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A scene from Bong Joon-ho’s latest work and Hollywood debut “Snowpiercer” (CJ Entertainment) “Snowpiercer,” the highly anticipated English-language film debut of director Bong Joon-ho, will hit...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:42
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A guide shows a touch screen showing travel information, maps, and promotional photos and video clips for tourists in Korea, inside a specially outfitted mobile tourist service center, launched on Tu...
Updated : 2013.06.11 20:18
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Archaeologists work an ancient tomb found at a construction site in the town of Colon. (AFP-Yonhap News) SAN SALVADOR (AFP) ― Salvadoran construction workers building a housing complex unearthed Ma...
Updated : 2013.06.11 20:17
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CHEVERNY, France (AFP) ― An Edo-era Japanese chest belonging to Cardinal Mazarin, France’s chief minister from 1642 to 1661, was snapped up at an auction Sunday for 7.3 million euros by Amsterdam’s f...
Updated : 2013.06.11 20:16
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A 16th-century war diary kept by famous Korean naval hero Yi Sun-sin is highly likely to be added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, officials said Monday. The war diary, called “Nanjung Il...
Updated : 2013.06.10 20:00
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― A team of experts led by UNESCO said Friday it has found far more serious damage to Mali’s cultural heritage in the fabled city of Timbuktu than initially estimated, with 16 mau...
Updated : 2013.06.09 20:23
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Theater “La Dame au Violoncelle”: TV actress Lee Jae-eun, who started her career as a child actress, is making a comeback with a play written by French playwright Guy Foissy. Titled “La Dame au V...
Updated : 2013.06.07 20:40
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MARSEILLE, France (AP) ― A new flagship museum dedicated to Mediterranean civilization in Marseille is hoping to shake off the southern metropolis’ reputation as France’s deadliest city with a dra...
Updated : 2013.06.06 20:15
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NHN Corp., which runs South Korea’s biggest Web portal, said its new ad service for online cartoons generated average monthly revenue that translated into more than $2,000 per artist in extra income....
Updated : 2013.06.06 15:26
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“Faust 8 Channel-Arts” by Nam June Paik (K-Auction) Video artist Nam June Paik’s video installation work “Faust 8 Channel-Arts” (1991) is among the pieces by prominent Korean artists that will ...
Updated : 2013.06.05 19:56
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Classical music lovers will be able to witness the chemistry between the 95-year-old Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and its 37-year-old music director Yannick Nzt-Sguin at the Seongnam Arts Center ...
Updated : 2013.06.03 19:55
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The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-funded Korean language teaching institute, has released a series of government-standardized Korean language textbooks for non-Korean speakers. The “Sej...
Updated : 2013.06.03 19:55
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Korea has been rather unfamiliar with German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) except for a few excerpts from works such as the “Wedding March” from “Tannhauser.” Some of his operas hav...
Updated : 2013.06.02 20:12
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― A new exhibit created by a University of Pennsylvania professor and host of a popular public television show examines how wartime propaganda has been used to motivate oppressed p...
Updated : 2013.06.02 20:10
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LONDON (AP) ― It’s the collection that “Cats” built. A multimillion-dollar trove of works by artists including J.M.W. Turner, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Winston Churchill that were owned by...
Updated : 2013.06.02 20:10
