South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na said Friday she’s well prepared to pursue her second world title in Russia next week after an extra month of training on home ice. “I hope I can compete as well as I’ve done in my practices,” Kim told reporters at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, before departing for Moscow, the venue for this year’s World Figure Skating Championships. “The key...

A new Internet site about actress E Ji-ah, secretly married to musician Seo Tai-ji for the past 14 years, is enjoying explosive popularity after it became known to the public for the first time Thursday. The website Lee-zia.com chronicles her activities since her debut in 2004 including news articles, media interviews, press releases and video footage. Subtitled “Who is E Ji-ah?,” the site prie...

HONG KONG (AFP) - A Hong Kong movie billed as the world's first 3D porn film has broken the city's first-day box office record previously set by Hollywood blockbuster Avatar. "3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" notched up HK$2.8 million ($360,000) on its first day last week, outpacing director James Cameron's science fiction epic which drew HK$2.6 million, the porn movie's publicist told AFP Thur...

Rain took the lead in the TIME 100 online poll with 406,252 votes. He is very happy to be listed in the TIME 100 and will attend the celebration to be held in New York on April 26, his agency said Thursday. By Lee Woo-young (wylee@heraldm.com) 北 김정은, 타임지 '영향력 인물 100인' 북한 김정일 국방위원장의 후계자인 김정은이 미국 시사주 간지 타임이 선정하는 '세계에서 가장 영향력 있는 인물 100인'(이하 타임 100)에 포함됐다. 타임은 21일 '타임 100'을 발표하면서 김정은에 대해 "몇 년 전까...

Actress E Ji-ah admits marriage and divorce, while Seo Tai-ji remains silent Koreans in their 30s and 40s used to automatically associate the name “Seo Tai-ji” with “the President of Culture” in the 1990s. His songs such as “Class Idea,” (1994) “Dreaming Balhae” (1994) and “Come Back Home” (1995) contained controversial yet influential messages to make teenagers rebel against the cramming syste...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday it filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. in South Korea, Japan and Germany, accusing the U.S.-based company of violating its patents in producing the iPhone and the iPad. The move comes after Samsung vowed to respond firmly to Apple's allegation that Samsung's Android-based mobile devices copied trademarks, trade...

Right-handers not only far outnumber left-handers today, but did 500,000 years ago as well, reported LiveScience.com and Science Daily. Today, the ratio of right-handers to left-handers is 9:1. But according to the research of American scientists in UK scientific journal “Laterality,” 93.1 percent of humankind was right-handed 500,000 years ago. A researcher at the University of Kansas analyzed...

A man who allegedly sent more than a hundred text messages to his ex-girlfriend was arrested and charged with stalking, according to Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. The 38-year-old man surnamed Jang had sent 147 text messages to the victim since October 2009. He kept following his ex by hiding around her house as well as workplace. With the internet ID and password he had learned during the re...

All 20 crew members of a South Korean-owned container vessel, which was apparently attacked by Somali pirates early Thursday, have been confirmed safe, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Naval commandos of the Cheonghae Unit, a South Korean anti-piracy contingent operating off the Somali coast, boarded the 75,000-ton Hanjin Tianjin and found that all crew members remained unharmed inside the citade...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee on Thursday said Samsung was coming under intense scrutiny from more and more firms, saying it was not only Apple, but even those outside the IT industry trying to keep his company at bay. “It’s a matter of (wanting) to hammer in a protruding nail,” Lee told reporters during a rare visit to Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul. ...

Cargo ship presumed hijacked; Korean destroyer arrives at scene A South Korean container vessel carrying 20 people is very likely to have been hijacked by pirates as it was traveling some 460 miles off the Somali coast Thursday, the Foreign Ministry here said. The 75,000-ton Hanjin Tianjin lost contact around 5:15 a.m. while traveling from Spain to Singapore with 14 South Koreans and six Indone...