Herald Media has appointed Yoo Byung-chang, former president of POSCO ICT, as its chief executive officer and publisher. Yoo, 61, succeeds Park Haeng-hwan, who is retiring after three years in the post. Yoo will take office on March 2 as CEO and publisher of Herald Media, which publishes The Korea Herald, The Herald Business, The Junior Herald and The Campus Herald. The new CEO has held a vari...

Kim Ja-in cites little greed, resolved spirit as secrets to becoming champion When most people think of the perfect body type for rock climbing, it is probably someone tall and lanky, or maybe someone with huge arms and chest. But Kim Ja-in, breaking the stereotype at 152 centimeters and just over 40 kilograms, can breeze up any rock face she’s confronted with. Kim is ranked the world’s No.1 f...

The U.S. Navy has seen another Korean-American take the helms of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer. Steven Lee became the 14th commanding officer of USS Gonzalez in Norfolk, Virginia, on Feb. 25, according to the official website of USS Gonzalez. He is the third Korean-American captain of a U.S. destroyer, following Choi Hee-dong, commander of the USS Chafee and Jeffrey Kim of the destroyer USS J...

Kim In-hei, 49, vocal music professor of Seoul National University, was sacked on Monday for habitually inflicting violence on her students and other alleged misconduct. The school’s disciplinary committee decided on Monday to fire her after a marathon discussion. It was the first time that the nation’s top university has dismissed a professor over abuse of students. The professor was hit by in...

Nationals from Arab countries have taken to the streets in Korea to call for regime-change in their home countries in the Middle East. The demonstration, which was registered with police by the Libyan Society of Korea, saw protesters call for the North African nation’s leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down. Over one thousand people in Libya are believed to have been killed and thousands wounded i...

Ministries contradict each other over plans for multicultural education With immigration to South Korea increasingly rapidly in recent years, politicians and talking heads have stressed the need for the country to embrace ethnic and cultural diversity. President Lee Myung-bak, in a radio address last July, heralded that the country was “truly becoming a multicultural society” and called for Kor...

Rain picked up the world star award, recognized for his cross-continental popularity as a singer and actor. Nine-member girl group Girls’ Generation, a.k.a. SNSD, garnered the best Korean pop award for greatly boosting K-pop album sales through their second album “Oh!.” Jeon Do-yeon, the 2007 Cannes Film Festival best actress winner, received the best film actor/actress for her role in the 2010 ...