Won Dae-yun, 66, chairman of Korea Fashion Association, was reappointed on Wednesday as head of the organization for another four-year term.At the board meeting held on Wednesday at the Textile Center in Daechi-dong, southern Seoul, all 75 member companies of Korea Fashion Association agreed unanimously on Won’s reappointment as the 11th chairman of KFA. Won, who was first appointed as head of the association in 2004, will serve in the post until 2015.  “I will do my best to protect the rights a

Actor Shin Young-gyun, honorary president of the Motion Pictures Association of Korea, has donated 1 billion won ($890,000) to Sogang University in Seoul, the school said. The donation will be used for the new “Art and Technology” department of the university, which is an academic discipline seeking to combine different studies from technology to humanities to arts in a bid to foster creative individuals, according to the school. “Shin has decided to give the large amount of money for the sake o

Major museums in Germany will hold a joint exhibition of Korean relics, offering a rare chance to appreciate Korean art from the 11th to 20th centuries, the German Embassy in Seoul said. The joint exhibition will tour four German cities, including Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig and East Asia Art Museum in Cologne from Feb. 17 to May 27. The touring exhibition will also be held at museums in Frankfurt and in Stuttgart, the embassy said in a statement. A total of 10 museums in Germany broug

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Alexis McKenzie’s mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife’s sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.Then their phone service was cut off. “I mailed that check,” McKenzie’s father insisted. No, he’d mailed the phone company a bank deposit slip instead. McKenzie visited and discovered spoiling food. Dad the caregiver was in trouble, too.Dementia can sneak up on families. I

Aphthous stomatitis, commonly known as “thrush on the tongue,” is a disease where a shallow ulcer is formed in the mouth. Despite an unknown etiology, its occurrence is reportedly associated with the involvement of factors such as viral infection, bacterial infection, malnutrition, immune disorder, stress, trauma, generic factors, hormonal imbalance and other systemic diseases. It is therefore probable that the accumulated fatigue during summer might be one of the causative factors of common mou

LONDON (AP) ― Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.Only about 1 in 1,000 pregnant women face this dilemma, but doctors fear that more will because the risk of cancer rises with age, and more women are delaying having children until they’re older.Doctors have long worried about how to

Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung was named goodwill ambassador for the Yeosu Expo which kicks off May 12.The expo organizing committee said Wednesday that it handed a plaque of entrustment to Park in the football team’s press room along with expo volunteer t-shirts and mascot dolls. A promotional video of Park will soon be disclosed on the expo website at www.expo2012.kr.“I will do my best to promote the expo so people from around the world can come,” Park said, promising to visit the e