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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Public backlash against division of Gyeonggi Province under 'corny' name
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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[Today’s K-pop] Stray Kids go gold in US with ‘Maniac’
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Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell daughters star at Paris ball
Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell daughters star at Paris ballPARIS (AFP) -- Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, stepped out as the teen star of the Debutantes Ball in Paris Saturday, alongside Andie MacDowell’s youngest, Margaret Qualley.Held each year at the Crillon Hotel on Paris’ Place de la Concorde, the ball is a highlight of Europe‘s high-society calendar that updates a custom stretching back to the royal courts of France and England.Clad in sumptuous
Nov. 27, 2011
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Michael Jackson doctor faces four years in prison
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray is due back in court on Tuesday for sentencing, facing up to four years in prison after being convicted over the King of Pop’s 2009 death.Prosecutors want Murray to get the maximum jail term and be ordered to compensate the Jackson family for the star’s loss of earnings, estimated at $100 million for the comeback shows he was preparing when he died.But the 58-year-old medic’s lawyer Ed Chernoff asked in submissions to court last week for
Nov. 27, 2011
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Pictures of no place
Two German photographers showcase photos of life-size paper creations and renovated art museumGerman photographer Thomas Demand takes photos of places he has never been to, or things that no longer exist. The control room at Fukushima nuclear power plant and a parcel bomb sent to the U.S. from Yemen are clearly visible in his photos. But the photographer has never seen either with his own eyes. How is that possible? The secret reveals itself upon closer inspection: The photographer created life
Nov. 27, 2011
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‘The Unjust’ best picture at Blue Dragon Awards
Kim Ha-neul, Park Hae-il hailed best actress, actorDirector Ryu Seung-wan’s crime thriller “The Unjust” won Best Picture at the 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards on Friday, while actress Kim Ha-neul and actor Park Hae-il received the top acting honors in a repeat of last month’s Daejong Film Awards.An incisive portrayal of corruption and extortion of public officials surrounding a serial murder case, “The Unjust” also won Best Director and Best Screenplay.Ryu, who was reportedly on a business trip i
Nov. 27, 2011
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Korean documentary wins top prize at IDFA 2011
Korean documentary “Planet of Snail” won the top prize at the world’s largest documentary film festival in the Netherlands on Saturday, becoming the first Asian film to win the award.An everyday portrayal of a hearing and visually impaired man and his partner by director Yi Seung-jun, the film won the Best Feature-Length Documentary prize at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Yi received a $16,600 cash prize.The film previously won the UNICEF Special award at last yea
Nov. 27, 2011
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Calendar
Classical Music“Chung Kyung-wha: ‘She is Back’”: Violinist Chung will perform on Dec. 19, 21, 25 and 26 in Seoul and other Korean cities for her first solo recitals in the country in nine years. Suffering a finger injury five years ago, Chung has been unable to hold a solo performance for years, focusing on teaching at the Juilliard School in New York. Chung will be performing with American pianist Kevin Kenner, whom she calls “a great partner,” playing Mozart’s “Violin Sonata No. 21 in E Minor
Nov. 25, 2011
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Box Office
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1(U.S.)Opening Nov. 30Fantasy. Romance. Directed by Bill Condon. Newly married Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) go off on their honeymoon to a private island off the coast of Brazil. While enjoying herself with her husband, Bella realizes she may be pregnant with a half-vampire baby. As Bella gets confirmation that she is actually pregnant, the couple immediately leave the island and return to their home. Worried that the baby, w
Nov. 25, 2011
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Williams prepared by immersing herself in all things Monroe
Her eyes were searching the grounds of the Beverly Hills Hotel, peeking over the bougainvillea at a row of terra cotta-roofed buildings.“I always wonder which bungalow was hers,” said Michelle Williams, staring into the distance at a lodging that could have been home to Marilyn Monroe. The icon, whom Williams plays in the film “My Week With Marilyn,” lived at the hotel in the late 1950s while in production on the movie “Let’s Make Love.”“Is it too pretentious to say I feel I have a relationship
Nov. 25, 2011
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McAvoy feels duty to voice any film animated in the U.K.
“The Last King of Scotland” (2006) made Scottish actor James McAvoy a film star, and “Wanted” (2008) made him a bankable Hollywood name. He does most of his work, these days, in American projects such as “X-Men: First Class” and “The Conspirator.”But he’s not forgetting where he came from. At 32, he’s starring in his fellow Brit Danny Boyle’s heist picture, “Trance.” And any time there’s a bit of animation to be done in the UK, count him present. From the sleeper hit “Gnomeo and Juliet,” which m
Nov. 25, 2011
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Sienna Miller says paper hacked her emails
LONDON (AFP) ― Actress Sienna Miller told an inquiry Thursday her emails and phones were hacked by the News of the World as part of a “web of surveillance” that led her to make paranoid accusations against her friends.It is the first time the inquiry has heard evidence that emails were hacked as well as phone voicemails, and came shortly after British police said they had made their first arrest in a computer hacking probe linked to the paper.Miller, the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood star Jude Law,
Nov. 25, 2011
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JK Rowling: UK press left me feeling under siege
LONDON (AP) _ Writer J.K. Rowling and actress Sienna Miller have given a London courtroom a vivid picture of the anxiety, anger and fear produced by living in the glare of Britain's tabloid media, describing how press intrusion made them feel like prisoners in their own homes.J.K. Rowling (Bloomberg
Nov. 25, 2011
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Not all pleased as Hallberg makes his Bolshoi debut
MOSCOW ― David Hallberg is off and running in Moscow. On Friday night he made history for the Bolshoi Ballet as the first American in a leading role on its historic stage in a new production of the fabled Russian ballet “The Sleeping Beauty.”And it’s not just any stage: Older than the United States and the jewel of Russian culture, the Bolshoi Theatre is newly restored for its 236th season.Hallberg, the American Ballet Theatre principal who is now also a premier dancer with the Bolshoi, and Russ
Nov. 24, 2011
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Cuba decries ‘vulgarity’ in music
HAVANA (AFP) ― Cuba on Wednesday took aim at “vulgarity” in popular music, decrying the sexually graphic lyrics that are increasingly common in music played by young people on the communist island.“We note with great concern that in the past few years there has been a ... type of artistic expression, including in popular Cuban music, that leaves much to be desired,” read the opinion piece appearing in the daily Granma newspaper.Cuba sees itself as the birthplace of salsa, which is seen as a nati
Nov. 24, 2011
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Taylor, Gomez join Swift onstage
NEW YORK (AP) ― Taylor Swift closed her “Speak Now World Tour” with her best friend and the man her parents named her after.The 21-year-old brought out James Taylor and Selena Gomez at her concert Tuesday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden.Swift said her parents named her after Taylor, and the two performed his hit “Fire and Rain.” Taylor also played the guitar while Swift performed her song “Fifteen.”Gomez joined the country singer earlier in the night, and the two sang a duet version of
Nov. 24, 2011
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Miami Beach getting ready for Art Basel Dec. 1-4
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) -- Live graffiti painting. A colossal rose bed soaring 6.1 meters high. Early photos of Andy Warhol, a Picasso up for auction and a naked woman living in a pig pen. They’re all part of the lineup for Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs Dec. 1-4, with a host of related events beginning Nov. 30.The pig pen installation will undoubtedly be the most jaw-dropping event at the art fair. Known for photographing herself nude in subway tunnels or in front of graffiti walls, perfor
Nov. 24, 2011
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Dylan discs to benefit Amnesty International
NEW YORK (AP) ― A sprawling new collection of Bob Dylan cover songs is being released in January to benefit Amnesty International.The human rights organization said Wednesday that all of the songs on the 4-CD collection will be new or previously unreleased versions, with the exception of Dylan’s title cut, “Chimes of Freedom.”The disc, to be released in the U.S. on Jan. 24, is being produced by the same music executives who made a 2007 benefit album for Darfur featuring John Lennon songs.Partici
Nov. 24, 2011
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Kermit the Frog was green before green was cool
LOS ANGELES ― Kermit the Frog is cooling his cloth-and-cotton heels in the Beverly Hilton hotel room.“Miss Piggy apologizes. She’s delayed. Actually she’s standing right outside the door. She wants to make a special entrance,” Kermit says.As if on cue, the door flies open and Miss Piggy enters like a beauty queen making her first trip down the runway. She stops and asks how long we’ve been waiting. Upon hearing it’s been only 30 seconds, Piggy turns and leaves.The move doesn’t surprise Kermit. T
Nov. 24, 2011
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‘Garden of peace’ at Chelsea Flower Show
Korean environmental artist Hwang to reproduce wildlife of DMZ in BritainThe Demilitarized Zone separating the South and North Korea may be the most scarred, but at the same time, the one of the most untouched places in the world.Hwang Ji-hae, the winner of the Artisan Garden section at the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, this time wanted to show the place and tell “our story” badly because she knew the stage will be spotlighted by the media from all over the world and be visited by VIPs like the Quee
Nov. 24, 2011
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Tripitaka Koreana gets last public display
National museum marks millennial anniversary of ancient Buddhist printing blocksFor those who have yet to see the wooden printing blocks of the Tripitaka Koreana, the world’s most comprehensive and oldest intact Buddhist canon, the time is now or never.The National Palace Museum of Korea is holding a special exhibition celebrating the millennial anniversary of the ancient Korean relic, showcasing the Haein Temple’s wooden printing blocks of the Buddhist scripture to the public for the last time.
Nov. 24, 2011
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Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial
MILAN (AP) — George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis are among more than 200 witnesses accepted Wednesday by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.Clooney has said he was approached by Berlusconi'
Nov. 24, 2011