After music video featured at Cannes Lions festival, Korea-based team looks for more opportunitiesAn older Korean couple living life in the fast lane might not be the first thing on every ad exec’s mind.But it was the subject of a music video that made it into the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity ― the advertising industry’s top awards festival.

Native English teacher Anna Liu was coming to the end of her contract when she visited her local pension office to claim back contributions she was entitled to as a Canadian citizen. But when it came to how much she was supposedly owed, she noticed it was less than a friend on a lower salary.“I questioned it and then that’s when the pension officer showed me and said ‘this is your reported income

Aussie coach aims to take Korean wheelchair hoops to LondonHe knows exactly where his heart is, and has a clear vision of what he’d like for the future. Australian basketball coach Mark Walker says his current goal is to take the Korean wheelchair basketball team to the London 2012 Paralympics. Yet his ambition appears impossible, considering the current level of the Korean national team: Korea ha

A family of the four soldiers killed in Monday’s shooting rampage enter a military hospital, where their bodies are laid, in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday.　(Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Herald)The Marine who went on a shooting rampage Monday, killing four fellow soldiers, had been treated like an outcast on his base on Ganghwa Island, military officials said Tuesday.The 19-year-old corporal, ide

Pop star Lady Gaga appeared on Japanese talk show “Room of Tetsuko” wearing yet another unique outfit called “costume onion,” according a report from Oricon.co.jp. The singer shocked the Japanese interviewer Tetsuko with a round black dress resembling an onion and a “reverse vortex” hairstyle measuring 50 centimeters high. She also sported her iconic 40 centimeter high-heeled shoes. Gaga offered h

(Yonhap News)SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea ranked first among advanced countries last year in terms of wireless high-speed Internet penetration, according to data by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday.South Korea was the leading country for wireless broadband subscriptions last year among the 34 OECD countries, with 89.8 per 100 people. The number of subscr

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- A new iPhone application now offers a rare glimpse into North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world.The free application, Fotopedia North Korea, which launched in late June, displays more than 1,140 photos that photographer Eric Lafforgue took across North Korea on his four visits between 2008 and 2010.The photos show soldiers, children, the massive gymnastics ex