Hot on the heels of U.S. comic Danny Cho’s stand up shows in Seoul and Busan, a group of overseas comics is due to play Korea next week. Dutch comedian Dider Chabi will host a show on July 8 and 9 as part of East Side Comedy’s Expat Stand Up World Tour.The show will be headlined by Jamaican Ian Edwards, supported by British comic Dharmander Singh and Nitin Mirani, who is based in the United Arab E

Korea proves discs aren’t just for dogs with first pro-standard courseFolks in summers past were happy to toss a disc across the beach on a sunny day. Then along came the more frenetic Frisbee sport, ultimate, which saw disc fanatics team up to compete in championships around the world. Now, disc golf is a more genteel craze steadily gliding its way across Korea. “One of the things that I really l

Korean education should pay more attention to Chinese students’ needs: LeeBEIJING ― Professor Lee Yu-seung arrived in Beijing in 2003, at the Korean department of Beijing International Studies University, where its Korean curriculum was officially launched as an undergraduate degree program the year before.“They needed a native Korean professor from Korea for the undergraduate degree program,” Lee

CHENNAI, India (AFP) -- Strong religious belief and spirituality coupled with sky-rocketing demand from fashion-conscious Western women has made India the world-leader in the hair extension trade.The South Asian country has long been the world’s biggest exporter of human hair and companies involved in the sector estimate that the business is now worth up to 8.5 billion rupees (nearly $200 million)

People attend a world record attempt at a photocall to highlight the release of the film "The Smurfs" in 3-D at the O2 Centre in london on the june 25, 2011. Simultaneous Smurf gatherings took place in 12 countries, all to be counted as part of a world record attempt which they broke. (AFP-Yonhap News)  (Xinhua-Yonhap News) (AFP-Yonhap News) <한글 기사> 4천여명 스머프날 기념 코스프레..기네스 경신지난 53년간 사랑을 받아온 만화 '개구쟁

Editor of 10 Magazine tells of how he’s embraced Korea’s many opportunitiesAs 2008 drew to a close and the world’s economies spiraled into the depths of recession, the already struggling media industry braced for the fallout. One American in South Korea, however, with no prior experience in the field, had spotted a gap in the market and decided to launch his own magazine. “It was a nightmare. 2008

NEW YORK (AP) ― The best way to celebrate Peter Falk’s life is to savor how Columbo, his signature character, fortified our lives.Thanks to Falk’s affectionately genuine portrayal, Lt. Columbo established himself for all time as a champion of any viewer who ever felt less than graceful, elegant or well-spoken.Falk died Thursday at age 83 in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home, according to a statement

A group of high school students has been making regular visits to North Korean defectors who are patients at the National Medical Center, and offering their friendship. The students of the N.K. Aid club of the Seoul Global High School come to the medical center once a week to talk to the defectors, who rarely have visitors as many of them left their families behind in the North.  Kim Seung-hyun, a

An American professor has brought the classical novels of the novelist Park Ji-won of the Joseon period onto the global stage by translating ten short stories into English.Emanuel Pastreich, who goes by the Korean name Lee Man-yeol, recently published two books in English with Seoul National University Press: “The Novels of Park Jiwon” and “The Observable Mundane, a study of Japanese Chinese novel

Press members from countries that joined South Korean forces during the Korean War (1950-1953) visited here last week to cover the nation’s economic and cultural growth so far. In commemoration of the 61st anniversary of the Korean War, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Korean Culture and Information Service invited nine journalists from six countries including U.K., U.S., Australia, I

GABORONE (AP) ― Michelle Obama wielded a brush Friday and helped paint a mural at a children’s HIV/AIDS clinic here as she opened the second leg of a weeklong visit to southern Africa.The disease is a major public health challenge in Botswana, a country as big as Texas with about 2 million people. That includes an estimated 300,000 HIV/AIDS carriers.The first lady has promoted health and wellness

The Naeroyfjord, a branch of the Sognefjord, is the narrowest and the most dramatic fjord in Europe and its landscape is included in the UNESCO'S World Heritage List. (Visitnorway.com)BERGEN ― Once in a while, you might wish you to be fully immersed in nature without a connection to the outside world. True moments between you and the great outdoors, after all, revive the strength lost in the daily

Poetry makes nothing happen.So said W.H. Auden.Who never lived in Chicago.Or knew Don Share. Share is the senior editor of Poetry magazine, the venerable Chicago-based literary institution. It turns 100 next year and has seen far more than nothing happen, particularly in the past decade. Share arrived at the magazine four years ago, hired away from Harvard University, where he was poetry editor of