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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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2PM to promote Korean on NHK
Pop group 2PM will be teaching the Korean language on air in Japan, according to the group’s local agency.The group will appear on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK from April, hosting a five-minute segment of its popular Korean-language education show. The segment is slated to be titled “2PM’s One-point Korean,” and the members will be mainly teaching useful travel phrases.The group made its Japanese debut last year, and successfully completed the “Republic of 2PM” Japan Arena Tour. The group held
Jan. 19, 2012
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Smithsonian to open video games exhibit
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Smithsonian American Art Museum is holding its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games.The unusual exhibit opens March 16 and will be on view in Washington through Sept. 30.“The Art of Video Games’’ will focus on the graphics, technology and storytelling of some of the best games for systems ranging from Atari to the PlayStation 3. It will include 80 video games that were selected with help from the public, which voted online last year.The museum
Jan. 19, 2012
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Photos by censored Chinese artist to show
NEW YORK (AP) ― Photographs by the wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo will be shown at Columbia University next month.Beijing artist Liu Xia has been under house arrest since shortly after her husband was awarded the peace prize. Her photos were smuggled out of China just before she was placed under house arrest.Liu’s works are censored in China. The series of 25 photos depict lifelike dolls in various settings. One shows her husband holding a doll. In another, a tied-up
Jan. 19, 2012
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YouTube plots ‘Your Film Festival’ for users
NEW YORK (AP) ― YouTube is launching a film festival that will play out online and ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival.The Google Inc.-owned video site announced Thursday that Your Film Festival will take submissions of short films up to 15 minutes in length between Feb. 2 and March 31. Fifty semi-finalists will be selected by Scott Free Productions, Ridley and Tony Scott’s production company.Those 50 films will form a channel on YouTube: www.YouTube.com/yourfilmfestival. Th
Jan. 19, 2012
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Choi Ji-woo, Kara win ‘Asia Star’ at 2012 Asia Model Awards
Hallyu actress Choi Ji-woo, girl band Kara and Hong Kong star Lee Ku won top awards at the 2012 Asia Model Awards organized by the Korea Model Association Wednesday. The seventh annual ceremony was held Wednesday evening under the slogan “Asia is One,” and was joined by some of the most popular models and stars from 15 different Asian countries including Korea, China, Japan and Thailand. The top Asia Star Award went to three stars from Korea and Hong Kong, while the Popular Artist Award went to
Jan. 19, 2012
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Sundance time: Indie film world gathers
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ― Independent films that may have been years in the making get their first audiences at this week’s Sundance Film Festival. That could also mean careers in the making for unknown directors and actors whose movies connect with the right crowds. Robert Redford’s independent-cinema showcase was opening Thursday with 117 feature-length films, 64 short films and a lot of anxious filmmakers on the agenda during its 11-day run.Some are established directors showing their latest wor
Jan. 19, 2012
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Donghae voted as most dateable Hallyu star
Donghae, a member of popular boy band Super Junior, was picked by foreign fans as the number one Hallyu star they would date, a survey showed. Dong Hae and Si-Won at Yahoo Buzz Awards Ceremony (Yonhap News)According to the survey by broadcaster Arirang TV, Donghae, 26, topped the list of the se
Jan. 19, 2012
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Depp, Paradis ‘living separate lives’: report
Hollywood star Johnny Depp and longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis have split after a 14-year relationship, according to reports.Speculation of the break-up has grown as it as became increasingly rare for the couple to make public appearances together. Although both Paradis, 39, and Depp, 48, were in Paris last November, she didn’t attend the French premier of The Rum Diary, a film Depp both produced and starred in. Instead, the French actress and singer reportedly went to a concert. Paradis wa
Jan. 19, 2012
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Hockney goes back to his roots
LONDON (AFP) ― Britain’s greatest living artist, David Hockney, has swapped the Californian sunshine for the landscape of his native Yorkshire for a blockbuster exhibition which goes on show this week.Hockney has portrayed country lanes and hedgerows in a riot of colour that leaps off the wall at the Royal Academy of Arts, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in London.In the show, “A Bigger Picture,” Hockney and his team also show the countryside shifting through the seasons on a giant bank of v
Jan. 18, 2012
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Domingo to conduct NYC kids orchestra
NEW YORK (AP) ― Opera superstar Placido Domingo is getting ready to conduct 35 New York City schoolchildren who are studying music five days a week under a program inspired by Venezuela’s acclaimed youth orchestra program, El Sistema.Domingo will conduct the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from Public School 129 in Harlem and Public School 152 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, at a fundraiser Wednesday for their after-school music program, called Harmony.The children will play Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus
Jan. 18, 2012
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Musical about Austrian empress to charm Seoul
Pop star-turned musical actress Ok Ju-hyun to star in ‘Elisabeth’After welcoming the local adaptations of Czech musical “Hamlet” and London’s West End musical “Zorro“ recently, Korea’s theater scene is seeing the arrival of another European show, this time about the real-life 19th-century legendary Austrian empress Elisabeth (1837-1898).Starring former girl group FIN.K.L. member-turned-musical actress Ok Ju-hyun, actor Song Chang-ui and K-pop group JYJ member and rising musical star Kim Jun-su,
Jan. 18, 2012
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Facebook makes listening to music downright social
LOS ANGELES ― Everywhere you look, people are going about their lives to the tunes of their own personal soundtrack. They sweat through “YMCA” at the gym, pound out programming code to Rammstein’s brutal beats and nurse broken hearts with a mournful Bach cello concerto.In the last few decades, technology has transformed music from a social gathering experience to an intensely solitary one in which donning a pair of headphones in public is equivalent to shouting, “Leave me alone!”But in a move th
Jan. 18, 2012
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‘Spider-Man’ producers punch back at Julie Taymor
NEW YORK (AP) ― Producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’’ have fired back in their legal fight with one-time director Julie Taymor, claiming the woman who they once called a visionary later failed to fulfill her legal obligations, wrote a “disjointed’’ and “hallucinogenic’’ musical, and refused to collaborate on changes when the $75 million show was in trouble.In a countersuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Taymor and her company
Jan. 18, 2012
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Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public
CLEVELAND (AP) ― The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts’’ as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.Thousands
Jan. 18, 2012
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Alleged rape scandal rocks Brazil's top TV reality show
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Police are investigating a cast member of Brazil's most popular reality TV show, "Big Brother Brazil," for allegedly raping a fellow contestant.Early Sunday, after a party that was scripted as part of the show, contestant Daniel Echaniz, 31, is alleged to have had sex with Mon
Jan. 18, 2012
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Schoenberg collection goes to North Texas
DENTON, Texas (AP) ― Arnold Greissle-Schoenberg can still picture his grandfather, composer Arnold Schoenberg, raising his finger to command attention.“Whenever Schoenberg wanted to say something he would raise his finger and everybody would fall silent and then he would have his say,’’ said Greissle-Schoenberg, whose childhood memories include watching his grandfather holding court with other musical luminaries.The 88-year-old grandson of the famous 20th century composer remembers a side of Sch
Jan. 17, 2012
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Paramount Insurge’s niche: Cheap films that promote themselves
LOS ANGELES ― The weekend before last, Paramount Insurge released the No. 1 movie in America. This past weekend it was shooting test footage of a talking dog.Formed in the wake of 2009’s ultra-low-budget surprise hit “Paranormal Activity,” Insurge is an experimental label within movie giant Paramount Pictures that aims to make youth-oriented films developed outside the traditional Hollywood system on a fast schedule and at low cost.Paramount is hardly the first studio to try to turn a surprise m
Jan. 17, 2012
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The starlight is blinding at Sundance Film Festival
When the Sundance Film Festival launches its annual 10-day run Thursday, it will mark the independent film event’s 34th, 27th or 23rd year ― depending on whether you’re counting from the founding of the U.S. Film Festival in 1978, its takeover by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute in 1985, or its renaming to “Sundance” in 1989. What’s evident from this year’s lineup is that well-known names have increasingly come to dominate the proceedings, which will make tiny, oxygen-deprived Park City, Utah
Jan. 17, 2012
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‘Dream High’ back, but is it better?
Park Jin-young believes that second season will be ‘more complete’ as a workNow that the South Korean drama market has started to jump on board the multi-season series bandwagon, it seems there is no end to the trend. When KBS’ “Dream High” ― a music-and-dance teen drama ― pulled in strong ratings during its winter run a little over a year ago, it should have come as no surprise that the team behind the series would decide to green light a second season. In terms of production, little has change
Jan. 17, 2012
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JYJ sets box office record for South America tour
Some 5,000 tickets to Korean boy band JYJ’s upcoming tour of South America sold out in less than two days, breaking the record for foreign artists, the group’s agent said Monday. “We began selling the tickets last Thursday (Jan. 12) for the tour in South America and the seats were sold out in two days,” C-JeS Entertainment said in a press release. It was reported that some fans camped overnight to buy VIP tickets for seats closer to the stage. Peru’s El Comerico news published an article stating
Jan. 16, 2012