South Korean movies have been dominating the country’s cinemas since the start of this year. The Korean Film Council announced on Monday that 8.48 million people watched Korean films at cinemas in February, accounting for 63 percent of all moviegoers. About 4.98 million watched foreign flicks. There were 520,000 more people in Korean movie audiences this January compared to the same month last yea

Playwright Kim Hae-rry reworking her one-woman play for Korean audiencesAn old woman sits in her living-room drawing women’s faces. She wants to draw all the faces of Korea’s former sex slaves before she dies. She says, “I don’t want to try to forget anymore. I draw to remember.” So starts “Face” ― a multimedia play telling of the estimated 200,000 women forced to serve as so-called “comfort women

-Name of Club: ANZA (Australia and New Zealand Association)-Location: Seoul-Number of members: Currently 180 family memberships-Started: ANZA’s beginnings were in the Aussie Connections group that was started in Seoul in the late 1970s by Rachel Miller, wife of the then Australian Ambassador, to give expat spouses and missionaries a place to feel more comfortable. Money was raised for Korean chari

Last year was one to remember for Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The team from just south of Seoul not only won the Asian Champions League but went on to finish in third place at the FIFA Club World Cup after meeting European champion Inter Milan.It was even better for Sasa Ognenovski, a man looking forward to his third K-League season. The Australian was the man handed the trophy in Tokyo in November. He

(AP)Subway now has more restaurants worldwide than McDonald's.The sandwich chain surpassed the world's largest hamburger chain in terms of number of stores in the U.S. in 2002 and now it has taken the global lead.Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide at the end of last year, according to the company. McDonald's Corp. had 32,737, according a regulatory filing.McDonald's, however, remains the indu

LIVE-FIRE DRILLS -- A U.S. Stryker unit engages in a live-fire exercise as part of the ongoing Foal Eagle field training exercise in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. (Park Hyun-koo/ The Korea Herald)

Diplomatic documents and the contact information for South Korean political heavyweights have been leaked to a Chinese woman suspected of having an affair with a Korean consulate officer in China, sources familiar with the issue said Tuesday.The latest revelation comes after the 41-year-old consular officer in Shanghai last month resigned while the Ministry of Justice was widening its probe into a

President Lee Myung-bak urged his government Tuesday to ramp up efforts to alleviate public worries over inflation, saying the problem is something of "the inevitable" under the current economic situations at home and abroad, according to his office Cheong Wa Dae.   "The consumer price problem has an inevitable aspect due to climate change, hikes in international law material prices, and other fac

Thousands of internet users are still clicking to see video footage of a monkey “waitress” in a human mask on YouTube. (YouTube)Even now, a year after it was posted, this creepy footage seems to remain a massive hit as netizens frequently post fresh comments under the video of the monkey “serving” in a restaurant. In the video clip, a monkey named Fukuchan is seen running around and entertaining c

President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year; the deadline came and went