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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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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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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Kara first Korean girl group to hold concert at Tokyo Dome
Five-member girl group Kara became the first Korean all-female group to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome with their “Karaisa 2013 Happy New Year in Tokyo Dome” performance on Sunday.The concert, which attracted 45,000 fans, was part of Kara’s Japan tour which had the girls performing 12 shows in front of more than 100,000 fans across the country including in Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka. Previous to the girls’ concert, the only other girl groups that had performed at the Tokyo Dome recent
Jan. 9, 2013
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Jaejoong of JYJ sells out first solo concert
Jaejoong of the idol trio JYJ sold out a 16,000-seat concert venue for his first-ever solo concert in Korea. Tickets to the two-day concert event to be held on Jan. 26 and 27 sold out immediately after tickets went on sale, causing the ticket retailers’ servers to crash. With so many fans bombarding the site trying to purchase seats, the event set a record for the having the server shut down for the longest period of time, according to representatives of C-JeS Entertainment.Jaejoong released the
Jan. 9, 2013
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U.S. returns smuggled ancient vase to Italy
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States on Tuesday returned to Italy a ceramic water vase from the sixth century B.C. that had been sold to an Ohio museum in 1982 by art dealers using falsified documents.In a statement, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said the rare Estruscan black-figure kalpis, valued at $665,000, was handed back to Italian officials following a ceremony at the Toledo Museum of Art.Investigators from both nations had established that the kalpis, depicting
Jan. 9, 2013
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Universal Ballet to perform ‘Swan Lake’ in Japan
Universal Ballet, a leading ballet company in South Korea, will begin its first overseas tour for this year in Tokyo, the company said Wednesday.Dancers will perform “Swan Lake,” the very essence of classical ballet, at Tokyo’s U-port Hall on Jan. 19-20, it said.Universal Ballet’s version of “Swan Lake” has been acclaimed in South Korea and 13 countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, Germany and Italy.The ballet company had a performance tour of four Japanese cities for “
Jan. 9, 2013
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From stilettos to sneakers: SNSD adores new group image
The K-pop girl group leaders of Girls’ Generation have made their long awaited comeback with the release of their fourth full album, “I Got a Boy.” The nine beauties have not only transformed the group’s image from cute and innocent to raw and edgy: they have a new sound to match.“I personally think that Girls’ Generation’s strength, and from this album on, is versatility,” said Tiffany during an interview Monday. “Just by listening to the album itself you can get hip-hop to sweet songs, to toug
Jan. 9, 2013
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Theater performance to help Koreans living overseas
A theatrical play is being performed in Seoul’s Daehangno district to support overseas Koreans, according to Peace Asia, a group that supports ethnic Koreans living in foreign countries. The play, “A Performance with a Long Title,” tells the story of four individuals who discover hope by revisiting their childhood dreams. Instead of purchasing tickets in advance, viewers can pay after the performance. There is no fixed price; one can pay as much as they like. The play’s producer and local theat
Jan. 8, 2013
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Stolen Matisse turns up in Britain 25 years later
LONDON (AFP) ― A Matisse painting stolen 25 years ago from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm has turned up in Britain, where a dealer had hoped to sell it on behalf of an elderly Polish client, it emerged on Monday.Henri Matisse’s “Le Jardin,” an oil on canvas from 1920 which is now worth about $1 million (760,000 euros), was found when art dealer Charles Roberts ran it through a global database of stolen art ― standard practice before a sale. The team at the Art Loss Register quickly identi
Jan. 8, 2013
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Music hall to screen the Met’s 2013 season
A music hall in Seoul is screening the 2013 season of the Metropolitan Opera, bringing the popular, award-winning Live in HD series to local opera lovers. Directed by Bartlett Sher and starring Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani, Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” will be screened on Jan. 20 and Jan. 27. For the 2013 season, the Met is presenting a total of seven new productions and five revivals, and “Met Opera @ Bear Hall” will hold three screenings of each production every month. This year will
Jan. 8, 2013
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‘Mary Poppins’ to close on Broadway in the spring
NEW YORK (AP) ― “Mary Poppins’’ is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway.An official close to the show’s producers said Monday that the 6-year-old musical will end performances in March at the New Amsterdam Theatre and eventually be replaced by a musical adapted from the film “Aladdin.’’The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak before the official announcement. The New York Post first reported the news, citing an anonymous sourc
Jan. 8, 2013
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Singer Rain disciplined for dating during service
A military disciplinary committee said Tuesday it has ordered K-pop star Rain to not leave his unit for one week, the lightest form of military discipline that can be administered, over dating a top TV actress while on official military duty. The move comes after the 30-year-old singer, who was spotted dating actress Kim Tae-hee while he was on leave last month, faced strong backlash from the public over the special treatment of celebrities while they fulfill their mandatory military service.All
Jan. 8, 2013
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Nureyev’s legacy in spotlight, 20 years on
PARIS (AFP) ― Twenty years after his death, Rudolf Nureyev’s legacy still lights up the world of ballet as brilliantly as the flamboyant performances which once illuminated the greatest stages.“As long as they are putting on my ballets, I will live on,” Brigitte Lefevre, dance director of the Paris Opera, recalls Nureyev saying in the years before the ravages of AIDS finally claimed him, aged 54, on Jan. 6, 1993.A fitting epitaph for a performer who went from being the outstanding male dancer of
Jan. 7, 2013
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Block B sues agency for lack of payment
Seven-member rookie hip-hop group Block B has filed a lawsuit against their talent agency for failure to pay the members in accordance with their contract. The suit, filed with the Seoul District Court, requests that their exclusive contract with Stardom Agency be nullified. The lawsuit states that the group’s initial contract promised that on top of the agency providing training and facilities, the singers be paid on the 25th of every month. Block B claims that the members did not receive any s
Jan. 7, 2013
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Sculpture knock-offs prove plague of art world
AMHERST, Massachusetts (Reuters) ― An epidemic of sculpture knock-offs is plaguing the art world, and just like the sale and production of counterfeit designer handbags and shoes, law enforcement is having a difficult time keeping up.Statues, wildlife figures and, in one case, a copy of Jasper Johns’ 1960 metallic collage “Flag,” are turning up for sale in stores, garden centers and other outlets without the approval of the artists who originally created them, and sometimes at top-end prices.Ame
Jan. 6, 2013
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Joseon’s erotic paintings to go on display
Erotic paintings by two great masters of Korean painting will go on display at an exhibition that sheds light on the daily lives of people in the Joseon era. The exhibition at Gallery Hyundai features two complete collections of erotic paintings made by prominent painters in Korean history Shin Yun-bok and Kim Hong-do, as well as genre paintings that are being shown to the public for the first time. The original Joseon erotic paintings, called “chunhwa” (literally means spring paintings), weren’
Jan. 6, 2013
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Theater festivals fire up a cold New York
NEW YORK (AP) ― Listening to Supreme Court justices question lawyers doesn’t sound like the stuff of great theater. But somehow it is ― in the hands of one of the city’s most acclaimed companies.Elevator Repair Service ― the group that performed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby’’ in its entirety lasting over eight hours ― returns this month with a new experiment: Re-enacting the 1991 oral arguments of a high court case about the legality of nude dancing in Indiana.The show, “Arguendo,’’ w
Jan. 6, 2013
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Despite chart ranking, ‘I Got a Boy’ gets positive review from Billboard
By Julie JacksonThe nine ladies of the K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation made their comeback official with the release their fourth full album, “I Got a Boy,” on New Year’s Day. However, despite not receiving the fan fever that the starlets are accustomed to hearing, Billboard’s recent track-by-track review raved at the group’s new found electro dance pop sound. “‘I Got A Boy,’ their fourth full-length album, is a confident return home with polished K-pop confections that combine elements of fo
Jan. 6, 2013
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Artist with a master plan
This is the ninth in a series on foreigners working in the Korean entertainment industry. ― Ed.Korean-American Bryan Park, also known by his stage name NoName, came to Korea to pursue a music career in 2008, and though it has been hard going, his efforts are starting to bear fruit.The hip-hop artist left his label over the summer and opened up his company, AMP Media, in August 2012, and currently has about 15 to 20 people working there, including two artists and a group of trainees for an idol g
Jan. 6, 2013
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Ex-husband of late actress Choi Jin-sil found dead
The former husband of late actress Choi Jin-sil was found dead at his home in Seoul Sunday in an apparent suicide, police said.The body of Cho Sung-min, 39, a former top baseball player who was married to Choi from 2000 to 2004, was found in the bathroom of his apartment in the southern Seoul neighborhood of Dogok-dong, police said.A friend discovered the body and told police, saying Cho appeared to have strangled himself with a belt.The late actress committed suicide in 2008 after struggling wi
Jan. 6, 2013
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Dance“Romeo and Juliet”: The Korea National Ballet is opening this year’s season with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The troupe is presenting a version created by legendary French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot of Monte Carlo Ballet Theater. Unlike the Kenneth MacMillan version showcased by Universal Ballet Company last year, the upcoming show presents simple and modern costumes and choreography. Its stage setting, created by French designer Ernest Pignon-Ernest, is also noted for
Jan. 4, 2013
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Elle Goulding’s ‘Halcyon’ is hauntingly beautifulEllie Goulding“Halcyon”(Polydor Records)In an age of auto tuned homogeneity, Ellie Goulding’s voice is really something. She imprints on everything she sings with unique character. Goulding’s tremulous vibrato and hoarse timbre have the feel of something primal and folky, her birdlike high notes are childlike, while darker tones imply ancient depths of sorrow. Ellie Goulding has always dealt with unfairly high expectations. Best known in the U.S.
Jan. 4, 2013