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Tom Cruise turns down Psy's Gangnam challenge

American actor Tom Cruise answers reporters' questions on 10 January 2013 during a news conference to promote his film  
Film
Jack Reacher actor Tom Cruise rejects chance to "go Gangnam Style" for Psy during South Korea trip.
10 Jan 2013
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South Korean pop star Rain confined to barracks to 'repent'

South Korean pop sensation Rain begins military service to fans' dismay  
Music
Rain, the South Korean pop star, is in trouble after dating an actress during his military service.
08 Jan 2013
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South Korea to speed up development of new missiles

South Korea's president-elect Park Geun-Hye the daughter of a former military ruler won South Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying she would work to heal a divided society.  
South Korea's new government is to hasten the development and deployment of missiles capable of striking targets anywhere in North Korea.
08 Jan 2013

Gangham Style reaches one billion views on YouTube

Gangnam Style dancing. 
Music
Gangham Style, the video by South Korean pop star PSY, has reached one billion views on video streaming website YouTube.
21 Dec 2012
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South Korea faces 'grave' threat from North Korea

South Korea's president-elect Park Geun-Hye the daughter of a former military ruler won South Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying she would work to heal a divided society.  
South Korea's newly elected president has described the security threat from North Korea as "grave".
20 Dec 2012
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Profile: South Korea's first female president Park Geun-Hye

The newly elected President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye, will return to the presidential Blue House which is, incidentally, her childhood home.
19 Dec 2012

Park Geun-hye becomes South Korea's first female president

The daughter of South Korea’s most notorious military dictator wrote a new chapter in the nation’s history yesterday as she emerged as its first woman president.
19 Dec 2012
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South Korean election rivals neck and neck

The daughter of the strong-man who ruled South Korea for 16 years is neck-and-neck in the presidential election in South Korea with the liberal son of a North Korean refugee.
18 Dec 2012

Rocket launch has got the West's attention

For several years the West has been so obsessed with Iran’s nuclear development that North Korea’s efforts to build a bomb had been comparatively ignored, almost in the hope they would go away.
12 Dec 2012

North Korea rocket launch condemned

Japan and South Korea express their anger North Korea's rocket launch and urge the UN Security Council to take action against the isolated country.
12 Dec 2012

Psy apologies for rapping about killing US soldiers

The South Korean rapper behind the worldwide hit 'Gangam Style' has apologised unreservedly for singing about killing American soldiers in 2004.
08 Dec 2012

Barack Obama will attend Gangnam Style concert despite rapper's anti-American protests

President Barack Obama will attend a charity concert where PSY is scheduled to perform after it emerged the South Korean rapper participated in anti-American protests several years ago.
07 Dec 2012

Psy's 'Mission Impossible': Getting Tom Cruise to dance 'Gangnam Style'

Psy, the South Korean rapper behind YouTube's most-viewed video ever has set what might be a "Mission: Impossible" for himself: convincing actor Tom Cruise to go "Gangnam Style".
29 Nov 2012

World's first toilet theme park opens in South Korea

Rodin's Thinker is pondering even harder than usual as he sits astride a toilet at what has been dubbed the world's first theme park dedicated to the humble restroom.
27 Nov 2012

Giant slogan hailing North Korean leader carved into hillside

A propaganda slogan in characters more than 65 feet high has been carved into a hillside in North Korea, extolling the nation's young leader.
22 Nov 2012

Anish Kapoor goes Gangnam Style

The artist, whose Orbit sculpture is a key feature of the Olympic Park, is to make a version of Psy's Gangnam Style video to promote free speech.
14 Nov 2012
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South Korean president's only son in tax probe

South Korean prosecutors are to refer President Lee Myung-Bak's only son to the tax authorities over a project to build Lee's retirement home.
14 Nov 2012

Psy teaches Oxford students how to dance Gangnam Style

Psy speaks before Oxford University's prestigious debating society and then teaches the students there how to dance Gangnam Style.
08 Nov 2012

Defector couple return to N Korea from south

A North Korean refugee couple have returned to their homeland after being lured to South Korea where they lived for four years, Pyongyang's state media said.
08 Nov 2012

Elephant learns to speak Korean

Meet Koshik, the Asian elephant who learnt to speak Korean after five years at Everland Zoo in South Korea.
01 Nov 2012
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The elephant that speaks Korean

Elephant astonishes keepers by learning to imitate words in their native tongue including "hello" and "good".
01 Nov 2012
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South Korea in third bid to launch first domestic rocket

South Korea will make a third attempt to launch its first domestically developed rocket on Friday, with technicians aware that the project will be cancelled if the launch is a failure.
25 Oct 2012

The 'one stop shop' for implant licencing

In a joint investigation by The Daily Telegraph and British Medical Journal into the regulation of artificial hips and other medical devices in Europe met with firms which offered to be a 'one stop shop' for authorising a medical product for use in patients across Europe.
24 Oct 2012
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Japan's deaf ear to Gangnam Style riles Korea

Psy may have conquered the rest of the world with his "Gangnam Style," but Japan has turned a deaf ear to the South Korean rapper's music, triggering anger in the singer's home country.
24 Oct 2012
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South Korean activists float propaganda balloons despite ban

South Korean activists floated balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, eluding police who had disrupted an earlier launch attempt due to threats from North Korea.
23 Oct 2012
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North Korean military officers bow to an image of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a national meeting of top party and military officials in Pyongyang on the eve of the first anniversary of his death 

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Centre at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province, after the launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket carrying the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite 

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The Daegu International Body Painting Festival 2012 in South Korea 

Body painting festival

A car is swept away by huge waves as typhoon Bolaven approaches Qingdao, China 

Typhoon pounds Korea

Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his wife, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang 

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