Kang’s new movie ‘Glove’ tells true story of hopeLike many other sports, baseball is a game of communication. Catchers are yelling which base to go, the crowd screams when someone hits a home run, and coaches constantly shout what to do when the players are at their bases. It’s also a sport of accumulated team effort. Having one great pitcher cannot make a strong team.Director Kang Woo-suk’s new f

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea's smallest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it has made inroads into the fast-growing mobile social networking market in South Korea in an effort to find new revenue sources.   The wireless and fixed-line operator introduced beta versions of two mobile-based social networking services last month that are available to all mobile phone users, it said in a statement.   

JOHANNESBURG - Dozens of men and women who tried to emulate New York's "No pants Subway Ride" on South Africa's first high-speed train were arrested and fined, the rail operator said on Tuesday.Gautrain said 34 people were detained after they dropped their trousers and skirts and took a pantless ride from Rhodesfield, east of Johannesburg to Sandton in the city's north."They were fined 700 rands (

Shin Eun-hee has a unique duty in her role as a top executive. She not only supervises Korean operations of the Nielsen Company, a global information and media firm, but also Japanese operations, assuming the role of managing director for the two crucial markets in East Asia simultaneously. What’s more unusual is that Shin does most of her business here in Seoul. The convention is that regional CE

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) _ Summer rains sent tons of red mud and torrents of water rushing down mountainsides in towns outside Rio, enveloping homes of rich and poor alike and killing at least 257 people in 24 hours. Some survivors clung to trees to escape the water and landslides.Rescuers used heavy machinery, shovels and bare hands to dig through debris in a search for survivors Wednesday. It was not

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- Matjaz Pungertar of Slovenia beat fellow countryman Zima Rok and Germany’s Julian Musiol to claim his first career title at the PyeongChang FIS Continental Cup title Wednesday.The 20-year-old had the day’s longest effort of 134.5 meters on the K-125 hill and followed up with a 128-meter leap to win the title with a total of 249.5 points at the Alpensia ski jump sta

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province ― Korea is still in its early days of ski jumping, but national team coach Kim Heung-soo says they are progressing rapidly through a newly built jumping slope. Some of the world’s top level ski jumpers on Wednesday had their first taste of the snow-covered Alpensia ski jumping slopes for the FIS Continental Cup, slated for Jan. 12-13.PyeongChang is holding the two-day

Chief state auditor nominee Chung Tong-ki withdrew Wednesday, two days after the ruling party turned its back on him amid rising public antipathy toward the privileges he was granted for his former job as a prosecutor.“I decided to step down today from the post as chairman nominee of the Board of Audit and Inspection,” Chung said in a press conference.Chung read out a lengthy statement about his s

Lawy has always been regarded as one of the most prestigious occupations in Korea but the legal market has already turned into a red ocean and nearly half of new attorneys remain unemployed. Of the 970 people who completed a two-year mandatory training program Wednesday at the Judicial Research and Training Institute after passing the bar exam, 343 have yet to be employed, with 189 to join the mil

Expectations are rising that the domestic real estate market hit bottom last year and began to recover in the last quarter.The Land & Housing Institute said Wednesday home transaction volume and prices rose for the sixth consecutive week during the fourth quarter of last year after seeing minus 0.1 percent growth in July.“In particular, it is noteworthy that the pace of growth has been accelerated

Chung Tong-ki withdrew his nomination as the chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection on Wednesday, becoming the eighth top official designate to step down during the Lee Myung-bak presidency.The repeated withdrawals indicate the remaining gap between the presidential office and the public in their expectations for senior office holders.The Lee administration made requests for parliamentary a