More male K-pop stars quit showbiz last week as a scandal over illicit sex videos continues to snowball across South Korea’s music industry. Yong Jun-hyung of boyband Highlight and Choi Jong-hoon of boyband FTIsland announced their retirements for watching or sharing the sex videos, while Lee Jong-hyun from boyband CNBLUE also issued an apology.
Earlier last week, singer Jung Joon-young was questioned by police for secretly filming women having sex with him and then sharing the videos with other entertainers in online chat groups. Seungri from boyband BIGBANG was also questioned for his involvement in the case, and has been accused of supplying prostitutes to business investors at his nightclub “Burning Sun.” Jung and Seungri have also announced their retirements from showbiz.
Seungri’s withdrawal has put BIGBANG’s future at stake. After dominating the music industry for over a decade, the band has been hit by a succession of scandals in recent years. Work has been put on hold, with the other four members currently doing their military service.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
南韓非法性愛影片的醜聞如滾雪球般襲捲了音樂界,上週又有韓流男星們宣布退出演藝圈!包括男團Highlight的龍俊亨和FTIsland的崔鍾訓,皆因觀賞或散播該影片而引退,CNBLUE的李宗泫則為此向大眾致歉。
在上週稍早時,歌手鄭俊英因非法偷拍女性和他的性愛影片,並與聊天群組中其他藝人分享遭到警方偵訊。天團BIGBANG的勝利亦因此案牽連遭到警方訊問,他還被指控曾為自己的夜店「Burning Sun」投資人招妓,他們兩人均宣布引退。
勝利的退出讓BIGBANG的未來顯得岌岌可危,該團在稱霸音樂界超過十年後,近年來卻因接踵而至的醜聞深受打擊,目前因其他四位團員正在服兵役而暫停活動。
(台北時報張聖恩)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Around the time of the Dragon Boat Festival in June, the streets of Taiwan are filled with the delightful aroma of zongzi, a traditional snack made of sticky rice wrapped in leaves. The leaves are folded into a cone and then filled with sticky rice and other ingredients such as braised pork belly, peanuts and salted duck egg yolks. The filled leaves are then tightly tied with kitchen twine and ready for cooking. 每到六月端午時節,街頭巷尾就會飄出粽子的香氣。粽子是將糯米包進粽葉的傳統美食,先將粽葉折成圓錐狀塞入糯米,以及紅燒肉、花生、鹹鴨蛋黃等配料,用棉線綁緊後即可烹煮。 Dragon Boat Festival (n. phr.) 端午節 aroma
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