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Samsung promotes execs in 30s, 40s for future growth
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State-run body says 'cannot hire women' applicants
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Disgraced Korean-American singer wins suit over visa denial
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4.0 magnitude earthquake rattles Gyeongju, wakes Korea up
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As streaming services raise fees, some turn to illegal streaming sites
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BOK holds key rate steady, cuts 2024 growth outlook
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4.0 magnitude earthquake shakes southeastern Korea
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NK will never discuss 'sovereignty' with US, says Kim Yo-jong
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Remaining BTS members to begin military service next month
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NewJeans, Seventeen, BTS win top honors at 2023 MAMA Awards
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Late actress Choi’s former manager found dead
The former manager of late actress Choi Jin-sil was found dead on Thursday morning in a motel room in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul. The body of the man identified only as Park was found by motel staff at 2 p.m. Wednesday after he failed to check out on time. He had checked in at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.No note was discovered at the scene, but empty boxes of tranquilizers and sleeping pills have led police to suspect suicide. The manager was the last person to be with the actress before she committed suicide
PeopleNov. 28, 2013
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Monty Python announces five more reunion shows
LONDON (AFP) ― Britain’s Monty Python comedy troupe on Wednesday announced five further dates for their reunion tour, after tickets for their first joint performance in three decades sold out in under a minute.John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin will play the new dates at London’s O2 Arena on July 15-16 and 18-20, bringing the total run of shows to 10.They delighted their cult following last week by announcing a “one-off” show on July 1 at the 20,000-capacity are
PerformanceNov. 28, 2013
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Mike Tyson merciless with himself as he seeks redemption
Back in Mike Tyson’s heyday, it was a badge of honor for many boxers to simply survive past the first round in the same ring as Tyson, the self-described “animal” and “monster” of American sports.But now I’ve got those palookas beat. I went the distance ― all 580 pages ― with Tyson’s violence-, drug- and sex-filled memoir, a masterpiece of depravity and confessional honesty titled “Undisputed Truth.”In 1986, at age 20, the New York City-born, onetime petty criminal became the youngest-ever heavy
BooksNov. 28, 2013
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British author Doris Lessing refused to be categorized ― in life and in her writings
Doris Lessing, who died at home in London on Sunday at age 94, was a writer who refused to be categorized. Feminist, expatriate, experimentalist, realist, science-fiction writer: She was all of these and more.Recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, she is best known (rightly) for her 1962 novel “The Golden Notebook,” the story of a fractured woman named Anna Wulf and her efforts to find some sort of integration. Lessing, however, later would see that book as something of an albatross, a
BooksNov. 28, 2013
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Youngster tries to find his missing parents in Voigt’s novel
Mister Max: The Book of Lost ThingsBy Cynthia Voigtillustrated by Iacapo Bruno (Knopf for Young Readers)Readers who wish their families were more interesting will be hooked, as I was, on Cynthia Voigt’s “Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things,” the first of a planned three-book series featuring an inventive and endearing boy named Max.Max’s parents are actors, and their lives are unpredictable. The drama only increases when the family gets an invitation to create a theater company for the maharajah
BooksNov. 28, 2013
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‘Collision Low Crossers’ recounts a year with the N.Y. Jets
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL FootballBy Nicholas Dawidoff(Little, Brown and Co.)First, to be fair: “Collision Low Crossers,” Nicholas Dawidoff’s chronicling of a season with the New York Jets, is excellent stuff. The author spent 2011 embedded with Rex Ryan’s team, and his doggedness and observational skills produce an insider’s look that brings to mind Roy Blount’s classic ode to the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers, “About Three Bricks Shy of a Load.”It’s good.Bette
BooksNov. 28, 2013
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Pony Chung Foundation awards scholarship
The Pony Chung Foundation has awarded scholarships to 60 students at Vietnam National University, Hanoi and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh. Chung Mong-gyu, chairman of the foundation, presented the scholarships to 30 students at the Hanoi campus on Wednesday and 30 at the Ho Chi Minh campus on Thursday.“I would like to introduce my late father’s pioneering spirit to Vietnam,” Chung said at the scholarship awarding ceremony. The foundation has so far awarded scholarships to a total of 3
PeopleNov. 28, 2013
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Dokdo police duty draws applicants in droves
November saw more applications to be stationed on Dokdo as a police officer than any other single month since recruitment began. The North Gyeongsang provincial police agency said Thursday that 198 people applied for seven openings in the Dokdo Guard in November, a ratio of 28.3:1. The ratio is a record high since the agency started hiring police officers to guard the easternmost islets in September 2011. The agency recruits 7 to 12 guards each month who will serve their military duty as police.
PeopleNov. 28, 2013
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Moore, Kutcher finalize divorce
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Former Hollywood power couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are officially divorced, two years after she announced their split, according to legal documents released Wednesday.“The parties are restored to the status of single persons,” said documents filed Tuesday and cited by People magazine, while TMZ said the papers were formally entered by Kutcher’s lawyer Laura Wasser.Representatives for Moore, 51, and Kutcher, 35, did not respond to requests for comment or confirmation
PeopleNov. 28, 2013
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Justin Bieber in Australia graffiti row
SYDNEY (AFP) ― Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber was told on Thursday to clean up his mess after the pop star was accused of spraying graffiti on the wall of an Australian hotel.Furious Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate said the Canadian had been disrespectful and “really, really silly,” and sent a graffiti removal kit to the exclusive QT Hotel on the Sunshine Coast so he could repair the damage.“If a normal person did that they’d be serving 80 to 100 hours of community service,” Tate told the Nine Network.
PeopleNov. 28, 2013
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Korean singer embroiled in legal spat with mother
A South Korean singer has become entangled in a legal fight with her own mother and a member of her fan club.According to the Yongin Dongbu Police Station in Gyeonggi Province, the former leader of a fan club filed a report to the police last month, claiming that Jang Yun-jeong, a well-known trot singer, abused her own mother by beating her, locking her up and tracking her location.Jang’s mother appeared at the police station Tuesday to explain her position, and suggested that Jang intended to h
Nov. 28, 2013
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G-Dragon, TVXQ and KARA top Japan music charts
K-pop singers grabbed the top slots on the Japanese Oricon music charts on Wednesday, led by G-Dragon, TVXQ and KARA.“G-Dragon’s solo debut album is looking to break the record for most albums sold out of Big Bang as a group and other members as solo artists,” said YG Entertainment, citing Japanese music industry officials.G-Dragon ranked second on Oricon’s Daily Albums Chart the day “Coup D’etat” was released with 34,597 copies sold in Japan. Meanwhile, TVXQ hit second on the Daily Singles Char
Nov. 28, 2013
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K-pop beloved, far under the radar
Earlier this month, K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation beat out big names Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and even Korean YouTube sensation Psy to take the “Video of the Year” award at the first-ever YouTube Music Awards.The initial reaction of the crowd gathered at the awards ceremony in New York can be summed up with one word: Huh?Despite being one of the hottest groups in Korea and most of Asia, their name still does not ring a bell immediately in U.S. mainstream music. On YouTube, howe
PerformanceNov. 28, 2013
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Korea seeks UNESCO listing for TV show on separated families
A 453-hour-long TV series aimed at reuniting separated families in Korea that aired in 1983 will be pushed for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register next year, the Cultural Heritage Administration said Tuesday. According to the CHA’s unit for world heritage enlistment, the live TV show, “Finding Dispersed Family,” aired by state-run broadcaster KBS from June 30 through Nov. 14 in 1983 was selected as Korea’s candidate for next year’s enlistment. “The program reflects the harsh and t
CultureNov. 27, 2013
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Art seized from Chun family to be auctioned next month
The art collection confiscated from the family of former President Chun Doo-hwan will be put on the auction block in December at two major auction houses in Korea. K Auction and Seoul Auction, designated as the official auction houses by the Korean government to sell the seized artworks, will present a total of 235 pieces at their regular winter auctions next month. The artworks are estimated to be worth more than 3.7 billion won ($3 million) and include masterpieces of Korean art ― from old lan
PerformanceNov. 27, 2013
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S. Korea: Royal seal at L.A. museum may have been stolen
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― South Korean officials say a 16th century royal seal in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art may have been stolen out of a shrine in Seoul during the Korean War.An official at the state-run Cultural Heritage Administration told the Associated Press that South Korea in May asked the United States to investigate how the gilt bronze seal ended up at LACMA in 2000.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says U.S. officials have confiscated the seal.The
CultureNov. 27, 2013
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KNO to highlight Shakespeare next year
In honor of the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in 2014, the Korea National Opera will stage two operas based on the English playwright’s works next year. “Romeo et Juliette” by French composer Charles Gounod will be staged on Oct. 2-5 at the Seoul Arts Center Opera Hall. The tragic story of teenage lovers Romeo and Juliet has been one of the most loved romantic tales around the world, made into several film and uncountable TV adaptations, love songs and others.
PerformanceNov. 27, 2013
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Researchers say they found oldest Buddhist shrine
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ― Archaeologists in Nepal say they have discovered traces of a wooden structure dating from the sixth century B.C. that they believe is the world’s oldest Buddhist shrine.Kosh Prasad Acharya, who teamed with archaeologists from Britain’s Durham University, said Tuesday that the structure was unearthed inside the sacred Mayadevi Temple in Lumbini. Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, is generally thought to have been born in about the sixth century B.C. at the temple sit
CultureNov. 27, 2013
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World’s most expensive book sells for $14m: Sotheby’s
NEW YORK (AFP) ― The first book printed in what is today the United States of America sold for more than $14 million at auction in New York Tuesday, Sotheby’s said, becoming the world’s most expensive book.The translation of Biblical psalms “The Bay Psalm Book” was printed by Puritan settlers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640 and was sold at a one-lot auction by Sotheby’s.Bidding opened at $6 million and closed just minutes later at a premium price of $14.165 million, a Sotheby’s spokesman sai
BooksNov. 27, 2013
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Spike Lee riffs on ‘Oldboy’ in remake
Nobody ever accused Spike Lee of an overabundance of subtlety. He’s an unapologetically bold filmmaker, one who hasn’t shied away from using a tattered American flag or a “Dead End” sign as hard-to-miss metaphors. But this also works to his benefit: Lee’s films rarely fail to leave an impression. So that Lee would take on a remake ― or “reinterpretation,” as he calls it ― of Park Chan-wook’s grotesque revenge melodrama “Oldboy” is perhaps fitting. He’s one of few filmmakers who would take the or
FilmNov. 27, 2013
