WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Oscar-winning Hollywood mega-star Angelina Jolie says she’s lucky to have survived her younger days when she dabbled in “dangerous” things, but says there’s a part of her that is still a “bad girl.”“I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. I didn’t die young,” the 36-year-old actress told CBS in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday.“So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things ... people can imagine that I did the

MIAMI ― Baby boomer women might not want to wear their daughters’ jeans and men may refuse to don muscle shirts, but the generation that brought us tie-dye still wants to remain fashionable and hip well into middle age.How to monetize that desire is both a marketer’s conundrum and dream.“Even with mature figures, boomers want to have fashionable options,” says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director for The Doneger Group, an industry consultant. “That doesn’t stop just because you hit a certain age.

As controversy grows over which government ministry should manage the promotion of Korean culture overseas, scholars have come together to seek a solution to the issue. During a policy debate session this week, experts agreed that the job should not fall on just one ministry or government agency, but a network of organizations with different functions. “The role should not fall on one ministry, but the whole government,” professor Lee Joon-hyung of Hanyang University said during the “Internation

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - A Copenhagen hotel will continue reserving a whole floor for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, the hotel director said Tuesday.Last May, the Bella Sky Hotel in central Copenhagen opened a floor dubbed the Bella Donna with 20

WASHINGTON, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday.The randomized study, described as "one of the first to quantify BPA levels

PARIS, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean-born French scholar who contributed to the return of Korea's ancient royal books from France died at a Paris hospital on Tuesday. She was 83.Park Byeng-sen, a Korean historian who studied in France, had been receiving hospital treatment after undergoing surg

Seorae Global Center is putting on cooking classes for those who want to broaden their kitchen skills. There will be a class on making a Korean dish called “saengchae” at 1:30 p.m. on Monday run by the Institute of Korean Traditional Food. Another class on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. will teach people how to cook a Moroccan tagine made with chicken and dried apricots, and at 1 p.m. on Dec. 2 a class will show how to make Sri Lankan potato puffs and coconut pancakes.The Korean class is free, but the Morocca

Free pansori storytelling performances are being held on Mondays at Seoul Global Culture and Tourism Center until Dec.12Pansori ― a musical genre in which a story is sung with percussion backing ― will be sung in Korean but an English narration will be provided. Actors will help bring the performances to life.The performances tell two stories alternating each week. Monday’s performance will tell the story of Heungbu and Nov. 29 will tell the tale of Chunhyang. The tale of Heungbu is about two br

Seoul International Women’s Association is holding a women’s networking session on Nov. 30. The Working Women’s Network will meet for drinks and dinner at Kyotofu in Hannam-dong starting 7 p.m. Dinner starts at 8 p.m.All participants pay for their own dinner and drinks, and there is a 10,000 won participation fee for non-SIWA members.To attend the women-only event, email workingwomensnetwork@siwapage.com by Nov. 29.(paulkerry@heraldm.com)