The Korea Herald

S. Korea confirms 2 more bird flu outbreaks

Feb 13, 2011

South Korea on Sunday confirmed two additional bird flu outbreaks in areas near Seoul despite nationwide efforts to stem the spread of the disease.The farm ministry said the new cases were reported at a medium-sized duck farm and a small poultry farm that raises chickens and ducks, which reported symptoms earlier in the week.All 8,400 birds on the two farms in Hwaseong south of Seoul and Dongduche
At age 50 women become invisible to men

Feb 13, 2011

American actress Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is 52 years old. (AP)After reaching 50, eight out of ten women believe that members of the opposite sex no longer notice them. And seven out of ten women feel neglected by the fashion industry after 50. The study by the online retailer isme.com surveyed 1,246 U.K. women, of which 47 percent were over 50. Besides deepening wrinkles and graying hair, about th
East coastal areas hit by heaviest snowfall in a century

Feb 13, 2011

CHUNCHEON, Gangwon Province (Yonhap) -- A record-breaking snowfall pounded South Korea's east coast on Saturday, stranding hundreds of motorists on highways and destroying dozens of houses, officials said. President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military to help clear waist-high snow that blanketed the area and transport emergency food to isolated residents. Some sections of a highway linking Seou
Owner of the missing W1 billion identified

Feb 11, 2011

The police are looking for a private lottery dealer in his 30s with the family name Kang for having stored 1 billion won ($980,000) in a Seoul warehouse under borrowed identification and fake phone numbers. The investigators suspect him to have accumulated the money as slush funds from running illegal lotteries. The case was discovered when Yeongdeungpo police received a report of suspected explos
Who owns W1b cash found in boxes?

Feb 11, 2011

The police search for whoever deposited 1 billion won ($980,000) in two cardboard boxes, found Wednesday at a department store in Yeouido has failed to detect any clues so far. Questions are swirling over the mysterious boxes abandoned in the store located in the political and financial hub of Seoul. With experts claiming the modus operandi to be classic money laundering, rumormongers are gossipin
KTX bullet train derails near Seoul

Feb 11, 2011

GWANGMYEONG -- A high-speed KTX train bound for Seoul from the southern port city of Busan derailed near a Gyeonggi Province station southwest of the capital Friday, but no casualties were reported, the state-run Korea Railroad said. Derailed KTX train near Gwangmyeong Station, southwest of Seoul, Friday. There were no reports of casualties. (Yonhap News) The incident took place near Gwangmyeong
Multicultural Korea sees more new family names

Feb 11, 2011

The number of new Korean family names and clans seems to be rising in South Korea, with growing numbers of marriage immigrants choosing to create their own names to adapt to the local community.South Korea, according to a census conducted in late 2000, had 286 family names divided into 4,179 clans, with Kim, Lee and Park among the most popular Korean surnames.With a growing influx of foreigners to
Hungary's 84-year-old burglar strikes again

Feb 11, 2011

(MCT)BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Hungary's notorious octogenarian thief is not ready for retirement.The 84-year-old woman, known as "Flying Gizi," whose criminal record goes back to the 1950s, is again in custody for suspected theft, police said Tuesday.Fejer County Police spokeswoman Agnes R. Szabo said the burglar, whose real name is Gizella Bodnar, is suspected of taking some 15,000 forints (euro
Police crack down on 770 online sex sites

Feb 10, 2011

South Korean police have cracked down on 770 Web sites and blogs selling prostitution while booking thousands for their alleged involvement in sex trafficking, officials said Tuesday.After wrapping up a six-week nationwide bust, the National Police Agency (NPA) said it booked 2,271 people without physical detention and put six under arrest on charges of illegally selling or buying sex.Of them, 1,3
Unions warn of action for legal revision

Feb 10, 2011

The new leader of the nation’s largest umbrella labor union pledged Thursday that the group will head toward a hard-line stance if no revision is made to the labor union law. “My predecessor, who saw labor-management relations stabilized, had worked in a way to be helpful to the Korean economy. However, there is no room for us to do so,” said Lee Yong-deuk, chairman of the Federation of Korean Tra
Most single parents do not receive child support

Feb 10, 2011

Less than half of single parents entitled to child support regularly receive payments from their former spouse, revealing the need for state intervention, according to government data Thursday.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family surveyed 483 single parents legally entitled to receive child support over the course of three years. Women made up nearly 98 percent of the single parents in the s
Fewer young students going abroad to study

Feb 10, 2011

Unlike other Gangnam mothers, Park Sung-hee, 43, does not believe in the effectiveness of studying abroad at an early age.“My children have no problem studying English to prepare for the college entrance exam. Among other things, there are many highly-qualified teachers and private institutes in Seoul too,” said Park, a mother of two residing in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul. “I’m sure that the blind
Korean fishing boat released from 4 months' captivity in Somalia

Feb 9, 2011

NAIROBI, Kenya (Yonhap) -- A South Korean fishing vessel with 43 sailors aboard, including two South Koreans, was released after four months of captivity in Somalia on Wednesday (local time), Seoul's foreign ministry and a local industry source in Kenya said. The 241-ton trawler Keummi 305, which was hijacked by Somali pirates on Oct. 9, and all the crew members were freed around 9 a.m. loca
Half of men say OK to their girlfriends cheating with other girls

Feb 9, 2011

Half of men would forgive their girlfriends for cheating on them -- as long as they did so with another woman, a U.S. study has found.Researchers from the University of Texas, in Austin, quizzed 718 students on the subject of cheating. Half the men surveyed said that they would forgive their girlfriends as long as the affair was with a woman. But only 22 percent of men told researchers they could
1 billion won found in department store ‘bombs’

Feb 9, 2011

Police discovered 1 billion won ($904,000) in suspicious cases originally thought to contain bombs at a department store in Seoul on Wednesday. At 9:02 a.m. the police received a 112 call reporting two suspicious looking cases that might contain explosive material from a storage facility employee. The Yeongdeungpo Police Station responded to the call on the tenth floor of a department store with s