Multi-purpose places enable visitors to shop, get hair done, eat, view art and listen to music all in one spot

Pop music“Soul Play: Brown Eyed Soul”: Soul and R&B group Brown Eyed Soul is holding its third concert titled “Soul Play.” The four-member group came back after a two-year break with the release of its third album and will be touring in seven cities in Korea including Seoul from Feb. 15-16 at the Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium starting at 8 p.m. on the first day and 6 p.m. on the second day. Tickets range from 88,000 won to 132,000 won. For more information, call (02) 515-5880 or visit www.inte

Younger and older U.S. adults show less empathy, but middle-aged adults report more empathy, with women in their 50s the most empathy, researchers say. Sara Konrath, Ed O‘Brien and Linda Hagen all of the University of Michigan, Daniel Gruhn at North Carolina State University analyzed data on 75,000 U.S. adults from three separate large samples of American adults, two from the nationally representative General Social Survey.“Overall, late middle-aged adults were higher in both of the aspects of e

The Upo Wetlands are currently on the Tentative List for UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The enlistment acknowledges Upo’s contribution to the local biodiversity as being a site of natural conservation. It is now one of the most visited spots for ecotourism. The listing as a World Heritage Site is therefore supported by many Koreans. The wetlands have played an important role, both naturally and culturally. Alongside hosting local biodiversity, they connect people with nature. Upo is a source of na

UNESCO World Heritage candidate site shows raw nature

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AFP) ― “They are not Muslims, they are bandits!” raged Mohamed Elher Ag Abba, whose house flanks a famed archive in Timbuktu where retreating Islamists burnt priceless ancient books and manuscripts before fleeing.There was outrage around the world at the last defiant act of vandalism by the radicals in this fabled city as they fled a French-led offensive on their northern bastion that ended their 10-month occupation.The pickaxes and shovels wielded time and again by militants fro

A British facial mapping expert says some may be born leaders because most agree leadership and success is equated with certain facial features. Senior lecturer in physics and a facial mapping expert Dr. Chris Solomon and his research team at the University of Kent‘s Canterbury campus in England asked 100 people to rank 100 faces in order of their perceived business acumen and leadership qualities.In men, success and leadership were equated to a rectangular face with angular features, focused ey

Being in a position of power makes people happier, and people who feel powerful in any context tend to be more content, researchers in Israel said. Yona Kifer of Tel Aviv University in Israel and colleagues hypothesized that holding a position of authority might enhance subjective well-being through an increased feeling of authenticity.In their first experiment, the researchers surveyed more than 350 participants to determine if internal feelings of power are associated with subjective well-bein

BUSAN/DAEJEON ― Five South Korean men have been caught on charges of stealing two precious ancient Korean Buddha statues from Japan and trying to sell them in South Korea, police here said Tuesday.Police said they have arrested a 69-year-old surnamed Kim and booked four others without physical detention for violating the cultural properties protection law.The suspects are accused of stealing the two statues from the Kaijin shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture on Oct. 8. They, however, safely entered So

Be mesmerized by thousands of gawking eyes at the Owl Art and Craft Museum

People with narcissistic, Machiavellian, and psychopathic personalities are the most successful in office environments, a psychologist and author Oliver James suggests.In his new book “Office Politics,” James identified three types of dysfunctional workers in modern workplaces: psychopaths, Machiavellian, and narcissist. According to James, the people most likely to thrive in office are ‘triadic’ people, who are a combination of all three.He alleged that the triadic people’s self-centeredness, s

A Florida cigar dealer said he sold a nearly 19-foot long Gran Habano #5 El Gigante cigar for $185,000.Juan Panesso, who runs CigarsDirect.com in Westchase, said he located the El Gigante for an unidentified buyer who was seeking a number of rare varieties of cigar for his private collection and he was able to get the buyer a discount from the usual $200,000 price tag for an El Gigante, The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune reported Monday.Panesso said the cigar, which he had shipped out of the country to th