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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Ailing Mandela still able to unite South Africans
The spelling and grammar need work, but the message has its own eloquence. A 10-year-old's note to Nelson Mandela, the prisoner who fought South African apartheid, or white racist rule, and became a global emblem of unity and humility, addresses him as “the greates president are land has ever had it is realy bad that you are in the hospital. But realy cool that you stopt apartit. you maid are land A beter place”It is one of hundreds of messages that have been placed at two makeshift shrines by S
July 2, 2013
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Actress Kim Ko-eun wins ‘Rising Star Award’ in New York
Actress Kim Ko-eun from the 2012 film “Eungyo (A Muse)” received the “Star Asia Rising Star” award on Saturday at the New York Asian Film Festival 2013, held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. “Thank you so much for inviting me all the way here to the New York Asian Film Festival and giving me this honorable award. I’ll come back with good work,” Kim stated after receiving the award. Kim debuted last year in “Eungyo,” winning several awards, including those at Busan Film Critics
July 1, 2013
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Japanese housewife in search of true history
Unlike many other Japanese housewives who visit Korea as tourists, Mieko Ito had one clear reason to come. The 67-year-old housewife has been on a journey to get a closer look at Korean history and understand the pain many Koreans endured during the Japanese colonial rule of the early 20th century.She is currently in Seoul to study Korean at Ewha Womans University. After classes, Ito visits historic places and museums across the country to face the truth about Japan’s wartime atrocities, she sai
July 1, 2013
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[Photo News] Soccer player Ki marries Han Hye-jin
Footballer Ki Sung-yueng and actress Han Hye-jin have tied the knot at the Intercontinental Hotel in southern Seoul, Monday.Both the groom and the bride said with one voice, “It’s the happiest day of my life,” at the press conference before the wedding ceremony.After the wedding, the Swansea City midfielder will head to the United Kingdom for a team training while the actress, 32, will stay in Korea until the end of July to finish her agenda. The newlyweds will set up homes in Korea and the U.
July 1, 2013
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen loses more deals, but book sales soar
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ― U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen saw more lucrative deals evaporate despite her renewed apologies for using a racial slur, as retailer Target Corp, drug company Novo Nordisk A/S, Sears, J.C. Penney and Walgreen joined the list of sponsors distancing themselves from the doyenne of Southern cooking. But in a sign that Deen could make a comeback, her upcoming cookbook “Paula Deen’s New Testament,” which features “lightened up” recipes, shot to the top of the Amazon books best-
June 30, 2013
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Donguibogam, Heo Jun stamps printed in U.S.
Stamps of Donguibogam, one of the most famous traditional Korean medical books, and its editor Heo Jun have been printed in the United States. Media Joha, a New Jersey-based Korean-American business, recently printed the stamps through Photo Stamps, a postage service provider approved by the U.S. Postal Service, Yonhap News Agency reported.The stamps commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the book and its editor. “Donguibogam: Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine” is an
June 27, 2013
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[Photo News] Nadia opens a new yoga class for instructors
South Korea’s celebrity yogi, Nadia, plans to open a new course customized for yoga instructors. She hosted a major yoga festival, “Korea Yoga Marathon,” on June 2. The new class will start from July 20. For more information, visit www.daniayoga.com(khnews@heraldcorp.com)
June 27, 2013
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‘Star Wars’ creator marriessecond time
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― It’s marriage, episode II for George Lucas. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman confirms the “Star Wars” creator married longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson in a weekend ceremony at Skywalker Ranch north of San Francisco. It’s the second wedding for the 69-year-old Lucas, who was married to film editor Marcia Lucas from 1969 to 1983. It’s the first marriage for Hobson, 44, an investment firm president and contributor to ABC TV’s “Good Morning America.” The two have dated since 2006. Former
June 25, 2013
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‘Freedom comes with a price,’ says U.S. Korean War veteran
Edward Rowny, a retired U.S. Army general, says that if he learned anything from the Korean War, it is that “Freedom comes with a price.”Rowny, now 96, still recalls the days when he worked as a spokesman for U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the Allied Forces which fought against invading North Korean troops during the three-year war.Rowny said MacArthur had to overcome opposition from more cautious U.S. generals to push through with the risky Incheon landing that turned the tide of
June 25, 2013
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Angelina Jolie urges world to end rape in war
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― Angelina Jolie made her debut before the U.N.’s most powerful body as a special envoy for refugees Monday and urged the world’s nations to make the fight against rape in war a top priority. The actress told the Security Council that “hundreds of thousands ― if not millions ― of women, children and men have been raped in conflicts in our lifetimes.” Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said the Security Council has witnessed 67 years of w
June 25, 2013
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Korean travel to S. Africa rising fast: deputy minister
With increased political stability in Africa and economic growth to match, it is not surprising that more travelers are turning to the region to spend their holidays.International tourism in Africa as a whole has nearly doubled since 2000 to 50 million visitors a year. Korean tourists are also rising, and many are choosing South Africa as their travel destination, according to the country’s Deputy Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa.She was in Korea for a daylong trade and tourism workshop at a ho
June 25, 2013
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Korea America Friendship Society to honor American soldiers, civilian
The Korea America Friendship Society will hold “Korea America Friendship Night,” its 22nd anniversary reception, in the grand ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Thursday. Four U.S. soldiers and one Department of Defense civilian will receive “Korea America Friendship Society Awards” during the event. The awards recognize their volunteering to teach English, hold cultural exchanges, athletic events and festivals for young Korean students, and projects to promote mutual understanding with the lo
June 24, 2013
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FSS governor becomes volunteer interpreter
Financial Supervisory Service governor Choi Soo-hyun will double as a volunteer English interpreter. The 58-year-old official was recently recruited as a volunteer interpreter by BBB Korea, a corporation which provides interpretation services by telephone 24 hours a day. BBB Korea posted openings for 431 volunteer interpreters in April, and about 1,300 applied. In late April, he passed the third and final round of the test, a three-way telephone conversation involving a foreigner and a Korean. H
June 24, 2013
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NBA star, model seen ‘cozying up’: media
Rumors that Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers may be dating model Kate Upton has mushroomed online after U.S. media reported on Thursday that the stars had been witnessed “cozying up” at a nightclub in New York.E! Online, quoting an unnamed source, reported that Griffin and Upton got intimate last Wednesday while hanging out with their friends. The 21-year-old Upton is believed to have joined Griffin and his friends, including teammate DeAndre Jordan, around 11:30 p.m.According to the so
June 24, 2013
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South Africa: Nelson Mandela in critical condition
Nelson Mandela's health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said Sunday.The office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that he had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader at a hospital Sunday evening and was informed by the medical team that Mandela's condition had become critical in the past 24 hours.“The doctors are doing everything possible to get his condition to improve and are ensuring that Madiba is well-looked after and is comf
June 24, 2013
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[Photo News] Herald chairman lectures on leadership
Herald Corp. chairman Jungwook Hong gives a lecture on leadership to about 100 members of the Future CEO Academy at Novotel Ambassador Gangnam in Seoul on Thursday. The academy is an association of alumni of a Korea Management Association program for second- and third-generation chief executives. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald)
June 23, 2013
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Korean War veteran reminds people of ‘forgotten war’
Larry Kinard’s Korean War memories come back to him with a vivid clarity, which makes him shudder at the recollection of being so close to death.One of them is of an incident that took place in 1952, three years after he became a U.S. Army second lieutenant to serve in the 3rd Infantry Division on the front-line. He was 22. Looking out at the enemy territory over the Imjin River, an artillery shell exploded just 22 meters in front of a four-member observation team. “It literally blew us out of t
June 23, 2013
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Putin claims no memory of ‘stealing’ Super Bowl ring
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) ― Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he had no recollection of allegedly stealing the Super Bowl ring belonging to the National Football League’s New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.The New York Post reported on June 14 that Kraft had told a U.S. audience that he had once met Putin in 2005 and showed him the $25,000 ring team players and owners are awarded for winning the U.S. football league final.Kraft said that Putin took the ring in his ha
June 23, 2013
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Brad Pitt scraps Brazil film promo amid unrest
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― U.S. Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt has scrapped a plan to come to Brazil to promote his new film “World War Z,” the movie’s distributors said Saturday, citing social unrest in the country.A statement issued by Paramount said Pitt would not make a planned trip to Rio because of “ongoing events in Brazil.”The country is awash with protests after more than a million people took to the streets in recent days to decry poor public services and corruption as well as transport fare
June 23, 2013
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[Photo News] Independence fighter honored
June 20, 2013