A McDonald‘s Cheeseburger Happy Meal with the new apple slices option is shown on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 in Pittsburgh. McDonald’s Corp. says it is adding apple slices to every Happy Meal, part of the chain‘s larger push to paint itself as a healthy place to eat. (AP-Yonhap News)McDonald’s plans to include fruit and vegetables in its children’s meal sets in response to growing health concerns rela

 HAVANA (AFP) ― Perched on a wooden dais in front of 600 workers rolling Cuba’s legendary cigars, Grisel reads aloud ― poems, novels and even sex tips from the newspaper ― keeping workers entertained, their attention rapt, just the way it has been done for 150 years.Grisel, 55, a petite former teacher who wears reading glasses she adjusts frequently, may have a job that predates electricity. Cuban

 A new U.S. study has revealed that 48 percent of men would leave their partners if they gained too much weight, the Daily Mail reported.On the contrary, only 20 percent of women would stop dating a guy who gains weight.The poll was conducted by AskMen.com and Cosmopolitan.com, involving 70,000 people across the U.S.According to the poll, a third of both men and women believed that the opposite se

The Unification Ministry named actor Jeong Jun-ho, movie director Kwak Kyoungtaek, singer Lee Seung-chul and actress Lee Yu-ri as its goodwillambassadors Monday.  Goodwill ambassadors of the Unification Ministry, actress Lee Yu-ri and actor Jeong Jun-ho and Unification Minister Hyun In-taek (middle), attend the launch ceremony of the ministry’s 2011 peace march event Tuesday. (Yonhap News)The mini

State-run broadcaster KBS said it has recruited Lee Chang-hoon, a disabled man with first-degree visual impairment, as a news anchor. Lee was selected from among 10 final candidates on Monday. A total of 523 people applied for the job. Lee Chang-hoonThe 25-year-old received high scores from all the judges during a news reading test, as he was able to quickly and precisely deliver news while his ha

2010 marked the third year since 2007 when the number of foreigners in South Korea broke the 1 million mark -- a remarkable string of firsts announced by the Korean government.In 2007, the Ministry of Justice issued a press release announcing “the generation of 1 million foreigners.” The number included all foreign nationals in Korea, including tourists. A 2009 release on a study the ministry did

A wedding shot from Romin Lee Johnson’s portfolio. (Romin Lee Johnson)Romin Lee Johnson has seen Korea’s wedding photography industry, and he doesn’t like it one bit.He says wedding photos shouldn’t be about staged poses and costume changes for hours on end, all happening days away from the ceremony. Now Johnson, who came with his family in December and has been shooting professionally for six yea

Foreign residents and visiting professors share insights on a range of issuesGot something to say? Gwangju International Center might be in touch.From journalism to jogging your memory, the GIC Talks is an eclectic series of lectures coming mostly from the foreign community. The talks started in 2003, and at the time there were less than 10 people coming. Things began to pick up when the organizer

There are no signs indicating that a three-story building in the fashionable Hongdae area in western Seoul is home to a busy tattoo parlor. After walking up three flights of stairs to Tattoo People, one is greeted only by a large, black door, and, before walking through it, is required to change into slippers and make as little noise as possible as not to disturb the artists who may be inking skin