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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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[Weekender] Young Koreans more open to Japanese cultural products
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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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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EXID tops iTunes in Asian countries
K-pop girl group EXID’s first full-length studio album “Street,” released on Wednesday, has slayed charts at home and abroad. Its lead song “L.I.E” topped domestic music charts Mnet, Genie, Bugs, Olleh Music and Soribada. A still from the music video of “L.I.E,” the lead song of EXID’s first studio album “Street” (Banana Culture) The album was also released on iTunes on Tuesday and garnered attention in Asia. In Hong Kong, the album topped the K-pop albums chart and the lead song also topped the
June 3, 2016
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EXO to drop new album ‘EX’ACT’ next week
Boy band EXO will release a new album titled “EX’ACT,” featuring two contrasting lead singles, next week, its agency said Thursday.“Monster” is a dance track noted for its nose-smashing percussion. It is produced by Kenzie and LDN Noise and has straightforward lyrics about a man frustrated with the end of a relationship, S.M. Entertainment said.Kim Min-seok, who goes by the stage name Xiumin, of EXO (S.M. Entertainment)“Lucky One,” the other main song, fuses R&B, punk and dance music and explore
June 2, 2016
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Prince smashes Billboard sales records following death
NEW YORK (AP) – Prince’s death sent fans flocking to buy his music -- and set some new standards on the charts at Billboard, the music industry bible.For the first full sales week following Prince’s death on April 21, five of his albums were in Billboard’s top 10, at Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7. Only Beyonce’s “Lemonade” kept him from the top. Billboard says no artist has had that many albums in the Top 10.Prince had 19 discs in Billboard’s top 200, beating a record of 14 previously set by The Beatles
June 2, 2016
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Playboy enters music streaming, with racy footage backdrop
NEW YORK (AFP) -- Playboy, fresh from doing away with full nudity for its models, is taking another step to modernize by entering the booming area of music streaming.The iconic men’s publication founded in 1953 on Wednesday launched Playboy Music, an app for smartphones and tablets that sets racy footage of women to song.Playboy Music essentially offers original music videos, with subscribers who pay 99 cents each month gaining access to imagery of models posing, acting and lounging to the music
June 2, 2016
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Big Bang to release World Tour movie
At the end of June, Big Bang will release a movie tracing the world tour concerts the group held last year, YG Entertainment said Wednesday. The film, titled “Big Bang MADE,” will open June 30 exclusively at CGV theaters in Korea. The group’s agency YG released a poster for the film on its official blog and social media outlets Wednesday. “Big Bang MADE” recounts the group’s 66 concerts held across 32 cities throughout 13 countries in North and South America, Australia and Asia from last April t
June 1, 2016
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Dream Concert boasts stellar lineup
The 2016 Dream Concert, one of the largest K-pop concerts in Asia, will be held Saturday at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Mapo-gu, Seoul. This 22nd edition will feature a stellar lineup of 28 acts this year, ranging from established superstars EXO and Taemin of SHINee to recent fan favorites like Mamamoo and VIXX. Other acts include popular girl groups GFriend and Red Velvet, as well as rising newbies CLC, I.O.I and NCT U. Model and actor Hong Jong-hyun, actress Kim So-hyun and Super Junior mem
June 1, 2016
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Chungmu Arts Center’s new head talks future of Korean productions
Newly appointed Chungmu Arts Center CEO Kim Seung-up has unveiled his vision for the arts center, which includes a heavy emphasis on creating and exporting more original Korean productions. Kim officially became head of the Chungmu Arts Center, formerly the Chungmu Art Hall, on Jan. 18, following the retirement of the center’s former leader Lee Jong-deok. On Wednesday, Kim met with press to announce his plans to make the Chungmu Arts Center the new “mecca of original Korean productions” and t
June 1, 2016
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‘Little Prince’ picture fetches 130,000 euros
PARIS (AFP) -- An original watercolor from French classic “The Little Prince” was sold for 133,200 euros ($148,000) on Tuesday, Paris auction house Artcurial said.Six buyers battled it out for the painting, which reached more than double its list price.“The price obtained for this iconic image is a measure of the status of this universal work of art and its international fame,” said Guillaume Romaneix, a books and manuscripts specialist at Artcurial.The painting shows “Le Petit Prince” in the de
June 1, 2016
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Leibovitz talks high-fliers and photo phobics at Hong Kong show
HONG KONG (AFP) -- From dancers to corporate executives and rights campaigners, the latest show by photographer Annie Leibovitz revolves around high-flying women she says are more confident than her previous subjects -- though some still hated having their picture taken. “Women: New Portraits” opened in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the fifth stop on a 10-city tour, displayed in a bare bones setting on a disused floor of an industrial building. The images were produced on an Epson printer in her office,
June 1, 2016
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Rewind! Germany's top court nixes Kraftwerk sample verdicts
BERLIN (AP) -- German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have suffered a legal setback at Germany's highest court in a suit over a two-second sample.The verdict is a victory for German music producer Moses Pelham, who had used a beat from Kraftwerk’s 1977 work “Metall auf Metall” without permission or payment.Pelham had argued that restricting the use of even short sequences would limit his artistic freedom because rap and hip-hop rely heavily on sampling.Tuesday’s ruling by Germany’s Constitut
June 1, 2016
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EXO to drop new album next month
Popular K-pop boy band EXO will release its third studio album next month, the group’s agency said Tuesday.It will be the first album by the act in six months, following “Sing for You,” a winter seasonal special album that came out in December. EXO (S.M. Entertainment)S.M. Entertainment said the album will come out on June 9, and the group will celebrate with a large-scale showcase at Olympic Park in southern Seoul upon the eve of its release.Debuting in 2012, EXO rose to fame in South Korea and
June 1, 2016
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Dynamic Duo to hold first concert in three years
Korean hip-hop duo Dynamic Duo will kick off a solo concert tour next month, the duo’s agency Amoeba Culture announced Wednesday. The duo released their eighth studio album, “Grand Carnival,” last year, touring across seven cities in North America. The group also performed at the record label’s “2015 Amoebahood Concert.” It has been three years, however, since they last headlined their own concert, “Lucky Moment with Dynamic Duo” in 2013. Korean hip-hop duo Dynamic Duo (Amoeba Culture) The duo w
June 1, 2016
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YG inks deals with Chinese online giants
YG Entertainment has jump-started its expansion into China, forming financial partnerships with online giants there and collaborating with them on variety shows. The entertainment agency that houses K-pop superstars Big Bang and Psy, among others, announced its partnership with China’s leading online and mobile ticketing company Beijing Weiying Technology Co. and the online video platform of Tencent, China’s most-used Internet service portal, at a ceremony at Grand Hyatt Seoul on Tuesday. The fi
May 31, 2016
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Ukranian art buyer hands back stolen Dutch masterpiece
THE HAGUE (AFP) - An Ukrainian art buyer has handed back a missing 18th-century painting stolen a decade ago from a Dutch museum, bringing the total number of masterpieces retrieved from the heist to five, officials said Monday.“An Ukranian resident returned one of the 24 paintings that were stolen from the Westfries Museum to the Dutch Embassy in Kiev,” said Marieke van Leeuwen, spokeswoman for the Hoorn municipality in northwest Netherlands where the museum is based.“The man had brought in the
May 31, 2016
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Art group plans to haul part of jumbo jet to Burning Man
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- A Los Angeles-based entrepreneur is turning part of a jumbo jet into an art installation and plans to haul it to Burning Man, a feat he failed to accomplish last year.A 23-meter portion of a 747 airplane will be towed 724 kilometers from California’s Mojave Desert to northern Nevada in time for the annual 70,000-person gathering in August, Ken Feldman told the Reno Gazette-Journal. Feldman’s arts nonprofit, the Big Imagination Foundation, has secured the giant plane, and cre
May 31, 2016
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Spain’s Prado unveils major exhibit of Dutch master Bosch
MADRID (AP) -- It may not be the most suitable exhibit for the squeamish but the Prado Museum’s 500th anniversary display of the most and best of Dutch Renaissance master Hieronymus Bosch is definitely a must for art lovers, and maybe gore freaks too.Bosch’s work, with its monstrous, apocalyptic scenes depicting man’s struggle against temptation juxtaposed with idyllic scenes of paradise, has long fascinated art lovers. But rarely has so much of his work been brought together under one roof. The
May 31, 2016
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JYP artists to hold biennial concert in August
Artistes from JYP Entertainment, one of the country’s largest entertainment agencies, will be performing at Jamsil Arena from Aug. 6-7 as part of the concert series JYP Nation. The agency’s biennial concert, which started in 2010, presents collaborative performances as well as hit songs of its artistes. Poster of JYP Entertainment’s biennial concert JYP Nation (JYP Entertainment) The full lineup and poster for JYP Nation was revealed on Tuesday. Stars performing this year include the CEO of the
May 31, 2016
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Korean pianists share top prize at Citta di Airola
Korean pianists Lee Jung-soo, 26, and Lee Dong-yul, 35, shared the honor of winning the first prize at the 8th International Music Contest “Citta di Airola.” The music contest, held in Airola, Italy, from May 21-29, consists of six categories including soloists, chamber music, opera singing, jazz and pop Music. Seventy of the 700 musicians who participated in the competition were solo pianists. Pianists Lee Jung-soo and Lee Dong-yul won the first prize in the no age limit section of the soloists
May 30, 2016
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[Herald Interview] A ‘good messy’ mix of jazz and soul
In the world of digitalized everything, soul singer Kandace Springs is drawn to music that is “stripped bare” and natural. “It’s kind of a crossover between jazz and soul. It’s really organic, all live instruments,” the Nashville, Tennessee native said of her music when she met with The Korea Herald in southern Seoul last Monday. Springs was in town to perform at the Audi Lounge stage at Club Octagon that night. Nashville-based soul singer Kandace Springs sits with The Korea Herald for an inter
May 30, 2016
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Maestro Muti’s passion inspires young musicians
Internationally hailed as one of the most prominent and wealthiest head conductors in the classical music field today, Riccardo Muti needs little introduction. The superstar conductor, currently head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, recently wrapped up his first-ever opera academy in Asia -- the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy -- held from May 22 to 29 at Gyeonggi Arts Center and Seoul Arts Center.Muti, 74, first launched his eight-day-long opera
May 30, 2016