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[AtoZ into Korean mind] Humor in Korea: Navigating the line between what's funny and not
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Yoon seeks rebound, taps 5-term lawmaker as chief of staff
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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Medical standoff deepens as doctors reject new med school plan, talks
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[Herald Interview] Why Toss invited hackers to penetrate its system
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korean envoys convene to navigate strategy amid Middle East tensions
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North Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles into sea: JCS
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Samsung, SK hynix investors dump shares on Nvidia crash
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Exhibitions“Julian Opie”: Kukje Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Julian Opie featuring some of his new works portraying the lifestyles of pedestrians in Seoul. The new works, results of his observations of people walking by on the streets of the capital city, will reveal his signature style of depicting people in color and outlining them prominently in black. The works on display are paintings, sculptures and pieces made using light-emitting diodes. The exhibition runs from Feb. 13 to March
CultureFeb. 7, 2014
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Box Office: Venus Talk, My Place, The Nun
Venus Talk (Korea)Opening Feb. 13Comedy. Drama. Directed by Kwon Chil-in. Shin-hye (Uhm Jung-hwa) is a capable TV producer and a single woman in her 40s. She used to date her co-worker, the current chief of their TV network, but he left her for a younger woman who also happens to be Shin-hye’s junior colleague. She has two best friends, Mi-yeon (Moon So-ri), a housewife who is not satisfied with her sex life with her rather docile husband, and Hae-young (Jo Min-soo), a single mother who wants h
FilmFeb. 7, 2014
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Eyelike: B.A.P grounds itself with ‘First Sensibility’
B.A.P grounds itself with ‘First Sensibility’B.A.P “First Sensibility” (LOEN Entertainment)Up-and-coming K-pop boy group B.A.P has returned to the music scene with its first studio album “First Sensibility,” packed with colorful sounds and powerful hip-hop beats.Following a series of successful singles, the new album proves that the six-member group is quite solid, having established a unique style characterized by a mixture of rap and steady vocals. However, the group still has room for progre
FilmFeb. 7, 2014
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Kate Winslet plays a repressed mother in ‘Labor Day’
This is a different sort of Kate Winslet than we’ve come to expect.In “Labor Day” ― a romance, a drama, and a woman’s fantasy of what men, perhaps, should be ― the British actress plays Adele Wheeler, a fragile, frightened single mother too wary of the outside world to even get in the car and drive to the market.The year is 1987, the place a small New Hampshire town. Adele’s 13-year-old boy (a very good Gattlin Griffith) has assumed many of the domestic responsibilities. There’s even an Oedipal
FilmFeb. 7, 2014
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Tradition with a twist at Pyeongchang Trout Festival
For six weeks during winter, visitors from across South Korea make the pilgrimage to Jinbu-myeon to try their hand at the traditional winter sport of ice fishing. With patience and precision, ice fishing participants pull a lure, ideally with a fish attached, through a small hole carved in the ice. The snowcapped surroundings of the Pyeongchang Trout Festival provide a picturesque reward for this patience, and go a long way toward eliminating any of the mild frustrations associated with fishing.
TravelFeb. 7, 2014
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Asia’s first JW Marriott boutique hotel opens in Dongdaemun
Located smack-dab in the heart of Korea’s largest retail district of Dongdaemun ― home to 26 shopping centers and around 30,000 local specialty shops ― and situated directly across from one of Seoul’s most iconic national treasures, the East Gate, is the new JW Marriott Dongdaemun Square Seoul, which officially opened its doors to the public on Tuesday.“South Korea is one of Asia’s fastest-growing global economies and a strategically important North Asian travel hub,” said Simon Cooper, presiden
TravelFeb. 7, 2014
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KTO publishes Korean food recipes in foreign languages
The Korea Tourism Organization has released a cookbook on quick and easy Korean food recipes in six foreign languages ― English, Japanese, Chinese, German and French. “Easy Korean Cooking” introduces recipes of 14 popular Korean dishes including bulgogi, bibimbap, kimchi stew and soybean paste stew. The book also features four Korean foods liked by people from the six countries. The cookbook also offers answers to questions frequently raised by foreigners when they try cooking Korean food. For i
TravelFeb. 7, 2014
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts offers double Starpoints
Starwood Hotels and Resorts is offering double Starpoints for members registered as Starwood Preferred Guests when they dine at hotel restaurants until April 30. The campaign “Twice as Nice” allows SPGs to collect double points each time they dine at Starwood Hotels and Resorts restaurants. Participating hotels in Korea include Sheraton Incheon, Sheraton Seoul D Cube City, W Seoul Walkerhill and Westin Chosun Busan. Accumulated Starpoints can be redeemed in the form of free nights and flights at
TravelFeb. 7, 2014
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Princess Cruise adds jacuzzis on cruise ships
Princess Cruise has set up hot tubs in two cruise ships that will be operated in the Northeast Asia from April. As part of the $30 million cruise ship renewal project, the international cruise operator has installed indoor and outdoor hot tubs on Sun Princess and Diamond Princess, which will be positioned in China, Japan and South Korea soon. The hot tubs with natural materials will offer relaxation on board. Users will also be able to enjoy Asian foods to be provided by a noodle bar and a sushi
TravelFeb. 7, 2014
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Around the hotels
Strawberry dessert buffet at Sheraton Grande WalkerhillThe Pavillion, the lobby lounge at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, is offering the “Very Berry Strawberry” weekend dessert buffet from Feb. 8 to Mar. 30. The buffet is available every Saturday and Sunday and will be offered in two shifts: from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., and from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Reservations must be made in advance. The dessert buffet, which has been running for seven years, will feature a variety of strawberry desserts such
FoodFeb. 7, 2014
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Artisanal coffee and bagels
Located in Daechi-dong near Hanti Station, southern Seoul, Sam’s Bagel and Roastery provides a haven for hungry and thirsty passersby. The artfully presented red and white sign and long, broad windows are an accurate preview of the inviting space, which bears all the trappings of a please-come-and-linger spot, from its free Wi-Fi to its solid brews, bagels and scones. This is a place made for all manner of laidback behavior involving multiple cups of coffee and flour-centric bites, because the g
FoodFeb. 7, 2014
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Mu namul (radish side dish)
Mu namul is an excellent cold weather side dish. It’s simple, nutritious and tasty! In season, the radish tastes so good in its natural state that you really don’t need to add much of anything else to make this dish delicious. Typically, it is made by a combination of stir-frying and steaming. The julienned radish is first stir-fried with a little bit of oil, and then covered and cooked over low heat to steam. The result is a healthy vegetable dish that is mildly flavored and naturally sweet. In
FoodFeb. 7, 2014
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‘Real Men’ adds four new cast members
MBC’s hit reality show “Real Men” will add four new faces, including actor Chun Jung-myung and boy band Super Junior-M’s Henry, while three of its original cast members will drop. “The four new cast members are actor Park Geon-Hyeong, singer K. Will, Super Junior-M’s Henry and actor Chun Jung-myung,” the TV channel said in a press release Friday. “The new recruits will submit themselves to the training center for new army recruits in mid-February before joining the existing cast members on the s
TelevisionFeb. 7, 2014
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After 22 years, Leno bids farewell to ‘Tonight’
BURBANK, California (AP) ― Jay Leno has said goodbye to “The Tonight Show” before, but not like this. The comedian became tearful and choked up Thursday as he concluded what he called the “greatest 22 years of my life.”“I am the luckiest guy in the world. This is tricky,” said an emotional Leno, stepping down for the second and presumably last time as host of TV’s venerable late-night program. Jimmy Fallon takes over “Tonight” in New York on Feb. 17.Leno shared that he’d lost his mother the firs
TelevisionFeb. 7, 2014
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Seoul aims to boost foreign tourist satisfaction
If a foreign tourist comes to Korea, he or she is most likely to visit the capital Seoul first, before venturing out to explore the provinces. More than 12 million foreigners visited Korea in 2013, up 9.3 percent from 2012. Of these, some 10 million foreigners took a trip to the capital city. As for Chinese tourists, more than 90 percent visited Seoul, according to data compiled by the city-run Seoul Institute. Despite the status of Seoul as the face of Korea to foreign visitors, tourism program
TravelFeb. 6, 2014
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Top Hollywood films for February
After the box-office smash of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen,” Korean theaters are welcoming the arrival of another series of highly anticipated Hollywood films this month.Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3-D disaster thriller “Pompeii,” George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men” and slavery saga “12 Years a Slave” are all opening in theaters in February, each offering something different.Among the three, the first to be released here is “Pompeii,” which follows the story of a slave who falls in love with
FilmFeb. 6, 2014
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Mystery surrounds theft of Stradivarius violin
MILWAUKEE (AP) ― Violin virtuoso Frank Almond was walking to his car after an evening performance at the Wisconsin Lutheran College when someone jumped out of a van, shocked him with a stun gun and seized the rare and extremely valuable Stradivarius on loan to him. The robber got back into the waiting vehicle, which sped off. Almond, who had been knocked to the ground, wasn’t seriously hurt. But he was devastated by the loss of the violin, which was crafted in 1715 and has been appraised for ins
PerformanceFeb. 6, 2014
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‘Empire of the Sun’ internment camp forgotten in China
SHANGHAI (AFP) ― No public memorial marks the former Shanghai internment camp made famous by J.G. Ballard’s novel “Empire of the Sun,” where more than 1,800 foreigners were held by the Japanese during World War II.Ballard’s fictionalized version of his experiences in the Lunghwa camp was published 30 years ago, followed in 1987 by the Steven Spielberg film starring a young Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a boy who comes of age on his own in the facility.The site is now an elite government-run scho
BooksFeb. 6, 2014
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Giacometti exhibit in Rome explores power of human body
ROME (AFP) ― Striking, skeletal forms of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti are juxtaposed with corpulent neo-classical and baroque Italian masterpieces in a new exhibition in Rome exploring the evocative power of the human body. Forty Giacometti gems, including his famous spindly “Walking Man” in bronze, have been scattered around the permanent collection at the Villa Borghese Gallery in the Italian capital, dotted in among classics such as Bernini’s “David” or Canova’s “Pauline Borghese.” The c
PerformanceFeb. 6, 2014
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YB to debut in U.S., U.K. with ‘Cigarette Girl’
Korea’s chief rock band YB is set to debut in the United Kingdom and the United States with its signature single “Cigarette Girl,” according to the band’s management company on Tuesday.YB, which recently signed with the former manager of American hard rock legend Guns N’ Roses Doug Goldstein, will unveil the English version of “Cigarette Girl” on Feb. 18, marking the band’s first official international appearance under a foreign management agency.“Cigarette Girl” was originally sung by veteran K
PerformanceFeb. 6, 2014