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LTI Korea's Kim Seong-kon receives honorary doctorate from SUNY

Feb 15, 2017

Kim Seong-kon, president of the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, will be receiving an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the State University of New York. The degree will be conferre...
Ban to garner PCI Award in LA

Feb 12, 2017

Ban Ki-moon will receive the 2017 Individual Building Bridges Award from Pacific Century Institute on Feb. 23, according to PCI News. Ban served from 2007 to 2016 as the UN secretary-general. He was...
Entertainment agency stocks plummet as China reacts to THAAD deployment

Feb 6, 2017

The value in stock assets held by Korea’s entertainment industry leaders has plummeted in the wake of the Chinese government’s response to the anticipated US anti-missile system deployment here. Lee...
Bolivia opens ‘Evo museum’ dedicated to indigenous president

Feb 5, 2017

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- School notebooks, a boy’s sandals and T-shirts given to him by famous soccer players are among the objects displayed at a $7 million museum inaugurated by Bolivian President E...
Lee Dong-gun splits with T-ara’s Jiyeon

Feb 2, 2017

Lee Dong-gun’s agency said Thursday that the actor recently ended his romantic relationship with Jiyeon of K-pop group T-ara. According to Lee’s agency FNC Entertainment, the celebrity couple broke ...
Korea Times president to head foreign language newspaper group

Jan 23, 2017

The Foreign Language Newspapers Association of Korea on Monday named Lee Chang-sup, president-publisher of Korea Times, as its president. The nonprofit organization was launched in 2015 to promote t...
Repaired and ready: Venue where young Dylan played reopens

Jan 16, 2017

SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York (AP) -- Bob Dylan would surely still recognize the low-ceilinged room in Caffe Lena where he played a couple of gigs almost 60 years ago. But just about everything else ab...
[Eye Interview] Salvation Army volunteer recounts lifetime of service on the streets

Dec 30, 2016

‘People become more sensitive to others’ difficulties when things are hard.’
Actors Gong Hyo-jin, Cho Jung-seok, Cho Jin-woong win top star award

Dec 30, 2016

Actors Gong Hyo-jin, Cho Jung-seok and Cho Jin-woong were crowned Korea‘s “top stars” Thursday at an award ceremony celebrating influential figures from various segments. The 2016 The Night of Stars...
Carrie Fisher’s books become -ellers after her death

Dec 30, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- There’s been a run on Carrie Fisher’s books since the “Star Wars” actress and humorist died Tuesday. Fisher’s book, “The Princess Diarist,” was on top of Amazon’s list of best-selli...
First woman named to head Vatican Museums

Dec 21, 2016

VATICAN CITY (AFP) -- Pope Francis on Tuesday named Italian Barbara Jutte as the next head of the Vatican Museums, making her the first woman to take charge of the Catholic Church‘s artistic treasure...
Statue to honor ‘Korean Schindler’

Dec 20, 2016

Hyun Bong-Hak, the late doctor and civic activist who saved thousands of civilians during the Korean War, was commemorated Monday with a statue in front of the Severance Building in central Seoul. H...
Jet-setting Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at age 99

Dec 19, 2016

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages, conspicuous wealth and jaded wisdom about the glamorous life, died Sunda...
Patti Smith explains Dylan lyric flub in candid essay

Dec 15, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Patti Smith says that when she stumbled over the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song during the Nobel Prize ceremony last week, it was because she was overwhelmed with nerves by the enormi...
Turning the DMZ into vibrant tourism zone

Dec 12, 2016

Hong Seung-pyo, CEO of the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization, has high hopes of revamping the bleak demilitarized zone into a tourism destination. This year, Hong established an ecological tourism zone ...