LG Electronics said Tuesday it is launching three different 3-D home theater products in the North American area beginning in March as the firm aims to gain shares in the region’s 3-D audio and video markets.With plans to encourage people to think of LG when it comes to 3-D, the local electronics giant will display its new 3-D home theater lineup together with the firm’s Cinema 3-D TV at stores across the region in the first half of this year, said company officials.The three different models th

Korean Re CEO Park Jong-won will leave for Mount Everest in May to demonstrate the company’s drive for challenge and innovation, the reinsurance company said Tuesday.Park, famous for having been elected as the top executive for the company for five straight terms, will lead a team of 10 employees to aim for a 5,500-meter spot on the 8,848-meter Mount Everest in a trip that will last 11 days. “CEO Park has completed the Baekdudaegan course in the past years together with employees,” Korea Re said

Grand National Party chief Park Geun-hye on Tuesday hinted at a sweeping change of rules in the ruling party’s nomination of candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.“All members of the GNP, including me, will have to give up all their vested rights in the process,” the female politician said in a radio address. “I don’t think that we could regain trust from voters through superficial reforms. We have to change not just the package, but the content, and end old-time politics once and f

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Republican presidential candidates were making their final pitches Monday, one day before Iowa voters gather in caucuses to become the first in the U.S. to chose a favorite to challenge President Barack Obama in the November election.Polls show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney locked in a close race with Texas Rep. Ron Paul, with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum rising swiftly to challenge them. The Tuesday caucus meetings in Iowa could further define the seven-cand

Ven. Jigwan, former chief of the nation’s largest Buddhist sect, died of asthma complications on Monday at Gyeongguk Temple in Seoul. He was 80.The Buddhist monk of the Jogye Order had been receiving medical treatment at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul for his chronic illness since last September.Considered one of the most respected, learned monks in the country, Jigwan served as the first Buddhist monk president of Dongguk University from 1986 to 1990, and executive chief of the Jogye Order bet

Surely you’ve heard the story about Mitt Romney’s dog. If you haven’t, just wait. The more desperate the GOP primary campaign gets, the more likely you are to hear it again.In 1983, a 36-year-old Romney and his wife and five young boys piled into the family station wagon for a 12-hour drive from Boston to Lake Huron in Canada. As was the custom, Seamus, their Irish setter, rode in a crate strapped to the top of the car.Somewhere along the way, the dog began to experience, shall we say, digestive