Park Hae-jin, star of the popular Korean TV series “Cheese in the Trap,” will have a fan meeting in Taiwan in June, the event's publicist said Thursday.　The event will take place at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei on June 9, HNS HQ said.　The 32-year-old actor rose to stardom in the wider China region after SBS’s “My Love from the Star” became a huge sensation in Asia in 2014. He played the stoic college senior Yoo Jung on “Cheese in the Trap,” which aired on Korean cable TV

ST. ALBANS, United Kingdom (AFP) - Once a daily sight on every British street, a dwindling but resilient band of milkmen still go out at the crack of dawn to deliver bottles of fresh milk to the nation's doorsteps.　The overwhelming majority of milk used to be sold at the front door until the supermarket revolution all but wiped out this very British institution.　But by selling more than milk and embracing the Internet, the few thousand remaining milkmen, including Neil Garner, have breathed new

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new study of literary publications finds that men remain the majority of book reviewers and authors reviewed, but the gap is narrowing.　VIDA, otherwise known as Women in Literary Arts, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the New Republic and Harper's were among those showing notable increases in the representation of women in their book coverage. VIDA chair Amy King said the report showed some “upticks worth noting,” but also cautioned against possible backlash that “h

PARIS (AFP) -- Former fashion mogul Pierre Berge lashed out Wednesday at designers creating Islamic clothing and headscarves, accusing them of taking part in the “enslavement of women.”　The French businessman, partner of the late fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, took aim at the wave of big fashion chains that have followed the Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana in catering specifically to the Muslim market. 　“I am scandalized,” he told Europe 1 French radio.　“Creators should have nothing to do

NEW YORK (AFP) - A US startup says it has created the world's first “smart” bottle which can keep wine as fresh as the day it was uncorked for up to a month.　The Boston-based Kuvee company said in a statement that the industry “has been slow to innovate beyond the glass bottle and cork.”　Kuvee’s specially designed bottle with its intricate valve system “prevents oxygen from touching the wine, so wine stays fresh for up to 30 days after opening,” said company founder and CEO Vijay Manwani, in a p

History writer and journalist Andrew Salmon will run a tour to one of the Korean War’s most notorious battlefields next week under a Royal Asiatic Society tour.Salmon will guide the group around the hills that surround the Imjingang River, where the British Gloucester Regiment was wiped out holding back a Chinese assault.The attack was part of the largest communist offensive of the war, and though the Glosters were eventually overrun, their actions blunted the assault sufficiently for U.N. force

Busan Foundation for International Activities is seeking participants for its Global Flea Market on May 21.The event is part of the Busan Global Gathering, an annual outdoor festival that attracts scores of expat and multicultural organizations each year.This year, the gathering is being held in line with Together Day on May 20, a nationwide event to promote multiculturalism run by the Justice Ministry.The global flea market will be held at Dasom Madang in Busan Citizen’s Park, near Bujeon Stati

The Gwangju Interntaional Center will conduct a tour to Buan in North Jeolla Province on April 23.The trip to the coastal area will make its first stop at Chaeseokgang, a group of stratified cliffs that gets its name from its resemblance to a place from Chinese legend.After stopping for lunch -- mussel porridge and spicy seafood stew – the group will head to Naesosa Temple, which has been around since the seventh century. It is famous for its Goryeo-era bell and its central building that has int

Seoul Global Center will offer an onsite counseling session to advise expats in the Daehangno area Sunday.Advisers will offer consultations on legal, labor and immigration issues, among others, in front of the Catholic Youth Center near Hyehwa Station Exit 1. The center is close to the Filipino Market that runs on Sundays.The consultations will be available in English, Filipino, Mongolian and Thai. The session will run from noon to 4 p.m. For more information, contact (02) 2075-4136. (paulkerry@

NEW YORK (AP) -- The author of the best-selling novel "Luckiest Girl Alive" posted an essay online Tuesday saying that the gang rape in high school her character suffered was based on an assault in her own life.　Jessica Knoll, writing on a website for young women that's co-managed by Lena Dunham, said that since the book came out last year she has deflected questions about similarities between herself and the protagonist, TifAni. 　"I’ve been running and I've been ducking and I’ve been dodging be