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FINDING THE SCENE 2Busan's top 6 favorite live music venues

• INTERVIEWLawmaker-elect vows legislative motion against sending troops to Taiwan in case of conflict

  Kim Joon-hyung, a first-term lawmaker-elect from the minor progressive Rebuilding Korea Party (RKP), has set his sights on passing a parliamentary resolution, as his inaugural in...

  
• Prosecutors demand life imprisonment for lawyer over alleged murder of wife

  Prosecutors on Friday sought life imprisonment for a lawyer for allegedly murdering his wife late last year.

  
• Top prosecutor orders speedy investigation into first lady's alleged acceptance of luxury handbag

  Top prosecutor has instructed his staff to create a team dedicated to investigating allegations that first lady Kim Keon Hee accepted a luxury handbag in 2022, legal sources said...

  

Lifestyle

K-Royal Culture Festival offers journey back in time at Gyeongbok Palace

• Park No-hae's 'Dawn of Labor' published in English in US

  The English version of 'Dawn of Labor,' the iconic poetry collection by Korean poet Park No-hae, has been published in the United States by the University of Hawaii Press, publis...

  
• Daehan Cinema to close its doors in September, 66 years after opening

  Daehan Cinema, once a prominent theater in downtown Seoul, will close its doors in September, marking the end of 66 years of operation.

  
• Six in 10 young Koreans say children ‘not necessary’ after marriage: poll

  More than six out of 10 young Koreans believe that having children after marriage is 'not necessary,' as concerns mount over the country's declining birthrate.

  

World

Myanmar junta bans men from applying to work abroad

• Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

  Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Satu...

  
• Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskyy on wanted list, TASS reports

  Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and put him on a wanted list, the country's state news agency TASS reported Saturday, citing th...

  
• South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting Kim Jong-un in new book

  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was to release a memoir titled “No Going Back,” but her office said Friday that she would actually be correcting some errors - including a false cla...