Calls for young talent to join their virtual choir SAN FRANCISCO , Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talented Novakid students performed a cover of Happy by Pharrell Williams in a virtual choir performance to encourage their peers to be a part of the next version of the Novakid Happy virtual choir performance. Music has no boundaries: it unites us; it is a universal language that ever...

Among the multicolored “Conjunction” series that he newly showcased is “Conjunction 21-38,” which he completed last year during the pandemic. He used the bae-ap-beop technique, but he integrated blue and white hues to add colorful features. Unlike his early “Conjunction” series where he mainly used dark monochrome colors reminiscent of Korean traditional roof tiles, or giwa, white porcelain or ch...

LONDON and SINGAPORE, Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vantage , the international multi-asset broker, announces its multi-year partnership with McLaren Racing as an Official Partner of the McLaren Extreme E (MX) team. This announcement comes ahead of the launch of the 2022 season, with the first race, the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia , scheduled for February 19th and 20th. David Shayer, ...

The 12-part series starts on Feb. 16 at 10:30 p.m. on JTBC. “Thirty-Nine” will also be available on local streaming platform Tving and global streaming service Netflix. By Lee Si-jin ( sj_lee@heraldcorp.com )

Shinsegae Property, the property development arm of Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae, said Wednesday it has acquired US winery Shafer Vineyards for 299.6 billion won ($250.3 million) to boost the group’s wine business. “With the acquisition, we plan to further expand the group’s wine business by creating synergy with its Shinsegae L&B that is in charge of the wholesale distribution of wine and liq...

South Korea’s financial regulator on Wednesday decided to suspend Jang Ha-won, the chief executive of Discovery Asset Management from his duty, and fine the state-run Industrial Bank of Korea for misselling of funds with frozen assets amounting to 256.2 billion won ($214 million). Jang is the younger brother of South Korea’s incumbent ambassador to China, Jang Ha-sung. The Financial Services Co...

The South Korean semiconductor chip industry is poised to invest 56.7 trillion won ($47.4 billion) in 2022 to create jobs and strengthen a supply chain amid talent shortages and external uncertainties, according to a lobby group Wednesday. The figure for some 150 companies across the Korean chip supply chain is 10 percent higher than the domestic industry’s total spending in 2021 at 51.6 trillio...

Another Genesis vehicle, the GV60, won both the innovation award and the SUV of the year title. The sport utility vehicle’s technology that locks and unlocks the door through face recognition was acclaimed for adding innovative features to auto technology. The Audi RS e-tron GT, meanwhile, bagged this year’s design and performance awards with Kia’s EV6 winning the green car category for using ec...

LONDON , Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Japanese chef Natsuko Shoji of Été in Tokyo is the 2022 recipient of the Asia's Best Female Chef Award . Voted for by the members of the Asia's 50 Best Restaurants Academy, the award provides an opportunity for successful women to be celebrated, whose dedication, skills and creativity set new standards in gastronomic excellence. Natsuko Shoji of...

Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur on North Korea’s human rights situation, met with senior officials in Seoul on Wednesday and discussed human rights concerns in the reclusive nation. Quintana arrived here on Tuesday for a nine-day stay, during which he will meet South Korean government officials, lawmakers as well as civic groups and North Korean defectors. The purpose of hi...

In 2014, The Korea Herald asked, “Will Korea ever have ‘Linsanity’?” in an article highlighting the inherent limitations of Korea‘s student athlete system, which enforces all sport and no study. Eight years later, Lee Hyung-jung of NCAA’s Davidson College may have given us the answer. Lee is one of the key contributors to the Davidson Wildcats‘ conference-leading 21-4 record and, equally importa...

The Korea Forest Service is taking steps to help restore forests in Central and South America as it seeks to expand its global outreach. A team of Korea Forest Service officials led by Minister Choi Byeong-am visited El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru in late January, and agreed to cooperate more closely to restore forests in those countries, the KFS said. The KFS delegation’s visit come...

Central America is a biodiversity hotspot thanks to its vertically stretched land mass. Yet at the same time, the region is highly vulnerable to climate change, where it derives its label the “dry corridor.“ For this reason, countries in the region are collectively contending with the challenges of deforestation. Disasters like wildfires and forest pests are increasing, and humans are destroying ...

“My Chinese is not very good, so I don’t think I can create a good movie in Chinese. I also thought of setting it in North Korea, but realized that it is not a good idea because it is a romance film,” Jang said. He said that the actors would have had a hard time filming romantic scenes in North Korean accents. Also, it did not feel right to use North Korean leaders’ photos in a romance movie, J...