Korean Air launched a campaign Wednesday to foster coprosperity with all its stakeholders both inside and outside of the company. Korean Air president Ji Chang-hoon, senior vice president Cho Hyun-min and other executives and employees held the launching event at its head office in Gonghang-dong, western Seoul. In the event, they completed a mosaic that looks like “The Kiss,” a painting by Austrian symbolist Gustave Klimt, using about 600 photos of its executives and employees. Coprosperity with

Park Heung-soo, professor of marketing at Yonsei University, will be inaugurated as chairman of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration in a ceremony at LG-POSCO Hall of Korea University in Seoul on Friday. Park graduated from the college of business administration of Yonsei University, and acquired an MBA from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Yonsei faculty in 1988. Established in 1956, the society is one

A U.S. veteran of the Korean War (1950-1953) will meet with a Korean woman 60 years after he helped her receive burn surgery. The Ministry of Patriots & Veterans Affairs said Wednesday that it found Kim Yeon-soon, 72, after starting to search for her on Jan. 22 at the request of Richard Cadwallader, 82. Cadwallader was part of the 8th Communications Squadron headquartered in Suwon, about 34 kilometers south of Seoul, in 1953. He met a Korean mother and her 12-year-old daughter when they knocked

When renowned violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill and pianist Lim Dong-hyek started playing on Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., it wasn’t just the some 100 people at the concert hall of NHN headquarters in Gyeonggi Province listening. There were more than 30,000 others paying attention to Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Bach and some famous film scores through Naver, the nation’s largest portal site. The artists were performing for the Naver music section, which holds concerts on its own and broadcasts them live on the w

Helping Others Prosper through English is looking for new recruits for its volunteer teaching program, with a recruitment session in Seoul on March 2.The 4-year-old organization works with 12 volunteer learning centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, teaching English to underprivileged children.They are now looking for new volunteers to replace those who have left Korea or relocated because of the change in the school year.Volunteers should be citizens or have a long-term visa, such as a

Seoul Players will hold a screening Wednesday of “Until the Violence Stops” as the first installment of its V-Day activities this year.The screening will be followed by a self-defense class.The film is a documentary by Abby Epstein that shows V-Day activities in the United States, Kenya, Croatia and the Philippines. “It’s older, but most people in Korea haven’t seen it so we decided to screen it and make it a fund-raising event,” said Barri Tsavaris, who is organizing the official V-Day Seoul ev

Forget skeletons in the closet, Daegu Theatre Troupe has been looking through expats’ luggage for secrets. “Baggage Claim” is an original play with an unusual pedigree, being written based on true stories from expats’ love lives.Cowriter JD Stewart said the name was something that was meant to convey something universal about the expat experience.“It came to me as this is something we all go through in arriving into Korea, and again when we leave,” he said.“The baggage on arrival and departure i

Passion and devotion are not the only qualities of K-pop fans here ― compassion is also on display as they become involved in various charity activities for the sake of their “love for the stars.”They participate in volunteer work, donate money and items and sometimes hold campaigns. This phenomenon is not specific to K-pop alone, as demonstrated by the fan activism surrounding Western artists such as Lady Gaga and her support for LGBT rights, and U2’s role in antipoverty campaigns. However with

A world of Buddhist tradition and modernity at the Hwajeong Museum

YouTube, the video Web site of Google Inc., on Tuesday launched a channel that incorporates video clips posted by Asian musicians, including Korean pop idols SHINee and Super Junior.The “A-pop Channel” features a top 20 list of the most popular video clips that highlight pop idols in Korea, Japan and China, as well as a calendar that posts information for online fan meetings and events, according to the YouTube’s Korea blog. Users can also view the top 20 list by country, K-pop, J-pop and C-pop,