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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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Ancient pre-Inca tomb found in northern Peru
LIMA (AFP) ― Archeologists said Friday they have discovered a tomb about 1,200 years old, from the pre-Inca Sican era, in northern Peru.Human remains and jewelry were found July 4 along with the tomb, likely that of a member of the aristocracy of the Sican or Lambayeque elite, head researcher Carlos Wester La Torre told AFP.A gold earflap, a silver-plated crown, and some 120 silver and copper ornaments that served as emblems of power, along with 116 pieces of pottery and seashells were found in
July 15, 2012
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Ditching digital
Gadget-fatigued people turn back to vinyl records, film cameras, fountain pensKoreans are often thought of as some of the world’s most tech-savvy people, quick to catch on to the newest digital gadgets.Using their mobile phones or tablets, they listen to music, manage schedules, take pictures and type emails.However, an underground shopping arcade in Hoehyeon-dong, central Seoul seems to resist the tide of digital culture. Vinyl record stores line the passageways, and everything feels slow. If y
July 13, 2012
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Museums, art centers offer fun, education for kids
With school break just around the corner, museums and art centers have lined up a variety of cultural events. The programs will suit the needs of children and teenagers looking for fun and entertaining events as well as parents seeking to find more educational opportunities. Although the vacation has been made shorter by the five-day school week this year, children and parents can still make the best of it in an enriching cultural atmosphere. Here are some fun yet educational summer programs tha
July 13, 2012
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Culture minister to deliver lecture for overseas Korean language experts
South Korean Culture Minister Choe Kwang-shik will give a lecture on Friday for foreign experts of the Korean language and Korean studies at the ministry.The minister will speak on the theme of “The Vision of a Cultural Power in the Smart Age: Creative Integration of Tradition and Modernity” for 44 foreign experts from 22 countries.The foreigners are participating in a two-week program organized by the National Institute of the Korean Language. The program covers teaching methods for Korean lang
July 12, 2012
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Designer Vera Wang and husband separate
Vera Wang arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)Vera Wang’s publicist says the New York fashion designer has separated from Arthur Becker, her husband of 23 years.“They remain devoted parents to their two daughters,” Wang’s company president, Mario Grauso, said in a statement to Women’s Wear Daily.No reason was given for
July 12, 2012
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Korea’s first adoption center opens for rescued animals
The country’s first adoption center for rescued animals opened Saturday on Toegye-ro, Seoul, ironically, on a street lined with pet shops and puppy mills. Director of Coexistence of Animal Right on Earth (CARE) Park So-yeon explained that she specifically chose Toegye-ro as the location for CARE’s Adoption Center because the area is famous for puppy mills. “Hundreds of animals are locked up in small cages for reproducing pets. When the breeding dogs become useless, they are handed over to dog me
July 11, 2012
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Why Mali’s Islamists are destroying Timbuktu Muslim shrines
PARIS (AFP) ― The mausolea of Timbuktu, known as the “city of 333 saints,” are shrines in the Sufi brand of Islam dominant in Mali but a heresy to the fighters who follow the radical Wahhabi tradition, experts say.Fighters from the Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) group which controls large swathes of northern Mali on Tuesday started hacking away at two tombs that are part of the ancient Djingareyber mud mosque, the city’s largest.Equipped with pickaxes and shovels, the fundamentalist group start
July 11, 2012
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Language-exchange cafes and groups promote cross-cultural understanding
Ross Kang didn’t see a future as an industrial parts buyer at LG. What he really enjoyed doing was learning English with native speakers, but couldn’t find comfortable places to conduct the meetings. So Kang left his stable job to create a business based on that experience. The first Culture Complex language and culture exchange cafe opened in 2005 and the CEO hasn’t looked back.“Foreigners, especially ones who just got to Korea, know little about Korea and they need help,” says the 35-year-old.
July 10, 2012
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Caravaggio claims spark Italian art world spat
ROME (AP) ― Caravaggio was notorious for his brawling, so it might be fitting that a claim by two Italian art historians that they discovered as many as 100 drawings by the painter in his boyhood has sparked an art world uproar.The researchers say they found dozens of early drawings by Caravaggio in the collection of master Milanese artist Simone Peterzano, the painter’s teacher from 1584 to 1588. Many experts have responded with skepticism to the startling claim: Over the centuries, art histori
July 9, 2012
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Culture Ministry unveils drive for ‘productive’ leisure
The Culture Ministry will begin a nation-wide campaign to promote recreation in the second half of the year with the aim of improving citizens’ quality of life.“Most Koreans still spend their spare time passively by watching TV and playing computer games at home. To create a productive and creative leisure culture here, the ministry will encourage people to spend more time outdoors, engage in various sports and attend cultural programs,” Culture Minister Choe Kwang-shik told reporters in Seoul o
July 9, 2012
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Pet hotel thrives as Koreans seek canine companions
SEOUL (AFP) -- Checking into one of Seoul’s newest luxury clinics just because your companion needs a shower may seem extravagant, but Cho Hang-Min said he had no other choice.“Other places won’t do it,” said Cho, a student, explaining why he and his Border Collie have stopped off at Irion.The two-storey establishment in the city‘s wealthy Gangnam district is a luxury hotel and clinic for pampered pets -- a rising trend in South Korea where dogs were once treated as guard animals or as something
July 9, 2012
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Seo Hee becomes principal dancer of American Ballet Theater
American Ballet Theater (ABT) has promoted its Korean-born ballerina Seo Hee to the position of principal dancer, the renowned U.S. troupe announced via its website on Friday. Seo is the first Korean dancer to hold the position.Seo HeeSeo’s promotion is taking place just weeks before her “Giselle” Korean tour which is scheduled to take place from July 18-22. The 26-year-old dancer joined the ABT s
July 7, 2012
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Heritage city Seville’s skyscraper irks UNESCO
MADRID (AFP) ― U.N. cultural body UNESCO has warned Seville not to endanger its World Heritage status by building skyscrapers in its historic centre after a controversial tower nearly stripped the Spanish city of its title.Seville managed to irritate UNESCO by constructing a 178-meter high tower, designed by architect Cesar Pelli, just a few hundred metres from the city’s Giralda, a former minaret converted to a bell tower for the cathedral ― home to the tomb of Christopher Columbus ― and its Al
July 5, 2012
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16 year-old girls turn up at prom in helicopter
Two 16-year-old girls in the U.K. showed up Friday to their school’s end-of-year prom in a helicopter.Chloe Webb and Lauren Huggett stunned their friends by arriving at the party with a helicopter instead of a limousine as other students did. “All our friends were really shocked -- they could not believe it,” said Webb. They wanted to use a limousine, but when they tried to book it, none were available. So, Huggett’s father paid 500 pounds ($780) to rent the helicopter for his daughter and her f
July 5, 2012
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‘All Eyes on Korea’ vies for London limelight
Korean Culture Centre UK on a 100-day journey to promote Korean culture in the Olympic host cityIt all started with K-pop. Interest in Korean pop artists has led to many young Europeans wanting to know more about Korea and its other cultural offerings such as food, traditional music, film and art. To meet the growing interest, Korean Culture Centre UK kicked off a three-month-long journey titled “All Eyes on Korea” last month to offer a wide range of creative Korean culture in various parts of L
July 4, 2012
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French language takes center stage at Quebec forum
The first global forum on French kicked off in the Canadian province of Quebec Monday aimed at strengthening the language of Moliere in a world dominated by English.“I could tell you that the French language is doing well, that it is spoken and taught on five continents, that the number of speakers is growing and that it promises to have a brilliant future, especially in Africa,” declared Abdou Diouf, secretary general of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), a union of French
July 4, 2012
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A computer developed to compose classical music
A group of Spanish researchers have developed a computer that composes classical music, according to the British daily The Guardian.The computer program, called “Iamus,” was developed by a research team in Malaga University, Spain, to transform basic forms of melodies to compose music on its own.Like a “genome” which refers to a genetic structure of organisms, each musical work of Iamus has its own musical core to develop itself into a more intricate formation.The British newspaper also reported
July 3, 2012
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UNESCO: Rio de Janeiro is world heritage site
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― Rio de Janeiro’s iconic landscape, marked by soaring granite facades that drop into the ocean and white-sand beaches that go on for miles, is now an official world heritage site, the UNESCO announced Sunday.The UN’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization gave Rio the title in recognition of the unique way its exuberant natural setting blends with the urban landscape. Rio has great waterfront open spaces, and one of the world’s largest forested areas encompassed en
July 2, 2012
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‘Gugak empowers spirit, feels more like nature’
Most Koreans talk proudly of K-pop for having made inroads overseas where traditional music, or “gugak,” has failed. For Grammy-winner Henry Kaiser, however, gugak is much more fascinating and holds far more power to touch hearts.“Western music is all straight lines, Korean music is all curved ones. And curved lines are more like nature and feel better to me,” Kaiser said in an interview with The Korea Herald.Kaiser, 60, is among the first generation of American free improvisers to have experime
July 1, 2012
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Pope confers pallium on Seoul’s new archbishop
Pope Benedict XVI honored 44 new archbishops from across the world including the newly appointed archbishop of Seoul Andrew Yeom Soo-jung at the Vatican Palace, Thursday, according to news reports.Archbishop Yeom received the pallium ― the woolen liturgical vestment symbolic of the authority of a metropolitan archbishop. According to Catholic tradition, the pope confers the pallium on all new metropolitan archbishops on June 29, the day of the annual feast of Saints Peter and Paul. Yeom thanked
July 1, 2012