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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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Baek A-yeon’s ‘So-so’ sweeps charts
Singer-songwriter Baek A-yeon swept domestic music charts Tuesday with her new single “So-so.” “So-so,” which was released at midnight on Monday, has emerged top on eight music charts -- MelOn, Genie, Mnet, Naver Music, Olleh Music, Bugs, Soribada and Monkey3. The new song, written and composed by Baek, is a neo-urban tune speaking for singles who don’t expect dramatic romance, but hope to fall in love with somebody. The music video for Baek A-yeon’s digital single “So-So” (JYP Entertainment) Th
May 24, 2016
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Madonna responds to critics of her Prince tribute
Madonna is dismissing critics of her tribute to Prince at the Billboard Music Awards with style. A day after her performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and duet with Stevie Wonder on “Purple Rain,” the pop singer took to social media Monday and posted a picture of herself in a purple boa with a flower in her teeth. She wrote that anyone who wants to do a tribute to Prince is welcome to, “whatever your age gender or skin color. If you loved him and he inspired you then show it!!! I love Prince 4 e
May 24, 2016
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Madonna, Stevie Wonder pay tribute to Prince at Billboard
Madonna closed Sunday's Billboard Music Awards paying tribute to Prince with the help of Stevie Wonder, ending the night with “Purple Rain.” Wearing a shiny purple suit, Madonna kicked off the tribute with a version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which Prince wrote and Sinead O’Connor recorded. She sat in a large purple chair and was teary-eyed as she sang the song, as videos and photos of Prince were projected behind her. Wonder, who wore a purple scarf, later joined her for “Purple Rain” as the au
May 23, 2016
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Fraud or common practice?
If a painting displayed in a gallery was not painted by the artist who signed it, what are viewers to make of it? Such is the controversy that currently surrounds celebrity singer and painter Cho Young-nam, who is in hot water over allegations he hired a ghost painter to create his works for about seven years. In face of mounting criticism, Cho canceled his concerts and a solo gallery exhibition scheduled to open last week. Last Monday, a 61-year-old painter surnamed Song claimed he had paint
May 23, 2016
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Visit Korea Committee removes Seolhyun’s image
Seolhyun’s image promoting 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year was taken down from Visit Korea Committee’s website and Facebook account. Seolhyun, a member of K-pop girl group AOA, has promoted the Visit Korea Year along with actor Lee Min-ho as honorary ambassadors since last November. The committee’s website and Facebook account previously displayed both Lee and Seolhyun’s images, but only Lee’s image is now shown. Seolhyun of K-pop girl group AOA (Visit Korea Committee) Seolhyun and fellow bandmate Ji
May 23, 2016
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China’s Weiwei turns Macedonia tear gas into art
ATHENS (AFP) - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has opened a new show in one of Athens’ top archaeological museums, with Macedonian police tear gas canisters as one of the main exhibits. The “Ai Weiwei at Cycladic” exhibition, which opened at the Museum of Cycladic Art on Friday, features a number of works inspired by Europe’s migrant crisis. One of them, “Tear bottle/tear gas canister” -- a display of canisters alongside antique bottles used to collect the tears of mourners -- refers to an in
May 23, 2016
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[Album Review] Jessica sends love, plays it safe
Jessica “With Love, J” (Coridel Entertainment) Jessica’s album is warm and upbeat, singing of love and hope. It also takes less risks and plays it safe with familiar melodies and generic lyrics. The former Girls’ Generation member, who left the group in 2014 to pursue her fashion business Blanc & Eclare, has returned to the K-pop scene with her first album, “With Love, J.” Title track “Fly” is a bright, moderately catchy pop track about aiming high and achieving your dreams. It adds a global vo
May 20, 2016
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[Album Review] Tiffany -- stylish or listless
Tiffany “I Just Wanna Dance” (S.M. Entertainment) In her first solo EP “I Just Wanna Dance,” Tiffany of famed girl group Girls’ Generation is stripped of her usual glitziness. The cover features her in a loose-fitting slip, while the album’s title is sprawled in minimal font against a pink background -- perhaps in a nod to the singer‘s famous fondness for the color. The sounds match the visuals, conveying that hazy old-school feeling trending these days. The album comprises six soft, retro-pop
May 20, 2016
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[Album Review] Under the radar, Darrell Scott defies category
Darrell Scott “Couchville Sessions” (Full Light Records) Darrell Scott is one of those Nashville-based singer-songwriters who out-of-towners hear in some of the city’s smaller venues and wonder: “Why isn’t he more famous?” He answers emphatically on the stellar “Couchville Sessions,” a new release of material recorded 15 years ago in his living room in rural Tennessee. In a spirited indictment of the music industry’s over-reliance on labels called “Down to the River,” Scott spells it out in the
May 20, 2016
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JYJ's Junsu to stage outdoor showcase
Junsu of South Korean boy band JYJ will throw a solo outdoor showcase in Seoul, his star agency said Friday.The 29-year-old heartthrob will perform in the patio near the east gate of COEX, southern Seoul, at 7:30 p.m. on May 30, according to C-JeS Entertainment.The event is organized to promote his fourth full-length solo album "Xignature," to be released the same day.His showcase will be broadcast in real time through "1theK," an online broadcast channel operated by South Korean music streaming
May 20, 2016
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Grandson to auction Miro paintings to help refugees
LONDON (AFP) - Some 28 works of art by the Spanish painter Joan Miro will be auctioned in London on Thursday, with the profits going towards helping refugees. The Miro sale at Christie's auction house in London is aiming to raise 50,000 euros ($56,600) for the Red Cross humanitarian organization. The Barcelona painter’s grandson told Agence France-Presse that he would donate the proceeds of the sale because that is what Miro would have wanted. “I consider myself as the torch-bearer for his wishe
May 19, 2016
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La Scala’s 2016-17 season brings back Puccini, Muti
MILAN (AP) -- La Scala’s 2016-17 season is a lot about healing old wounds. It opens with a once-contested version of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and continues with the long-awaited return of its former musical director who left abruptly in 2005 amid open hostility from opera house employees. The program for the storied opera house announced Wednesday emphasizes the Italian repertoire to match the vision of principal conductor Riccardo Chailly, who will become musical director in January. Nine o
May 19, 2016
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Public art fest brings culture to back alleys of Seoul
Pil-dong, a small district filled with apartments and printing shops on the northwestern edge of Mount Namsan, is offering a variety of arts and cultural events from Thursday to Saturday. The advertisement agency Hands BTL which is headquartered in Pil-dong, and residents of the historic neighborhood are holding a street arts festival for the first time in the backstreets of Pil-dong, behind the bustling Chungmuro Station in Jung-gu, Seoul. A street museum at a corner in an alley of Pil-dong (
May 18, 2016
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Kim Ki-min becomes first Korean ballerino to win top award
Kim Ki-min has become the first Korean ballerino to win the world’s most prestigious ballet award, organizers said Wednesday. The organizing committee of Benois de la Danse 2016 declared him the best dancer on Tuesday, local time, for his role as Solor in the Paris Opera Ballet’s “La Bayadere de Rudolf Noureev” staged in late 2015. Ballerino Kim Ki-min (Mariinsky Theater) The 24-year-old is currently the principal dancer with Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet. Previously, two other Korean ballerinos --
May 18, 2016
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Eight cities added to Big Bang’s China tour
Korean boy band Big Bang will restart its tour of China next month followings its concerts there that drew tens of thousands of people earlier this year, the group’s agency said Wednesday. In March, Big Bang met about 182,000 fans in “The 2016 BigBang MADE [V.I.P.] Tour” of eight Chinese cities. After China, the band started on a tour of four Japanese cities, which runs from April 22 to May 29. The boys will resume the China tour in June in view of the enthusiastic support of their Chinese fans,
May 18, 2016
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Eric Clapton 'kind of might be saying goodby'
NEW YORK (AP) -- Eric Clapton, a Belieber? The 71-year-old guitar legend has three daughters ranging in age from 11 to 14, and it's only natural they have little interest in dad’s old Robert Johnson records. They're Justin Bieber fans. "I was, I suppose, a little bit disappointed that they were talking about him, until I heard the music," he said. "It’s got some substance now." Clapton's fans need not worry about that sentiment. His new disc being released Friday, "I Still Do," fits like a comfo
May 18, 2016
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Jailed Russian artist says guards cracked rib in beating
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who is on trial for setting fire to the security service headquarters in a protest, on Tuesday accused guards of beating him and cracking his rib. “As I write these lines, my knee has been injured, I have a cracked rib and internal bruising.... Every breath gives me pain,” Pavlensky said in a handwritten letter published on Facebook by his partner Oksana Shalygina, which blamed the assault on “the convoy guards of the Moscow City Court.”
May 18, 2016
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman cancels performance over LGBT law
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- World-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman said he canceled his Wednesday performance with the North Carolina Symphony after he was told he would not be able to include a personal statement opposing the state’s new law limiting antidiscrimination policies for LGBT people in the event program. In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, Perlman said he will not perform in North Carolina until the law is reversed. “If I’m invited, I will come once the law’s r
May 18, 2016
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EXID to release new album on June 1
K-pop girl group EXID is making a comeback with its first full-length studio album on June 1, the group’s agency Banana Culture announced Wednesday. “EXID has completed shooting promotional pictures and filming the music video,” local media reported Wednesday, quoting an agency insider. The lead song of the upcoming album will present a completely different concept from the group’s past hit songs “Up & Down” and “Hot Pink,” added the source. K-pop girl group EXID (Official Facebook) The five-mem
May 18, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Uncovering Korea's overlooked modern history
Park Chan-kyong thinks it’s a shame that most Koreans are forgetting crucial parts of their modern history -- the Korean War and the subsequent division -- and live as if such historical facts don’t impact their lives. “I went to college in 1984. It was a time when students were more often seen in democracy protests on the streets than in classrooms. Political issues made up 80-90 percent of our generation’s life. From our younger days, we had been exposed to the nationwide anticommunist propag
May 17, 2016