Veteran television presenter Song Hae is considering stepping down as the host of KBS’ “National Singing Contest” after 34 years, following reports of his latest hospitalization for an unspecified illness, a KBS official said Wednesday. The 95-year-old, the longest-running presenter of a local television program, told the show’s production team that “now is a good time to leave the show due to h...

A man looks around a flour section at a discount store in Seoul on Wednesday amid growing concerns over possible grain price hike with India‘s wheat export ban.

“My character learns from her dad to say ‘My dad will get upset. My daughter will get upset. Don’t do it. Don’t touch me’ (in the scene). I was not sure about the tone of my voice in the scene,” she said. However, once shooting started, Seo found that she need not have worried because she was able to easily become her character with help from Ahn. “I could not tell if I was talking to Ahn Sung-...

SPC has opened three more Paris Baguette stores in Indonesia, the South Korean food and bakery company said Wednesday. According to SPC, two of the new stores are located at shopping malls in the country‘s capital Jakarta and the other is in South Tangerang. The latest opening of the bakery cafe came two months after the company’s fourth Paris Baquette store began operation in Bekasi in March. ...

However, such resistance may dissipate during the famous tennis scene. In the second half of the musical, L faces off against Light in a dynamic tennis match. The scene is brought to life through the creative use of an inclined LED floor, which morphs to represent the varying perspectives that each character sees during the match. While the floor displays an entire uninterrupted tennis court wh...

As part of its PBV strategy, Kia said in March that it will produce the 1-liter Ray mini car and the Niro hybrid model for delivery or taxi purposes. The new production lineup in Hwaseong will commercialize a mid-sized vehicle built on PBV platform called eS, instead, in 2025. The construction of Kia’s PBV plant spanning over 20,000 square meters of land will kick off in the first half of 2023....

지난 회에 이어, 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들을 소개합니다. ‘비즈니스 영어’라는 게 따로 떨어져 존재하는 것은 아닙니다만, 일상 회화에서 흔히 볼 수 없는 표현들을 활용하는 것도 사실입니다. 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 비즈니스 편』에서 뽑은 표현들입니다. 1 A: Hi, I’m looking for a 2004 Sony camcorder that uses DV tapes. B: I’m sorry, but the item is discontinued and no longer in our back-catalogue. A: 저기요, DV 테이프를 쓰는 2004년 소니 캠코더를 찾고 있는데요. B: 죄송합니다. 그 상품은 단종돼서 재고도 구할 수 없습니다. SITUATION 상품이 ...

Bunhwangsa, a Korean Buddhist temple, will open in Bodh Gaya, India on Saturday with a delegation of 150 Korean Buddhists from the Jogye Order – South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect -- attending the opening ceremony. Bodh Gaya in northeastern India’s Bihar state is one of Buddhism’s four holiest sites. It is where Sakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment under a Bodhi tree according to Buddhist te...

North Korea appears to be preparing for a possible intercontinental ballistic missile test within the next 48 to 96 hours in time for US President Joe Biden’s visit to Seoul and Tokyo this weekend, CNN reported Wednesday. An official familiar with the matter told CNN that a government assessment shows that “things we have noticed in the past for a launch are the things we are noticing now.” Whi...

“Where did all the posts about Luna go? Have you guys all gone to Han River?” This anonymous comment on the Bitcoin section of online community DCinside captures the depressing mood of online cryptocurrency communities in recent days. The crash of Korean-made cryptocurrency terraUSD, also known as UST, and its sister token luna, has made headlines around the world as its impact was felt in the ...

Crazy for love milestones On KakaoTalk, the almost-ubiquitous messaging app for Koreans, it is not difficult to find users who display the number of days they have been together with someone on their personal profile page. Other than updating their relationship status to friends and acquaintances, the calendar icon serves a very practical purpose -- counting the days for important milestones in...

President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday paid tribute to protesters of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising, an unusual move for a conservative president that some say is aimed at dispelling concerns of his bloc’s negligence of the Jeolla provinces and to strengthen the message of national unity. “The spirit of May is the restoration of universal values and constitutional spirit of liberal democracy. Tha...

BANGKOK , May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate Chulalongkorn University's 105th anniversary, Chula President has announced the success of the "Speedboat Strategy" in steering Chula through a volatile world to drive social innovations, focusing on being a research university that teaches, overhauling curriculum and building graduates' competencies for the future. Chula Employs “Speedboa...