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  City transplants are changing the face of Jeju
  2012/12/01, Source,
  Huh Joon-young, 37, used to work at a large public relations company in Seoul, when she spent nearly all of her life until ...ing to Jeju early this year. She purchased an old house by the beach in Seogwipo for 100 million won ($92,200) and remodeled it, which cost her an additional 80 million won, to start a guesthouse business. To come up with the money, she took out a bank loan and used all of her savings. "My husband was opposed to the idea [of ...ing to Jeju] at first, but I persuaded him to think of this as an early preparation for our life after retirement", Huh says. Her husband, who still works in Seoul, comes to Jeju on weekends, a routine that will continue until he finds a job on the Korea's southernmost island. "I was working at a public relations company, and there was no distinction in my life Between weekdays or weekends not to mention Between day and night", she says. "I just felt like I was being drained of life by the intense rat race in Seoul. I was greedy, working to have more than I needed. And if that didn't work out, I felt deprived. I was just sick and tired of comparing and competing,...More

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  'Werewolf Boy' gets real
  2012/11/21, Source,
  Song Joong-ki has shot to success in 2012 on the strength of "Nice Guy" TV series and the wildly popular "A Werewolf Boy". Provided by SidusHQ By now, who hasn't heard of Song Joong-ki? The 27-year-old phenomenon is well on his way to becoming the Psy of Korea's TV and film industries,...More

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  Gov't Agencies Splash Out on Celebrity Promoters
  2012/11/17, Source,
  Singer and actor Lee Seung-gi has been paid W572 million since 2010 for promoting the lottery for the Ministry of Strategy and Finance (US$1=W1,093). Boy group Super Junior was paid W380 million since March 2010 by the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to promote Korean cuisine around the world. Over the last four years, 41 out of 62 government agencies that hired entertainers as honorary ambassadors spent hundreds of millions to billions of won in modeling fees and other expenses. The 41 government agencies spent more than W6 billion over that period,...More

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  Rain's 2006 accolade questioned
  2012/11/16, Source,
  JTBC News reported yesterday that Rain's spot on Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" from 2006 is being questioned. The news program said an organizer responsible for Rain's U.S. concert, which got canceled, claimed the vote was rigged. Apparently, the claim was made in court testimony recently, as the organizer is being sued by JYP Entertainment for 4 billion won ($3.6 million) for failure to execute the 2006-7 tour as planned,...More