K-pop group BTS, actor Lee Joon-gi and actress Yoona have been chosen as the most popular "hallyu" stars of 2017, a survey showed Tuesday.Soompi, a US-based online news provider specializing in Korean pop culture, announced the winners of the 13th annual Soompi Awards, who were selected in a vote by over 163 million hallyu fans from over 190 countries around the world. Hallyu refers to the global boom of Korean pop music, TV dramas and films. BTS (Big Hit Entertainment)BTS won awards in five cat

Students let creativity fly as school hosts region's only production of Disney show

A group of South Korean scientists have developed a deep learning system based on artificial intelligence that can precisely predict interactions between drugs, the government said Tuesday.According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, the team led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed the so-called deep drug-drug interactions technology, which can make it far easier to determine what kind of interaction will occur between various drugs.DDI is an impo

The Korea Herald interviewed Jane and Louise Wilson by e-mail. Following is an excerpt of the exchanges.The Korea Herald: What kind of project are you currently working on? Jane and Louise Wilson: We‘re here on Gapado Island to research a new photographic, film and sculpture project that will lead us to create a new installation and at the moment we have a working title “Undoings.” The work will inevitably represent an extension of our working practice already but we hope to eventually show the

Jeju injects 13.3 billion won into building economically sustainable infrastructure on Gapado

South Korea's internationally acclaimed writer Han Kang and media artist-film director Im Heung-soon will take part in the 2018 Carnegie International, the oldest North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the globe.The two Koreans are on the list of artists participating in the 57th edition of the biennale, announced by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh on Wednesday (local time)."Carnegie International proposed a collaboration between me and novelist Han Kang," Im told Yon

A growing number of Koreans in their 20s and 30s are turning their small studio apartments into cozy nooks. More people are sharing photos of their home interiors on social media platforms, showcasing carefully decorated rooms. A search of the hashtag “ja-chi-bang,” a Korean word for small studio apartments where people live alone, on Instagram found over 180,000 posts. Photos of carefully decorated studio apartments are uploaded on Instagram. (Instagram)The photos depict snug, warmly lit spaces

Comedian Yoo Jae-suk has extended a helping hand to former “comfort women,” donating 50 million won ($46,772) for the women sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II.Officials from House of Sharing, a shelter in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, for eight surviving former comfort women, said Sunday that Yoo wired the money to its account last week without alerting it. Yoo Jae-suk (Herald DB)Yoo has reportedly been donating money to the House of Sharing since 2014, with the total a

Over 100 figures in culture and entertainment sector, including prominent film director Park Chan-wook, had been unlawfully censored or penalized for publicly denouncing irregularities related to 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry.In a report issued on Friday, the government-civilian joint committee to investigate Park Geun-hye administration’s blacklist of cultural figures found that 116 of 1,302 artists and entertainers who publicly decried the Sewol tragedy were either excluded from state suppor

Open a bottle, pour the drink into a cup and decorate it with a scoop of ice cream. Videos featuring the three simple steps are now rocking the internet in Korea on the sidelines of current fad “small but certain happiness.”(Read the article:[Trending] #Small but certain happiness #小確幸)The videos are gaining popularity especially on Instagram, as many users share their own process of making a drink at home. Searching “Home cafe” on the social media platform brings up more than 547,000 posts. Mos

Time constraints and plethora of creative online content fuel drive to exercise at home

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Pang Eun-mi hopes to dispel longstanding prejudice against Korean mudang

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Just a few blocks off the busy streets near Gwanghwamun Plaza are clusters of Korean traditional houses -- or hanok -- that have stood the test of time in Seochon. Seochon, which means west village in Korean, is a collection of districts west of Gyeongbokgung, including Cheongun-dong, Hyoja-dong, Ogin-dong and Sajik-dong. People of varying classes resided in this area in the Joseon period, while, in the modern era, its residents included writers and artists.Today, it is also a popular tourist sp