Ewha Womans University established a social welfare center in Cambodia to provide education to underprivileged children and women, according to the school on Wednesday.The school became the first education institute in Korea to build a social welfare and education center overseas. The Ewha Social Service center in Phnom Penh is expected to run education programs for children from low-income families, computer courses for women and workers, and projects that can contribute to the development of l

Lee Hye-kyung, social welfare professor at Yonsei University, has been appointed the chairperson of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, which helps set the city’s welfare policies and improve social services in the capital, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday. Lee is expected to serve a three-year term at the foundation until March 2015. Her career in the field of social welfare includes chairperson of the presidential consultative committee on resolving social polarization and

LS Networks chairman Koo Ja-yong became the new president of the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association.The KLPGA said Tuesday its board directors and representatives unanimously agreed to have Koo as the association’s 12th president.Koo is to officially take office on Friday after the KLPGA congress and lead the association until 2016.LS Networks is a retail company that has sports and outdoor fashion brands such as Prospecs, Skechers, Mont-Bell and Jack Wolfskin. (sophie@heraldm.com)

KINGSTON (AP) ― It wasn’t much of a race, but then it really couldn’t have been as the world’s fastest man and Britain’s Prince Harry met up on a track Tuesday in the Jamaican capital.Wearing a track suit emblazoned with Jamaica’s colors of green, black and gold, the prince got off to a false start and was about 50 meters down the track as Usain Bolt bent over with laughter. The Olympic medalist then jogged up to a grinning Harry, making one of his signature skyward points for a crowd of onlooke

Visit Korea Committee adds two more festivals to round off Visit Korea YearThe Visit Korea Committee announced on Monday plans to attract 1.1 million tourists this year and revitalize provincial tours. The year 2012 is the final year of the Visit Korea Year campaign which commenced in 2010. Last year, the number of tourists reached just under 10 million, according to the committee. The committee selected six major festivals to focus on this year, including two newly added to the list ― the Jinha

The Yeoksam-dong branch of Indian restaurant Dal, located in southern Seoul, is offering a reasonably priced “Cambo set” during the weekday lunch hour for busy businessmen. The set is composed of a samosa, two types of curry ― murg makhani, boneless tandoori chicken in tomato sauce, and palak paneer, cubed cottage cheese in spinach masala sauce ― naan, rice and the Indian traditional yogurt drink lassi. It costs 15,000 won.  The restaurant Dal is named after the Indian lentil which was selected

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Technically they’re “chocolate sandwich cookies,” a baked concoction of sugar, vitamin-enriched flour, canola oil, high-fructose corn syrup and, at the bottom of the list of ingredients, chocolate.But the Oreo cookie ― first baked in New York city 100 years ago Tuesday ― is much more than that. It’s an American icon, the best-selling cookie in the nation, with plenty of fans around the world to boot.Flash mobs celebrated the centenary in seven U.S. cities including Los Angeles

Indian curry set targets business lunch hourThe restaurant Dal is named after the Indian lentil which was selected as one of the five healthiest foods in the world along with kimchi, Japanese edamame bean, Spanish olive oil and Greek yogurt. Dal serves about 30 types of curry and 13 types of tandoori cooked up by chefs who have experience working at the top hotels in India. The restaurant has three branches in Seoul -- Yeoksam-dong and Garosu-gil in southern Seoul and Sogyeok-dong, central Seoul

Four South Korean women were placed on Newsweek’s list of 150 fearless women recognized as pioneers in their fields. According to the online edition of the news magazine on Monday, the four are Park Geun-hye, leader of the ruling Saenuri Party; Kim Sung-joo, CEO and chairperson of Sungjoo Group and MCM Holdings AG.; Lee Gil-ya, president of Gachon University; and Romi Haan, CEO of Haan Corp. Park Geun-hye was listed as a four-term lawmaker and front-runner among potential presidential candidates

Seoul Players, the oldest English-speaking theater company in the city, will perform “A Streetcar Named Desire” beginning March 17.Jason Stone, an artistic associate of Seoul Players and the director of the play, said “A Streetcar Named Desire” was one of the most pivotal plays of the American canon.Set in the late 1940s, “A Streetcar Named Desire” deals with a cultural clash between Blanche, a spoiled belle of the Old South, and Stanley, a rising member of the industrial working class. Blanche