Expats are helping to sell Christmas cards and calendars to raise money for a local shelter for abandoned pets.The money raised will go to help Busan Abandoned Pet Sanctuary, which sells calendars every year, featuring pictures of current and former BAPS dogs. Among those selling calendars is Ashleigh Simons, who has helped out for just over six months at BAPS, a volunteer-funded private dog shelter. She got involved in volunteering there after adopting her first dog, and she has since adopted a

WEST BABYLON, New York (AP) ― Torah scroll fragments found amid a trove of more than 2,700 books and documents in the flooded Iraqi intelligence building basement have been buried in a religious ceremony at a suburban New York cemetery.“This project is somewhat reflective of the new Iraq,” said Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. “We are saying we would like to share and preserve the history and the heritage of the Jews, of the Christians, of the Muslims.”The artifacts were found in M

After a news report about a poor young couple caught stealing in a large store in order to feed their 3-year-old toddler and scrape a living, many people from all walks of life are sending donations. A 33-year-old husband and his 26-year-old wife, who have struggled to survive after losing their jobs and becoming credit delinquents, wrote letters of gratitude to their kind-hearted donors. They were booked without detention on Dec. 9 on charges of stealing a total of 3.5 million won worth of good

Singapore Airlines held a fashion show in Busan on Sunday to commemorate its non-scheduled flights from Busan to Singapore. The show was staged twice in the Gwangbok branch of Lotte Department Store, with a photo session in between. The air carrier has operated non-scheduled flights on the route every year since 2011. This year, it will operate a total of seven charter flights departing from Busan from Dec. 21 to Jan. 15.By Chun Sung-woo (swchun@heraldcorp.com)

Paul Chung has been appointed as the new head of the LG Arts Center as of Monday, the center announced Monday. The 48-year-old Chung is the arts center’s third director. The newly appointed head has been with LG Electronics since 1990, working his way up through the ranks as the former chief of the international public relations department as well as the LG brand management team. Chung received his undergraduate degree at Yonsei University in Seoul and his MBA at Lehigh University in Pennsylvani

Jang Beom-jun, leader of alternative band Busker Busker, will be getting married next year to actress Song Ji-su, according to an official statement released by Chungchun Music. The statement also revealed that the couple is expecting a child and will wed sometime this coming spring. The 24-year-old Jang originally intended to serve in the military starting next year but has decided to postpone his entry after hearing about his girlfriend’s pregnancy.Busker Busker’s agency went on to announce th

A group of Korean-Americans donated winter coats to those in need in Chicago on Sunday.The Korean American Friendship Network, which mostly consists of Korean-Americans living in Chicago, held a winter coat donation event in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a low-income community located in the southwest part of the city.The ceremony was attended by Chicago Mayor Rahn Emanuel, Korean consul-general in Chicago Kim Sang-il, and members of the Chicago City Council.The network has donated about 1

Aspiring diplomats who have passed a new candidacy test entered the Korea National Diplomatic Academy in Seoul on Monday. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and academy chancellor Yun Duk-min attended the entrance ceremony for the first class of 43 diplomatic candidates.After the ceremony, they went to Seoul National Cemetery to offer incense in front of Memorial Tower, then paid respects at the graveyard for diplomats killed in the Oct. 9, 1983, bombing in Rangoon, the capital of Burma. The candidat

Korean edition of Susan Ee’s fantasy novel ‘Angelfall’released

The online advertisement market outperformed that of traditional media such as newspapers, magazines and radio last year, becoming the second strongest platform for advertising following television. The global increase of internet users paints an even brighter future for the industry, which is showing incremental growth thanks to the diversification of platforms including new media, the Korea Creative Content Agency said Monday, releasing the latest statistics on the advertising market.  Accordi