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Coffee linked with lower depression risk in women

HealthSept 27, 2011
Blowing the cobwebs off Korean heritage

CultureSept 26, 2011

Korea’s history offers it all ― kingdoms rise and fall, wars smolder and blaze, religions wax and wane, orthodoxies are established and questioned. Across this colorful tapestry royals strut, heroes ride, rebels plot and villains scuttle.Why then, is English language presentation of so many traditio
October festivals seek to draw tourists

TravelSept 26, 2011

The Visit Korea Committee will host a series of festivals across the country starting next month to attract more foreign tourists, the committee announced on Monday.Things will kick of with “Hallyu Dream Festival” (www.hallyudreamfestival.or.kr), which is scheduled from Oct. 1-3 in Gyeongju, North G
Yacht world seduces China, Brazil’s rich

TravelSept 26, 2011

MONACO (AFP) ― Russian oligarchs and their floating palaces helped keep the luxury yachting industry buoyant through the crisis, but super-rich buyers from China and Brazil are rushing to join them on the waves.Emerging market billionaires are showing a keen interest in superyachts, according to pun
Italian designers opt for ladylike chic

FashionSept 26, 2011

MILAN (AP) ― Midway through the current women’s wear fashion week for the Spring-Summer 2012, it is clear that designers are thinking ladylike, not sporty.There are few trousers in the collections, and when they show up they are slim and proper. Short shorts do have a prominent place on the runway,
Cliffhanger! Lion cub saved by mum

CultureSept 26, 2011

(Captured from the Daily Mail homepage)Clinging on for dear life to the side of a vertical cliff, the tiny lion cub cries out pitifully for help. His mother arrives at the edge of the precipice with three other lionesses and a male. The females start to clamber down together but turn back daunted by
Man with broken leg survives 4 days in Utah desert

TravelSept 26, 2011

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ A North Carolina man crawled four days across the Utah desert after breaking his leg on a solo hike, inspired by a Hollywood movie about a man who cut off his own arm to save himself after being trapped by a boulder in the same canyon.Amos Wayne Richards, 64, of Concord, North
Doctor in Brazil sends patient to morgue a bit too soon

HealthSept 26, 2011

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - A Brazilian woman in her 60s being treated in hospital for pneumonia was given up for dead by her attending physician, and sent to the morgue too soon, O Globo newspaper reported Sunday.The doctor felt no vital signs, ran tests and pronounced her dead. She was sent to the morg
Rev. Moon Ik-hwan’s wife dies

PeopleSept 25, 2011

Late Rev. Moon Ik-hwan’s wife Park Yong-gil died on Sunday of a chronic illness. She was 93. Born in Suan-gun in Hwanghae Province, Park from a theological school in Yokohama, Japan. She married Rev. Moon in 1994 and with her husband suppoted in the pro-democracy movement. Park Yong-gilShe cal
Author of legendary English textbook dies

PeopleSept 25, 2011

Song Sung-moon, the author of the Sung Moon Comprehensive English Grammar book, so called “the bible of English grammar,” died from liver cancer last Thursday (Sept. 22) at the age of 80. The book has been a steady seller since it was published in 1967 and sold over 10 million copies in over 40 year
Yeonhui-dong, next hip artists’ hang-out?

Food&BeverageSept 23, 2011

Old residential neighborhood morphing into bohemian cafe streetA brief taxi trip away from college hub Hongdae stands its significantly more serene cousin, Yeonhui-dong.Just a decade ago, the place was a quiet residential area. Then, coffee shops started springing up. The pace quickened about a year
JW Marriott Seoul promotes pine mushroom

TravelSept 23, 2011

The hotel’s Japanese restaurant Mikado will offer an eight-course Japanese meal featuring pine mushroom, which will be immersed in seafood soup, grilled with prime beef, deep fried with vegetables, and cooked as the main ingredient in rice. The course menu also features seasonal delicacies, five kin
Korail opens Jeolla KTX route

TravelSept 23, 2011

Korail will open a KTX route between Seoul and Yeosu in South Jeolla Province on Oct. 5. , It will then take up to three hours and 45 minutes to travel from Yongsan Station to Yeosu Expo Station, significantly less than the five hours and 18 minutes on the existing Saemaeul train, Korail said. The f
Millennium Seoul Hilton offers Indian flavor

TravelSept 23, 2011

The hotel’s buffet restaurant, Orangerie, will feature Indian cuisine to spice up its popular buffet in October. Chef Sanjay Tyagi from the famous Umerkot Indian Fine Dining Restaurant in Bangalore will serve a variety of 20 hot and cold dishes that showcase Indian cuisine. The essence of good India
Finnair to pick seven bloggers

TravelSept 23, 2011

Finnair and Helsinki Airport will jointly seek seven “Quality Hunter” bloggers until Oct. 5 to check the services of the two companies and upload reviews on their blogs and www.qualityhunters2.com. The seven bloggers will be able to travel Asia, Europe and the U.S. for seven weeks from October to De