BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has called in her lawyers after accusing U.S. music superstar Beyonce of stealing routines for her latest music video “Countdown”, dance troupe Rosas said Monday. “We discovered the Beyonce clip on Friday and we noticed more than a few resemblances to the film that director Thierry De Mey made in 1997, ‘Rosas dance Rosas’,... and ...

South Korean trading companies are rushing to develop overseas natural resources as part of efforts to diversify their business portfolios and seek new growth engines, industry sources said Tuesday. LG International Corp., the country’s leading coal trader, started commercial production this month at a coal mine in Inner Mongolia where it owns a 30 percent stake. In 2008, LG International acqui...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- As a child growing up in Iceland, Bjork would compose music in her head as she walked to school. The cadence of her footsteps became the rhythm. The dramatic landscapes of her homeland became the inspiration. In her new album, Bjork says she fuses that natural world with iPad apps to invent a music genre she calls an “appbox.” “Biophilia” -- and a host of application...

South Korea’s automobile production increased 10.3 percent on-year in September on strong demand from both domestic and overseas markets, the government said Tuesday. The country’s five carmakers produced 374,014 vehicles last month, compared with 339,077 in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. Domestic sales rose 5.1 percent on-year to 135,098 units with e...

Microbrewery Ka-Brew is hosting a booze cruise along the Han River on Oct. 29. The event runs from 3-9 p.m. and features entertainment from expat DJs and musicians, a bonfire and a costume competition. Tickets are 28,000-35,000 won depending on the length of cruise and how much food and drink is included. Additional beer brewed by Ka-Brew ― with a choice of pale ale, dark ale, pilsner, hefeweiz...

Seongbuk Global Village Center is holding a cooking class to teach how to make Indian cuisine. The class will be held at the center on Oct. 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and costs 5,000 won. For registration and further details contact 02-920-3462~4 or kmj0901@sb.go.kr. (paulkerry@heraldm.com)

The state-run broadcaster KBS said it will air a four-part documentary series on Tripitaka Koreana, the world’s most comprehensive and oldest intact Buddhist canon, from Saturday. The documentary series was produced as part of celebrations of the 1,000th year of the creation of the “Chojo Daejanggyeong,” the first edition of the Tripitaka Koreana. Titled “Dharma,” meaning the truth in Sanskrit,...

The St. Andrew’s Society Seoul will hold its annual St. Andrew’s Ball at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Nov. 19 from 7:30 p.m. Dance practices ahead of the event have already started. They take place on Wednesdays from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. until Nov. 16 at the embassy’s Broughton Club and cost 5,000 won per person. Tickets to the ball, which is a black tie event, are 130,000 won. To attend the dance pra...

STX Corp. plans to increase revenues generated from its coal mine in Indonesia to $200 million next year, and push up the mine’s output to 5 million metric tons by 2013. STX Corp. acquired 40 percent of the mine from the Indonesian mining firm PT Indoasia Cemerlang at the beginning of the year for $30 million. The deal also granted STX Corp. exclusive rights for operating and sales rights over t...

South Korea’s producer prices grew at the slowest pace in nine months in September as prices of agricultural products fell, the central bank said Tuesday. The producer price index, a barometer of future consumer inflation, rose 5.7 percent in September from a year earlier, slowing from a 6.6 percent on-year gain in August, according to the Bank of Korea. The September reading marked the slowest...