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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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[Herald Interview] Mobile app brings change in used-car market
Mobile app-based start-ups offering a business platform are changing the used car market, attracting car buyers seeking a better deal.Mobile trading is a new growth area for the used-car market in Korea, which has long been dominated by the traditional offline dealer-based transactions. Hey Dealer is one such newly created mobile application offering O2O services to used-car buyers. “Hey Dealer seeks to match offline used-car dealers with customers who want to sell their cars with minimal effort
MobilityJune 12, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Jambinai instills 'gugak' with new life
Breaking barriers between the old and new, Jambinai presents innovative sounds with traditional Korean musical instruments piri, haegum and geomungo. Jambinai, an award-winning band inspired by Korean traditional music, or “gugak,” was formed in 2009 by the three members -- Lee Il-woo, Kim Bo-mi, and Sim Eun-yong -- who met as gugak students at Korea National University of Arts. Lee plays the piri, a reed flute, Kim plays the haegum, a bowed instrument with two strings and a hollow wooden sound
PerformanceJune 9, 2016
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[Herald Interview] World Bank executive hails Korea's green growth trust fund
Korea has operated its green growth trust fund successfully to help developing countries attain more financing from the World Bank for their sustainable development, an executive at the bank said.The Korea Green Growth Trust Fund was created in 2011 in partnership between the Korean government and the World Bank Group originally for a four-year program with $40 million from 2013 to 2016. Recently, the government replenished the fund with another $48 million with its operation extended to 2021.Zo
June 5, 2016
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[Herald Interview] A ‘good messy’ mix of jazz and soul
In the world of digitalized everything, soul singer Kandace Springs is drawn to music that is “stripped bare” and natural. “It’s kind of a crossover between jazz and soul. It’s really organic, all live instruments,” the Nashville, Tennessee native said of her music when she met with The Korea Herald in southern Seoul last Monday. Springs was in town to perform at the Audi Lounge stage at Club Octagon that night. Nashville-based soul singer Kandace Springs sits with The Korea Herald for an inter
PerformanceMay 30, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Former New Zealand P.M. calls for inter-Korean talks
While ramping up global pressure is key to hampering Pyongyang’s nuclear development, Seoul should chart a path to restart denuclearization talks to defuse tension and move toward an ultimate reunification, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger said Friday. “The crucial question is, what are the circumstances of starting dialogue? My observation is that it’s always sooner rather than later,” he told the Korea Herald in an interview on the sidelines of the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperi
Foreign AffairsMay 29, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Ex-top U.N. official urges tighter sanctions against N.K.
Despite the recent passage of strengthened sanctions over North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests, the United Nations should further tighten its squeeze on Pyongyang’s trade and financial networks to thwart its military ambitions, a former top U.N. official said.Nobuyasu Abe, who served as under-secretary-general for disarmament affairs at the multinational body from 2003-2006, showed regret over past botched efforts to dissuade Pyongyang from building atomic bombs in return for economic
Foreign AffairsMay 29, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Korean collector brings French art to Korea
Major works of French contemporary art will go on exhibition in Korea in December as part of the Korea-France Year celebration aimed at promoting cultural exchanges between the two countries. Among the many French cultural events being held this year in Korea, the upcoming exhibition is one of the largest events, introducing more than 50 French contemporary artists. The show has been put together by acclaimed French art critic Gerard Xuriguera and avid Korean art collector Moon Duck-hwa, CEO o
PerformanceMay 26, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Former Samsung engineer develops translation solution to break down language barrier
Living in a world without language barriers is not a far-fetched idea at all thanks to technological advancement, according to a big data expert in linguistic analysis. “It would be fair to say that translation technology for written language is now fully mature, and translation solutions for written language -- not for spoken language though -- are widely deployed in both the public and private sectors,” said Lea Jong-ho, chief technology officer of Seoul-headquartered translation and interpret
TechnologyMay 25, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] Murayama urges Abe to offer written apologies to sex slavery victims
With many wartime sex slavery victims staunchly resisting the recent settlement with Seoul, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should write a letter to each of them to deliver his sincere atonement and expedite the deal’s execution, a former Japanese leader told The Korea Herald. Tomiichi Murayama, who offered a watershed apology in 1995 for the country’s sexual enslavement of Korean women and other atrocities, said he “welcomes” Abe’s acknowledgement of the government’s responsibility and apolo
Foreign AffairsMay 22, 2016
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[Herald Interview] 'Spa Night' director opens up about gay experience
JEONJU, North Jeolla Province -- Director Andrew Ahn came to Korea to spark a conversation. His film, “Spa Night,” depicts David, a second-generation Korean-American working with his parents at their Korean restaurant. When the restaurant closes, David surreptitiously works at a Korean spa -- instead of studying to enter university -- to help the family. There he notices for the first time the spa’s role in secretive homosexual hookups, just as he begins considering his own identity. “I hope th
FilmMay 19, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Christine Cho’s vegan classics come alive in new cookbook
Herald Corp.’s organic food developer Organica has released a new cookbook featuring 40 vegan and raw food recipes penned by its head chef Christine Cho. “When I came (to Organica) last June, we started the blog Christine’s Vegan Kitchen. The recipes started to grow, and we thought we wanted to share them in a book form,” Cho told The Korea Herald in an interview on Wednesday. According to Cho, “Organica Vegan Kitchen” is a guide for Koreans who want to pursue a healthy vegan diet, but do not kn
IndustryMay 19, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Uncovering Korea's overlooked modern history
Park Chan-kyong thinks it’s a shame that most Koreans are forgetting crucial parts of their modern history -- the Korean War and the subsequent division -- and live as if such historical facts don’t impact their lives. “I went to college in 1984. It was a time when students were more often seen in democracy protests on the streets than in classrooms. Political issues made up 80-90 percent of our generation’s life. From our younger days, we had been exposed to the nationwide anticommunist propag
PerformanceMay 17, 2016
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[Herald Interview] How Greenpeace was born
According to documentary filmmaker Jerry Rothwell, the now global environmental organization Greenpeace originally started out with “a few hippies on a boat.” “It began with a small group of Canadian activists who set out on a fishing boat in 1971,” the British filmmaker told The Korea Herald in an interview last Tuesday in Seoul. The activists were trying to stop then American president Richard Nixon from conducting a nuclear test in Alaska. Though their attempts were seen as foolhardy, the
FilmMay 15, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Uijeongbu Music Theater Fest to open with tales of ‘The War’
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I, the Chekhov International Theatre Festival unveiled in 2014 the dramatic Russian play “The War,” which pays homage to the devastation caused by combat. The play premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival and has since toured to countries including Russia, Poland, Romania, France and Portugal. Now gearing up for its Asia debut, “The War” is set to open this year’s 15th annual Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival with performances on May 12
PerformanceMay 12, 2016
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[Herald Interview] ‘English-language media is like face of Korea to world’
The first thing Paul Shin, a veteran English-language journalist, asked during an interview in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, Monday was, “What desk do you work at?” “The culture desk did not take up a big part of English-language newspapers back in my day,” he said upon hearing the response. “International audiences were more interested in the authoritarian regime,” said Shin, 76, referring to the period of the Park Chung-hee administration in the 1960s and ’70s. Now, stories on Korean culture, ranging
PeopleApril 27, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Crystal accessories in digital age
Earlier this month, the crystal brand Swarovski launched a wearable activity-tracking device that women might actually consider wearing. The device had a sparkling faceted crystal the size of a coin, which can be inserted into a crystal-studded bracelet, sport band or necklace. Embedded within the crystal is software that monitors your activities during the day and tracks your sleep pattern at night. “Our mission has been to beautify smart devices,” said Robert Buchbauer, CEO of Consumer Goods
Arts & DesignApril 19, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] ‘Political solution key to global humanitarian crises’
Amid the exacerbating global humanitarian crises, the world must devise a sound political solution to relieve the suffering of fellow citizens, a United Nations World Food Program officer said.“Humanitarian needs have exploded over the years which have made our work more difficult,” Rasmus Egendal, officer in charge of the agency’s government partnership division, told The Korea Herald on Monday. “We have to generate more resources to meet those needs, which are growing faster than the internati
Foreign AffairsApril 15, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Korean whiskey market hungover
Whiskey consumption in Korea has always been tied to a very specific culture: drink-till-you-drop parties among businessmen who enjoy coupling the expensive drink with women in smoky underground bars.As that culture waned, so did whiskey sales. Its consumption in Korea has been falling by roughly three percent each year for the past five years, according to industry statistics. Golden Blue regional sales director Kim Ji-yeon speaks to The Korea Herald at the Golden Blue headquarters in Seoul.
IndustryApril 14, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Julia Moon striving for greater inclusion with Universal Ballet
Hailed as one of the first Korean ballerinas to achieve widespread international fame, Julia Moon is seeking to expand the global network of Universal Ballet and make it more “universal.” One of the founding members of the Universal Ballet -- among the top ballet companies in the country, rivaling the Korean National Ballet -- Moon has been its general director for the past decade, since retiring as principal dancer. Now in its 32nd year, the director says the company is ready to branch out mo
PerformanceApril 13, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] 'Industries of the future require endeavors across disciplines'
Research institutes should provide opportunities to complement traditional department-based structures with multidisciplinary institutes to better tackle societal challenges amid the rapid growth of new-generation industries and various global challenges, said a president of one of France’s most prestigious science-oriented public institution. Jacques Biot, the president of Ecole Polytechnique“Mathematics and computer sciences tend to fertilize every other area, as research becomes increasingly
Social AffairsApril 12, 2016