Film director Park Chul-soo, famous for experimental and sometimes erotic flicks, died Tuesday morning in a car accident. He was 65. According to the police, Park was hit by a van when he was crossing the street after editing his film in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, around midnight. The driver was reportedly under the influence of alcohol.Born in 1948, Park entered the film industry in 1976 and made his debut film, “Golmok Daejang,” in 1978. He then moved on to direct several films including “Emi

The nation’s first 55-inch OLED TV mass-produced by LG Electronics was put on display at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul on Tuesday.OLED is third-generation television technology after the first-generation cathode ray and second-generation LCD and DVD TVs. LG Electronics is displaying eight products it mass-produced for the first time in Korea, including OLED TV, at the museum. The other seven items are a black-and-white television set, a refrigerator, a telephone, a

South Korea’s pop group JYJ will be appointed as publicity ambassador for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, the event’s organizing committee said Tuesday.“We picked JYJ, a K-pop group gaining Asian-wide popularity, as our publicity ambassador to step up our efforts to increase people’s awareness of the event and for its publicity in the Asian region,” the committee said.The three-member boy band drew an audience of 210,000 people in total on a global concert tour that took the group to 15 big cities

People with a more resilient personality profile also tend to have greater energy levels, U.S. researchers suggest. Study leader Antonio Terracciano of Florida State University College of Medicine and colleagues studied the relationship between personality, metabolic rate and aerobic capacity.“We tested implicit assumptions that individuals with certain personality dispositions have different metabolic and energetic profiles,” Terracciano said in a statement. “For example, do those who are asser

LONDON (AP) ― Hugh Grant says he has become a father for the second time. The “Four Weddings and a Funeral” star used his Twitter account to announce Saturday: “Am thrilled my daughter now has a brother. Adore them both to an uncool degree.” He said both children “have a fab mum” and: “To be crystal clear, I am the Daddy.’’ The birth was confirmed by Grant’s publicist, Carrie Gordon. Grant’s sometime girlfriend Tinglan Hong gave birth to the couple’s daughter in 2011. Grant, 52, a critic of what

LONDON (AFP) ― Vivienne Westwood urged Prince William’s wife Catherine on Sunday to stop buying so many outfits and to be more environmentally responsible in the way she dressed.The eccentric British designer was speaking to reporters before her show at London Fashion Week, where she handed out a “climate revolution charter” which called on people to “buy less, choose well, make it last.”Westwood, a long-time environmental activist, was asked what advice she may have for the Duchess of Cambridge

Korean-Americans ran a 48-kilometer route through New York and Jersey City, Sunday, in the hope of banning the Rising Sun Flag. According to Dongponews.net, a Korean-language news website for overseas Korean communities, and Yonhap news agency, the Citizens Against War Criminal Symbolism, a New York-based group of Korean-Americans, held the marathon Sunday morning. The race started in front of the plaque near a library on Palisades Park, New Jersey, that commemorates women drafted as sex slaves

Overall happiness and satisfaction with life tend to increase with age, but a person‘s well-being depends on when he or she was born, U.S. researchers say.Angelina R. Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine conducted the study while at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Sutin and colleagues used two large-scale longitudinal studies -- the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for t

男女 이상형의 조건, 키 몇 cm이상일까?Women want partners who tower over them, while men’s preferred height difference is significantly smaller, according to research by Dutch scientists.“Both men and women prefer to be in a couple where the man was taller than the woman, but not too tall, and the preference was most pronounced in women who, unlike men, considered partner heights unacceptable if they resulted in her being taller,” said Gert Stulp, evolutionary psychologist from the University of Groningen who

Fifty percent of U.S. men versus 36 percent of women say they would choose a date over work, a survey for the specialty dating service It‘s Just Lunch said. It’s Just Lunch asked more than 4,300 U.S. single men and women a series of questions regarding how they view dating issues related to work. Forty-one percent of the women said work and dating held near equal importance in their lives and they made time for both.Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman, a psychologist who specializes in single career w

A group of experts geared up to restore the metal types for the missing part of the world’s oldest surviving printed book, “Jikji.”The Cheongju Early Printing Museum on Sunday said that its head curator, Hwang Jeong-ha, and others had started research to restore the metal types used for the printing of the first volume of “Baegun Hwasang Chorok Bulji Jikji Simche Yojeol (Mater Baegun’s Excerpts from the Buddha and Patriarchs’ Direction Pointing to the Essence of Mind),” also known as “Jikji.” Cu