A South Korean box office hit continued breaking records with over 6 million viewers in the first 11 days of its release, official statistics showed Sunday.“The Thieves,” featuring 10 Korean and Chinese thieves teaming up to steal a valuable diamond necklace at a Macao casino, drew 6.2 million viewers in the first 11 days until Saturday, data from the Korean Film Council showed.The film directed by Choe Dong-hoon, who is known for “Tazza: The High Rollers” and “The Big Swindle,” has been drawing

Big Bang member Seung-ri is now serving as an MC for two TV shows in Japan, according to YG Entertainment, Big Bang’s agency. Seung-ri is hosting “V. I. FROM BIGBANG,” a reality show broadcast by Japanese music channel Space Shower TV. The show, which premiered last Thursday, illustrates the steps Seung-ri takes to make his own show. Seung-ri also serves as the special MC of “Sakigake! Ongaku Banzuke Eight,” a popular music variety show of Fuji Television. “Seung-ri recently interviewed Oguri Sh

Girl group KARA is returning to the spotlight after a one-year break with the release of its third mini-album late this month, DSP, the girls’ agency, announced. “The girls are putting finishing touches on their new album, and the album concept and title song will soon be made public,” the agency said. KARA’s last album “STEP” had topped Korean album charts in September 2011, selling more than 10,000 copies in less than a month. Also, KARA currently enjoys its position as the most favored girl g

MBC dramas “Princess Hours” and “The First Shop of Coffee Prince,” both in which Korean actress Yoon Eun-hye starred as the heroine, are airing in Latin American countries. Both dramas enjoyed immense popularity when they were broadcast in Korea. According to MBC’s Latin American branch, SERTV in Panama started broadcasting “Princess Hours” last Monday. Red Guarani in Paraguay also plans to air the same drama next January and “The First Shop of Coffee Prince” on Sept. 15. “The broadcasting compa

A nanny left the young boy in her care with British singer Adele at a London cafe while she used the bathroom, The Daily Telegraph said.The name of the governess and age of her charge were not reported.Although the pregnant recording artist gamely entertained the boy while his nanny used the loo, then posed for photographs when the woman returned, the newspaper said the child's parents were upset

At the New National Gallery in Berlin, an odd piece of art is being exhibited. Martin Gostner, an Austrian artist, named his work “The Oriel of the Blue Horses” -- made up of four piles of blue artificial horse manure.Gostner explained that he is paying tribute to Franz Marc’s painting, “The Tower of Blue Horses.”In 1937, the Nazis took Marc’s painting, for the reasoning that it is “un-German” and “degenerated.” The painting’s whereabouts are still unknown.Each of the four piles in Gostner’s wor