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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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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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Ailee prepares for Japanese debut
After the release of her latest EP “A’s Doll House” on July 12, Ailee is now determined to spread her wings abroad and take on the Japanese music market. Through a contract with Warner Music Japan, the young soloist is preparing to make her official debut in Japan in November with the Japanese version of her hit debut single “Heaven,” according to her agency YMC Entertainment. “Since the beginning of her career we have been preparing for her debut in Japan and she has even been learning Japanese
Aug. 28, 2013
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Wheesung, Bae Chi Gi team up for Busan concert
R&B solo vocalist Wheesung will be joining hip-hop duo Bae Chi Gi at the group’s concert in Busan on Saturday. The show was originally intended to be a solo concert for the hip-hop duo; however, representatives of the singers’ agency YMC Entertainment announced on Tuesday that Wheesung will be making a special guest appearance. The artist, who is most famous for his Korean rendition of Craig David’s “Insomnia,” completed his military service earlier this month and the concert will mark the singe
Aug. 28, 2013
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Bass says no plans for an extended ’N Sync reunion
NEW YORK (AP) ― Don’t get your heart set on anything more than the 90-second ’N Sync reunion seen on the MTV Video Music Awards. It was their first performance together in 11 years ― and the last time they’ll do it, at least for a while.“It would be lovely to do it, but we got nothing planned,” Lance Bass told the Associated Press between breaks while doing his Sirius XM show “Dirty Pop with Lance Bass.”Part of the reason is that Justin Timberlake begins his solo tour this fall, and the closest
Aug. 28, 2013
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Chapman brothers’ cynical vision introduced in Seoul
British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, brothers as well as artists, make their artworks as horrific and awful as possible. They paint the faces of wealthy men in 19th century portraits, making them look decomposed with the deformed image revealing rotting veins and muscles underneath the skin. The portraits bought at an auction by the artists were redone to point out how futile their wealth and life has become as their paintings, once a symbol of wealth, ended up for sale. The portrait is the l
Aug. 27, 2013
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‘Enter at your own pleasure’: Sensation returns for round two
Imagine a night filled with thumping house music, a creative theme, spectacular theatrics, high-flying acrobatics, mesmerizing lights and special effects, explosive fireworks and tens of thousands of music lovers gathering to dance the night away. This is “Sensation,” an annual one-day, all-night indoor dance party event, and it is returning to Seoul.The Sensation event is difficult to describe and capture all in one breath as it combines so many different elements of music and theater to create
Aug. 27, 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
Aug. 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
Aug. 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 $3 million.The sale includes 20 original sculptural plaster maquettes created during Renoir’s final years with the help of a young assistant, Richard Guino, at the painter’s Les Collettes home in the southeaster
Aug. 26, 2013
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Hip-hop world caught up in a cutthroat ‘diss war’
The local hip-hop scene has been explosive this past week with disses flying in every direction as several popular rap stars decided to carry out their feuds publicly, and with some pretty harsh verses. It all started two weeks ago with the release of the hip-hop track “Control,” by American rap artists Big Sean, featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The single basically called out a handful of the new rappers in the U.S. music industry, such as Wale, Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and D
Aug. 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
Aug. 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
Aug. 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
Aug. 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
Aug. 25, 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
Aug. 23, 2013
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Crayon Pop captivates foreign media
The almost embarrassingly silly concept of the nation’s latest girl group craze Crayon Pop has managed to grab the attention of overseas broadcasters. Journalists from the U.S.’ ABC News as well China’s Shanghai TV came to Korea on Thursday to spend the day with the five ladies of Crayon Pop since the quirky choreography to the group’s hit single “Bar Bar Bar” has begun to blow up virally, resulting in people asking whether it may follow in the footsteps of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and “Gentleman.”
Aug. 23, 2013
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Tony Bennett to attend March on Washington
NEW YORK (AP) ― Tony Bennett plans to travel to the U.S. capital to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. as the March on Washington marks its 50th year.Bennett, who marched with the civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, is scheduled to perform as part of Saturday’s festivities commemorating the historic march and King’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.The entertainer said Thursday he wants to honor King‘s humanitarian message, but will also be in Washington as part of
Aug. 23, 2013
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E-sens attacks Gaeko, former agency with version of ‘Control’
Rapper E-sens on Friday bashed his recently-parted agency Amoeba Culture and Gaeko of Dynamic Duo in a fashion befitting his hip-hop roots: releasing a diss track that sampled rapper Big Sean’s “Control.”“Amoeba Culture. Kiss my a--. You’ll just go to the press like you always have. You’ll make me look like an ungrateful bastard,” read the lyrics of the 26-year-old rapper’s track “You Can’t Control Me.”The Control fad was kick-started by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, who called out a number of
Aug. 23, 2013
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Art students open exhibition in Seoul City Hall
United Exhibition, a group of 80 art students from Seoul National University, Kookmin University, Hongik University and Ewha Womans University, are holding an exhibition titled “How Dare You” in Seoul City Hall’s Citizen Gallery from Aug. 20 to 29. Sponsored by Seoul City, the exhibition includes a wide range of creative work. “Cut Me” by Hongik University student Kim Ji-yeon features strings sewn onto a canvas with scissors hung beside it. Visitors are encouraged to take the scissors and cut so
Aug. 22, 2013
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New York Met expands live opera broadcast program
NEW YORK (AFP) ― New York’s Metropolitan Opera said Wednesday it has expanded its program of live broadcasts for the 2013-2014 season, with 10 operas to be shown in 1,900 movie theaters in dozens of countries.The season kicks off on Oct. 5 with a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and wraps up on May 10 with Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.”The Met will unveil four new productions including Verdi’s “Falstaff” conducted by music director James Levine, who has been absent for nearly three y
Aug. 22, 2013
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Spanish artist to share riches from botched fresco makeover
MADRID (AFP) ― An 82-year-old Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a painting of Christ made her a global laughing stock is to reap nearly half the riches from worldwide merchandising of the monkey-like image.Cecilia Gimenez took it upon herself a year ago to fix up Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), a flaking, century-old fresco of Christ painted on a pillar in a church in Borja, northeastern Spain.The touched-up result resembled a pale-faced ape with cartoon-style eyes and mouth and a crooked s
Aug. 22, 2013