Tteokguk is a soup made of diagonally sliced rice cakes simmered in beef broth, garnished with pressed meat, and fried egg white and yolk strips. People enjoy tteokguk made with sliced garaetteok on the first day of the year. Garaetteok is a rice cake that is pulled into a long rod. It is eaten in hopes of expanding one’s property.Ingredients ● 600g white rice cake● 300g beef (brisket or shank), 8 cups water ● fragrant seasoning: 20g green onion, 10g garlic ● seasoning sauce: 3g clear soy sauce,

Coffee has long become a fixture of Korean food culture. It seems impossible, in fact, to walk one block down a street in Seoul without encountering a coffee shop. While the primary purveyors of the cafe experience are major franchises and chains, a growing number of specialty cafes have been steadily carving out a market for themselves. Hand-dripped, cold brewed, roasted in-house; a coffee aficionado can indulge in many a caffeinated fantasy in this metropolitan hub. The options are endless, an

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks while meeting FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his European counterpart Michel Platini in Saint-Petersburg, on January 19, 2012. Putin, Blatter and Platini joined today in the celebrations to mark the centenary of the Russian Football Union (RFU) in Saint

Steve Chen, one of three founders of YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing website, secretly got married to a Korean woman in 2009, according to reports.Chosun Ilbo, one of major dailies here, reported that the internet entrepreneur is married to a former Google Korea marketing manager Park Ji-hyun, now known as Jamie Chen in the United States. Reports say that the two met when Chen visited Korea in early 2008 to promote YouTube here. Chen fell in love with Park at first sight during a part

Chung Hyung-min, director of the Seoul National University Museum of Art, was named the new chief of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Culture Ministry said Thursday. Chung, 61, will hold the post for two years. After receiving a Ph.D in art history at Columbia University, Chung has held a variety of posts that helped her secure the knowledge and experience necessary as director of the national art museum, the ministry release said.Chung has been teaching art at Seoul National Univers

GENEVA (AFP) ― Geneva once condemned Jean-Jacques Rousseau and burned his books, but is now preparing to celebrate his birth 300 years ago with pomp.The Swiss city has declared him one of its greatest citizens and a key figure of the Enlightenment.The official launch of the 300th anniversary entitled “2012 Rousseau for All” on January 19 will inaugurate an ambitious year-long programme.It will illustrate the writer’s many facets as a philosopher, thinker, teacher, musician and herbalist, who wro

Conductor Gum Nanse hints at creation of new music festival in Manhattan“There is no musician like me in Korea,” claimed conductor Gum Nanse.“Musicians rarely think about what they could do for society. They are obsessed about becoming a professor or conducting a big-name orchestra. But those are not my goals. I am special because I am always up to a new challenge. I created things from nothing,” Gum told The Korea Herald on Wednesday. Gum is currently the CEO and Artistic Director of the Euro-A

CHICAGO (AP) ― America’s obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course. More than one-third of adults and almost 17 percent of children were obese in 2009-2010, echoing results since 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.“It’s good that we didn’t see increases. On the other hand, we didn’t see any decreases in any group,” said CDC researcher Cynthia Ogden.Early in the decade, slight increases w

NEW YORK (AP) ― It’s dramatic news when a marathon runner collapses with no pulse. Now a big study finds such calamities are rare and usually due to a pre-existing heart problem.The study also found such incidents are increasing as more runners try to go the distance.“You hear about this more and more,” said Dr. Aaron Baggish, senior author of the study.Baggish, who runs a program for athletes with heart issues at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-authors present their analysis in Thursday’

Case vignette: “When returning home, I suddenly had a cold sweat, felt dizzy, felt my heart tighten and felt like I could die. Also, I felt like I had difficulty breathing. Also, I not only had numbness in my hands and feet but also felt my heart beating. This was intolerable. I was very nervous that such things would happen again.” An office worker, Mr. K, experienced a sudden onset of the above symptoms. Now he is worried that he will again have a sudden onset of panic symptoms that are both f

Strokes remain one of the biggest causes of death in Korea, and signs of onset are vagueAs Korea continues to become an aging society, more attention should be placed on the possibility of and risk factors leading to strokes, since they are more common among the elderly.According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, cerebral diseases were the No. 2 cause of death among Koreans in 2008, with 73.6 deaths per 100,000 people. Among cerebral diseases, strokes are the single largest cause of death,

At least 45,000 Chinese travelers are expected to flock to Korea during the neighboring state’s biggest holiday beginning over the weekend, according to Korea’s tourism agency.An average of 800 million Chinese people travel abroad or visit local regions during the country’s Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on Jan. 22-28 this year.Expecting the number of Chinese visitors to increase by about 35 percent from the previous year, the Korea Tourism Organization has been preparing events for the lar