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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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South Korea to launch space security center under spy agency
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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Hybe refutes Ador CEO Min's denial of breach of trust
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[Design Forum] Fast fashion meets designer names, changes consumer trends
This is the fifth in a weekly series that examines the expanding role of design in the run-up to the Herald Design Forum 2014 on Nov. 26. ― Ed.Over 300 people from their 20s to their 60s camped out in the rain in front of an H&M store in Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, in the early morning of Nov. 6.Some were office workers who took a day off to stay up all night in the queue.With tents and sleeping bags on the streets, they were there to get a piece of “Al Wang,” (“Wang” means king in Korean) thei
Arts & DesignNov. 19, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Bringing heaven down to earth
For pop-opera singer Lim Hyung-joo, 2014 has had some unexpected turns. At the start of the year, the 28-year-old musician had high hopes for his fifth full-length album, “Finally,” which came out at the end of 2013.Those hopes were crushed when the ferry Sewol sank on April 16. The country’s entire cultural scene came to a virtual standstill, as the nation mourned the loss of over 300 lives, mostly of them teenagers, in the tragic accident. Then, suddenly a song from his 2008 EP “My Hero” toppe
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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Yi Yook-sa’s poems published in English
During his short life, Yi Yook-sa (1904-44), a Korean poet and independence activist, composed only about 40 poems. Yet his compelling poems, written during the darkest period of modern Korean history, captured the heroic spirit of the Korean people’s resistance and the nationalist movement against Japanese colonial rule. “The Vertex” is an anthology of 36 of Yi’s poems, in both Korean and English, compiled and translated by Lee Sung-il, a professor emeritus of English literature at Yonsei Unive
BooksNov. 19, 2014
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‘Side Show’ a soaring, must-see musical
NEW YORK (AP) ― After the favorably reviewed musical “Side Show” closed its original three-month Broadway run in 1997, swallowing a $7 million loss for its producers, it still garnered four Tony Award nominations. Potential audience members stayed away because the idea of seeing the story of real-life British conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton onstage seemed disturbing. Seventeen years later, so-called “freaks” are in vogue on TV and “The Elephant Man” is about to begin a Broadway revival.
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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‘Mockingjay’ stars reflect on growing up together
NEW YORK (AP) ― Sitting down to interview Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, stars of the blockbuster “Hunger Games” franchise, feels a bit like hanging out with three siblings. While Hutcherson ponders a question, Lawrence and Hemsworth are surreptitiously playing a game of hand-slap, Lawrence pulling her hand free just in time. When one of the guys says reflectively, “Maybe I was just an idiot,” Lawrence pipes up: “Yes, you ARE an idiot!” There are giggles, and a totally in
FilmNov. 19, 2014
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10cm gets risque on new ‘3.0’ album
The lighthearted lyrical masterminds of acoustic duo 10cm have finally unveiled their third studio album, “3.0,” a release that will surprise some fans with songs of a more sexual nature. Kwon Jung-yeol and Yoon Cheol-jong, the duo that helped catapult indie music into the mainstream by singing good-natured songs about Americanos and loving someone even if they smell, claim they are slowly starting to shift toward more risque topics on their new 10-track album, which dropped Wednesday. “To be pe
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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Foo Fighters plan U.S. baseball stadium tour
NEW YORK (AFP) ― The Foo Fighters, touring to promote an album that delves into the roots of U.S. music, will play some of the country’s most historic baseball stadiums starting next year.The band, led by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, on Tuesday announced shows on July 18 and 19 at Fenway Park, the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball and home of the Boston Red Sox.A show at another historic stadium, the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field, was earlier announced and is sold out. The band also a
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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A dance with Daddy: Federal inmates get chance to go to the ‘ball’
MIAMI ― In a Federal Bureau of Prisons first, inmates serving time in a Miami federal detention center were allowed to dance with their daughters for an afternoon as part of a reentry program. The theme: There’s still time at the ball, still time to take an active role in their daughters’ lives.Inmate Ernest Williams, serving a 41-month drug sentence, had long stopped asking his family ― a wife and five children ― to come see him at the Federal Detention Center Miami. The visits, he says, left h
CultureNov. 19, 2014
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Art of therapy practiced through pictures
DALLAS ― Rachel Nash is a licensed professional counselor. She works with a diverse group of clients, including children, adults and the elderly. She talks with them. She builds relationships with them. She guides them through discerning their own complex emotions.In these ways, she is similar to other counselors.What separates Nash from her colleagues are the art supplies that accompany her in every therapy session. Nash is an art therapist.Art therapy is a well-established but sometimes overlo
PerformanceNov. 19, 2014
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Accessible home sits sky-high over Seattle
SEATTLE ― Anne and Brom Wikstrom have lived in the city’s Magnolia neighborhood for a very long time. They’re used to beautiful views. Blue water. Purple mountains. Rising city.So when they started talking about a new place, they didn’t talk about a nice view. They didn’t want a nice view.They wanted a stunning view. This view: Puget Sound from Seattle’s shipping terminals, across Alki Beach, the sweep out to Bainbridge Island, Olympic Mountains, around to Queen Anne Hill, over the Space Needle,
CultureNov. 19, 2014
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Actress Kim Ja-ock mourned at funeral
Family members and friends flocked to a funeral parlor at a Seoul hospital on Wednesday to bid their final farewell to late actress Kim Ja-ock. The funeral at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in southern Seoul was also attended by celebrities. The mourners wailed and hugged each other when the hearse left the hospital for a nearby crematorium. Kim died of lung cancer three days earlier at age 63. She underwent successful surgery for colorectal cancer in April 2008 and resumed acting the following month
TelevisionNov. 19, 2014
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Filmmaker explores meaning of freedom in ‘Haebangchon’
A drug crime movie set in Haebangchon might sound like the tawdry imaginings of a xenophobic campaign group, but the plot in “Haebangchon: Chapter 1” seems to have more to do with the area’s Korean-influenced nickname ― Liberation Village.“Each individual person in this film needs to find their own individual freedom. That’s what the film is really about. That’s what the premise is, to be able to be free,” said director James Williams III by phone from the United States.The film, to get its Seou
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Expats join in Seoul kimchi-making blitz
Koreans and expats gathered to make kimchi in Seoul and Cheonggye plazas on Friday as part of the Seoul Kimchi Making and Sharing Festival.The event continued at Seoul Plaza through Sunday. In total, 9,000 people made 260 tons of kimchi to be given out to 22,000 underprivileged families, city officials said.The collective making of kimchi ― known as “gimjang” ― is a tradition that goes back centuries and was recently recognized by UNESCO, which listed it as an intangible cultural heritage item l
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Seoul food tourism groups offer training to migrant wives
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has teamed up with a group of organizations to provide training for migrant wives as food tour guides.Participants will learn how to explain the story of Korea through cuisine in the program, organized by the Seoul Business Association, Seoul Creative Lab and Korea Culinary Tour Association.The program will train 25 people in the history of traditional markets, Korean cooking and ingredients, hospitality and related topics.Instruction will be led by Korean Culin
Expat LivingNov. 18, 2014
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Disney lets N.Y. theatergoers switch tickets
NEW YORK (AP) ― Disney is giving an early Christmas present to theatergoers in New York ― the gift of flexibility. Disney Theatrical Productions is letting ticketholders to its Broadway shows ― “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” ― the chance to switch the dates they see the musicals for any reason as long as it’s done two hours before the performance. The offer, unprecedented for the commercial part of Broadway, starts immediately. Usually such flexibility with tickets on the Great White Way has been
PerformanceNov. 18, 2014
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Translation award honors Suh Ji-moon
When emeritus professor Suh Ji-moon first began translating Korean literature into English in the 1970s, she used to write by hand or use a typewriter, which required writing and retyping over and over again before submission. Though times have changed, the prominent Korean scholar with a 40-year career in teaching, research and literary translation still admits that translating is difficult, often accompanied by frustration and distress. Yet, it is a fulfilling experience, just like a time-cons
BooksNov. 18, 2014
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Nine-taled fox to join Avengers superheroes in U.S. comic series
A cartoon character based on the Korean myth about a nine-tailed fox will be joining Spiderman, Ironman and other superheroes in Marvel’s “Avengers” comic book series, the U.S. firm’s executive said Tuesday. The character, White Fox, is a heroin appearing in “Avengers Electric Rain,” a Web-based cartoon series published on the Korean web portal Daum. “Avengers Electric Rain” is the first localized series of the U.S. comic series Avengers and is being written and drawn by Korean cartoon artist Ko
CultureNov. 18, 2014
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Cumberbatch ‘bowled over’ by reaction to engagement
NEW YORK (AP) ― Benedict Cumberbatch fans might be weeping on the inside over the “Sherlock” star’s engagement ― but he’s seeing nothing but their love, he says. “It’s a crazy old love bomb to drop and the amount of love that comes back to you, that was the thing that (fiancee Sophie Hunter and I) are both just sort of bowled over by. It’s wonderful.” Cumberbatch and Hunter announced their engagement by posting an eight-line notice on the births, deaths and marriages page of The Times newspaper
TelevisionNov. 18, 2014
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Pharrell Williams, Plant to play Latin Lollapaloozas
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Robert Plant and Pharrell Williams will be among the Lollapalooza headliners in March in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, among the first dates on the global festival calendar.The South American editions of Lollapalooza, which started as a traveling alternative rock festival before finding a permanent home in Chicago and expanding overseas, will take place in Santiago on March 14 and 15, in Buenos Aires on March 21 and 22 and in Sao Paulo on March 28 and 29.The headliners ― the same
PerformanceNov. 18, 2014
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Matthew McConaughey gets Hollywood star
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey capped off a blockbuster year Monday as he received a star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame.“It’s a special day, great moment in my career and for my family,” McConaughey, dressed in a light-colored suit with an open collar, said, as some of Tinseltown’s biggest names looked on.Hundreds of fans also turned out and McConaughey was accompanied by his Brazilian wife Camila Alves and their three children, Levi, Vida and Livingston.The 4
FilmNov. 18, 2014