South Gyeongsang Gov. Hong Joon-pyo met with Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti and exchanged certificates of economic cooperation in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Hong asked Garcetti to cooperate in South Gyeongsang’s bid to attract investment in one of its strategic projects to create a theme park, the provincial office said. Expecting brisk economic exchanges between the province and Los Angeles, the city with the largest population of Korean-Americans in the United States, the governor promised to

PARIS (AP) ― Karl Lagerfeld is a man of many talents. In addition to Chanel’s lauded designer, he also is an industrious artist, a sensitive colorist and a gallery curator. These were the hats he wore Tuesday at Chanel’s glorious spring-summer 2014 show, one of the biggest at Paris Fashion Week.With a snap of his black-gloved finger and the backing of a Chanel-sized budget, curator Lagerfeld transformed the vast interior of Paris’ Grand Palais into his very own gallery space.“It’s like the days

The Suwon Diocese of the Catholic Church in South Korea will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its foundation on Friday.The upcoming ceremony and commemoration mass will commence at 10 a.m. at Suwon World Cup Stadium, about 45 kilometers from Seoul.Some 45,000 members of the diocese are expected to participate in the ceremony to be held under the theme “To the Land of Hope, to the Gospel.”  The ceremony will host top-ranking church individuals including current Apostolic Nuncio to Korea Archbish

South Korean women are more dissatisfied with their marriages than men, a study showed on Wednesday.In a survey of 956 men and women by the Planned Population Federation of Korea, only 19.4 percent of female respondents said they would marry their current spouses if they were given a chance to live a second life. For male participants, the figure was higher at 45 percent, suggesting that more women have a negative view of their spouses. On the other hand, only 18.9 percent of women answered that

Hundreds of students gathered at the University of Seoul on Saturday for the annual International Students’ Cultural and Sports Festival.The festival, organized by Korea International Students’ Support Association and Grand Korea Leisure, saw students from universities across the country compete in soccer, basketball, dodgeball and cricket.The soccer tournament was won by the Camasko Lions, competing in the festival for the second year. The team edged out former champion and last year’s runner-u

Kenyans living in South Korea gathered at the Bethany Methodist Church in Seoul on Saturday to mourn the 72 people killed in the Westgate shopping center terrorist attack in Nairobi.About three dozen people gathered at the church to honor the victims of the attack, many from countries in Europe and Asia, and to support one another here, said Christine Kathurima-Lee, vice chair of the Kenyan Community in Korea, a Seoul-based expatriate group.The KCK organized the prayer meeting. An estimated 400