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Same-sex marriage in Thailand to become legal in January
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Constitutional Court disallows calls to quash court verdicts
Social affairs
Aug 30, 2018
The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that final court judgments are not subject to constitutional review and cannot be nullified by the highest court unless they have infringed upon people‘s basic rights. By unanimous decision, the nine-judge panel at the court dismissed the complaints filed by Baik Ki-wan, a veteran civic activist, and others. Baik claimed in a complaint filed in August 2015 that the Supreme Court contradicted the Constitutional Court’s 2013 decision that found old decrees
Success of TWICE, abolition of one-man control, propel JYP’s ascent to No.1 entertainment firm
Music
Aug 30, 2018
JYP Entertainment, the home for top-rung girl band TWICE, beat its long-time rival SM Entertainment to emerge as the biggest entertainment firm by market capitalization for the first time in nearly two decades this week. Following steady growth since early this year, shares of JYP finished at 31,300 won (US$28.20) on the tech-intensive KOSDAQ bourse on Thursday, up 2.29 percent from a day earlier. The hike pushed up JYP’s market capitalization to 1.09 trillion won, surpassing SM‘s market capital
Moon replaces five ministers in first reshuffle
Politics
Aug 30, 2018
President Moon Jae-in on Thursday nominated five new ministers, including ministers of defense and education, and four vice minister-level officials, carrying out his first Cabinet reshuffle since taking office. For the post of Minister of National Defense, Moon tapped Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jeong Kyeong-doo, who built his career in the Air Force. Jeong is to replace Song Young-moo, a former Navy admiral who has been at the center of numerous controversies during his term in offic
[Weekender] Homemade dosirak, a healthy alternative with bragging rights
Food&Beverage
Aug 30, 2018
Dosirak becoming a popular way to boast of culinary skills on social media
[IFA 2018] LG vows to lead European built-in market with Signature Kitchen Suite
Technology
Aug 30, 2018
BERLIN -- LG Electronics will make a foray into Europe’s built-in home appliance market with its newest kitchen brand, pledging to improve the lives of consumers, said the head of the company’s home appliance business on Thursday. “LG’s home appliance unit is officially launching a new built-in brand, Signature Kitchen Suite, in Europe, which is a significant milestone for the Korean company to accelerate its foray into the world’s biggest built-in market,” said Song Dae-hyun, president of LG’s
Torrential rain to move down peninsula
Social affairs
Aug 30, 2018
The state weather agency forecast Thursday the torrential rain that swept across the upper part of the Korean Peninsula would move down to the Chungcheong and Jeolla regions. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, up to 150 millimeters of rain is expected in the Chungcheong and Jeolla Provinces from Thursday to Friday. The weather agency issued an alert warning of heavy rain in the regions. (Yonhap)For Seoul and the metropolitan areas, up to 50 mm of rain is expected through the
[David Ignatius] The real importance of Trump’s Mexico move
Viewpoints
Aug 30, 2018
The best thing that can be said about President Donald Trump’s latest trade initiative is that it moves the US back toward the kind of agreements Trump unwisely blew up when he became president. So, two cheers for Trump’s revamped free trade agreement with Mexico, announced Monday, and the one he may get soon with Canada. He wants to rebrand the package, of course, so that it’s not called NAFTA (“bad connotations!”). But the preliminary update includes labor and environmental standards somewhat
[Leonid Bershidsky] Serbia and Kosovo may be ready to end their feud
Viewpoints
Aug 30, 2018
An agreement between Serbia and Kosovo to settle a long-standing dispute over their mutual border is becoming more than an abstract idea. The countries’ leaders have held initial talks on a so-called border correction, a process that could offer a way to ease their accession to the European Union. The conversation went well enough for Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to appear together over the weekend at a news conference in the Austrian town of Alpbach. The
[Volker Perthes] Sustaining Europe’s security trip
Viewpoints
Aug 30, 2018
Despite the tensions generated by Brexit, the leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have stood together in disputes between the European Union and the United States. If their unity can be sustained, Europe’s “big three” (E3) will serve the EU very well in a tumultuous future.French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and UK Prime Minister Theresa May seem to have read from the same script regarding US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear
[Editorial] No return to crisis
Editorial
Aug 30, 2018
Mattis hints resumption of joint drills as negotiations stall; Seoul must keep step with US
[Weekender] Rise of the convenience store dosirak
Food&Beverage
Aug 30, 2018
The word dosirak has a number of meanings in Korean. The word can mean any meal packed to be carried, the container specially designed for carrying packed lunches, or a Japanese style bento. However, in recent years the word has become almost synonymous with factory produced, ready-to-eat meals on offer at the convenience stores that occupy every nook and cranny of major Korean cities. “Young men seem to pick these up a lot more than young women. I think it might be because there are a lot of pe
[Weekender] Dosirak, evolution of packed lunches
Food&Beverage
Aug 30, 2018
From transporting meals in bamboo wicker baskets during the Joseon dynasty, packed lunches, or dosirak in Korean, have evolved with the times, and become a source of nostalgia for some, and a convenience and necessity for others. “Lunch was a big part of school life when I was young. It may sound cliched, but checking out friends’ dosirak and sharing the food was one of the more fun parts of going to school,” Lee Mi-sook, a 56-year old housewife, said, adding that her high-school-age nephews had
[Herald Interview] Comic book writer works to better represent women in comics
People
Aug 30, 2018
Amy Chu is a breath of fresh air in the comic book industry, especially in the US, where the industry is dominated by white men who have been reading comic books since they were young. Chu is an Asian-American woman who, before becoming a writer, had worked in very different fields. There was not a hint in her youth that might have signaled her life would be in comics. Amy Chu poses with her “Wonder Woman” comic book before an interview with The Korea Herald on Wednesday in central Seoul. (CICI
[Herald Interview] ‘YESFEZ ready to rise as Northeast Asia’s industrial hub’
Industry
Aug 30, 2018
As one of South Korea’s leading special economic zones, the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone is seeking to leap into its next stage of development to become a high-tech industrial complex pivoting on knowledge-based businesses, according to its chief.“Northeast Asia has risen to become one of the world’s top three economic clusters, along with the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Lee Hwa-soon, commissioner of the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone, told The Korea Herald in an
[Graphic News] Vietnam's Danang top summer vacation destination
Travel
Aug 30, 2018
Vietnam's city of Danang was the most popular summer vacation destination among Koreans this year, a shift from last year's preference for cities in Japan, according to an online shopping mall. Flight ticket sales in the July-August period showed Danang as the top foreign travel location, TMON said, up three places from last year. The cost of traveling in the city is relatively cheap at about 100,000 won ($90.33) per day. TMON said its sales data showed a growing preference for places that off
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