SIWA will hold a sign-up day Wednesday for enrichment classes and interest groups in autumn.Classes include language lessons, arts and crafts and cookery open exclusively to SIWA members.A membership application form and list of the classes are available on the SIWA website, www.siwapage.com.The sign-up day runs from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Orchid Room of the Grand Ambassador Hotel, and participation costs 15,000 won.SIWA is also holding a wine tasting event on Sept. 26 at Tiwi Tasting Lounge in

Ken Kim’s Winery in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, will hold Grape Harvest Fest on Sept. 29. The trip starts and ends in downtown Seoul, leaving 10 a.m. and coming back 6 p.m. The event will involve an explanation in English of how to pair Korean food with wine, crushing grapes underfoot the old-fashioned way, barrel tasting, and a Korean folk art show. Participation costs 100,000 won. For inquiries and reservations, contact ken@kennethkimvineyards.com or 011-479-7843.(paulkerry@heraldcorp.com)

GIC Tour will visit Yeongam and Wolchulsan National Park on Saturday. The first stop on the tour will be the Wangin Baksa Museum. Wangin Baksa was an important scholar in the ancient Baekjae kingdom who lived and taught in Yeongam. Later he went to Japan, bringing the Analects of Confucius and a book of Chinese characters with him, and started a long period of exchange between Baekjae and the Japanese. The tour will go through the Wangin historical park, visiting several important sites, and tre

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DALLAS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Men treated for prostate cancer -- either with surgery or radiation -- could benefit from taking aspirin regularly, U.S. researchers suggest. First author Dr. Kevin Choe of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas said preclinical studies showed aspirin and other anti-coagulation medications -- warfarin, clopidogrel, enoxaparin, and/or aspirin -- might inhibit cancer growth and metastasis, but clinical data had been limited previously.The current st