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  (LEAD) Criticism mounts over Vietnamese woman doing yoga in leggings at Seoul palace

  (ATTN: UPDATES with palace authorities' response in last 4 paras)SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean netizens and intellectuals are reacting negatively to photos of a Vietnamese female tourist practicing yoga in tight leggings at a historic ro
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  Criticism mounts over Vietnamese woman doing yoga in leggings at Seoul palace

  SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean netizens and intellectuals are reacting negatively to photos of a Vietnamese female tourist practicing yoga in tight leggings at a historic royal palace in the center of Seoul.The incident arose earlier this wee
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  NYT Highlights Hangeul Adoption by Indonesia's Cia-Cia Tribe

  SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- The New York Times (NYT) spotlighted the Cia-Cia tribe, an Indonesian ethnic minority that adopted Hangeul in 2009 to document their native language, as a remarkable case of
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  (2nd LD) UNESCO likely to list Korean 'jang-making' culture as cultural heritage

  (ATTN: ADDS more background info and North Korea's nomination in last three paras; UPDATES with minor edit in paras 2-3; ADDS photo)SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Korea's tradition of making fermented sauces using soybeans is likely to be added to
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  (LEAD) UNESCO most likely to list Korean 'jang-making' culture as cultural heritage

  (ATTN: ADDS more background info in paras 4-8; ADDS photo)SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Korea's tradition of making fermented sauces using soybeans is likely to be added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.UNESCO said Tuesday its del
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  (LEAD) Rose makes history as 'APT.' claims No. 2 on British Official chart

  (ATTN: UPDATES with more background info in paras 4, 8-9, rankings of other K-pop acts in last two paras)SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Yonhap) -- BLACKPINK's Rose has reached No. 2 on the British Official Singles Top 100 chart with "APT.," her colla
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  Rose makes history as 'APT.' claims No. 2 on British Official chart

  SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Yonhap) -- BLACKPINK's Rose has reached No. 2 on the British Official Singles Top 100 chart with "APT.," her collaboration single with American pop star Bruno Mars, setting a new record as the highest-charting female K-
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  Lee Kang-so's lifelong artistic inquiry into perception to be shown at MMCA

  By Woo Jae-yeonSEOUL, Oct. 31 (Yonhap) -- Korea's renowned experimental artist Lee Kang-so has spent his life exploring two fundamental questions: "What am I looking at?" and "What is the nature of what the viewer and I see?&qu
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  (3rd LD) Beloved actress Kim Soo-mi, icon of 'Country Diaries,' dies at 75

  (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; TRIMS; ADDS more details in paras 5, 7-11, photo)SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Korean veteran actress Kim Soo-mi, renowned for her iconic role as a sharp-tongued single mother in the long-running drama series "Countr
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  (2nd LD) Iconic veteran Korean actress Kim Soo-mi dies at 75

  (ATTN: ADDS more details in paras 5-8, photo)SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Korean veteran actress Kim Soo-mi, whose role as a cantankerous single village mother in the popular two-decade-long drama series "Country Diaries" (1980-2002) cracke
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  (LEAD) Korean veteran actress Kim Soo-mi dies at 75

  (ATTN: ADDS more details in paras 2, 4-5)SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Korean veteran actress Kim Soo-mi died of cardiac arrest Friday, police said.According to the police, the 75-year-old actress was found unconscious at her home by her son and was tra
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  Korean veteran actress Kim Soo-mi dies at 75

  SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Korean veteran actress Kim soo-mi died of cardiac arrest Friday, police said.According to the police, the 75-year-old actress suffered cardiac arrest and was transported to a hospital in southern Seoul at around 8 a.m., whe
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  Korean Artist Prize exhibition spotlights 4 finalists

  By Woo Jae-yeonSEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- A giant kinetic sculpture, titled "Someone I Know, in His Garden I've Never Seen," made of wood, motors, lamps and threads, moves with individual yet perfectly rhythmic motions, intriguing vie
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  KBS nominates main anchor Park Jang-beom as new president

  SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- The board of directors at South Korea's largest public broadcaster KBS on Wednesday recommended its main news anchor as new president and CEO, officials said.During an extra board meeting in the day, Park Jang-beom was
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  (LEAD) Han Kang hopes to write on, meet readers after Nobel win

  (ATTN: ADDS remarks in paras 9-17, photo)SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang on Thursday recalled the past week after her historic win as one that will be remembered as "touching," and said she hopes to continue to wr
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  Han Kang hopes to write on, meet readers after Nobel win

  SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang on Thursday recalled the past week after her historic win as one that will be remembered as "touching," and said she hopes to continue to write and meet readers through her books.Ha
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  Ha Jung-woo rises as serious art force to be reckoned with

  By Woo Jae-yeonSEOUL, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) -- Ha Jung-woo turned to painting as a way to live and cope with "an uncertain future," describing it as a constant in his life since his early 20s, much like acting has been.Already an established a
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  Post-Nobel boom: Han Kang's novels exceed 1 mln in sales

  SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang's books have sold over 1 million copies at an unprecedented rate following her Nobel Prize in Literature win, according to major bookstores Wednesday, marking a new milestone in Korean publishing history.As of
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  2 films based on Han Kang's novels return to spotlight after Nobel Prize triumph

  SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- Two films based on the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang will receive special screening sections later this week, CJ CGV said Monday.The films, "The Vegetarian" and "Scars," will be shown
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  Nobel laureate Han Kang's books fly off shelves with over 500,000 copies sold

  By Kim Seung-yeonSEOUL, Oct. 13 (Yonhap) -- More than 500,000 copies of novels and short stories written by Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang have been sold at two major online bookstores in South Korea since her winning four days ago, the bookstore oper