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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Hyundai Motor aims to lead hydrogen truck business in US
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[Photo News] K-pop idols Tiffany and Bora appear on Harper’s Bazaar magazine
Tiffany of Girls’ Generation and Bora from Sistar have posed for a pictorial due to be published in the January issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine.The two K-pop idols are currently appearing in the fashion collaboration survival show titled “Fashion King Korea,” where celebrities partner up with a fashion designer to compete against one another in various fashion challenges and missions. (khnews@heraldcorp.com)
Dec. 24, 2013
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[Photo News] Reporter transforms into sexy Santa
SBS reporter Ahn Hyun-mo, the girlfriend of actor Kim Min-joon, attracted attention on the Web on Tuesday after she posted photos online of her in a Santa costume.The reporter shared three photos on Facebook of herself wearing a red minidress and a headband decorated with Christmas tree. “Baby, it’s time to turn mounting regrets into renewed resolutions, and senseless tension into constructive talks,” Ahn wrote along with the photos. Ahn and Kim admitted their romantic relationship in August las
TelevisionDec. 24, 2013
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‘Unchained Melody’ revisited on stage with stunning magic tricks
The highly anticipated musical of the year was finally unveiled to the public last month, starring some of the most celebrated musical stars in the country, including Joo Won and Ivy.Titled “Ghost the Musical,” the show is an adaptation of the mega-hit romantic fantasy-thriller film “Ghost,” starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. The musical had its world premiere in Manchester, England, in 2011, and was also performed on Broadway in 2012. The current Korean production is the Asian premiere run
PerformanceDec. 23, 2013
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Korean male fashion models on the rise
They defy the common prejudice that Asian men are short, less fit and less fashionable than Asian women. With faces smaller than the size of a palm and incredibly long legs on top of good communication skills and strong English ability, Korean male fashion models are emerging as the newest darlings of the global fashion scene. The new breed of clotheshorses sashay down the catwalks of internationally acclaimed fashion houses, pose for globally circulated magazines, and are featured on advertisem
Arts & DesignDec. 23, 2013
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J.K. Rowling to produce Harry Potter stage show
LONDON (AFP) ― Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is to co-produce a British stage show about the boy wizard’s early years living with his cruel non-magical aunt and uncle, she announced on Friday.Rowling said she would work with the writer on the new play, charting Harry’s lonely childhood when he was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs, but would not script it herself.She will start the project early next year, working with producers Sonia Friedman ― who has brought a string of hit sh
PerformanceDec. 23, 2013
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Greece to build Holocaust museum in Thessaloniki
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AFP) ― Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki unveiled plans on Friday to build a Holocaust museum to honor some 46,000 Jewish residents deported and killed at German Nazi death camps during World War II.“This is the fulfillment of a historic responsibility for Thessaloniki,” said Yiannis Boutaris, mayor of the city once known as the “Jerusalem of the Balkans.”The museum will be created at the old railway station where the trains left Greece’s northern city for the notor
CultureDec. 23, 2013
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Bethlehem eyes tourist boom after dark decade
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― After a decade of unrest, Bethlehem has seen a surge in visits to Christ’s traditional birthplace, raising hopes of a tourism bonanza in the West Bank town despite Israel’s separation barrier.The Palestinian territories’ top tourist destination is a victim of the barrier which cuts off the town from nearby Jerusalem, just 10 kilometers away. Israel began work on its sprawling barrier ― dubbed the “apartheid wall” by Palestinians ― in 2002 at the height
TravelDec. 23, 2013
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Psy’s energy gives local fans a holiday show not to be forgotten
“Are you ready?” was projected onto the giant stage screens as the 12,000 fans who flocked to Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium on Sunday night screamed in deafening unison while awaiting K-pop sensation Psy’s entrance. Thousands upon thousands of flashing LED headbands lit up the stadium as part of Psy’s “All Night Stand” winter solo concert series that began on Friday night. The K-pop star pulled out all the stops for the event, returning to his local fans in his first concert in Korea in eight
PerformanceDec. 23, 2013
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Celebrities want rumormongers rooted out
Actresses who have vowed legal action against rumormongers for alleging that they were involved in prostitution confirmed on Monday that they would continue the war even after the prosecution has declared the information circulating on the Internet to be false, in a move to root out malignant gossip.According to the agent of actress Lee Da-hae, the star of TV dramas including “My Girl,” “Green Rose,” “The Slave Hunters” and “Miss Reply,” decided to retain her complaints with the Seoul Metropolit
TelevisionDec. 23, 2013
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Widow gets remains of soldier lost in Korean War
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt went off to war 63 years ago, leaving behind a wife who never gave up on his return. On Friday, 94-year-old Clara Gantt stood up from her wheelchair and wept in the cold before the flag-draped casket. Sgt. Gantt was finally home. “He told me if anything happened to him he wanted me to remarry. I told him no, no. Here I am, still his wife,” she told reporters at Los Angeles International Airport, where his remains were carried from a jet
PeopleDec. 23, 2013
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Archive discloses Christmas cards received by former presidents
The National Archives of Korea on Monday disclosed Christmas cards received by former presidents through its Web portal (www.pa.go.kr).The archives also released six photos and 10 records related to Christmas as well as 14 Christmas cards sent by kindergartners, elementary and middle school students.Presidents receive Christmas cards from people of all walks of life, including members of the public and ethnic Koreans living overseas, not to mention heads of state and political and business leade
PeopleDec. 23, 2013
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Hallyu star Bae says he is dating 27-year-old woman
Hallyu star Bae Yong-joon is dating a 27-year-old woman, his entertainment agency KEYEAST confirmed on Monday. “They have been in a good relationship for three months after they met through a close friend,” an official of the agency said, without providing further details. “It’s not time to talk about marriage yet.”Earlier in the day, a Japanese media outlet broke the story about Bae’s romantic relationship and described the girlfriend as an attractive woman fluent in English, who is also a daug
Dec. 23, 2013
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Men and women have different idea of ‘perfect female face’
Men and women differ on what they perceive as the perfect female face, according to an online survey.Online beauty retailer Escentual.com recently asked 1,000 British men and women to pick the best features of celebrities in order to form a woman’s perfect face.Men selected Kate Middleton’s eyebrows, Shakira’s blonde hair, Jennifer Aniston’s forehead, Miranda Kerr’s nose and Angelina Jolie’s cheekbones and lips.Women, on the other hand, picked Cara Delevingne’s eyebrows, Freida Pinto’s dark hair
CultureDec. 23, 2013
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[Photo News] Let them eat Kimchi
PeopleDec. 22, 2013
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British TV chef Nigella Lawson faces drugs probe
LONDON (AFP) ― British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson faces a police investigation into claims of cocaine use which emerged during her personal assistants’ fraud trial after a U-turn by Scotland Yard, the Sunday Telegraph reported.Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo were cleared Friday of fraudulently spending 685,000 pounds ($1.12 million) on a company credit card owned by Lawson’s then-husband, the millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi.The assistants claimed Lawson had allowed t
PeopleDec. 22, 2013
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Positive comments on Sunfull website tops 5m
The Sunfull Movement, which promotes a positive online culture, said Saturday that the total number of encouraging comments posted on its website topped 5 million on Dec. 9.Sunfull is currently driving a campaign urging young students to leave encouraging messages on its online bulletin board in a bid to prevent school violence and help with their personal development. The number of postings exceeded 4 million in April.The group plans to include parents and other members of the public across the
PeopleDec. 22, 2013
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Faces of modern China
Portraits have been a popular medium for Chinese artists in expressing the political and social transitions experienced by modern China. China’s top-selling contemporary artists Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi have conveyed the underlying conflicts behind those political and social changes in portraits that reflect social tension. But the strong expressions of social messages have gradually receded in paintings of emerging artists, who focus instead on emotions generally shared by an international au
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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Momentum gains to unite ancient Cambodian statues
PREAH VIHEAR PROVINCE, Cambodia (AP) ― Rising out of the jungle on white pillars, the new Preah Vihear Museum’s largest building stands empty. But Cambodian officials hope that one day it will be the place where nine ancient statues depicting a dramatic battle scene are reunited from around the world.They came a step closer to that goal last week, when Sotheby’s auction house in New York agreed to return one of the statues to Cambodia, ending a heated legal battle that began when the U.S. govern
CultureDec. 22, 2013
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Christie’s to auction trove of 85 Joan Miro works
LONDON (AP) ― A trove of 85 works by Spanish surrealist master Joan Miro acquired by the Portuguese government from a failing bank is up for auction with an estimated value of 30 million pounds ($49 million).Christie’s auction house said Friday the collection is “one of the most extensive and impressive offerings of works by the artist ever to come to auction,” and covers seven decades of Miro’s career.The Barcelona-born artist was influential in the surrealist movement in the 1920s and develope
PerformanceDec. 22, 2013
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Vienna Philharmonic strips ex-Nazis of honors
VIENNA (AP) ― The famed Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has quietly stripped six former senior Nazi officials of honors awarded them ― a late act of contrition for its embrace of the Hitler era that included purging Jewish members from its ranks.The decision was divulged to the Associated Press by an orchestra member on Friday and confirmed by historian Oliver Rathkolb.Rathkolb led research earlier this year documenting the orchestra’s close cooperation with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbel
CultureDec. 22, 2013