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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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[Album review] Assassin shows versatility on 1st album in years
Assassin “Theory of Reggaetivity” (Sound Age Entertainment) One of Jamaica‘s most underrated yet diverse and creative lyricists, Assassin A.K.A. Agent Sasco releases his first studio album in almost a decade. In a transition from dancehall, the artist turns his multi-talented hand to releasing a completely reggae album called “Theory of Reggaetivity.” With guest appearances from Chronixx and Australian singer Elesia Iimura, Assassin -- born Jeffrey Campbell -- takes on topics such as achieveme
March 11, 2016
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[Eye] Melodious comeback of musical star
Even as a youngster, Jeon Soo-kyung, one of the most successful musical actresses today, craved fame. “Ever since I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be famous,” said Jeon, 49, during an interview with The Korea Herald at the Millennium Hilton Seoul hotel. “Growing up I would see all these beautiful and admired celebrities on TV and I just knew that I wanted to be in the public eye,” she added. Musical actress Jeon Soo-kyeong poses during an interview with The Korea Herald at the Millennium Seou
March 11, 2016
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Singer Jun Jin to join KCON Japan
South Korean singer Jun Jin has been added to the star-studded line-up of this year's KCON Japan, his publicist said Friday.Jun Jin, who is one-sixth of the boy band Shinhwa, will perform at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, just outside of Tokyo, at the Japanese version of the world's largest K-pop festival, HNS HQ said. Started in Los Angeles in 2012, the annual event hosted by CJ E&M branched out to Japan, its first Asian destination, last year.Jun Jin will join 2PM, Block B, TWICE, BOYFRIEND and Day
March 11, 2016
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‘Henry IV’ returns to Seoul stage after 14 years
In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the Seoul Metropolitan Theatre is opening its 2016 season with a production of “Henry IV: Part I and II.” “We are bringing back ‘Henry IV’ to the Seoul stage for the first time in 14 years,” said the play’s director Kim Gwang-bo, during a press conference at Sejong Arts Center in Seoul on Wednesday. “The plot is about having an unrelenting appetite for power. I think it is a story that still fits and can be related to in today’s
March 10, 2016
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Patti Smith, Bowie releases set for Record Store Day
NEW YORK (AFP) - Rare or new releases by musical giants including Patti Smith, David Bowie and the Doors will come out next month for Record Store Day, the growing celebration of vinyl's resurgence. Created in 2007 by independent U.S. stores as a quirky tribute to their existence, Record Store Day has developed into an annual rite for shops around the world seizing on the growing market for vinyl. The latest Record Store Day will take place on April 16 and feature more than 300 special releases
March 10, 2016
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Kennedy Center taps Q-Tip as first hip-hop director
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Kennedy Center, the prolific Washington concert hall led by the US government, has tapped Q-Tip to a new position of artistic director for hip-hop culture. Q-Tip -- whose former group, A Tribe Called Quest, was at the vanguard of art-house hip-hop in the 1980s and 1990s -- will take the role for the Kennedy Center's 2016-2017 season. The 45-year-old New York rapper and DJ, whose real name is Jonathan Davis, will curate a series of hip-hop events in the upcoming season.
March 10, 2016
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AOA to release fourth Japanese single
K-pop girl group AOA will release its fourth Japanese single “Give Me the Love” on April 20, the group’s agency FNC Entertainment announced Wednesday. The track depicts the story of a woman who cannot help but keep falling in love. K-pop girl group AOA (FNC Entertainment) The group’s new single is garnering attention as a Korea-Japan crossover featuring a famous Japanese solo musician Takanori Nishikawa, who performs under the name T.M Revolution. Nishikawa, who debuted in 1996, presents a uniqu
March 10, 2016
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SNSD’s Yoona to release first solo track
Yoona, a member of popular K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation, will release her first solo track since debuting with the group nine years ago, the group’s agency SM Entertainment said Wednesday. “Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway,” the fifth song to be introduced on digital music channel Station, was set to be released at midnight. K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation member Yoona (SM Entertainment) The song, urban pop music featuring the gentle sound of piano and acoustic guitar, concerns the lore tha
March 10, 2016
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‘Missing’ Rembrandt to go on show at global art fair: reports
THE HAGUE (AFP) - A recently discovered painting by 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt will be the star attraction at one of the world’s leading art fairs opening this week, Dutch media reported Wednesday. “The Fainted Patient,” also known as “Smell,” a small paperback-sized panel believed to have been painted by Rembrandt in his late teens, was uncovered last September when it was put up for sale by a small auction house in New Jersey. “It was peeling at the edges and covered with a layer of
March 10, 2016
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Singer Lee Hi tops iTunes charts in 8 Asian regions
South Korean diva Lee Hi, the heroine of SBS' talent audition show "K-Pop Star: Season 1," topped the iTunes charts in eight Asian regions with her first new song after a three-year hiatus, her South Korean talent agency said. The 20-year-old singer snatched the No. 1 spot on Wednesday afternoon on the iTunes charts for Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, for the new song "Breathe," YG Entertainment said. "Breathe" is the title track of her l
March 10, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Lim Ji-young talks life after Queen Elisabeth violin crown
Violinist Lim Ji-young has made her way back home after becoming the first Korean violinist to win the highest honor at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium last May, performing Brahms’ Concerto in D, op. 77. One of the classical world’s big three music competitions, last year’s Queen Elisabeth contest for violin featured 69 players of 20 nationalities, including 17 violinists from Korea. “It has been almost a year since winning at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition a
March 9, 2016
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T-ara's Hyomin to release new solo album next week
Hyomin of K-pop girl group T-ara will return with her second solo album next week, the singer's talent agency said on Wednesday. Hyomin's latest solo album "Sketch," with a title track of the same name, will be released on March 17 at midnight on major music streaming services, her star label MBK Entertainment said. The title track "Sketch," an electronic soul, depicts love as a piece of art that starts from a sketch and blooms in full. In the music video of "Sketch," Hyomin will play a seductiv
March 9, 2016
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Lost and Found Orchestra offers junk shop harmony
BRIGHTON, U.K. (AFP) - Beating metal filing cabinets, clanging fire extinguishers, rattling shelves and blowing into traffic cones, it's no surprise the musicians of the Lost and Found Orchestra struggle to stay in tune. “The instruments are rubbish, they don’t stop breaking,” said Luke Cresswell, who cofounded the group that uses everyday objects to create music. “It is chaos, but we're getting there,” he told AFP as the orchestra rehearsed for a new short tour of France and Russia that begins
March 9, 2016
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K-pop set for foreign festival foray
An eclectic group of Korean musicians will be showcasing their music at festivals around the world this year. The state-run Korea Creative Content Agency is funding the performances of 12 groups for the K-pop Night Out stages at the music festival South by Southwest (SXSW) in the U.S., U.K. music festival The Great Escape and music trade show MIDEM in France. K-pop quartet Mamamoo, which has a large global following and will be performing at the SXSW K-Pop Night Out stage on March 16, hopes to
March 9, 2016
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Bjork working on new album, this one happier
NEW YORK (AFP) - Bjork has revealed that she is working on a new album but, after last year's tortured heartache album “Vulnicura,” this one will be happier. The Icelandic experimental pop icon said she is working again with Alejandro Ghersi, the Venezuelan DJ better known as Arca, who helped create the beats layered behind the lush strings on “Vulnicura.” The 2015 album, which came after a four-year gap by Bjork, delved into her emotional journey as she split with her longtime partner, New York
March 9, 2016
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Korean all-percussion show ‘Nanta’ tours China
South Korean non-verbal percussion show "Nanta" has launched its second Chinese tour, its production company said Tuesday.Starting in Henan Province last Saturday, the tour will make 30 stops including in Yantai, Qingdao, Nanjing and Shanghai until May 26, PMC Production said.The tour is the second of its kind after the troupe visited 16 cities in 2011.The company said it hopes to use this circuit to tap deeper into the Chinese market and diversify the performance scene in Asia.The original Sout
March 8, 2016
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Media Art Biennale to explore the future
The Seoul International Media Art Biennale will be bigger and more diverse this year as the largest media art exhibition in the country will take place at all four branches of the city-run Seoul Museum of Art, featuring a wide mix of artists including those from Latin American and African countries. “It will be a challenge for the museum (to dedicate all museum space to the biennale), but we expect this will make Seoul a hub for contemporary art during the biennale period,” said Kim Hong-hee, d
March 8, 2016
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Met adds modern jewel to famed New York art scene
NEW YORK (AFP) - New York is adding to its glittering portfolio of art museums with a new gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art -- The Met Breuer, which opens with a retrospective of a little known Indian artist. The gallery is housed in the modernist icon that Hungarian-born Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer built in 1966 on Madison Avenue for the Whitney Museum of American Art, which last year moved downtown to a spanking new site. When the Breuer opens to the public on March 18, it w
March 8, 2016
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Bob Dylan returns with new album, tour
NEW YORK (AFP) - Bob Dylan on Monday announced a new album and accompanying tour as the rock legend showed little interest in slowing down at nearly 75. Dylan said that his 37th studio album, “Fallen Angels,” would come out on May 20 -- four days before his birthday -- but revealed little else. The icon of 1960s counterculture revealed the forthcoming album only in passing as he announced a summer tour, writing on Facebook that each pair of tickets would include the CD as a bonus. “Fallen Angels
March 8, 2016
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Korean-Russian artist who helped Pyongyang restore art academy after war
Russian-Korean artist Pen Varlen played a crucial role in helping Pyongyang reestablish its art academy from the ashes of the Korean War. This at a time when North Korea was attempting to establish its own propaganda-art style under “juche,” or “self-reliance,” the official ideology of the isolated communist state. Pen, an important figure in Soviet socialist realism art, is currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Deoksugung museum, runn
March 7, 2016