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Secretly GreatlyOpening June 5Action. Comedy. Drama. Directed by Jang Cheol-soo.In a film based on a popular webtoon with the same title published in 2010 by Hun, three handsome North Korean spies Won...

Updated : 2013.05.24 20:44

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Patty Griffin scores with ‘American Kid’Patty Griffin“American Kid”(New West)Patty Griffin bookends her seventh album “American Kid” with two songs about the death of her father, opening with th...

Updated : 2013.05.24 20:43

‘Fast & Furious 6’ includes scene long dreamed by Justin Lin

The idea came screeching into director Justin Lin’s fuel-injected imagination in 2009: a fiery escape scene featuring a muscle car that crashes out of an airplane during takeoff.In production at the ...

Updated : 2013.05.24 20:42

YG signs Akdong Musician

YG Entertainment, one of the country’s largest talent agencies, on Friday said that Akdong Musician, this year’s winner of SBS TV’s audition program “K Pop Star 2,” will be joining the clan after...

Updated : 2013.05.24 20:25

Akdong Musician signs with YG entertainment

Winner of audition show “K Pop Star 2,” Akdong Musician, has signed with YG Entertainment, the agency said on Friday. The brother-and-sister duo said in an interview that “we thought that YG Entert...

Updated : 2013.05.24 15:13

Norwegian jazz singer to perform with Korean guitarist in Seoul

Norwegian jazz artist Inger Marie Gundersen will hold a concert with Korean guitarist Park Youn-woo on Sunday in Seoul.Production agency Plus Hitch said on Friday that Gundersen is visiting Korea for ...

Updated : 2013.05.24 14:05

Jazz dance musical to open Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Theatre Festival

Groups from seven foreign countries will join this year’s 17th Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Theatre Festival, which will be held from May 24-28. This year’s festival at the UNESCO World Heritage site is ...

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:50

Art Basel highlights Hong Kong’s new status as arts hub

HONG KONG (AFP) ― The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city’s new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.The four-day annual show is the world’s premier art fair and...

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:50

Spanish flamenco’s coming home ... to India

MADRID (AFP) ― Spain’s oldest flamenco festival will visit India in 2014, retracing the origins of the classic Spanish musical form, organisers said Wednesday.The Cante de las Minas festival plans its first overseas event in March in Jodhpur, in Rajasthan state ― considered the home of ...

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:49

Bayreuth pays homage to Wagner on 200th birthday

BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) ― Bayreuth paid tribute to composer Richard Wagner on what would have been his 200th birthday here Wednesday with a rare concert in the town’s legendary Festpielhaus theater....

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:49

MYK finds rebirth in rock as Saltnpaper

From hip-hop to alternative rock, rapper MYK is looking to find his place in today’s music scene. Best known as a hip-hop artist who performed alongside greats such as Epik High, MYK has taken a shif...

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:45

Redford steals Cannes show with comeback film

CANNES (AFP) ― He has almost no dialogue and the character he plays is never named, but Robert Redford delighted Cannes on Wednesday in his first meaty starring role in years, a solo performance as a lost-at-sea yachtsman fighting for his life.Now a hardy 76, the leading man of “Butch Ca...

Updated : 2013.05.23 19:44

T-ara’s subunit to meet fans at U.S. concert

T-ara’s subunit to meet fans at U.S. concertT-ara N4, the first subunit of the popular K-pop girl group, left for the United States to meet with their fans at star Chris Brown’s solo concert schedul...

Updated : 2013.05.23 18:06

Chapman brothers show diabolical art in Hong Kong

HONG KONG (AFP) ― The Chapman brothers presented their latest epic installation featuring thousands of little figures in violent conflict Tuesday at the sidelines of Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dismi...

Updated : 2013.05.22 20:33

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei releases ‘Dumbass’

BEIJING (AFP) ― Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei released a foul-mouthed heavy rock song titled “Dumbass” on Wednesday, with a video parodying his months in police detention.The video accompanying the song, posted online, shows Ai under interrogation, marking a document with a red thu...

Updated : 2013.05.22 20:32