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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Sex and secrets on the silver screen
Lee Young-mi talks about new film ‘Secrets, Objects’This is the seventh in a series on up-and-coming Korean filmmakers. ― Ed.Sitting over coffee in her own production house, director and CEO Lee Young-mi looks more like the latter. Dressed in a black suit with her wavy hair down to her shoulders, Lee’s demure presence and eloquent, deep-voiced speech calls to mind a high-profile business woman. It is fascinating to hear Lee say she likes to expose secrets and that the biggest secret anyone can
Dec. 19, 2011
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Batman’ star Bale tries to visit China activist
BEIJING (AP) ― “Batman’’ star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was physically stopped by government-backed guards from visiting a blind activist living under house arrest ― with a CNN crew in tow to record the scuffle.CNN posted footage of the confrontation on its website Friday.The run-in and publicity is likely to cause discomfort in China’s government-backed film industry, which hopes Bale’s movie “The Flowers of War’’
Dec. 18, 2011
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Screen gems: Top movies of 2011
“You know what’s a drag about being a grown-up?” a friend asked the other night. “Nobody makes movies for me anymore.”He’s not entirely correct, but I know how he feels. Hollywood’s focus on young viewers has been intensifying for decades _ at least since the original “Star Wars,” if not before ― and this year was no exception. From the latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” installment to the third “Transformers” blockbuster, the box-office biggies of 2011 were largely cinematic junk food marketed t
Dec. 18, 2011
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Elizabeth Taylor auction raises over $153 million
NEW YORK (AFP) - A week-long auction in New York of the late Elizabeth Taylor's vast collection of luxury dresses, jewels and art works wound down Friday with total sales topping $153 million.The final round of live sales at Christie's saw movie memorabilia snapped up at prices many times higher tha
Dec. 18, 2011
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Box Office
I Wish (Japan)Opening Dec. 22Drama. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda. A curious 12-year-old school boy Koichi (Koki Maeda) comes up with a plan to have his fondest wish fulfilled. After his parents’ divorce, Koichi lives with his mother and maternal grandparents in Kagoshima, Kyushu, while his younger brother Ryunosuke (Ohshiro Maeda) and guitarist father (Joe Odagiri) live in Hakata in Fukuoka. Having moved to an unfamiliar town where the famous volcano Sakurajima emits plumes of ash almost every
Dec. 16, 2011
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Tinkering with John Le Carre
Make a list of those who’ve had a hand in the entertainment world’s vampire vogue and you’ll probably put Tomas Alfredson near the top. The Swedish filmmaker directed “Let the Right One In,” the 2008 hit about a relationship between a bullied boy and the young-looking vampire Eli that turned even skeptics into believers.Yet ask the 46-year-old about his influence on, or interest in, the bloodsucker bonanza and you’ll get a shrug. “I haven’t really seen any vampire movies, except maybe a few Bela
Dec. 16, 2011
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‘The Artist’ leads with 6 nods for Golden Globes
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) ― The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, and acting honors for its French stars, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.Tied for second-place with five nominations Thursday are the 1960s racial tale “The Help” and George Clooney’s Hawaiian family story “The Descendants.” Both films are up for best drama, while Clooney was nominated for best dramatic actor and “The Help” earned acting slots for Viol
Dec. 16, 2011
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E-land Group to display W10.1b Liz Taylor diamond ring at Daegu theme park
A 33.19-carat diamond ring once owned by the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor sold for 10.1 billion won ($8,818,500) to Korean conglomerate E-Land Group at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday.The ring was given to the late actress by her fifth husband, actor Richard Burton in 1968. He had purchased the ring through an auction for $ 300,000 at the time. The ring was estimated to sell for $2.5 million to $3.5 million during Tuesday’s auction.Taylor, who died of congestive heart failure
Dec. 15, 2011
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Screenings to feature acclaimed films of 2011
BIFF winners, controversial documentaries, successful indie debuts to get second airingIf you haven’t had the chance to check out some of the most controversial, highly regarded or rarely screened movies released this year, check out these exciting special film screenings in the coming days. These may be your last opportunity to watch the films before the year ends. Starting Thursday, 2011 BIFF with Movie Collage ― a joint project between BIFF and CGV Movie Collage ― will screen a total of 19 aw
Dec. 15, 2011
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‘The Help’ tops nods for Screen Actors awards
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― “The Help,” a film about the lives of black housekeepers in the U.S. south before the civil rights era, and hit silent movie “The Artist” topped nominations at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Wednesday.“The Help” scored four nods for the SAGs including best actress for Viola Davis, while “The Artist,” a black-and-white tribute to the silent movie era, was shortlisted in three categories.On the small screen, Emmy-winning sitcom “Modern Family” won five nominations incl
Dec. 15, 2011
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Arab women filmmakers shine at Dubai festival
DUBAI (AFP) ― A tale of forbidden love in the Gaza Strip won the top prize at the eighth Dubai Film Festival on Wednesday, where a new generation of Arab women directors stole the spotlight.“Habibi” (My Love in Arabic), directed by Susan Youssef, won Best Arab feature film, and the film’s star, Maisa Abdel Hadi, won best actress.The film, which also won the best editor award, tells the story of two Palestinian lovers, Qais and Leila, growing increasingly religious under the control of the Islami
Dec. 15, 2011
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Fugitive Chinese TV actor arrested after 13 years
An actor who played a detective and a monk on Chinese television has been arrested after 13 years on the run from charges of attacking a police officer, state media said on Thursday.Ji Siguang, who performed under an alias, was accused of involvement in the assault on a police officer in 1998 in the
Dec. 15, 2011
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Childhood dreams explored in time for Christmas
Upcoming Japanese film ‘I Wish’ moving story of fractured families It is a known fact that Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda knows how to make films with child actors.After his 2004 childhood drama “Nobody Knows,” which won its 14-year-old star Yaya Yagira the Best Actor prize at Cannes in the same year, Kore-Eda is back with another moving portrait of young souls distraught by their parents’ divorce. Yet the upcoming movie, titled “I Wish,” is rather lighthearted compared to the 2004 drama, f
Dec. 14, 2011
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Eddie Murphy to star in biopic on Washington ex-mayor
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Eddie Murphy is to star in a television film under development by HBO about Washington’s colorful and controversial former mayor Marion Barry, the U.S. cable channel said Tuesday.In an email to AFP, it confirmed a report in The Washington Post that Spike Lee will direct Murphy ― seen most recently in the comedy caper “Tower Heist” ― in the still-untitled project.Barry was well into his third term as mayor when, in an FBI sting operation caught on video, he was busted in Januar
Dec. 14, 2011
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Spielberg, Jackson bring Tintin to U.S.
SAN DIEGO (AP) ― Steven Spielberg hopes he’s the typical American when it comes to Tintin. The filmmaker had never heard of the guy, but once he got acquainted, they became friends for life.Peter Jackson knows he’s the typical non-American when it comes to Tintin. He’s known him since before he could read, and the character’s globe-trotting adventures are part of his own storytelling DNA.Together, the two Academy Award-winning filmmakers hope to achieve something that eluded Belgian artist and w
Dec. 14, 2011
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Kim Ki-duk films get special screening
Two films by director Kim Ki-duk, which have yet to be released in local theaters, are currently being screened at Cinecube in Seoul through Dec. 21.One of the two is “Arirang,” a wrenching, cinematic self-portrait of the director which received a coveted sidebar prize at Cannes in May this year. Written by, directed by and starring Kim, the emotionally raw piece features Kim’s perceived failings as a director after going through a series of “betrayals” by his real-life colleagues in the Korean
Dec. 13, 2011
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Spielberg announces new Tintin movie
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Steven Spielberg announced in New York a sequel to his 3-D movie version of the comic book hero Tintin.He told a press conference Sunday that “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson would direct the new film and that he had already chosen the book by the Belgian author Herge that would serve as the basis for the script.Spielberg was promoting the U.S. premiere on Dec. 21 of his “Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” which already premiered in Brussels in October and h
Dec. 13, 2011
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American movies thrive abroad, but foreign films face challenge in U.S.
LOS ANGELES ― Although Hollywood movies are making more money than ever overseas, it’s still a struggle for foreign films to sell tickets in the United States.“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ― Part 2” collected nearly a billion dollars abroad this year, the most of any American studio production. About $120 million of that sum came from one country ― Japan. Other U.S. films that hit big overseas this year were also sequels: “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” made more than $800
Dec. 13, 2011
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Tilda Swinton needs to talk about ‘Kevin’
NEW YORK ― If you search online for photos of Tilda Swinton, you’ll find one, from the 2008 Academy Awards, that particularly delights the actress. She won the supporting-actress award that night for playing a squirmy lawyer in “Michael Clayton,” but that’s not why Swinton ebulliently brings up this photo of her and a young mystery man.“I was with the Coens (directors Ethan and Joel) and Fran McDormand. Their son (Pedro) was with them. Pedro and I were standing together. There were some photogra
Dec. 13, 2011
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Christian Bale says his Chinese film not propaganda
BEIJING (AFP) ― Oscar winning actor Christian Bale defended Sunday the upcoming Nanjing Massacre film “The Flowers of War,” by China’s most famous director, Zhang Yimou, as more than an anti-Japanese propaganda film.In the film, Bale plays an American drifter who becomes the unwitting protector of a group of Chinese schoolgirls and prostitutes trying to escape the Japanese army’s brutal sacking of China’s wartime capital.The Nanjing Massacre, in which Japanese troops killed tens of thousands of
Dec. 12, 2011