The gold crown of Silla, excavated from the Cheonmachong, or “Heavenly Horse Tomb,” of the Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.― 935 A.D.), will make its first overseas trip in October. The National Treasure No. 188, currently kept at the Gyeongju National Museum, will be shown at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney as part of an upcoming exhibition on Korea’s metal crafts.Gold crown of Silla, excavated from the Ch

KEY WEST, Florida (AP) ― A white-bearded, 64-year-old Florida man has won the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition at a Florida Keys bar once frequented by the author.Matt Gineo of Jensen Beach, dressed in a wool fisherman’s sweater to emulate photographer Yousuf Karsh’s famous portrait of Hemingway, bested 120 other entrants after an unprecedented tie-breaker vote. It was Gineo’s 12th t

(MCT)A new study suggests the majority of overweight people rarely return to their former shape through dieting, the Daily Mail reported.The survey of 25,000 people by the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development further provided evidence of ‘yo-yo dieting,’ a phenomenon in which people are trapped in a cycle of losing weight and regaining it.According to the research,

One of Korea’s first Catholic missionaries dedicates life to people of Busan and peaceful reunificationBUSAN ― Hardship was something the young German knew well. Torn from his home near Munich and drafted into the German Army in World War II, he was launched into a violent life of combat. He was then captured and held as a prisoner of war in Yugoslavia for four years, the first two of which he des

PALM DESERT, California (AP) ― Linda Christian, the Hollywood starlet of the 1940s who married heartthrob Tyrone Power and went on to become the first Bond girl, has died.Her daughter, Romina Power, says Christian died Friday in Palm Desert after battling colon cancer. She was 87. A 1948 file photo shows actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. (AP-Yonhap N

Konkuk University President Kim Jin Q has been appointed president of Pacific States University in Los Angeles, an affiliate of South Korea’s Konkuk University. The inauguration ceremony took place last Friday on the Wilshire campus of the university in Korea Town in Los Angeles.  Kim Jin QThe Pacific States University, founded in 1928 as an independent private institution, specializes in the fiel

Kim Kyung-ho, a former executive director of the Asian Development Bank, has been recommended as CEO of the Korea Housing Finance Corp.Last Friday, the Financial Services Commission recommended Kim and Cheong Wa Dae is reviewing whether to appoint him to the post. Kim Kyung-hoThe 58-year-old candidate, a senior public official, had held key posts including spokesman for the Finance Ministry before

LONDON (AFP) ― Realist painter Lucian Freud, grandson of the inventor of modern psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and widely seen as Britain’s top contemporary artist, has died in London aged 88, his lawyer said.Freud was known for his signature nudes and self-portraits such as the powerful 1993 work of himself as a naked older man waving his brush like a weapon. A painting entitled “Self Portrait, Ref

 Corporate image ad campaign that posts short poems become cultural iconKyobo Life Insurance Co. billboards offering excerpts from poems, which has long been a familiar sight for Seoulites, made their international debut through the quarterly magazine Koreana.Koreana is a quarterly magazine published since 1987 in eight languages ― Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Ru

Going to a beach during summer vacation is almost a must, but there are a lot of things to pack for a perfect day on the beach. You may need beach towels, cool drinks and fruits in an ice box, plus books, perhaps toys for children, and maybe even nail care kits. Lotte Hotel Jeju said it has opened a private beach lounge on Jungmun Saekdal Beach, a 10-minute walk from the hotel, consisting of a boo

Before most people are awake, Pero Salva has baked a day’s worth of bread over an open fire, milked the cows, fed the chickens and used a broom made from twigs to sweep the dirt walkway in front of the house she shares with her husband and three children.As the roosters crow and a muezzin sings the Muslim call to prayer, we take our places for breakfast on the floor around a table fashioned from a