The Royal Asiatic Society will host a talk Tuesday on the Korean War, its outcome and legacy.Titled “The Korean War: Who Won? Who Lost? Who Cares?” the talk will be given by Andrew Salmon, a local journalist and author of two award-winning books on the conflict.In the first half of his presentation, Salmon will sketch out the progress of the war itself and the extensive suffering involved, and explain why it is known as “The Forgotten War.”In the second half, he will discuss the question of who

Yeoksam Global Village Center will offer free advice sessions on Jan. 17 for expats with tax issues.It is a key month for tax affairs as individual income tax returns are drawn up at the beginning of the year. Appointments, which take place on the fifth floor of the Yeoksam 1 Culture Center, are available from 10 a.m. to noon. To book one, contact yeoksam@gangnam.go.kr with your name, nationality, mobile phone number, preferred time and a brief description of your problem.The center can be reach

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A massive geodesic dome with 61 glass eyes is coming to Arkansas‘ Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.　  The structure, called Fly’s Eye Dome, was designed by the late Buckminster Fuller, who was known for his futuristic inventions and who hoped it would revolutionize housing. Museum curators say Fuller was inspired to design the dome after looking at a photo of a fly‘s eye.  　  The dome will join a 1950s home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that became part of the mu

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany (AP) -- It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German monastery’s nuns for more than five centuries, she immediately knew she was looking at a major treasure.The dusty shelves held at least 500 books, by her estimate, including precious illuminated manuscripts from the 16th century, chants used by the uniquely women-led Bridgettine Order and processional

BOSTON (AP) -- Fake news, quadricentennial edition: America‘s early settlers were all pious. The native people were savages. Freedom and liberty were available to all from Day One.As the US gears up to mark the 400th anniversary of its roots as a nation, leading scholars from around the globe are teaming up to dispel myths and challenge long-held assumptions about how the country was settled.Their group, New England Beginnings, is using phone apps and searchable online archives to help set the r