NEW YORK (AP) -- Designers Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli are leaving Calvin Klein as part of what the company describes as a global creative strategy to unify all of its brands under one vision. 　Costa has been at the New York fashion house for more than a decade and became the women's creative director in 2003. Zucchelli became the men’s creative director a year later.　In a company release Tuesday, Calvin Klein, owned by PVH Corp., said the new strategy “comes as part of a global revoluti

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish author David Lagercrantz, who took over the Millennium crime series from the late Stieg Larsson, said the fifth book will be written in a straight-talking style popularized by Raymond Chandler.　But in an interview with the Swedish daily newspaper DN published Tuesday, Lagercrantz admitted that finding his voice in this new style was tough.　“It's so much harder to write hard-boiled fiction than I thought. Good hard-boiled prose needs rhythm. You have to vary the sentence

Chung-Ang University professor David Mason will be giving a talk on the ninth-century scholar, writer and spiritual sage Choi Chi-won.Choi served as a successful government official in both Tang China and Korea, but spent his later years in effective internal exile in Korea, during which he practiced Daoism and lived in great Buddhist temples, recording their histories. According to Mason, who has recently completed a book on the scholar, Choi exemplifies the tragic spirit of the Unified Shilla

Seoul Global Center is offering psychological counseling on a weekly basis to expats suffering from social conflicts and stress.The counseling, available in English and Korean, is available on Thursday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon. It is provided by a member of the Korea Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Up to six 60-minute sessions will be available per person to discuss social conflicts, problems with work-life balance and similar issues.Michelle Kang from the Seoul Global Center

PARIS (AFP) - Two nights after the Paris attacks in November, a young couple stripped to their waists and kissed in the rain on the Place de la Republique as crowds gathered to grieve and share their shock at the killings.　She was French and he Syrian, and the photo of them holding a handwritten placard saying “Love will always win” went viral.　“I knew it was bad when my friends began calling me from Syria asking if I was OK,” said artist Hamid Sulaiman, of the jihadist attacks in which 130 peop