Rinnai Academy will hold a Korean cooking class in Seoul this Friday. Those who attend will learn how to cook “galbi-jjim” ― braised beef short ribs in broth ― and steamed sticky rice with pumpkin.The class will run from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Rinnai Cooking Academy near Exit 4 of Hongik University Station. Those wishing to take part in the 10,000 won class should first register in person at It

The Seoul Players will present Peter Nichols’ “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” beginning this Friday. Seoul Players describe the production, which will be at Roofers in Itaewon, as both hilarious and heartbreaking. It follows a young couple and the problems they encounter while caring for their severely disabled daughter. Although it aims to entertain, the play ultimately poses the somber question:

North Korea agreed Tuesday to the repatriation of only 27 of its 31 nationals held in South Korea after their wooden boat drifted to the South last month, withdrawing its earlier demand that all of them, including four who have expressed their wish to defect, be returned, officials said.The agreement, expressed through the Red Cross channel of the two countries, ends the deadlock that has lasted s

 TOKYO, March 15, 2011 (AFP) - Tokyo shares closed down 10.55 percent onTuesday as panicking investors dumped stocks after the government said risingradiation levels at a stricken nuclear plant posed a threat to health.

TOKYO, March 15, 2011 (AFP) - Tokyo shares plunged 11.03 percent as Japan's nuclear crisis escalated on Tuesday, after radiation levels near aquake-stricken nuclear plant surged following explosions and a fire.The Nikkei index lost 1,061.35 points to 8,559.14. 

 SOMA, Japan (AP) _ Japan's nuclear safety agency says a fire in a reactor at a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan has been extinguished.The fire broke out Tuesday at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in one of the hardest-hit provinces in last week's massive earthquake and tsunami.Meanwhile, radiation was spewing from the Dai-ichi plant in a dramatic escalation

North Korea told a visiting top Russian diplomat that it does not oppose discussing its uranium enrichment activity in the stalled six-party talks once they resume, a report said Tuesday.North Korea also told Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin that Pyongyang was ready to rejoin the talks "without any preconditions" and hopes to work under an "action-for-action principle," the offici

TOKYO (AFP) - A fire has broken out at the number-four reactor at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 atomic power plant and radiation levels have risen considerably, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday.

   TOKYO (AP) _ Japan's nuclear safety agency says it suspects an explosion at a nuclear power plant may have damaged a reactor's container and fears a radiation leak.   An agency spokesman, Shigekazu Omukai, says the nuclear core of Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was not damaged in the explosion early Tuesday.   But the agency says it suspects the bottom of the container that surrounds th

   TOKYO (AFP) - Some workers have been evacuated from the number-two reactor at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant after it was hit by an explosion Tuesday, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman said.    "We have moved our staff to a safer area," except for those working to cool the reactor, the TEPCO spokesman said.   An official from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told AFP "tha

   TOKYO (AFP) - The death toll from a killer earthquake and tsunami that flattened much of Japan's northeast coast topped 2,400, police said Tuesday.   The National Police Agency said 2,414 people are confirmed dead and 3,118 missing, with 1,885 injured in the disaster which struck on Friday afternoon.      The official toll yesterday stood at 1,647.   On Sunday, the police chief of Miyagi, one o

The government and pizza delivery franchises Monday agreed rules to protect delivery staff who often drive dangerously due to fierce competition within the industry. Triggered by the deaths of delivery drivers and protests by their colleagues, they also decided to hold safety campaigns.The Ministry of Employment and Labor signed with Pizza Hut, Mr. Pizza and Domino’s Pizza as well as the Korean Fr