Veteran journalist says ‘Agent Orange is never justified, any way you use it’Larry King, who hosted the talk show “Larry King Live” on CNN for 25 years until December last year, said if he had the chance to interview any one person on the Korean peninsula, it would be the leader of North Korea.“It will be the head of North Korea. People who are perceived as evil by the world... They don’t think th

Skating champ glides through test of talent as host of SBS showFigure champion Kim Yu-na debuted as an MC at her own figure-skating show on Sunday. ‘Kiss and Cry,’ the show featuring Kim as the new MC, is the first figure-skating variety show aired in Korea. On the show, 10 celebrities pair up with professional skaters to compete and to be judged by Kim Yu-na on their figure-skating performance. T

Hackers use SNS as the first step to email, bank account accessDETROIT ― Pam Aughe is never going back.After a year of using Facebook sporadically to keep up with family and friends ― two or three times a week, she says ― her account was hijacked by a scammer seeking to bilk her friends out of money.According to the alarming counterfeit messages, Aughe, 41, of Clarkston was stuck in Scotland. Robb

MBC Sports Plus announcer Song Ji-seonSong Ji-seon, an MBC Sports Plus announcer, has jumped from the 19th floor of her apartment building in southern Seoul Monday afternoon, a few weeks after stirring controversy over a suicide note on her Twitter, news reports said.Local media outlet News En said on Monday she was pronounced dead by 119 rescue staff at the scene, after jumping from her apartment

Huh Young-man (64), a major South Korean cartoonist, has decided to donate his works to a cartoon museum in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. The cartoon museum within Korea Manhwa Contents Agency will now gain possession of 150,000 copies of Huh’s cartoons which are the products of 37 years of work. These account to about 1,000 separate cartoon pieces.  Huh Young-manThe works entrusted to the museum in

(Jang Sa-ik performs on the rooftop of hishouse in Hongji-dong against the backdrop of Mount Inwang.                                                                      Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald)　Jang Sa-ik has the look of an ordinary man. Ordinary enough to pass for one of the construction workers renovating his garden as The Korea Herald interviewed him Monday. 　But this unremarkable impre

A North Korean defector is to pursue studies to help his home country’s economic development with a scholarship in Britain this fall. Oh Se-hyuk, 34, is the first defector to be granted the U.K. government’s Chevening Scholarship, which he received on April 17.“I am planning to study development models for underdeveloped countries and will pursue study for unification, especially development of No

Lee Sang-mook, a professor at Seoul National University, has won 3.8 billion won ($3.47 million) in compensation from Ford for the 2006 car accident that left him paralyzed.Lee and a group of students were on a geological research trip to Death Valley, California, when his Ford overturned and the roof collapsed. The accident killed one of his students and left Lee paralyzed.  Lee Sang-mook, profes

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― He’s one of the most famous people on the planet, a two-term governor of California, a movie star and a former world champion bodybuilder with a profile so huge that just one name, Arnold, instantly identifies him to almost everyone.Yet somehow, for more than a decade, Arnold Schwarzenegger managed to keep an incredible secret from the public and his wife, prominent former TV jo

Pop singer outranks Oprah Winfrey to top Forbes celebrity power listFlamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga ousted U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey to top this year’s Forbes celebrity power list released on Wednesday.Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, moved up four positions from last year to claim the top spot in Forbes’ annual “The Celebrity 100” 2011 list that measures power by entertainment-re

Brazilian Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, poses for a photo in Carangola, in Brazil's Minas Gerais state. Gomes Valentim is the world's oldest living human, Guinness World Records said Wednesday. (AP-Yonhap News/Guinness World Records)RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - A Brazilian woman has elbowed out an elderly American as the oldest person in the world, the Guinness organization said Wednesday.Maria Gomes Valen

Real estate mogul to stick with hosting his reality TV showNEW YORK (AP) ― Donald Trump said Monday he won’t run for president, choosing to stick with hosting his reality TV show over a bid for the Republican nomination for next year’s election.The real estate mogul made his announcement at a Manhattan hotel as NBC, which airs his show, “The Celebrity Apprentice,’’ rolled out its autumn lineup.“I

The audience held its breath as a woman in a tight mini dress sang “All That Jazz.” The song from the musical “Chicago” was picked by the woman herself for the opening of her show “This is Kolleen”. Kolleen Park’s sellout show marked the opening of the Seoul Jazz Festival 2011, held in Seoul’s most prestigious art center. Kolleen Park. (Yonhap News)The 44-year-old’s colorful two-hour performance o

Richard Perea, president of Times Aerospace Korea and Washington Times Aviation USA, hurried to Seoul last week in connection with a legal dispute involving his company.“I received word that throughout the Korean media, articles were published claiming that Moon Hyun-jin was suing his mother,” Perea said in an interview. “The case referred to is a lawsuit that Washington Times Aviation USA had fil

RALEIGH (AP) ― Evangelist Billy Graham was alert and resting comfortably Wednesday evening after being admitted to a hospital for the treatment of pneumonia, doctors said.The 92-year-old Graham arrived Wednesday morning at Mission Hospital after he suffered a health episode overnight that included sweating, coughing and breathing difficulty, Graham spokesman A. Larry Ross told The Associated Press