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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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Film on Myanmar activist opens Rome festival
ROME (AP) ― A biopic about Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday opened Rome’s film festival, whose organizers quoted the Nobel Peace Prize winner as calling truth and justice bastions against brutality.“The Lady,” by French director Luc Besson, features former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi, who was freed from house arrest last year after spending most of the last two decades detained by a military junta. The movie was filmed in Thailand.In an interview with the Ass
Oct. 28, 2011
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Yoon Seok-hwa to return to big screen
Veteran stage actress Yoon Seok-hwa is returning to the big screen after 24 years for director Kim Tae-gyun’s debut film.According to Pan Cinema, the production house of the upcoming movie, it only took a day for Yoon to decide to take the role. The actress was instantly moved by the script, the company said.Based on director Kim’s personal story, the film, titled “Spring Snow,” is about a family coming together after losing one of its members. Yoon will be playing Soon-ok, the mother of the fam
Oct. 27, 2011
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‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ gets London prize
LONDON (AP) ― The beautiful, terrifying domestic drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin” has won the London Film Festival’s best-picture prize.Lynne Ramsay’s film stars Tilda Swinton as a mother grappling with grief and guilt after her teenage son carries out a high-school massacre.“Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden, who chaired the judging panel, on Wednesday called it “a sublime, uncompromising tale of the torment that can stand in the place of love.”The 55-year-old London festival introd
Oct. 27, 2011
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Twisted revenge tale gives anime dark edge
BIFF award-winning ‘The King of Pigs’ first of its kind in KoreaAfter this year’s huge box office hit “Leafie,” Korea’s animation scene sees the arrival of a highly controversial work sure to leave an impact long after its theater run.A low-budget feature debut by director Yeun Sang-ho, “The King of Pigs” claims to be “the first animated vicious thriller in Korea.” Unlike “Leafie,” which sold over two million tickets with its PG rating, the film targets adult viewers only. Ironic, since the $150
Oct. 27, 2011
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Holiday releases range from Muppets to Marilyn Monroe
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Puss in Boots and dancing penguins to J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I.The latter are among a batch of potential Academy Awards contenders from past winners and nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio as the FBI boss in director Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar”; Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Thatcher in “The Iron
Oct. 26, 2011
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Lindsay Lohan poses nude for Playboy: report
LOS ANGELES, Oct 25, 2011 (AFP) - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for Playboy in a deal worth nearly $1 million dollars, the TMZ celebrity news website reported Tuesday.The actress, who has faced a string of legal problems and is currently on probation, had wanted $1 million dollars an
Oct. 26, 2011
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Biography has Van Gogh filmmakers rethinking
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The producers of a new film about Vincent Van Gogh are rethinking its ending in the wake of a definitive biography that doubts the long-held belief that the Dutch painter took his own life.“Van Gogh” would be the first English-language feature film about the giant of post-Impressionism since “Lust for Life” in 1956, in which Kirk Douglas portrayed Van Gogh shooting himself while painting in a French wheat field.In their just-released “Van Gogh: The Life,” biographers Steven Na
Oct. 25, 2011
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Bard’s name is barred in protest against film
LONDON (AFP) ― Protesters in William Shakespeare’s home county were on Tuesday to temporarily remove the writer’s name from street signs in support of a campaign against a new film which suggests the Bard was “a fraud.”Shakespeare Birthplace Trust was to tape over nine road signs bearing the writer’s name in Warwickshire, central England, in protest at “Anonymous,” a new movie which alleges Shakespeare was a “barely literate frontman for the Earl of Oxford.”The charity, which promotes the study
Oct. 25, 2011
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Spielberg ‘brings Tintin home’ Hollywood-style
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Belgium rolled out the red carpet for Tintin, its most celebrated son, as Steven Spielberg offered a Hollywood-style premiere of his blockbuster-to-be to enthusiastic crowds in the comic book hero’s home city.“It is a great honor for us to bring Tintin home,” Spielberg told a news c
Oct. 23, 2011
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Halloween getting Latino characters
Centuries before the bride of Frankenstein first screamed and hissed on the big screen in 1935, the legend of the wailing woman who drowned her children was already terrifying kids throughout Latin America.But only now, with Latinos constituting the largest minority group in the nation, has the tale
Oct. 21, 2011
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Restless (U.S.)Opening Oct. 27Drama. Directed by Gus Van Sant. Young boy Enoch (Henry Hopper), who dropped out of school after his parents’ untimely deaths, only hangs out with his imaginary friend Hiroshi (Ryo Kase), while spending most of his time attending strangers’ funerals. Things change when
Oct. 21, 2011
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The musical ‘Sound of Music’ in Salzburg homecoming
SALZBURG, Austria (AFP) ― “The Sound of Music,” the musical made world famous by the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews, has never been performed in the picture-postcard Austrian city of Salzburg where it is set.But on Sunday this will change as the Salzburg State Theatre premieres a sell-out German-l
Oct. 20, 2011
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Lohan in custody after judge finds probation issue
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan sported a new accessory Wednesday after a judge revoked her probation: Handcuffs.The actress was taken into custody and escorted from a hearing after Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked her probation because she was ousted from a community service as
Oct. 20, 2011
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Barbra Streisand and others honored; Davis has baby news
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Nine women were honored at the annual Women in Hollywood event, yet two ladies in particular stole the show.Viola Davis surprised her fellow honorees and an audience of Hollywood insiders Monday night by announcing she had adopted a baby girl.And Barbra Streisand was repeatedly cr
Oct. 19, 2011
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Kim Ha-neul, Park Hae-il get top honors at Daejong Film Awards
Actress Kim Ha-neul walks the red carpet during the 48th Grand Bell Awards at Sejong Center in Seoul, Monday. (Yonhap News)“The Front Line” picks up Best Picture, Best CinematographyKim Ha-neul took home the top acting award at the 48th Daejong Film (Grand Bell) Awards on Monday for her role as a vi
Oct. 18, 2011
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Pee Wee, Potter, Vader win at Scream Awards
UNIVERSAL CITY, California (AP) ― Heroes and villains from the worlds of horror, fantasy and science-fiction shared the stage at Spike TVs annual Scream Awards.More television event than traditional awards ceremony, the Scream Awards were presented in an amphitheater built on the Universal Studios b
Oct. 17, 2011
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Forgiveness should not be forced: Lee Jeong-hyang
Director talks about issues of capital punishment and domestic violence in her upcoming filmShe made a highly successful debut with a charming romantic comedy in the late 1990s, and enjoyed another box-office home run with a heart-warming tale of a grandmother and a grandson in 2002. Now director Le
Oct. 16, 2011
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Violence stars in Iraqi film fest
BAGHDAD (AFP) ― A journalist kidnapped by extremists may be a well-trodden scenario, but for one young filmmaker in Baghdad, it provided fodder for a nascent genre in Iraqi film: the patriotic action flick.“Attention” by Ibrahim al-Khazali, named Best Iraqi Production at this month’s Baghdad Interna
Oct. 16, 2011
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‘Mourning,’ ‘Nio’ win New Currents Award in Busan
“Mourning” by Iranian director Morteza Farshbaf and “Nio” by Filipino director Loy Arcenas have won the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival. The award recognizes Asia’s best rising directors. BIFF wrapped up its nine-day event on Friday evening in Busan, with the screening of
Oct. 14, 2011
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The Four Times (Italy, Switzerland, Germany)Opening Oct. 20Drama. Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. An old shepherd lives alone with his goats, in a remote village perched on the hills of Calabria, in the southernmost region of Italy. The weary old man gets sick one day, and believes the only me
Oct. 14, 2011