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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Historic places in N. Korea listed as UNESCO world heritage sites
Historic sites in North Korea's ancient city of Gaeseong were added to the world heritage list of UNESCO on Sunday, official sources said.The decision was made during the 37th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, earlier in the day, sources following the event said. The session is set to continue until Thursday.The decision has been widely expected as the sites were recommended last month by the Paris-based International Council on Monuments and Sites, an advisor
June 23, 2013
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Theater“A Tale of Two Cities”: “A Tale of Two Cities,” a musical based on the novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, is being restaged in Seoul after its first run in the city last year. The piece is set against the conflicts between the rebels and aristocracy during the French revolution and its parallel world in 18th-century London. It tells the story of Sydney Carton, a shrewd young English lawyer who develops a strong, unrequited love for Lucie Manette, a young, loving French woman who
June 21, 2013
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A community pulled apart by racism
Until She Comes HomeBy Lori Roy (Dutton)Lori Roy mixes lyrical prose, a noir approach and gothic undertones for an urban story set in 1958 about a community pulled apart by racism, fear and image in her second novel. As she did in her 2011 Edgar-winning debut “Bent Road,” Roy delivers a timeless story that gives shape to those secrets and tragedies from which some people never recover.Detroit’s Adler Avenue is the kind of neighborhood where a woman makes a roast beef dinner twice a month for the
June 20, 2013
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A novel of family, conflict in Sri Lanka
On Sal Mal LaneBy Ru Freeman (Graywolf Press)In her rewarding new book, novelist Ru Freeman plunks readers “On Sal Mal Lane,” a tropical effusion of foliage and children growing up in Sri Lanka, the island off India’s southern tip. Colonialists once called the place Ceylon and prized its tea; Freeman, who grew up in the capital, Colombo, has something more pointed in mind.Her story moves chronologically toward July 1983, or “Black July,” when riots in Colombo ignited a civil war lasting nearly 2
June 20, 2013
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New book examines Korean monochromatic painting
The first in-depth examination of Korean monochromatic painting is being published by an American art history professor in July, shedding new light on the Korean modern artistic movement that shaped what people view as today’s Korean abstract art. “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method,” written by Joan Kee, an art history professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, offers a fresh interpretation of the movement’s emergence and meaning that sheds new light on the hi
June 20, 2013
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Site of Pocahontas rescue to be preserved
GLOUCESTER, Virginia (AP) ― A farm field overlooking the York River in Tidewater Virginia is believed to be where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue English Capt. John Smith from death.On loan to archaeologists for more than a decade, these 23 privately owned hectares will be preserved forever under an agreement years in the making and to be officially announced Friday. The deal is important for Native Americans because they believe their story has been overshadowe
June 20, 2013
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Korea eyes cartoon renaissance
Comic books and cartoons have long been good friends to Koreans. From the early days of Lee Do-young, who satirized Japanese colonialists, to green dinosaur Dooly seeking his mother among mankind, and the latest webtoon by Yoon Tae-ho on the lives of office workers, cartoons have been a great source of fun, consolation and encouragement to many Koreans. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 1 in 3 people here enjoy cartoons or comics every week. Through Naver, the country’s l
June 20, 2013
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Barrel-aged cocktails: A new trend?
The barrel-aged cocktail trend has yet to really take off in South Korea, but that did not deter bar B28 co-owner Mike Soldner from teaming up with major drinks business Diageo Korea to put them on the menu of B28’s new Seoul outlet.According to Soldner, the barrel-aged cocktails should be ready within several months.Essentially cocktails that are concocted and then put in small wooden barrels and aged for around six weeks, barrel-aged cocktails are, according to Soldner, “incredibly smooth.”“Ba
June 19, 2013
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On-trend, over 50: Embrace fashion and your best features
Today’s fashion lines are blurry, and it’s not my old 60-plus-year-old eyes that are the problem. No, I see the confusion among many of my fellow baby boomers when it comes to what fashion look is right for our age.Is the line between what is “too young to wear” fading? Have the rules that our moms once held about how to dress for our age group vanished? Are we mystified about how to dress when the media typically only shows fashion ideas more appropriate for a 20-year-old? Yes to all.Blame it o
June 19, 2013
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AAM translates softer side of Baroque music
Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” is one of the most familiar classical music pieces here ― it is the default ringback tone for mobile phone users and one of the most frequently suggested pieces for novices. As such, it has lost freshness for many people due to its overexposure. But in Tuesday’s Academy of Ancient Music’s concert, the Italian composer’s 292-year-old piece was reincarnated into a more classical yet somehow softer, vibrant, light-hearted and romantic serenade to the changing seasons. T
June 19, 2013
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Korea to support restoration of Cambodian heritage
The government will support Cambodia’s restoration of ancient Angkor heritage in Siem Reap province through management administration and nurturing researchers, the Cultural Heritage Administration said Wednesday. The state-heritage management agency will sign a memorandum of understanding with the Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap on Thursday in Phnom Penh to collaborate on the restoration of the Preah Pithu ruins. The buildings are assumed to hav
June 19, 2013
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Coexistence of time and space in painting
In paintings by artist Moon Ji-yeon, what you see on the surface of the canvas is not all there is. You will need an LED lighting to bring out the hidden image in the back ― a desolate urban landscape, characterized by a jumble of utility pole cables, transforms into a forest where a deer runs under the shining sun. That’s the complete image when two contrasting scenes merge with the lighting. Behind such exploration of blending painting with other mediums is Moon, 34, who is showcasing 20 of hi
June 19, 2013
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[Newsmaker] UNESCO lists war diary, Saemaul archives
“Nanjung Ilgi,” or “War Diary,” by 16th-century naval hero Yi Sun-shin, and archives of Korea’s Saemaul Movement in the 1960s have been listed to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, the Cultural Heritage Administration said Wednesday. Their inclusion brings the total number of South Korea’s heritage items on the UNESCO list to 11, the highest for an Asian country. The decision was made during the 11th session of the International Advisory Committee that opened in Gwangju on Tuesday when t
June 19, 2013
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Cathedral dedicated to Korean unification to open in Paju
A cathedral with mosaic works made by North Korean artists will open on June 25, the 63rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Korea announced Monday. The mosaic works inside the “Catholic Church of Repentance and Redemption” were produced by seven artists of the Mansudae Art Studio, one of the most renowned art groups in the North, in 2007. They depicted martyrs from Pyongyang and Hwanghae Province as well as some from So
June 17, 2013
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Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work
Alaska composer John Luther Adams ― not to be confused with “Nixon in China” composer John Adams ― has staged outdoor-percussion extravaganzas (“Inuksuit”), created sound-and-light installations triggered by atmospheric phenomena (“The Place Where You Go to Listen” at Fairbanks’ Museum of the North) and blended electronics with live instruments (“The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies”).But he doesn’t often get a chance to work with a full-scale orchestra. That’s why he is as thrilled about the Seat
June 17, 2013
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‘Man of Steel’ takes flight with $125m debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― “Man of Steel” leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend.The Warner Bros. superhero film earned $113 million in its opening weekend at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The retelling of Superman’s backstory earned an additional $12 million from Thursday screenings, bringing its domestic total to $125 million. Original box-office expectations for “Man of Steel” ranged from $75 million to $130 million.“They finally got the Superman formula right
June 17, 2013
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Smugglers use auction sites to sell cultural heritage
The Internet has linked the world to a new level, enabling exchanges and trade of nearly everything with just few clicks. But it has become a headache for governments as online auction sites have become a loophole in cultural heritage smuggling. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Friday said that five people have been apprehended for illegal trade of a total of 187 non-designated cultural heritage artifacts using eBay, the world’s largest auctioning site. The authorities have managed to rec
June 16, 2013
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Booking for Accor Super Sale starts today
Accor Hotel Group, operator of 10 Accor Ambassador hotels in Korea, on Monday starts to receive bookings for the Accor Super Sale event which offers up to 50 percent discount for rooms at 2,000 Accor hotels worldwide between July 6 and Sept. 1. The discount program is available at Grand Ambassador Seoul; Pullman Ambassador Changwon; Novotel Ambassador Gangnam, Doksan and Daegu; Mercure Ambassador Gangnam; and the ibis Ambassador Seoul, Myeong-dong, Suwon and Busan. Rates start at $23 per room pe
June 16, 2013
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U.S. finds diary of notorious Nazi Alfred Rosenberg
WILMINGTON, Delaware ― His garden stroll with Adolf Hitler left Alfred Rosenberg invigorated.Rosenberg was already one of the most notorious and powerful Nazis, chief architect of ethnic cleansing policies and the man responsible for plundering billions of dollars of art from European Jews.At the meeting in April 1941, Hitler spoke of a larger role. “Your hour has come,” he said, according to an account Rosenberg scrawled in his diary.For nearly 70 years, the infamous diary, an unprecedented ins
June 16, 2013
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‘Dam-in-dam’ to be installed to preserve Bangudae petroglyphs
The government on Sunday said it would build a polycarbonate “dam” inside Sayeon Dam in Ulsan to protect the rock faces of Bangudae, located on Daegokcheon Stream Cliff, from erosion. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, a memorandum of understanding was signed by Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, Cultural Heritage Administration chief Byun Young-sup, Culture Minister Yoo Jin-ryong and Ulsan Mayor Park Maeng-woo, which allows the installment of a “kinetic dam,” a portable, transparent protecti
June 16, 2013