Seoul Players will perform Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things” for two weekends starting Saturday.Directed by O.J. Ryan, the play follows a shy undergraduate student who is inexperienced in love and falls in love with a smart, sexy art graduate student. But their love affair takes a turn as the woman he loves begins to manipulate him, while he finds himself willing to do anything to please her. The situation becomes more and more extreme until it reaches a climax that raises questions about art,

The Seongbuk Global Village Center will host a European Christmas Market again this year on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.On sale will be hand-crafted Christmas decorations as well as traditional Christmas fare from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and the Netherlands.There will also be performances of Christmas music, a raffle and a chance for kids to write a letter to Santa Claus.Running from noon till 8 p.m., the market is at Seongbukchon Fountain Square, near Exit 2 of Hansung University Station.(pa

Hike Korea founder Roger Shepherd will give a photo presentation for the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch on Tuesday, introducing the Baekdu Daegan trail in North Korea.Shepherd has spent three months exploring the North Korean portion of the mountain range for a new photo book and will talk about his experiences there and the impact he hopes his book will have.The Baekdu Daegan is a range that runs from Baekdusan right through the whole Korean peninsula, and the southern portion is a popular

Probationary Theater is holding auditions this weekend for two upcoming plays ― “The Libertine” and “The Santaland Diaries.”Auditions for Stephen Jeffrey’s “The Libertine” will be 6-10 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. The play follows a 17th-century hedonist who tries to nurture a young actress to greatness, hoping for redemption as a reward. The play features bawdy humor and several male and female roles are available. The play will run in early May. “The Santaland Diaries” by David Sed

THE HAGUE (AFP) ― Dutch Prince Friso, brain-damaged and in a coma after being caught in an avalanche eight months ago, was showing some signs of improvement, the palace said Monday.“Recently Prince Friso has been showing small signs of consciousness. This condition is referred to as ‘minimal consciousness,’” the palace said in a statement.“The prognosis however remains very uncertain and the medical team is still very worried,” the palace added.“It will still take many months before there is any

Moderate drinking by a pregnant woman -- six drinks a week or fewer -- can affect a child‘s IQ, researchers in Britain say. Dr. Ron Gray of the University of Oxford and colleagues at the University of Bristol used data involving more than 4,000 mothers and their children in the Children of the 90s study -- which tracks health and development of the parents and their children over a generation. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found four genetic variants in alcohol-metabolizing genes

They say that money cannot buy happiness, but perhaps it may work the other way around: A new study by scientists in Britain suggests that happy youngsters have a higher possibility of becoming rich adults.According to a study by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve of University of College and professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick, people who reported higher life satisfaction when young were more likely to have a higher income than their depressed counterparts. In the study, researchers evalua