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A package deal

MusicDec 23, 2012

American couple takes on Korean entertainment together
French, Austrians up for foreign Oscar, Asians out

FilmDec 23, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― French blockbuster “Les Intouchables” and Austrian Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner “Love” are frontrunners on a shortlist of nine published Friday for the best foreign language film Oscar.The list of films still in the running ― whittled down from 71 movies in a long-list published in October ― also included films from Canada, Chile, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Romania and Switzerland.Hong Kong movie master Johnnie To and China’s Chen Kaige ― whose “Farewell my Concubine” wo
‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 1b views

MusicDec 23, 2012

Global K-pop star Psy continues to make history and shows no signs of stopping. Friday, Dec. 21, marked a YouTube milestone with the viral mega hit “Gangnam Style” becoming the first video to reach one billion views. The video has already received more than 20 million more views, as of Sunday morning.On Nov. 24, “Gangnam Style” made history by becoming the most-watched YouTube video in less than five months, surpassing 810 million views and ending Justin Bieber’s reign at the top. Psy’s hit curr
Report: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez reconcile

MusicDec 23, 2012

Former couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were seen boarding a jet together in Van Nuys, Calif., E! News reported.The singers confirmed last month they had ended their romance after two years.But E! News said they seemed to be back together Wednesday as they boarded the plane, even though Gomez, 20, covered her face and part of her body with a big green coat.Bieber, 18, also visited Gomez on the set of her upcoming comedy film “Behaving Badly” and plans to spend Christmas with her, the repor
Report: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez reconcile

FilmDec 23, 2012

Former couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were seen boarding a jet together in Van Nuys, Calif., E! News reported.　The singers confirmed last month they had ended their romance after two years.　But E! News said they seemed to be back together Wednesday as they boarded the plane, even though Gomez, 20, covered her face and part of her body with a big green coat.　Bieber, 18, also visited Gomez on the set of her upcoming comedy film “Behaving Badly” and plans to spend Christmas with her, the rep
A package deal

MusicDec 23, 2012

American couple takes on Korean entertainment together
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' at 1 billion YouTube view

Dec 23, 2012

South Korean pop sensation PSY‘s “Gangnam Style” video has become the first clip on YouTube to be viewed 1 billion times, the site says.YouTube trend manager Kevin Allocca said the video reached that milestone Thursday morning, MTV reported. Allocca told the Los Angeles Times it is now being watched about 20 million times every day.The clip has also been liked by more than 6 million people, another record, Yonhap News Agency reported.Presumably, since the world population is still a bit more tha
Box office

FilmDec 21, 2012

Love 911 (Korea)Opened Dec. 19Romance. Drama. Directed by Jeong Gi-hoon. Kang-il (Go Soo) is an unhappy firefighter who lost his wife to an illness. He suffers from guilt for choosing to stay with a fire victim instead of going to his wife who was desperately calling him for help and died before he arrived. Losing his wife only made him work harder, always putting himself out there to save lives in danger. His nothing-to-lose attitude and strong work ethic intrigues Mi-soo (Han Hyo-joo), a medic
Eyelike:

MusicDec 21, 2012

Green Day completes trilogy with ‘Tre’Green Day``Uno,‘’ `‘Dos’‘ and ``Tre’‘(Reprise Records)As record sales continue to wane, one has to wonder the logic behind separately releasing a trilogy of albums over the course of three months. Maybe when you’re a punk band coming off a pair of hugely successful concept albums turned into a Broadway smash, you do things a little differently. Still, it‘s an unusual way to release your ninth, tenth and eleventh studio albums.``Tre,’‘ the final installment o
Seth Rogen lives his wife’s fantasy: working with Barbra Streisand

FilmDec 21, 2012

He didn’t hear or see much Barbra Streisand growing up in his house. But Seth Rogen is Canadian, after all. As well as Jewish. And his parents were more “of the ‘Ghostbusters’ generation.”But he was well versed on Streisand before taking on straight-man duties with her in the new mother-son road trip comedy, “The Guilt Trip.” He can thank his wife for that.“She is REALLY into her. We’ve been together for seven years ― a long time. So for the last seven years I’ve been hearing about Barbra pretty
Johansson tones down sex in play

FilmDec 21, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) ― In a decision that will make many a man sigh unhappily, Scarlett Johansson won’t be bringing sexy back to Broadway.The actress with the pouty lips and gentle curves that GQ magazine once called “Babe of the Year” is determined to be a more naturalistic Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” that opens Jan. 17.That’s the same role Elizabeth Taylor embodied while virtually purring in a satin slip. And her successors ― Anika Noni Rose, Ashley Judd
Sung returns as grieving sister

FilmDec 21, 2012

Actress Sung Yu-ri is returning to the big screen as a grieving sister in her next drama film, “A Boy’s Sister.”The former idol star made her film debut in 2009, as a Korean-American adoptee who returns to Korea in Joo Ji-hong’s “Maybe.” She also starred in this year’s comedy “Runway Cop” as a fashion designer who gets involved in a drug case.In her upcoming movie, Sung stars as Yoon-hee, whose late brother died while trying to rescue her from flood waters many years ago. She is deeply traumatiz
Psy named top celebrity on Chinese version of Twitter

MusicDec 21, 2012

South Korea's pop sensation Psy was named the No. 1 celebrity on China's own Twitter-like social network service, the service operator said Friday, reflecting his popularity even in China. Sina Corp., a leading Chinese online media company, said Psy was the celebrity who was the most talked about by users on its popular Weibo microblog service in 2012, garnering 109 million mentions. Psy, who is called "Uncle Bird" by Chinese fans, was the distinctive leader on the list of 2012 Weibo Celebrities
Andy Warhol’s Mao portraits excluded from China show

TheaterDec 20, 2012

BEIJING (AFP) ― Andy Warhol’s famous portraits of Mao Zedong will be excluded in a major show of his work in China, organizers said Wednesday, although they stopped short of saying they had been censored.The exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of the American artist’s death, which is currently touring Asia, features more than 300 of his works including 10 acrylic and silkscreen portraits of the former Chinese leader.But the U.S.-based Andy Warhol Museum which is organising the tour said the
Korea undervalues its designers, say foreign professors

TheaterDec 20, 2012

There is a long way to go for Korea to become a global design power house if it continues to offer little recognition to designers and doesn’t support them in developing their creative thinking, foreign design professors teaching in Korea said. At a graduation show of the master’s degree students at the International Design School for Advanced Studies, a school which fills half of its teaching staff with foreign professors, the design professors from abroad stressed that Korea needs to support y