Booyoung Group Chairman Lee Joong-keun has pledged to make a donation for the construction of a social contribution center on Seoul National University campus, the university said Wednesday.The 10 billion won in construction costs will be fully covered by the donation, and the university has decided to name the building the Woojung Global Social Contribution Center after Lee’s pen name, Woojung.Th

Kim Hae-sung, president of Global Sarang, a support group for foreign migrant workers, has founded an elementary school for children from multicultural families. The school in Oryu-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul held its initial entrance ceremony Wednesday, with about 60 students, children and teachers attending.It has a six-story 2,400-square-meter building with 17 rooms which consist of general classrooms

N.K. defector says protecting ‘Dear Leader’ meant imprisonment in a gilded jailSAGOKRI, South Korea ― Lee Young-guk is a struggling duck breeder in muddy work clothes, shepherding 10,000 feathered wards at his rural family-owned spread near the North Korean border.For the taciturn 50-year-old, his omnipresent baseball cap worn low over watchful eyes, common farm life is a distant second act to the

PALO ALTO, California ― Over hundreds of years, and thousands of miles, a collection of rare historic books now on display at America’s Stanford University bristles with an excitement as fresh as yesterday.The collection, “The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries,” offers a glimpse of trans-Atlantic intellectual debates triggered by the discovery of the New Worl

NEW YORK (AP) ― In the two decades since its launch, Allure magazine has tracked an evolution of the American definition of beauty. Surprisingly ― although it really shouldn’t be considering the changing collective face of the country ― is that the public is more accepting of a variety of ideals.There is not the blond bombshell mold that everyone has to fit in to be considered attractive, either b

The Korean food chain industry is quickly expanding overseas on the back of growing global interest in Korean food in recent years.Korean restaurant chains, however, should realize that there are only two markets in the world to which they can successfully take Korean cuisine without much alternation, a U.S. hospitality consultant has said.“I’ve met many Korean government officials and I have advi

PARIS (AP) _ John Galliano, long a top fashion-world provocateur on and off the runway, went too far this time.The storied French label Christian Dior said Tuesday it was firing the zany British bad boy after video showing him spouting ``I love Hitler'' in a drunken rant went viral online _ sending shock waves through the start of Paris Fashion Week. John Galliano arrives at the police station in

This is a series introducing associations and clubs for expats. This week, Expat Living spoke to Michiel De Jongh of the Dutch Business Club Korea ― Ed.Name of Club: Dutch Business Club Korea Location: SeoulNumber of members: 70 Started: 1989Who is it for? The DBCK is open to Dutch professionals as well as other nationals, including Koreans, working for Dutch companies or joint ventures. We have a

Mothers may be more likely to pass down Alzheimer’s disease to their children than fathers, a finding that may help identify patients earlier, researchers from the University of Kansas School of Medicine said. Healthy older adults with no cognitive problems whose mothers had Alzheimer’s disease had more brain shrinkage than those who had a father or no parent with the disease, according to researc

Herald Media has appointed Yoo Byung-chang, former president of POSCO ICT, as its chief executive officer and publisher. Yoo, 61, succeeds Park Haeng-hwan, who is retiring after three years in the post. Yoo will take office on March 2 as CEO and publisher of Herald Media, which publishes The Korea Herald, The Herald Business, The Junior Herald and The Campus Herald.  Yoo Byung-changThe new CEO has