogul Pinault, who also owns the auction house Christie’s, is taking over the domed Bourse de Commerce in the centre of the French capital to show his 1.4-billion-dollar collection of modern masters. Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who negotiated the deal, described the museum as
April 28, 2016