A restless mind in ‘caffeinated Seoul’
Photographer captivated by beautiful, eclectic scenes of cafes in the capital
A thorough plan may assist the achievement of a goal, but it is not always a recipe for success.
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Sun steps down from Samsung
2010-12-31
Legendary pitcher Sun Dong-yeol has resigned as manager of Samsung Lions, the club announced Thursday.
Former Tigers pitcher Sun, 47, stepped down after six years in the role. He won the league title in his first year as manager in 2005, and then again in 2006. He helped the team finish second in the eight-team league last season.
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KT puts broadcast satellite into orbit
2010-12-31
KT Corp., the country’s biggest fixed-line service operator, announced on Thursday it successfully launched a new broadcast satellite from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
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Ethiopian veterans of Korean War honored through scholarships
2010-12-31
A Korean university plans to annually give descendants of Ethiopian veterans who fought in the Korean War full scholarships for university programs, officials said Thursday.
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N.K. boosts numbers of special forces
2010-12-31
North’s navy conducts drill aimed at occupying S. Korean border islands: report
North Korea has increased the number of its special warfare troops by 20,000 to 200,000 over the last two years, according to South Korea’s defense white paper released Thursday.
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‘Gwanghwamun plate was rushed’
2010-12-30
Just about three months after its unveiling ceremony on Aug. 15, Liberation Day, the newly restored Gwanghwamun plate is showing cracks.
So far, two crevices one next to the character “gwang” and another near the “hwa” are visible to the naked eye.
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Korean Air promotes chairman’s daughter
2010-12-30
Korean Air, the country’s top air carrier, promoted a total of 45 executives on Wednesday, seating its chairman’s youngest daughter Emily Cho as a vice president.
The yearend reshuffling included promotions of one executive vice president, one senior vice president, 16 managing vice presidents and 27 vice presidents.
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Shim’s slapstick comedy aims to revive ‘Young-gu’ character
2010-12-30
With a huge mole on his face and a broken front tooth, former star comedian Shim Hyung-rae’s slapstick character “Young-gu” was everyone’s favorite in the 1990s.
Wearing tattered pieces of hanbok and a pair of black rubber shoes, the kind-hearted chucklehead character was adored by kids and parents alike.
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Hyundai China sells 700,000 units
2010-12-30
The country’s largest carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it had sold more than 700,000 units in China so far this year.
China is the first overseas market in which Hyundai has sold more than 700,000 vehicles in a single year, the company said.
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Seoul shifts policy focus to reunification
2010-12-30
Unification Ministry careful to avoid saying South seeks absorption of North Korea
The Seoul government has shifted the focus of its policy on North Korea to preparations for unification, though in a cautious way to avoid stoking speculation that the South may be seeking to absorb the North.
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Herald Online top 10 stories in 2010
2010-12-29
The Korea Herald introduces the most popular national news appeared the newspaper’s website in 2010.
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Snow sends Seoul grinding to halt
2010-12-29
Heavy snow fell on Seoul and surrounding areas early Tuesday morning causing traffic disruptions on land and in the air. More snow is expected to fall across the country on Wednesday night, the weather agency said.
A cold spell will grip the country again Thursday, continuing through New Year’s Day.
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More than 35 percent of adult women fear sexual violence
2010-12-29
More than three out of 10 adult Korean women fear sexual violence, according to a government survey released Tuesday.
The survey found that 35.6 percent of the women questioned fear suffering sexual violence, an increase from 28.1 percent in a 2007 survey.
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Top court backs ‘Minerva’
2010-12-29
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled an article of the Telecommunications Law criminalizing those who distribute misleading content online unconstitutional.
The groundbreaking ruling is expected to help Park Dae-sung, more commonly known as online economic pundit “Minerva,” and several others regain their honor.
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Lee encourages sharing with the neglected
2010-12-29
President Lee Myung-bak and first lady Kim Yoon-ok on Tuesday invited volunteers helping North Korean refugees, migrant women and migrant workers to the presidential residence in a bid to encourage community service and philanthropy.
“The government does its best to reach out to people in need of help, but blind spots are inevitable,” Lee said during the luncheon with about 200 volunteers and sponsors of migrant people.
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Park’s injury worries national team
2010-12-28
The Korean national football team arrived in Abu Dhabi and began its weeklong training schedule Monday ahead of the Asian Cup in Doha Qatar, which kicks off Jan.7.
All Europe-based Korean players, including Park Ji-sung of Manchester United, joined the team for training Monday. But there’s a big absence at the training camp ― AS Monaco striker Park Chu-young.
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Shortcut to bestseller: Put it on popular drama
2010-12-28
The talk of the town in the book industry is the classic novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” which marked a sharp rise in sales and landed on the bestseller list of major online and off-line bookstores all of a sudden.
The reason behind the unexpected popularity of the Korean version of the book published by Minumsa, which was printed five years ago, is SBS’ mega-hit TV soap opera “Secret Garden.”
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More drivers choose self-service gas stations
2010-12-28
Lee Sung-chan, a 34-year-old office worker who commutes from Seoul to Suwon by car, recently began using a self-service gas station in Seoul.
“I thought I had to because I have no other choice but to drive to work every day. The gas price hike has been a burden for me and now I feel like I’m saving some money,” Lee told The Korea Herald on Monday.
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“Master Huh” to run in 2012
Huh Kyung-young, nicknamed “Master Huh” for his eccentric behavior, announced he will run for the 18th presidential race in 2012.
Huh, a candidate in the 17th presidential race, has drawn media attention in the past with his unusual remarks and behavior.
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Park seen making head start
2010-12-28
Most popular presidential hopeful launches think tank
Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Grand National Party has begun to hit her stride for the presidential elections in 2012 by launching a think tank Monday to map out her campaign policies.
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‘Mona Lisa’ had eyebrows after all
2010-12-27
Da Vinci’s secrets and creations on show in central Seoul
Contrary to modern belief and rumors, including one that it was a fad among Italian women at the time to shave their eyebrows, it turns out that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” may have actually had eyebrows when it was first painted.
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Fuel, food prices fan inflation fears
2010-12-27
Soaring costs of fuel, food and other commodities are raising concerns about inflation, especially in prices of necessities, complicating the government’s efforts to shore up recovery and curb risky capital inflows.
International oil prices hit the highest levels in more than two years on Friday and are expected to rise further on strong demand and falling inventories.
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2011 Infiniti EX launched
2010-12-27
The 2011 model Infiniti EX hit the local market on Tuesday.
In the latest version of the crossover utility vehicle, Infiniti has replaced the five-speed transmission with a seven-speed automatic transmission.
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Price debates spill over to coffee, pork
2010-12-27
Price disputes stirred by ultra-cheap chicken by Lotte Mart are spilling over into coffee, pork and other popular products.
On Dec. 17, the Chicken Franchise Committee revealed the cost of raw chicken and other expenses in response to consumer complaints about their prices being two to three times that of Lotte’s 5,000 won set.
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City car sales set to rise to new high
2010-12-24
City car sales are set to reach record levels this year, industry data showed Thursday.
According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association, 144,520 city cars were sold here by the end of November, marking an increase of 16.8 percent compared to the same period last year. During the same period, overall passenger car sales increased by 6.1 percent.
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Hallyu website aims to link Korea with the world
2010-12-24
Korea.com website seeks profits from covering IT, medical tourism businesses
Korea.com, an English website specializing in “hallyu,” or the Korean Wave, seeks to become a center of communications between Korea and the world by widening its coverage extensively to information technology, culture and tourism.
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Exhibition offers contemporary art at a glance
2010-12-24
If you want to see the whole range of contemporary art instead of individual aspects, the exhibition “World Stars in Contemporary Art” at Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul Arts Center in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul, is a good choice.
While high profile exhibitions usually focus on a single artist or group, the exhibition showcases 200 artworks by 185 world-renowned artists ― from pop art creator Andy Warhol to leading figure of the younger art generation Damien Hirst ― offering a summing up of contemporary art at a glance.
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Hangover remedies: Korean style
2010-12-24
You are awake, although you cannot open your eyes because of all the mascara goop gluing your eyes shut. Your body feels heavy and sluggish, your mouth feels like a desert, you are dying for some water and your head is throbbing.
All the stupid mistakes you made the night before at the party slowly come back to you but before you can even start to regret any of that, a swirling stomachache tells you to make a run to the bathroom. Yes, this is the beginning of your dreadful day hugging the toilet.
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Gangnam U-street lifts year-end mood
2010-12-24
This is the fifth of a five-part article on the main attractions in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, which came into the spotlight as a venue for the G20 summit. ― Ed.
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Free school meals ignite ideology war
2010-12-24
When Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Tuesday that he will accept the controversial free school meal ordinance if he loses a poll, observers noted that it was a “declaration of war over power and ideology.”
Oh has been less than sympathetic toward the ordinance championed by liberal education superintendent Kwak No-hyun and passed by the Democratic Party-held Seoul Metropolitan Council last month. The directive would provide free school meals to all elementary, middle and high school students. Oh has repeatedly said only students from low-income families should benefit from the program.
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Magician in search of new horizons
2010-12-23
Lee Eun-gyeol seeks new tricks to outdo the best of David Copperfield
How do you define “magic?”
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Yang gets 3-month suspension
2010-12-23
Taiwanese taekwondo athlete Yang Shu-chun received a three-month ban from all international events by the World Taekwondo Federation, Taiwan’s sports governing body announced Tuesday.
The decision came after Yang attended the WTF’s sanction committee hearing last week in Seoul. The 25-year-old athlete was disqualified from the Asian Games for using extra sensors in her socks.
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Korea’s outdoor clothing climbing to fashion heights
From waterproof coats to hiking pants, outdoor clothing is basking in surging demand from Koreans young and old who are increasingly turning to a sporty look and spending more time doing leisure activities.
The outdoor market has emerged as the sole bright spot in the apparel sector. The industry is still feeling the pinch from the economic slump in 2008-09 that saw scores of clothing makers go under.
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BAT rolls out slim, milder Dunhill
2010-12-23
British American Tobacco Korea will launch a new milder king-size super slim cigarette in its Dunhill Nanocut line on Dec. 27, the tobacco firm said Wednesday.
With less nicotine, the new Dunhill Nanocut 1mg will provide consumers with an opportunity to experience the premium slim cigarette with a mild and smooth taste, BAT Korea said.
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Army to stage largest-scale air, ground exercise today
2010-12-23
Navy begins maritime drill in East Sea
The navy began a three-day maritime exercise in the East Sea on Wednesday as part of efforts to prepare against unpredictable North Korean provocations, officials said.
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Social networking to drive smart TV
2010-12-22
Samsung, SK announce Cyworld tie-up for Korean market
Social networking services are moving beyond computers and smartphones and now featuring a combination with smart television.
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Silla travelogue gets brief Seoul showing
2010-12-22
A travel diary by an 8th-century Korean monk is in Korea for the first time, a full 1,282 years after it was penned. Currently owned by the National Library of France, the manuscript is exhibited on temporary loan to the National Museum of Korea.
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Parties divided over live-fire exercise
2010-12-22
Rival parties Tuesday continued to bicker over the nature of the live-fire drills conducted on a border island a day earlier, highlighting their ideological differences.
The ruling Grand National Party maintained that it was a regular exercise that the South has carried out since 1974 and part of its sovereign right.
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South Korea stays alert for possible N.K. provocations
2010-12-22
The South Korean military was maintaining heightened vigilance for possible North Korean provocations Tuesday, a day after its live-fire exercise on Yeonpyeong Island near the tense western sea border.
It put on the highest alert its troops around Aegibong, a mountain peak located just three kilometers from the North, as a Seoul church held a ceremony Tuesday night to turn on Christmas lights on a steel tower there for the first time in seven years.
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Military service kept at 21 months
2010-12-22
The government has cancelled a plan to shorten the mandatory military service period for the Army and the Marine Corps to 18 months by 2014, keeping it at 21 months from February to prevent the weakening of military capabilities amid continued provocations by North Korea.
Service periods for the Navy and the Air Force will be maintained at 23 months and 24 months, respectively, starting next month.
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KARA and Girls’ Generation scoop ‘Rookie of the Year’ awards: Japan
2010-12-21
Popular Korean girl groups, KARA and Girls’ Generation have successfully entered the Japanese music scene.
According to the annual ranking by Japan’s Oricon music chart, KARA has taken the No. 1 spot for the rookie artist with the best sales revenue.
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Eight works receive top presidential content awards
2010-12-21
Eight original content producers including that of popular TV drama “Bread, Love and Dreams” received top presidential awards for their creative works at the 2010 Korea Content Awards on Monday, the Culture Ministry said.
The annual awards, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, are conferred to creative content producers in six areas ― overseas contribution, broadcast and visual content, comics, animation, character development and digital content.
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Oil price hike raises concerns
2010-12-21
South Korea’s gasoline price reached its highest in two years and four months on Sunday as international crude oil prices rise and the cold weather increases demand.
According to the Korea National Oil Corporation, the price of regular unleaded gasoline was 1767.6 won ($1.5) per liter on Sunday, which showed a 27 won increase from the week before. The diesel price for the same day was 1566.3 won, up 24.8 won from last week.
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U.N. fails to find solution to Korea tensions
2010-12-21
With members widely split over North Korea’s growing belligerence, the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a statement addressing tension on the Korean Peninsula as South Korea went ahead with live-fire drills Monday despite Pyongyang’s grave warning.
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N.K. says no need to react to firing drill
2010-12-21
South conducts live-fire drill in West Sea vowing to retaliate to any strike by North
The South Korean military went ahead with its live-fire exercise on Yeonpyeong Island on Monday, brushing aside North Korea’s repeated threats of “deadlier” retaliatory strikes.
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Apple’s source of inspiration: Dieter Rams’ simple designs on show
2010-12-20
Radios, speakers, calculators and razors are neatly showcased at Daelim Contemporary Art Museum in Tongui-dong, Seoul. The 400 simple designs in mostly black and white bring to mind gadgets from a very popular brand: Apple.
The exhibition organizers must have found the similarity as well, because iPods and iPads can be spotted in every nook and corner of the show. All exhibits, regardless of whether they were produced several years ago or decades ago, are timeless and chic to fit in anywhere, anytime.
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SS501’s Kim wins triple crown at Yahoo Buzz Awards
2010-12-20
Korean pop star Kim Hyun-joong won three gongs at the 2010 Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards held Friday in Hong Kong.
Singer and actor Kim received Asia’s Buzz Male Popular Artist award and two trophies for Top Buzz Korean Artist in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Global sales of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone to top 10 mln
2010-12-20
Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday that global sales of its Galaxy S smartphone will soon reach 10 million units, making it the world's second most popular smartphone.
The world's No. 2 mobile phone maker has sold more than 2 million units in South Korea alone, surpassing sales of Apple Inc.'s iPhone at 1.8 million, according to Samsung.
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Yeonpyeong residents move into apartments
2010-12-20
“I’m leaving here in the hope that the situation will get better. But I still don’t know what to do for the future,” a Yeonpyeong resident said while packing up for resettlement.
The 1,046 displaced residents of Yeonpyeong Island, which was bombarded by North Korea last month, ended Sunday their 27-day stay at a spa facility.
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Afghan officials learn Korea’s experience
2010-12-20
Relaxed and well spoken, a young Afghan translator said that he was taken aback by the love the Korean people showed him during the 12-day education program in Korea.
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