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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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[Weekender] Korea's traditional sauce culture gains global recognition
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BLACKPINK's Rose stays at No. 3 on British Official Singles chart with 'APT.'
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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NIN, The XX to join Ansan Rock Festival
The first-string lineup for the inaugural year of the Ansan Valley Rock Festival has been announced.Acts to grace the stage during the three-day rock fest in July: Nine Inch Nails, The XX, fun., and Coheed & Cambria for the foreign artists, along with local performers Third Line Butterfly, Guckkasten, 9 and the Numbers, Romantic Punch, and the Solutions. The additional lineups to this year’s show have not yet been made public will include. The 2013 Ansan Valley Rock Festival, formerly the Jisan
March 5, 2013
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Psy to release ‘Gangnam Style’ remix
South Korean rapper Psy will release a remix album of his global hit song “Gangnam Style” on Tuesday (U.S. local time), his Korean management agency said.The star-studded remix EP (extended play), available digitally on U.S. Republic Records/School Boy Records, has four tracks, YG Entertainment said.The collection features guest spots by U.S. hip-hop titans 2 Chainz and Tyga on one track and remixing from electronic dance music giants Diplo and Afrojack, the company said, adding that the America
March 5, 2013
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S. Korea cites 'significant progress' at U.N. over N. Korea sanctions
South Korea on Tuesday reported a "significant progress" at the U.N. Security Council debate over how to punish North Korea for conducting a nuclear test last month, the foreign ministry said, as the council is set to hold a meeting in New York."A significant progress has been made (at the U.N. Security Council over sanctions against North Korea), but no final agreement has been reached yet," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said. Cho confirmed that the Security Council will hold a meeti
March 5, 2013
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Busan’s local art under spotlight
Sungkok Art Museum has taken up the role of showcasing regional art and artists that have largely escaped public interest for years. “Major galleries paid greater interest to regional arts in the 1980s, inviting artists for exhibitions, but such exhibitions are rarely held now,” said Park Cheon-nam, head of curators at Sungkok Art Museum, at the opening reception last Friday. “We don’t see exhibitions that look deep into regional artists and their art world although many parts of the country are
March 4, 2013
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New York photographer snaps city’s face
NEW YORK (AFP) ― New York is famously photogenic, but photographer Brandon Stanton is not interested in the skyscrapers, bridges or famous yellow cabs. It is New Yorkers themselves he wants to capture ― 10,000 of them.Every day, the obsessive shutterbug goes out through Harlem, Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx to snap another New York face. He is up to nearly 5,000.There is a woman in white furs, an older man in a fake tiger-skin coat, a nun, a man in wizard costume, ballerinas posing over heat
March 4, 2013
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When choreographers collaborate with architects
For architects, it is like a huge, automated machine. For dancers and performers, it’s where they present their works and meet the audience. And for the rest of us, it is a place to enjoy stage entertainment. While most theatergoers focus on the performance rather than the venue itself, theaters can be seen and interpreted differently by those who work behind the scenes. Aside from the stage, the audience seats, the lobby and the ticket box, the property houses a number of closed spaces that ena
March 4, 2013
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Romance with a punch
With the music scene in Hongdae growing faster than ever, one group that has been making waves beyond the Hongdae scene, where they are already popular, is indie-group Romantic Punch. The group most recently performed with singer Lee Seung-hwan at the “Lee Seung-hwan and Brothers” concert on March 1. The group also has been featured a number of times on TV, including on KBS2’s survival program, “Top Band” (2012) in which they won second place. The popular group now consists of five members: Bae
March 4, 2013
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Bieber gets over 'worst birthday'
After having the "worst birthday," pop star Justin Bieber cheered himself up by performing at Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England, officials say.While celebrating his 19th birthday Friday, Bieber and his entourage were booted from London club Cirque du Soir after an employee at the club smelled marijuana, The Mirror reported.After the incident, Bieber tweeted "worst birthday," and retreated to his hotel room.A spokesman for the club said the incident was actually over some members of Bieber'
March 4, 2013
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Chinese artists ink new future for 1,000-year art
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Classical Chinese painters were masters of rocky mountains, but Liu Dan, one of a group of contemporary artists putting a new twist on a thousand-year tradition, sticks with just the rock.Liu’s minutely detailed “Scholar’s Rock,” a large-scale, almost photographic exploration of a single gnarly, eroded stone at once pays homage to the classical tradition of scrupulous ink and brush skills, while turning the notion of soaring landscapes on its head.The work, among a collection of
March 3, 2013
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Galleries show work of ‘uncommon’ architects
With architecture more commonly associated with engineering than art, exhibitions devoted to architects are still rare.But two exhibitions in Seoul focus on architects whose backgrounds as artists gave them a unique approach. The exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea sheds light on the life of Chung Gu-yon, who died of cancer in 2011. The first public exhibition of the archives of Chung since his death features about 2,000 items including his sketches, journals and books t
March 3, 2013
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Jisan Valley Rock Festival relocates to Ansan
One of the country’s biggest and most highly anticipated annual rock festivals now has a new name, along with a new location. The former Jisan Valley Rock Festival has moved its venue to Daebudo, which is within the municipal borders of Ansan City, and has been renamed as the Ansan Valley Rock Festival.Starting this year, the rock festival will be held at the Daebu Sea Breeze Theme Park in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. The festival’s organizers suggest that the new venue will provide concert goers w
March 3, 2013
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U.S. film, music industries roll out anti-piracy program
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A new “copyright alert” system rolled out last week in the United States in an effort to curb online piracy.The system, informally known as “six strikes,” is a voluntary effort of the music and film industries, with the largest Internet service providers participating.The program will use warnings and could result in slowed or suspended Internet connections, but users will not lose web access entirely. Still, some civil liberties groups and Internet activists call it too invas
March 3, 2013
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Remembering the colonial period and the Korean War
The month of March opens here with the March 1 Independence Movement Day, a national holiday dedicated to commemorating the 1919 nationwide uprising against Japan’s colonization. The uprising, known as the March 1st Independence Movement, was one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance against Japanese rule ― which ended in 1945 at the end of World War II.This month, Seoul’s theater scene is presenting a number of plays featuring the turbulent period of Korean history. One of them i
Feb. 28, 2013
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Eyelike: Boheme undergoes beguiling change
Boheme undergoes beguiling changeErin Boheme“What A Life”(Heads Up)Erin Boheme dropped off the radar after making an impressive debut as a traditional jazz singer at age 18. Seven years later, she‘s released "What A Life," the first album by another singer Michael Buble has produced. A more mature Boheme has transformed herself into a pop singer-songwriter on "What A Life," performing tunes reflecting her own experience of falling in and out of love.Boheme uses her jazz technique to accent her g
Feb. 28, 2013
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Shin Cho-i: ‘This is just who I am’
At first glance, onlookers most likely cannot help but be nagged by one seemingly social taboo of a lingering question: “Is Shin Cho-i a he or a she?”“I know when most people see me they ask themselves, ‘Is that a boy or a girl?’” said female solo vocalist Shin. “I’ve gotten that my whole life.” Because the singer bares social traits that people often associate with being masculine or non-feminine, she has, and continues, to cope with the realities of living in a world of typecasting and social
Feb. 27, 2013
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Wonder Girls’ Hye-rim to join English radio show
Hye-rim from popular girl group Wonder Girls will star in the K-pop segment of EBS FM’s new English radio program “English Go Go.” The singer will join the show every Wednesday for the live video webcast portion of the program. According to EBS, Hye-rim will sing different genres of music including dance, ballads, and trot in English. The K-pop segment will allow listeners to participate in the program. Once every month, listeners will be able to call in to sing popular English pop songs in Kore
Feb. 27, 2013
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Artday spring auction presents reflections on Korean nature
Artday, a sister company of The Korea Herald, will hold a spring auction that presents a variety of contemporary art by Korean artists. It features about 130 paintings by established artists, including Chon Kyung-ja, Lee Dae-won, Kim Jong-hak, Oh Yoon, Oh Chi-gyun, and Kim Jeom-seon. Online bidding is possible at the Artday website (www.artday.co.kr) or through the “Artday” mobile application, which provides real-time information on auction status.The highlight of the exhibition is Lee Dae-won’s
Feb. 26, 2013
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Jang Geun-suk draws 10,000 fans to concert with Team H
Team H, comprised of hallyu actor Jang Geun-suk and music partner Big Brother, kicked off its first world tour “2013 Team H Party ― I Just Wanna Have Fun” in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Japan on Feb. 23-24. The concerts drew some 10,000 fans, according to Tree J Company, the group’s management agency, Monday.The team sang songs from its new EP, “Lounge H, The First Impression” and new songs from their upcoming album “I Just Wanna Have Fun,” slated to be released on Wednesday.“We staged the conce
Feb. 26, 2013
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Artistic virtuoso RossyPP is a breath of fresh air
With today’s music scene flooded with discombobulating club beats, gaudy costumes and cutesy, throwaway lyrics, true musicianship is becoming increasingly hard to find. The singers on TV are not typically the people who are behind the lyrics or the composition of the songs. Singer, songwriter, musician and illustrator Ryu Sung-hee, who goes by the stage name RossyPP, is one of those rare talents who is truly deserving of the title “artist.” Not only does she sing, compose her own music and play
Feb. 26, 2013
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Janet Jackson says she married Al Mana last year
Janet Jackson knows how to keep a secret: The singer has been married since last year.A representative for Jackson confirmed Monday that the musician and Wissam Al Mana wed last year.This is Jackson's second secret marriage. She secretly married Rene Elizondo Jr. in 1991. They separated in 1999.The 46-year-old Jackson first tied the knot when she was 18 to singer James DeBarge, which lasted three months in 1984.In a joint statement to Entertainment Tonight, Jackson and Al Mana said their wedding
Feb. 26, 2013
