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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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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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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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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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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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Work begins on black history museum
WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama ― the first black U.S. president ― heralded a new national black history museum as “not just a record of tragedy, but a celebration of life’’ as he marked Wednesday’s groundbreaking of the long-sought-after museum on the National Mall.Obama said the National Museum of African American History and Culture “has been a long time coming.’’“It was on this ground long ago that lives were once traded, where hundreds of thousands once marched for jobs and for fre
Feb. 23, 2012
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Automaton at U.S. museum linkd to Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― The Franklin Institute’s automaton can’t help you find a good sushi place, direct you out of a traffic jam or check your bank balance.But the automaton, a mechanical doll animated by a complex system of spring-driven motors and brass cams, can write three poems and draw four pictures. And what might be most interesting about this 200-year-old curiosity is its ability to amaze a high-tech culture whose homes, cars and pockets are laden with all kinds of wireless, streaming, ta
Feb. 23, 2012
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Greek P.M. rejects culture minister’s ...resignation
ATHENS (AFP) ― Greek culture minister Pavlos Geroulanos’s offer to resign over a major robbery at a museum in the city of Olympia has been rejected by the country’s premier, an official statement said Wednesday.Geroulanos had submitted his resignation on Friday, after robbers made off with scores of artefacts including items dating back over 3,000 years from a museum in the ancient Greek city of Olympia.But in a meeting between Geroulanos and Papademos, the culture minister was told his resignat
Feb. 23, 2012
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Olympia theft worse than originally reported
Police in Greece say 77 artifacts were stolen by armed robbers last week at a small museum in Ancient Olympia -- the birthplace of the ancient games -- revealing that the extent of the theft was worse than originally reported.Police and the Culture Ministry had initially estimated that some 65 objects up to 3,200 years old were taken in Friday’s raid, when two masked gunmen tied up a museum guard and used a sledgehammer to smash display cabinets at the southern Greek museum.Most of the items on
Feb. 21, 2012
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Museum robbed at Greece’s ancient Olympia
ATHENS (AP) ― Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing display cases with hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3,200 years old, authorities said.It was the second major museum theft in as many months in debt-crippled Greece, and a culture ministry unionist said spending cuts have compromised security at hundreds of museums and ancient sites across the country. With unemployment at 21 percent
Feb. 19, 2012
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S. Korean maestro to meet with N. Koreans in China over orchestra performance
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A renowned South Korean conductor plans to meet with North Korean music officials this weekend in China to discuss a joint orchestra performance in Pyongyang, an official said Friday.South Korea allowed Chung Myung-whun, who leads the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, to hold
Feb. 18, 2012
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Exiled Iranian cartoonist vows to fight regime with drawings
ANGOULEME, France (AFP) ― Iranian dissident cartoonist Mana Neyestani says drawing has been his salvation and a weapon to combat his own personal demons as well as Tehran’s hardline Islamist regime.Neyestani’s autobiographical comic book “An Iranian Metamorphosis,” a Kafkaesque story recounting his jailing in Iran over a cartoon depicting a cockroach that sparked riots in 2006, is due to hit stores on Feb. 16.“With this book, I wanted to share my experiences but also to forget my worst nightmare
Feb. 16, 2012
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German museums to hold exhibition of Korean relics
Major museums in Germany will hold a joint exhibition of Korean relics, offering a rare chance to appreciate Korean art from the 11th to 20th centuries, the German Embassy in Seoul said. The joint exhibition will tour four German cities, including Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig and East Asia Art Museum in Cologne from Feb. 17 to May 27. The touring exhibition will also be held at museums in Frankfurt and in Stuttgart, the embassy said in a statement. A total of 10 museums in Germany broug
Feb. 16, 2012
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Curtain falls on landmark Hong Kong opera house
HONG KONG (AFP) ― Hong Kong’s last dedicated Cantonese opera theatre is holding its final performances before it closes this week, in what some art lovers see as another nail in the coffin of a 300-year-old tradition.The 1,000-seat Sunbeam Theatre has been synonymous with the operatic heritage of China’s southern Cantonese-speaking minority for 40 years since it opened in 1972.It has earned landmark status on Hong Kong’s art scene, standing in stoic defiance of the former British colony’s transf
Feb. 16, 2012
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Philippine swordsmith has Hollywood touch
POZORRUBIO, Philippines (AFP) ― Filomeno de Guzman does not know Sparta from medieval Scotland, but the Philippine swordsmith is an expert at replicating ancient warriors’ tools for killing each other.A stubby ex-military sergeant who has never set foot abroad, de Guzman and 15 rice farmer-neighbors who moonlight as blacksmiths craft old truck leaf springs into things of terrible beauty.The business feeds an overseas market for replica swords of Roman gladiators, Greek infantry and Japanese samu
Feb. 16, 2012
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Aztec relics uncovered in Mexico City temple
MEXICO CITY (AFP) ― Mexican archeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of 23 stone plaques with carved images inside the main temple of what was once the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, in downtown Mexico City.The carved images of serpents and warriors tell stories that include the birth of the Aztec warrior god Huitzilopochtli, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.The tiles were likely carved when the main temple was built between 1440 and 1469, said archeologist
Feb. 15, 2012
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Nobel literature laureates to gather in Gyeongju
Some 300 authors from 114 countries will be visiting Korea in September, including Nobel literary prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, to attend the 78th International PEN Congress in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province.A London-based international association of writers, International PEN has been hosting the congress, which consists of networking and literary events and lectures, in cities around the world. The event has been held in Korea twice before in
Feb. 15, 2012
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‘Panks’ happy to remain aunties only, sans kids of their own
For Jennifer Emmert, it’s the best of both worlds. Emmert loves kids and spends tons of time with her six nieces and nephews, from outdoor activities to sleepovers at her place. The 30-year-old is engaged to be married, but she’s perfectly happy living up to the name of one of her favorite books: “Childless and Loving It.”“I’m completely content with adoring and smothering my nieces and nephews and keeping my life the way it is,” said the Minneapolis resident. “I absolutely love and adore them,
Feb. 15, 2012
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Foundation to build national database on early Korean history
The Northeast Asian History Foundation, a state-run history research institution, announced on Monday that it will build a national database on Korea’s early kingdoms as well as Dokdo and have it available online by November.According to the foundation the database will feature Korea’s ancient history as well as Dokdo, the rocky islets in the East Sea that the Japanese claim are part of their territory. The database’s Dokdo section will include different types of maps of the islets and the East
Feb. 14, 2012
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Chocolate’s a challenge for gardening Valentines
If chocolate’s the thing for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day, why give plain old candy when you can give a chocolate plant (Theobroma cacao)? Handmade chocolate is being arranged in preparation for Valentine's Day. (Yonhap)THE CHALLENGE OF CHOCOLATEGrowing chocolate from seed is difficult. Fres
Feb. 13, 2012
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Minister Choe, Swedish king celebrate exhibition on Korean culture
STOCKHOLM ― South Korea’s Culture Minister Choe Kwang-shik on Saturday promoted the country’s traditional culture at the opening ceremony of a Korean antiquities exhibition room at a museum here.The Korean room in Sweden’s Museum of East Asia in Stockholm displays 160 of 350 Korean artifacts owned by the museum, most of which are ceramics. “The Korean room is our project to promote relations between the two countries further following the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties
Feb. 12, 2012
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Cultural cooperation, respecting creativity not building images
Goethe Institut stresses dialogue, collaboration between Korean and German cultureThis is the second of the series introducing cultural centers of different countries in Seoul. ― Ed.With Korean cultural centers slowly expanding their presence in countries around the world, the Goethe Institut in Seoul says it is important to respect artists’ creativity, rather than using their production as means of building the nation’s image.“It is important in the cultural sphere to respect culture, cultural
Feb. 12, 2012
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Eight arrested in bribery probe at Murdoch's Sun
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's top-selling newspaper The Sun was in crisis Saturday after police arrested five of its journalists over bribery allegations, but owner Rupert Murdoch vowed to keep publishing the tabloid.A Ministry of Defence (MoD) official, a member of the armed forces and a policeman were
Feb. 12, 2012
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Namdaemun restoration to be completed this year
Namdaemun, Seoul’s historic gateway and National Treasure No. 1 which was severely damaged by arson in 2008, will be completely restored by December, according to the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. Friday marks the fourth anniversary of the arson.Currently, the restoration is about 70 percent complete. The damaged gate site, which has been cordoned off with a set of fences and a curtain, will be unveiled in August, prior to the completion of restoration. The administration said its r
Feb. 9, 2012
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S. Korea to open cultural center in Hungary
South Korea will open a new cultural center in Budapest, Hungary, this week, the culture ministry here said Thursday.The culture center is scheduled to open on Friday in the center of the Hungarian capital with a ceremony to be attended by about 100 dignitaries from both countries, including South Korea’s Culture Minister Choe Kwang-shik.It will become South Korea’s 22nd cultural center worldwide and the eighth in Europe, joining centers in France, Britain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Spain and Tur
Feb. 9, 2012