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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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Final push to forge UN treaty on plastic pollution set to begin in Busan
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Industry experts predicts tough choices as NewJeans' ultimatum nears
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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Job creation lowest on record among under-30s
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Opposition chief acquitted of instigating perjury
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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
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S.M. Entertainment tops music sales in Q4
S.M. Entertainment, the country's largest star label by market capital, was dubbed the No. 1 seller of digital music in the fourth quarter of 2015, a local music chart operator said on Monday.In the October-December period of last year, the South Korean entertainment agency held 11.4 percent of the local music market, according to a column by Kim Jin-woo, the senior analyst of Gaon, a music chart run by the Korea Music Contents Industry Association. This is the highest number of all labels over
March 7, 2016
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Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies at 86
VIENNA (AP) -- Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world’s famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare."Dear public," he wrote Dec. 5. "My physical strength orders me to cancel my future plans." Describing the synergy between him and the audience as leading to an "unusually deep relationship," he said his goodbyes in eight lines in an open letter, simply, elegantly and without pathos.Harnoncourt died Satu
March 7, 2016
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Big Bang wraps up world tour amid fanfare, hints at next concert
Big Bang, arguably K-pop’s biggest and edgiest boy band, wrapped up its worldwide “MADE” concert series amid much fanfare on Sunday evening at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium. During the last show of the tour, the five-member boy band performed 19 songs, including some of its most recent releases “Bang Bang Bang” and “Bae Bae,” in addition to the group’s more seasoned hits such as “Fantastic Baby” and “Lies.” The members also showcased solo releases, with T.O.P, Taeyang and G-Dragon staging “Doom Dada,
March 7, 2016
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Korea to kick off dinosaur exposition in April
An international dinosaur exposition will kick off next month to display rare fossils and vivid models of the extinct animal species using state-of-the-art media technology, organizers said Monday.The Gyeongnam Goseong Dinosaur World Expo will begin on April 1 for a 73-day run in Goseong, located about 466 kilometers south of Seoul. Goseong is known for its quantity and variety of dinosaur fossils with more than 4,000 dinosaur footprints.More than 1,900 fossilized footprints of dinosaurs are loc
March 7, 2016
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Singer Hwang Chi-yeul tops Chinese TV show
Korean singer-songwriter Hwang Chi-yeul took first place on a season four episode of Chinese music contest show “I Am a Singer,” which aired Friday, said the singer’s agency HOW Entertainment.This is the second time Hwang has taken first place, beating top Chinese stars competing with him.Hwang reinterpreted Park Jin-young’s “Honey” for the eighth episode of the season, inserting Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” in the middle of the song and presenting a dance tribute to Jackson. Korean singer Hw
March 6, 2016
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Scientists use math to hunt for identity of elusive Banksy
LONDON (AP) -- Elusive street artist Banksy may have been unmasked -- by mathematics.Scientists have applied a type of modeling used to track down criminals and map disease outbreaks to identify the graffiti artist, whose real name has never been confirmed.The technique, known as geographic profiling, is used by police forces to narrow down lists of suspects by calculating from multiple crime sites where the offender most likely lives.The researchers used the location of 140 Banksy artworks in L
March 6, 2016
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Korea-France joint production ‘The Empire of Light’ hits Seoul stage
Author Kim Young-ha’s celebrated novel “The Empire of Light“ has been adapted into a joint Korea-France dramatic production as part of the Korea-France Year 2015-2016 celebrating the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. An English-language translation of the novel ”Your Republic is Calling You” was released in 2010. The Korean-language play was produced by the National Theater Company of Korea and directed by French actor and director Arthur Nauzyciel. Following
March 6, 2016
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New collection of Kendrick Lamar music goes online
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fresh off his Grammy triumph, Kendrick Lamar has released a new batch of old music. The eight-song collection titled "untitled unmastered" was made available Friday on iTunes, Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify and GooglePlay. None of the songs has a title, just what seem to be dates, ranging from 2013 to 2016.Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent hip-hop label Lamar is signed to, said the collection "features studio versions of the untitled songs" that Lamar performed on "The Colber
March 6, 2016
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Herald Phil celebrates spring with annual concert
The Herald Philharmonic Orchestra’s third annual concert took place at Seoul Arts Center, just as the weather began to warm up to welcome spring on Thursday.Headed by conductor Kim Bong-mee, the Herald Phil presented a two-part concert to an audience of roughly 2,300. The first half was mostly a selection of arias performed by three celebrated tenors. The second was a percussion-heavy set. Conductor Kim Bong-mee directs the Herald Philharmonic Orchestra during final rehearsals at the Seoul Arts
March 4, 2016
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B.A.P will go on world tour
B.A.P (TS Entertainment)Hip-hop boy band B.A.P’s world tour schedule was announced on the group’s official Facebook page on Friday. Called “B.A.P LIVE ON EARTH 2016 WORLD TOUR,” the band will visit the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Italy, Russia and New Zealand. The band also recently gave concerts in Seoul from Feb. 20-22 under the theme “Awake,” which referred to their goal of awakening their audience through music. Schedule for B.A.P`s world tour (TS Entertainment)B.A.P, which debuted in January 2
March 4, 2016
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Park Hae-jin’s next move to be bodyguard in drama
Actor Park Hae-jin -- who has earned pan-Asian fame with his role as a mysterious male lead in tvN drama “Cheese in the Trap” -- is currently in negotiations to star in JTBC’s upcoming drama, “Man to Man,” according to local reports Friday. Actor Park Hae-jin (OSEN)He was offered the role of the protagonist, a bodyguard in charge of protecting a top star.The actor who will play the celebrity has not been decided yet, but the producers are currently searching for an actor who has great on-screen
March 4, 2016
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Pianist Cho Seong-jin dazzles country of 'Chopin'
A South Korean Chopin competition winner has charmed concertgoers in the famous composer's home country of Poland.Cho Seong-jin, who won the prestigious 17th international Frederic Chopin piano competition in October, visited the country four months later. His visit coincided with the 206th anniversary of Chopin's birthday.In the concert, held in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday and attended by a thousand classical music lovers, tickets were sold out early on and some of the attendees, wh
March 4, 2016
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[Herald Interview] ‘Comfort women’ statues resonate with Koreans
Since 2011, Sculptors Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung have been making statues of teenage girls that symbolize Korean young women forced to work as Japanese military sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women.” They have made 30 statues so far, with more in the making. The bronze sculptures called “Statue of a Girl of Peace” are exhibited at memorial parks, museums and on the streets of Korea, the U.S. and Canada. Sculptors Kim Seo-kyung (left) and Kim Eun-sung pose with “Statue of a Gi
March 3, 2016
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Allegations against former SPO CEO false: police
The police announced Thursday that its ongoing investigation into alleged misconduct by former Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CEO Park Hyun-jung has found that the charges against the former head are false and fabricated by members of the SPO staff. According to a statement issued by the police, the previous allegations that Park, 54, had verbally abused and sexually harassed staff are now being treated as a lie concocted by 10 members of the SPO staff who were looking to oust the former CEO. The
March 3, 2016
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AOA's Seol Hyun named honorary ambassador for April's general elections
Seol Hyun of South Korea's girl group AOA was named an honorary ambassador for the April 13 general elections, the country's election watchdog said Thursday.The 21-year-old singer will promote the election to increase voter turnout in the lead-up to the polls, the National Election Commission said."Seol Hyun is beloved by the people as a singer, actress and model," Kim Yong-hee, secretary-general of the commission said, expressing hope that she will promote the right election culture to the publ
March 3, 2016
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