The Korea Herald

LIFE&STYLE

LATEST NEWS

Ahn Jung-hwan becomes soccer commentator

Ahn Jung-hwan Former soccer star Ahn Jung-hwan has signed a contract with local TV broadcaster MBC for a stint as a soccer commentator, the TV channel said Thursday. He will join former national te...

Jan 8, 2014
Boy band singer’s father, grandparents found dead

Leeteuk of Super Junior. (Leeteuk Twitter) Police officials announced on Tuesday that they are currently investigating the deaths of the father and grandparents of popular K-pop boy band member Leet...

Jan 7, 2014
[Photo News] Ready for takeoff

Newly recruited flight attendants for Asiana Airlines pose around a miniature of the Airbus A380 at the company’s headquarters in western Seoul on Tuesday. The airliner is to start operation in May. ...

Jan 7, 2014
Former pope secretly leaves Vatican to visit brother in hospital: reports

ROME (AFP) ― Former pope Benedict XVI secretly left his residence in the Vatican to visit his brother in hospital in Rome, Italian media reported Saturday. The 85-year-old, who promised on his retir...

Jan 5, 2014
Ecuadorean navy airlifts Jeff Bezos for kidney stone

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. (AP-Yonhap News) QUITO (AP) ― An official in the Galapagos Islands says that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was flown by helicopter from a cruise ship on Jan. 1 for medical att...

Jan 5, 2014
Saul Zaentz, producer of Oscar winners, dies at 92

Saul Zaentz LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and “The Engl...

Jan 5, 2014
U.S. senator Cruz hopes to ‘soon’ renounce Canadian citizenship

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 17. (AP-Yonhap News) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has yet to renounce h...

Jan 5, 2014
Park In-bee voted top female golfer

Park In-bee South Korean LPGA Tour star Park In-bee has been voted the top female golfer for 2013 by American golf journalists. The Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA) announced on Thursday,...

Jan 3, 2014
Men want pay rise, women marriage for New Year

(Yonhap) Unmarried men and women showed a stark contrast in their New Year‘s hopes as the former selected a pay raise while the latter picked marriage, according to a survey. Matchmaking company Ga...

Jan 3, 2014
Rain looks to create storm with ‘Rain Effect’

Rain (Yonhap News) Singer, dancer, actor and all-around entertainer Rain has finally made his much-awaited return to the local music scene in full force with the release of his sixth studio album “R...

Jan 2, 2014
De Blasio sworn in as New York mayor

NEW YORK (AP) ― Bill de Blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City on Wednesday, becoming the first Democrat to occupy City Hall in nearly two decades while vowing to pursue a sweeping l...

Jan 2, 2014
Lee Seung-gi and SNSD’s YoonA dating

Lee Seung-gi(left), YoonA (Yonhap News) It has been revealed that popular TV personality and singer Lee Seung-gi and Girls’ Generation’s YoonA have been seeing each other for the past several months...

Jan 1, 2014
Herald Corp. names new managing editors

Herald Corp. has conducted a major shuffle of senior staff at its media business units to enhance its digital and mobile content, data-based news and visual presentation online and offline. Hwang Ja...

Jan 1, 2014
Pope asks if people helped others in 2013

Pope Francis kisses a baby Jesus statue as he arrives to celebrate a New Year’s Eve vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday. (AP-Yonhap News) VATICAN CITY (AP) ― Pope Francis...

Jan 1, 2014
Japan’s ‘Tree Town’ sculptors make living art

A tree-sculpting expert washes to remove soil from roots of “macro bonsai” plants at his farm in Sosa, on Oct. 29, 2013. (AFP-Yonhap News) SOSA, Japan (AFP) ― With a deft clip here and a gentle tug ...

Jan 1, 2014

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation

Copyright Herald Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Kwon Chung-won
Juvenile Protection Manager : Yang Sung-jin
Tel : 02.727.0114