David Mason, a professor at the college of hotel and tourism management at Kyunghee University, was chosen as a goodwill ambassador for Baekdu-daegan, the Korea Forest Service announced Thursday.Baekdu-daegan is the longest mountain range in Korea, running through most of the Korean Peninsula. Mason is well known for many publications on Baekdu-daegan and other mountainous areas throughout the Kor

Korea’s biggest family buck the growing one-child national stereotypeAmid a backdrop of a looming demographic crisis in South Korea, due to one of the lowest birthrates in the world and an aging population, the country’s largest nuclear family ― with 13 children ― makes a welcome change. Attempts to boost the current rate of around 1 child per family have proved unsuccessful, with worries over cos

DALLAS, Texas (AFP) ― After spending more than 30 years in a Texas prison for a crime he did not commit, Cornelius Dupree Jr. became a free man when his conviction was overturned.Dupree, who was sentenced to 75 years for kidnapping, rape and robbery, had his conviction reversed in a Dallas courtroom Tuesday when State District Judge Don Adams declared him “free to go.”Dupree, 51, who had been rele

After wrapping up a hectic itinerary of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, all family members of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee got together at the Silla Hotel on Sunday.The event was to celebrate his 70th birthday. All his family members and some 130 senior executives of Samsung subsidiaries attended his birthday party. It is the first time for him to invite senior ex

Wang Shikuan, 76, takes his 100-year-old mother to the workplace on the far site of another village in Zaozhuang city, East China's Shandong province on August 4, 2010.[Photo/Zaozhuang dzwww.cn]Two brothers Wang Shikuan, 76, and Wang Shixi, 73, have been taking care of their 100-year-old mother for more than 30 years in Zaozhuang city, East China's Shandong province, dedicating their time to their

LOS ANGELES ― Elvin Flynn is a dying man, but no one here is about to deprive him of his chances to live. He lies in a hospital bed on the seventh floor of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a fungal infection threatening his central nervous system. He is already on a rigorous regimen of antibiotics. More surgery is an option but after three operations, he says he has had enough. There is the

Kim Byung-chul, a professor at the Division of Biotechnology and Food Science at Korea University will head the school as its 18th president, the university board announced Dec. 28th.The new president earned his bachelor’s degree in 1976 from Seoul National University in zootechnics, and a master’s degree in the same field at Korea University. He also received a master’s degree at the University o

CHICAGO ― Adopted as an infant, Karen Mead says she has a special kinship with all the children she has encountered in Russian orphanages over the last decade ― dozens of them.“There’s something inside an orphan that’s broken that only God can fix,” Mead said. “There’s a feeling that no one can love you ― that there’s something wrong with me. I get these kids.”As she prepared to leave for yet anot

77-year-old pediatrician’s life dedicated to care of disabled childrenSince 1953, almost 200,000 Korean children have been sent overseas for adoption, while 75,000 children have been placed domestically. In 1988, the media named the nation as the world’s “No. 1 child-exporting country,” with some criticizing adoption homes, accusing them of “selling kids abroad.” Cho Byung-kuk is a doctor who has