Economics professor Ahn Kook-shin has been appointed president of Chung-Ang University.The university said Thursday that its board named 64-year-old Ahn as its 13th president as the incumbent President Park Bum-hoon offered to resign. Ahn Kook-shinAhn graduated with a major in economics from Seoul National University in 1969 and earned a doctoral degree in economics from University of Minnesota in

Vice chairman of the Korea Audit Bureau of Circulations Kim Young-il has become the bureau’s chairman.The bureau promoted 71-year-old Kim to chairman at its board meeting at Korea Press Center, Thursday. Kim Young-ilKim is a graduate from College of Business and Economics at Yonsei University, who worked as a Washington correspondent of the now defunct Hapdong News Agency. His career includes exec

Michael Jackson has reportedly earned an estimated $310 million since his death, but died $400 million in debt, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram.According to the report, the late King of Pop’s “lavish spending habits still haunt his legacy and have required lawyers to create new deals and restructure old debts.”  Michael JacksonAccording to documents filed Thursday by Jackson’s estate, t

Windsor plans to hold his first exhibition on his new home in JulyThere is an old tale about the “Hallasan-shin,” the spirits of Jeju Island’s Mount Halla, but world-renowned American artist Windsor Joe Innis didn’t believe it on one of his first trips to the island. “I was told that if you leave without paying tribute to the biggest spirit here, the Old Woman of the Mountain, she will chase you d

Kim Jae-cheul was re-elected president of Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. by its board of directors Wednesday.The Foundation for Broadcast Culture, which holds the majority stake in the television network, selected Kim at its board meeting held to screen presidential candidates. Kim Jae-cheulThe 58-year-old president-elect is expected to be determined as president at the shareholders’ meeting late this

Staff Sergeant Seo Jung-woo, who died in the North Korean shelling of Yeonpyeong island on Nov. 23, 2010, will become an honorary graduate from his alma mater, Dankook University.Its Cheonan campus in South Chungcheong Province said Tuesday that it would award an honorary diploma to Seo in acknowledgement of his patriotic death for the country. Seo Jung-wooThe letter of honorary diploma is to be d

Beginning Tuesday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s foundation sent letters to 250 cultural groups, inviting them to apply for some of the $32 million the charity plans to distribute to arts organizations over the next two years, The Wall Street Journal reported.“At Bloomberg Philanthropies, we see the arts as fundamental to New York City’s cultural and economic wellbeing,” the letter says. Mich

Tibetan Buddhist monk visits Korea for first time before three-year retreatDubbed the “world’s happiest man,” best-selling author and master Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was in Korea for the first time last weekend, offering his take on how to be happy.The Tibetan monk participated in a groundbreaking study of brain activity in 2002, where scientists found that advanced meditation incr

LONDON (AFP) ― Prince William has asked his brother Prince Harry to be his best man when he marries Kate Middleton on April 29, and she has asked her sister Philippa to be maid of honor, the palace said Monday.“Prince William has asked his brother, Prince Harry, to be his best man,” said a statement from St James’ Palace. Britain’s Princes William (left) and Harry at Royal Air Force Shawbury near

HANOI (AFP) ― The father of late pop icon Michael Jackson on Monday helped start work on a $2 billion hotel-entertainment complex called “Happyland,” billed by Vietnam as the region’s largest tourism project.Joe Jackson told Vietnamese television he has invested in a five-star hotel as part of a major development project in southern Long An province. Joe JacksonDuring a live broadcast of the groun

Former justice ministers of both Korea and Japan visited the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province on Sunday to solace the “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.Former Japanese Justice Minister Sugiura Seikan and former Korean Justice Minister Kim Sung-ho laid flowers in the memorial park at the house, then toured the education office

Campaigner says Seoul should utilize ethnic Koreans abroad as valuable assetsAt the height of the Korean-Japanese diplomatic normalization talks in mid-1960s, a 22-year-old man was ruffled by the government’s apathy toward securing legal status for Korean-Japanese living in Japan.“While the normalization talks were taking place behind the scenes, there was news about a number of Korean-Japanese be

Korean-Chinese establishes Saturday schools for children of immigrant womenAhn Shun-hua, a 46-year-old ethnic Korean from Harbin, China, is married to a Korean man. After her marriage, the couple was branded a “multicultural family,” and when they had kids they were “multicultural children,” ― but she prohibits her children from using the term.“My children are not multicultural kids, they are bicu