BERLIN (AFP) ― Yoko Ono, the Japanese artist and widow of John Lennon, on Thursday won a prestigious German prize “for her lasting artistic and peace-promoting political work.” Receiving the prize near Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate watched by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Ono, 80, said: “This prize is a message to me from you that what I’ve been doing was understood by you.“Now is time for action and action is peace. Think peace, act peace, spread peace, and let’s make it all tog

WEST POINT, New York (AP) ― Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will receive the U.S. Military Academy’s annual Thayer Award on Thursday, joining other citizens whose service to the nation illustrates the academy’s motto of “Duty, Honor, Country.”The academy’s announcement of the award, named for former West Point Superintendent Col. Sylvanus Thayer, describes Albright as a leader on policy and international affairs.Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, was the first woman

From Sogeumgil to Gamcheon village, design revives culture, life in neighborhood

Design has long been seen largely as a matter of appearance, with public design being no exemption.The recent trend in public design, however, reflects a call for change among designers, says professor Ko Young-lan of Hansung University. “In a way, public design is an act of reflection by designers on what they have been doing. Instead of going top-down, asking the public to accept what we have designed, we are moving toward finding their needs and drawing out user-centered experiences,” said Ko

The number of endometriosis patients in Korea is growing fast, probably because of frequent intake of fast food and irregular life patterns, doctors said.The disease involves the presence and growth of functioning endometrial tissue in places other than the uterus, often resulting in severe pain and infertility. According to the Health Insurance and Assessment Service, the number of patients diagnosed with the disease and receiving treatment surged more than 50 percent from 53,000 in 2008 to 80,

Although the feet are only a small part of your body, they consist of 26 bones, including the phalanges, calcaneus and scaphoid. More than a hundred small muscles and ligaments form a complex network between these bones. The feet are responsible for the load of your body weight. Your feet are also responsible for making you move forward. The average 60-year- old has walked 160,000 kilometers during his or her lifetime, a distance equal to four times the circumference of the earth. Your feet also

INCHEON (Yonhap News) ― Ahead of her last professional event, South Korean LPGA golfer Grace Park said Thursday she is looking forward to sharing her final memories on the links with home fans.Park, whose Korean given name is Ji-eun, retired from the LPGA Tour in June of last year, but will briefly come out of retirement this week to play at the LPGA KEB·HanaBank Championship, which starts on Friday at the Sky72 Golf Club in Incheon, west of Seoul.At a press conference at the golf club, Park, a

Fashion trade show draws hundreds of buyers, designers and sellers

The Korea Tourism Organization will hold a charity bike ride next week to raise funds and awareness of the issues of orphans and sex-trafficking and to promote a newly opened bike path along the Han River. The KTO bike-a-thon festival will invite cyclists to the two-day event held from Oct. 26-27 along the Han River Ara Canal to participate in a 16-kilometer, 40-kilometer or 80-kilometer bike ride. The festival will also include entertainment activities such as water sports, a K-pop concert and

KLTI Korea-Dalkey Archive Press joint project includes work from contemporary, colonial and post-colonial periods

Why was Marie Colvin, who became one of Britain’s most celebrated war correspondents, in Homs, Syria, in February 2012? One thing’s for sure: She had not been invited. After the Syrian government closed its borders to journalists, intrepid reporters like Colvin and her colleague from Britain’s Sunday Times, photographer Paul Conroy, were forced to take extreme measures to cover the nation’s civil war.Colvin and Conroy’s epic journey from Beirut, involved minivans, pickup trucks, motorbikes, hear

The Edge of NormalBy Carla Norton(Minotaur)Carla Norton’s enthralling “The Edge of Normal,” about a young woman rebuilding her life after being held by a kidnapper for years, offers more than a ripped-from-the- headlines pastiche.This fiction debut delivers an emotional story of a woman fighting to regain her sense of self, to reach, at least, an edge of normal without falling. Reeve LeClaire, who was kidnaped when she was 12 and held for four years, doesn‘t want people to see her only as a vict

Quiet DellBy Jayne Anne Phillips (Scribner)Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in West Virginia hearing about the infamous Quiet Dell murders of 1931, real-life killings of a widow and her three children at the hands of a con man she met through a lonely hearts club.Phillips learned about the grisly case from an unlikely source: her mother, who remembered as a child walking past the “murder garage” where Asta Eicher and her children ― 14, 12 and 9 ― died, the road nearby lined with cars of souvenir-seek

InterContinental Seoul COEX appointed longtime hotelier Kim Yeon-sun as its first female general manager. The 52-year-old Kim also became the first female board member of Parnas Corp., which operates Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas and InterContinental Seoul COEX and Nine Tree Hotel Myeong-dong, the hotel said Wednesday. The veteran hotelier started her career at the front desk of Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in 1988 and worked her way up to guest relations manager in 1994, first fema