Six young Korean architects received awards for their work at a ceremony held at Dongdaemun History Culture Park in Seoul on Tuesday.The 2013 Young Architect Awards winners were Shin Hye-won, chief of lokaldesign; Cho Jang-hee, Won Yoo-min and Ahn Hyun-hee, co-chiefs of JYArchitects; and Kim Ju-kyung and Choi Kyo-shik of Owujae Architects. The prize winners, selected by the Korea Architects Institute, had been dedicated to redesigning neighborhoods or communal space into resident-friendly places

Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be visiting South Korea next week to attend an economic forum, the organizing think tank said Tuesday. The French economist is scheduled to appear at an economic forum to be hosted by the Institute for Global Economics on Oct. 30 and will give a speech on global economic trends and governance overall, the institute said. His visit to Seoul is only to attend the conference, and he will return to Paris as soon as the

A five-member family from Ulsan has crossed Eurasia by driving their minibus from Cape Ganjeol in the southeastern city to Europe’s westernmost point Cape Roca in Portugal. Choi Dong-ik, 51, his wife Park Mi-jin, 45, daughter Da-yoon, 19, son Jin-young, 17, and son Jin-woo, 16, arrived at Cabo da Roca or Cape Roca on Sunday, Yonhap News reported. Cape Roca is a well-known European tourist spot where the land ends and the sea begins.They departed from Cape Ganjeol on June 3, took a boat from Kore

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Bae Yong-joon, as known as “Yonsama” in Japan for his huge popularity among Korean drama fans, received the grand prize at the Korean Entertainment 10th Anniversary Awards in Japan on Saturday, his agency KEYEAST said Sunday. Bae also won the best actor award in the category of Korean drama. At the ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the airing of “Winter Sonata” ― a KBS TV show that fueled the “Bae Yong-joon syndrome” in Japan ― Bae expressed gratitude. “This is a meaningful event, being a

BELGRADE (AFP) ― Jovanka Broz, once a symbol of elegance as the wife of Yugoslav communist strongman Tito, lived the last three decades of her life as an outcast.For Broz, who died in Belgrade on Sunday aged 88, the glory days ended shortly before Josip Broz Tito’s death in 1980 when his allies accused her of plotting a coup.“They chased me out ... in my nightgown, without anything, not allowing me even to take a photo of the two of us, or a letter, a book,” Broz said in a rare interview in 2009

SYDNEY (AFP) ― The Sydney Opera House, world heritage-listed as “one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity,” celebrated its 40th birthday Sunday with a flotilla of lifesavers, Aboriginal dancers and a gigantic cupcake.Huge crowds packed the steps for a distinctively Australian performance on the glittering harborfront, where three generations of Danish architect Jorn Utzon’s family were the guests of honor.It was a postcard-perfect day beneath the same cloudless blue skies that in