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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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‘Red Riding Hood’: From fairy tale to scary tale
The Little Red Riding Hood of our collective imaginations is usually carrying a basket, but what she’s really got is baggage ― the kind of socio-sexual-psychological baggage that has kept certain fairy tales and myths alive from one end of the media forest (oral tradition) to the other (iPads).As a movie star, Red hasn’t had quite the career of Cinderella, say, or Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, ev
March 11, 2011
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Cine France opens its spring line-up
To the joy of the many French movie fans in Korea, Cine France announced Tuesday the lineup for the March-April season, which is currently running at Dongsoong Art Center in Dongsung-dong, central Seoul.Organized by the French Embassy in Korea, the French Cultural Center and Jinjin Pictures, Cine France is a film screening event started in 2006 to introduce French movies to the Korean public. A sc
March 8, 2011
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Korean movies top box office charts
South Korean movies have been dominating the country’s cinemas since the start of this year. The Korean Film Council announced on Monday that 8.48 million people watched Korean films at cinemas in February, accounting for 63 percent of all moviegoers. About 4.98 million watched foreign flicks. There were 520,000 more people in Korean movie audiences this January compared to the same month last yea
March 8, 2011
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Africa ‘Oscar’ goes to incest movie from Morocco
OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) ― A Moroccan film about the incestuous rape of a young woman by her father who believes she is demon-possessed scooped the top honors at Africa’s biggest film festival.“Pegase” by Mohamed Mouftakir from Morocco, late Saturday won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, the grand prize of the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso’s desert capital Ouagadougou.
March 7, 2011
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Box Office
Hanji (Korea)Opening March 17Drama. Directed by Im Kwon-taek. Documentary producer Ji-won (Kang Soo-yeon) is making a non-fiction film about hanji, Korea’s traditional handmade paper. While traveling across the country to film the paper of many different kinds, she runs into Pil-yong, (Park Joong-hoon) a low-grade public officer. Pil-yong is married to Hyo-gyeong (Ye Ji-won), who has been sufferin
March 4, 2011
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How director Gore Verbinski wrangled ‘Rango’
“Animation isn’t a genre” like Westerns, film noir, romance or horror, Gore Verbinski was saying. “It’s just a technique for telling a story.”So when the man behind the hugely popular “Pirates of the Caribbean” series decided to make his first animated feature, his biggest concern wasn’t about the process of animation but about the process of storytelling.Verbinski, 46, could have stuck with the “
March 4, 2011
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‘Adjustment Bureau’ aims to be latest hit based on stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick had a flair for spinning science fiction scenarios that were well within the orbit of paranoia. In his novels and short stories, he addressed the tricks of memory and the quirks of reality.Once dismissed as a mere purveyor of pulp fiction, Dick ― who died in 1982 ― is now recognized as a major American writer. But arguably, he’s still best known for inspiring some of the most imagin
March 4, 2011
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Listen to King George VI’s real speech
At the Oscars, the night undoubtedly belonged to “The King’s Speech,” which won four Academy Awards, in best picture, director, actor and original screen play. Accepting the award for best original screenplay, David Seidler said: “I would like to thank her majesty the queen for not putting me in the Tower of London for putting swear words in George VI’s mouth. And I accept this on behalf of all th
Feb. 28, 2011
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Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker awarded worst actor and actress
Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker were awarded the worst actor and actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards on Feb. 26, the night before the Oscars, the Telegraph reported Sunday. Ashton Kutcher (left) and Sarah Jessica Parker (right) (MCT)Known as the “Razzies,” the Golden Raspberry Awards is held annually to recognize the worst films of the year. “The Last Airbender” was crowned the worst, w
Feb. 28, 2011
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'King's Speech' crowned Oscars monarch
HOLLYWOOD, (AFP) - British royal drama "The King's Speech" was crowned Oscars winner on Sunday, taking three of the top Academy Award prizes at the climax of Hollywood's annual awards season.The movie took best picture, best director and best actor for Colin Firth as a stammering King George VI, helped by an Australian voice coach to rally wartime Britain. Colin Firth accepts the Oscar for best pe
Feb. 28, 2011
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No Oscar love for casting directors
Some of Hollywood’s most fabled directors, Elia Kazan and Robert Altman among them, have said that casting accounts for roughly 90 percent of a movie’s ultimate success or failure.Yet at Sunday’s Academy Awards, there’ll be trophies for categories from best director to makeup ― but none for casting directors. While the Television Academy gives Emmy Awards for casting, and the Film Independent Spir
Feb. 25, 2011
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The best (and worst) supporting Oscars hosts
Will James Franco pull a poem out of his tux, or read an excerpt from one of his short stories?Will Anne Hathaway break into song?Will the two of them, virgin co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards, dazzle the Kodak Theatre crowd Sunday night ― and more important, dazzle the millions of viewers around the globe?Or will the untested duo drown in a pool of commingled flop sweat?Franco, 32, and Hathaway
Feb. 25, 2011
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Box-office rankings
Feb. 18 - Feb. 201. Aideul (Children)Opened Feb. 17Directed by Lee Gyu-manStarring Park Yong-woo, Ryu Seung-ryong 2. Late AutumnOpened Feb. 17Directed by Kim Tae-yongStarring Hyun Bin, Tang Wei3. Detective K: Secret Of Virtuous WidowOpened Jan. 27Directed by Kim Seok-yoonStarring Kim Myeong-min, Han Ji-min4. Tangled (Rapunzel)Opened Feb. 10 Directed by Nathan Greno, Byron HowardStarring Mandy Moor
Feb. 25, 2011
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Shotgun Love (Korea)Opening March 10Comedy. Directed by Jeong Woo-cheol. Home shopping model Sang-yeol (Im Chang-jeong) has a huge crush on his colleague So-yeon (Kim Gyu-ri). Unlike Sang-yeol, who mostly just tastes food items being advertised, beautiful and refined So-yeon is highly successful in the field. She hosts the TV shopping show and is well-known to the public. In spite of Sang-yeol’s p
Feb. 25, 2011
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Italian seeks kung-fu stardom in Shanghai
SHANGHAI (AFP) ― At a Shanghai building site, a man in a black Stetson looks over his shoulder at two approaching thugs. Four others appear, fists raised. They lock eyes and the cowboy springs up in a whirlwind of kicks.The scene is from “Shangdown: The Way of the Spur,” an independent kung-fu spaghetti western, and the cowboy is Christian Bachini, a 25-year-old Italian actor who came to Shanghai
Feb. 21, 2011
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Director tells more than her family story in ‘Goodbye Pyeongyang’
Personal documentary recounts tale of Korean-Japanese who resettled in N. KoreaMovie director Yang Yong-hi has a one-of-a-kind family.She lives in Tokyo, her mother in Osaka and her brothers in Pyongyang, North Korea.Born in Japan to pro-Pyongyang ethnic Korean parents, Yang tells about her life and family history in a cinematic form.But the 47-year-old director’s second personal documentary “Good
Feb. 21, 2011
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S. Korean actress Lee Young-ae gives birth to twins
South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, widely popular across Asia, has given birth to twins, her agent here said Monday.Lee, 40, became a mother of fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at a Seoul hospital, said Storms Company."The mother and the babies are healthy," it said.Lee Young-ae (The Korea Herald)She was secretly married in 2009 in the United States to a Korean businessman
Feb. 21, 2011
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Downbeat S. Korean drama booed in Berlin
Korean actor Bin Hyun and South Korean actress Soo-jung Lim arrive for a press conference for the film "Come Rain, Come Shine" on February 17, in Berlin. The sole Asian contender for the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize, the minimalist South Korean breakup drama met with jeers from critics.(Photo: AFP)BERLIN (AFP) – The sole Asian contender for the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear to
Feb. 21, 2011
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‘Night Fishing’ brings home Golden Bear
Park brothers’ iPhone-shot short film wins award at BerlinaleSouth Korea’s highly acclaimed director Park Chan-wook and his younger brother, media artist Park Chan-kyong, captured a Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival for their first collaboration. Director Park Chan-kyong receives the Golden Bear award of the International Short Film Jury for the film “Night Fishing,” which he co-di
Feb. 20, 2011
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Adam Sandler: Is he the new Woody Allen? No, and yes
We humans divide ourselves into camps.Liberals and conservatives.Cat people and dog people.Woody Allen fans and Adam Sandler fans.Sandler, whose “Just Go With It” opens Friday, occupies a place in the hearts of Gen-Xers much in the way that Woody Allen is a cultural icon for baby boomers.Those sounds you hear are the howls of protest and snorts of derision from graying movie watchers across the la
Feb. 18, 2011