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[Exclusive] Samsung, Boeing in talks for future aircraft: source
Industry
Mar 16, 2018
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been working with South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics to incorporate high-speed mobile technology and next-generation information systems into its latest airplane models, according to a Boeing official in Seoul on Friday. “We are in works with Samsung and studying to use their technologies like mobile connectivity,” he told The Korea Herald. Boeing 787 models (Boeing)“Korea’s global leadership in high-speed mobile technology and next-generation informa
S. Korea pushes for March high-level meeting with North ahead of inter-Korean summit
North Korea
Mar 16, 2018
The South Korean government said Friday it plans to hold a senior-level official meeting with North Korea this month in a bid to pave the way for the third inter-Korean summit to be held at the southern side of a cross-border village in April. The Presidential Preparation Committee for the Inter-Korean Talks said the summit would focus on removing nuclear weapons from North Korea, easing military tensions between the two Koreas and establishing permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula. “We affirm
No phone number, but great tarts at My Funny Dessert
Food&Beverage
Mar 16, 2018
Three-seater shop attracts regulars with French treats
More than 80 percent of Koreans choose cremation as views on death change
Social affairs
Mar 16, 2018
Since the 1990s, there has been a change in how Koreans view death, with more preferring cremation after death, according to a new report released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.The cremation rate stood at 20.5 percent in 1994, but rose to 82.7 percent last year. As of last year, 86 percent of Koreans said they would like to be cremated after death. “Many find it too troublesome to maintain grave sites, which require regularly cutting weeds and grass,” said an official from the ministry.
[Box office] Movies in theaters this week
Film
Mar 16, 2018
Be With You(Korea)Opened March 14Romance, DramaDirected by Lee Jang-hoonWoo-jin (So Ji-sub) and his son Ji-ho (Kim Ji-hwan) struggle to cope with the loss of Woo-jin’s wife Soo-ah (Son Ye-jin). Ji-ho believes that his mother will return during the rainy season, just like in his favorite fairy tale. One day, Soo-ah miraculously comes back without her memory.The Vanished(Korea)Opened March 7ThrillerDirected by Lee Chang-heeThe body of recently deceased business mogul Yoon Sul-hee (Kim Hee-ae) goes
Around the Hotels
Food&Beverage
Mar 16, 2018
Celebrating Easter at Millennium Seoul Hilton For guests who seek to celebrate Easter in a classic yet luxurious way, Millennium Seoul Hilton has prepared various activities and events. Cilantro Deli offers specialty Easter bread and chocolates during Easter week. Precooked Easter lunch hampers will also be on sale at 350,000 won. For lunch on Easter Sunday, diners can head to Cafe 395 for an Easter-themed buffet, at the price of 94,000 per person. On Easter Day, visitors can take part in an Eas
Parties ready for Seoul mayoral election
Politics
Mar 16, 2018
Former leader of the People’s Party Ahn Cheol-soo took up an official post in the Bareun Future Party on Friday, adding weight to speculation he may run for Seoul mayor in the local elections in June. Ahn stepped down from the leadership when the People’s Party merged with the Bareun Party a month ago to form the Bareun Future Party.The new party’s co-leaders Yoo Seong-min and Park Joo-sun have asked Ahn to run for Seoul mayor, hoping he will save the party from single-digit support ratings. Ahn
[James Stavridis] Career advice for Pompeo: Reassure allies, stick close to Mattis
Viewpoints
Mar 16, 2018
Perhaps the only surprising thing about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s firing was the brutal and sudden nature of the ejection. No meeting, not even a phone call, just a tweet.While many of Tuesday’s hot takes focused on Tillerson’s missteps, his departure is not really about him, of course. He’s a proven global leader who was hugely successful in a long career at Exxon, and was being rightly lauded by people like former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezz
[Adam Minter] Hawking taught us how to be wrong
Viewpoints
Mar 16, 2018
In 2002, the future Nobel Prize-winner Peter Higgs joined several fellow physicists at a dinner in Edinburgh. Drinks flowed and the professional invective followed. According to a report published in the Scotsman the following morning, the gathered physicists were frustrated by, and perhaps a little jealous of Stephen Hawking. “It is very difficult to engage him (Hawking) in discussion, and so he has got away with pronouncements in a way that other people would not,” Higgs is quoted as saying. “
[Editorial] Effect of job incentives
Editorial
Mar 16, 2018
Direct aid unsustainable; right way is to improve business environment
[Travel bits] Festivals, sights around Korea
Travel
Mar 16, 2018
Herb Island Lighting & Illumination Festival Herb Island in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, will be hosting the annual Lighting & Illumination Festival until Oct. 31.With its 300-meter wish tunnel, a lavender field lit up in various colors and more, Herb Island aims to get visitors in the holiday spirit. Inspired by European Christmas markets, the festival offers various events, including Christmas-themed soap, tree and candle-making, a Christmas cookie market and roasted turkey.Admission to the Her
TVXQ to return with full-length album on March 28
Music
Mar 16, 2018
Legendary K-pop duo TVXQ will make a long-awaited return with a new album on March 28, according to the group’s agency S.M. Entertainment on Friday. The duo’s upcoming eighth full-length album will mark the duo’s first release since “Rise As God” in July 2015, as well as the first group activity since U-Know Yunho and Max Changmin were discharged from their mandatory military duties in April and August last year, respectively. TVXQ (S.M. Entertainment)One of K-pop’s first-generation boy bands a
R&B trio Solid to return with new album in 21 years
Music
Mar 16, 2018
After confirming its reunion last week, Solid, an iconic R&B trio from the 1990s, officially announced Thursday that it would release a self-created album titled “Into the Light” on March 22, and throw a party at the Hyundai Card Understage concert hall in Seoul.The accompanying music video for Solid’s new song, which will be released with the album, is to feature a world-famous beatboxer, according to sources. Earlier last week, the trio dropped a teaser clip on its official social media accoun
Life imprisonment sought for doctor accused of murdering wife
Social affairs
Mar 16, 2018
The Daejeon High Prosecutors’ Office on Friday demanded life imprisonment for a doctor accused of murdering his wife by injecting her with drugs, in an appellate court. This is the second time prosecutors have sought a life sentence for the doctor. He had received a 35-year jail term during the first trial, but appealed the court’s verdict. The doctor, 45, is accused of having slipped his wife a sleeping pill and then injecting her with illicit substances without her knowledge, thereby killing h
[Weekender] How effective are weight-loss products?
Industry
Mar 16, 2018
Anywhere you go either online or offline, it is easy to spot advertisements for diet supplements, spewing out enticing catchphrases that with their products, one can lose their weight in a short period time.They range from subway ads of oriental medicine clinics that prescribe weight-loss herbal medicines to diet supplement ads on social media.“I have tried just about every diet pill and slimming cream available while working as a model. When I first took my herbal medicine appetite suppressant,
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