Retired Lt. Gen. Chae Myung-shin, the first commander of South Korean forces in the Vietnam War, was buried Thursday alongside enlisted soldiers killed in the conflict.Chae died of chronic illness on Monday. He was 86.Before his death, he told his family that he wanted to be buried in a cemetery for rank and file soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. His funeral service was officiated by the Army chief of staff, and his ashes were laid to rest in Seoul National Cemetery.It is the first time in

Sarcoma is a type of cancer that arises from stem cells. It can develop from muscle, fat, nerve, vascular, cartilage or bone tissues. Sarcomas are broadly classified into soft-tissue sarcomas and osteosarcomas. Soft-tissue sarcomas can arise in any part of the body, but mainly the limbs and retroperitoneum, an area at the back of the abdominal cavity, while osteosarcomas are often found in the limbs. Soft-tissue sarcomas can be further divided into liposarcomas, rhabdomyosarcomas, neurofibrosarc

Kim Dong-young, a 22-year-old student, had been scratching his skin almost every day, particularly after showering. “I can’t help but scratch my skin to death because I feel itchy and stingy all over my body at the same time,” he said. “My skin then gets blood red and swollen. It looks so ugly.” Kim applied moisturizers for the last three months, thinking that the rash may have been caused by the dry weather. However, he learned from a dermatologist last week that the rash had nothing to do with

Korean-Chinese scholar Kim Hak-cheol (Jin Hezhe) arrived in Seoul in 2001 at age 28 without knowing much about the country.Now 41, Kim is an associate professor teaching Korean literature at Harbin Institute of Technology in Weihai, China. Kim, who worked as a journalist in China for seven years before studying comparative literature at Seoul National University, is a third-generation Korean-Chinese born in Yanbian, a Korean autonomous prefecture in Jilin Province, China. On Wednesday, Kim recei

MOSCOW (AFP) ― French luxury brand Louis Vuitton has been ordered to remove a giant trunk put up as a publicity stunt on Moscow’s iconic Red Square, an associated department store said Wednesday, after it triggered outrage among Russians.The boxy brown suitcase-shaped pavilion, covered with the brand’s signature “LV” stencilling was erected 10 days ago just outside GUM, a 19th-century upmarket department store across from the Kremlin that faces the square.But many tourists and ordinary Russians

The former manager of late actress Choi Jin-sil was found dead on Thursday morning in a motel room in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul. The body of the man identified only as Park was found by motel staff at 2 p.m. Wednesday after he failed to check out on time. He had checked in at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.No note was discovered at the scene, but empty boxes of tranquilizers and sleeping pills have led police to suspect suicide. The manager was the last person to be with the actress before she committed suicide

Back in Mike Tyson’s heyday, it was a badge of honor for many boxers to simply survive past the first round in the same ring as Tyson, the self-described “animal” and “monster” of American sports.But now I’ve got those palookas beat. I went the distance ― all 580 pages ― with Tyson’s violence-, drug- and sex-filled memoir, a masterpiece of depravity and confessional honesty titled “Undisputed Truth.”In 1986, at age 20, the New York City-born, onetime petty criminal became the youngest-ever heavy

Mister Max: The Book of Lost ThingsBy Cynthia Voigtillustrated by Iacapo Bruno (Knopf for Young Readers)Readers who wish their families were more interesting will be hooked, as I was, on Cynthia Voigt’s “Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things,” the first of a planned three-book series featuring an inventive and endearing boy named Max.Max’s parents are actors, and their lives are unpredictable. The drama only increases when the family gets an invitation to create a theater company for the maharajah

Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL FootballBy Nicholas Dawidoff(Little, Brown and Co.)First, to be fair: “Collision Low Crossers,” Nicholas Dawidoff’s chronicling of a season with the New York Jets, is excellent stuff. The author spent 2011 embedded with Rex Ryan’s team, and his doggedness and observational skills produce an insider’s look that brings to mind Roy Blount’s classic ode to the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers, “About Three Bricks Shy of a Load.”It’s good.Bette

The Pony Chung Foundation has awarded scholarships to 60 students at Vietnam National University, Hanoi and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh.　Chung Mong-gyu, chairman of the foundation, presented the scholarships to 30 students at the Hanoi campus on Wednesday and 30 at the Ho Chi Minh campus on Thursday.“I would like to introduce my late father’s pioneering spirit to Vietnam,” Chung said at the scholarship awarding ceremony.　The foundation has so far awarded scholarships to a total of 3

SYDNEY (AFP) ― Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber was told on Thursday to clean up his mess after the pop star was accused of spraying graffiti on the wall of an Australian hotel.Furious Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate said the Canadian had been disrespectful and “really, really silly,” and sent a graffiti removal kit to the exclusive QT Hotel on the Sunshine Coast so he could repair the damage.“If a normal person did that they’d be serving 80 to 100 hours of community service,” Tate told the Nine Network.