The ASEAN-Korea Centre is holding a nationwide traveling exhibition that presents stunning natural scenery, different societies and their cultures reinterpreted by artists. Titled “Cross-Scape,” the center’s third Contemporary Media Art Exhibition, features 27 renowned contemporary artists from ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states and Korea showcasing 105 unique artworks. “R...

“Everybody is part of the problem and everybody is part of the solution” when it comes to green growth, Mexico’s Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources said on a trip to Seoul to sign a memorandum of understanding with Global Green Growth Institute. The MOU signed by Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada aims to establish a cooperative relationship for activities and initiatives related to low ...

Strong Korea-U.S. bonds on show during dinner with friends A lot can be said about the strong relationship between the United States and Korea but it is only during a special occasion that those emotions are demonstrated. U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens held a reception last week to bid farewell to her closest friends before moving back to Washington. Almost 300 people showed up and virtuall...

Park Young-sun to compete against Park Won-soon for sole liberal candidacy The main opposition Democratic Party selected its policy committee chief and former news anchorwoman Rep. Park Young-sun on Sunday as its candidate for the Oct. 26 Seoul mayoral by-election. In the selection process, split evenly between party member votes and public poll results, Park beat three other candidates -- R...

GENEVA (AP) -- Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke. For more than a century, everyone from physicists to the Nazi Party _ which encouraged the publication of the tract ``One Hundred Authors Against Einstein'' -- has tried to find cracks in his work. And all have failed. (AP) On Thursday, the world's biggest physics lab unveiled a shocking finding: that on...

An appellate court here legally recognized spousal rape for the first time, ruling against a husband who was found to have forced himself upon his wife using a weapon, court officials said Sunday. (Yonhap News) The Seoul High Court sentenced a 40-year-old man to two years and six months in prison, suspended for three years, for raping his wife after stabbing her with a weapon. In April, this y...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ It's as big as a bus and weighs 6 tons, but officials probably will never be able to pinpoint exactly where a massive NASA satellite plummeted to Earth. NASA space junk scientists believe that all _ or nearly all _ of the parts of their 20-year-old dead satellite safely plunged into the Pacific Ocean, likely missing land. But if their estimates are off, by only five minutes or ...