World-class cultural figures like Peter Florence, founder and director of the Hay Festival, will be visiting Seoul next month to participate in the Culture Communication Forum 2011. Following the success of the C20 event last year in which the Corea Image Communication Institute invited cultural leaders from the G20 countries to experience Korean culture as a prelude to the G20 Seoul Summit, CIC...

One of Korea’s most influential Christian leaders died at Severance Hospital in Seoul on Tuesday morning. Onnuri Church founder Rev. Ha Yong-jo was 65. Ha collapsed on Monday due to a cerebral hemorrhaging and underwent surgery but did not regain consciousness. A visitor pays respects to Rev. Ha Yong-jo at the Onnuri Church in central Seoul on Tuesday, after his death Tuesday morning. (Kim Myun...

Everyone likes to feel their relationship is unique but experts have identified six different couple types which once recognized could improve relationships, the Daily Mail reported. A young couple poses for portrait in San Jose, California. (MCT) According to the article which first appeared in Psychologies magazine, different couple types can be identified as distinct roles are assumed. Ofte...

Davind Yonggi Cho, Emeritus Pastor at Yoido Full Gospel Church, expressed dismay on Sunday over elders who demanded Cho’s family and close aides step down from posts at the church’s affiliated charity, the Sharing Love and Happiness Foundation. The charity unit is a non-profit organization that the church established in May 2008, timed with the resignation of Cho as pastor of the church and the ...

City hosts international contests, concerts and summer events Busan is running a plethora of fiestas this month that will be the envy of those living in the northern part of the country. First and foremost, the city of festivals is currently running the Busan Sea Festival until Aug. 9 at several locations in the nation’s second biggest city. The largest events will be held at Haeundae beach wit...

ROME (AP) ― Excavations in the bowels of an ancient Roman hill have turned up a well-preserved, late 1st century wall mosaic with a figure of Apollo, nude except for a colorful mantle over a shoulder. Archaeologists and city officials unveiled the recent find to reporters Friday on the Oppian Hill. An archaeologist works on a mosaic discovered in downtown Rome on Friday. (AP-Yonhap News) The m...

Something for everyone awaits at airfield, ostrich ranch, dairy farm and mud flats just hours from Seoul Nine out of 10 South Korean office workers have decided to spend their vacation within the country this summer instead of flying overseas, according to a recent survey by Korean Chamber of Commerce. Sure, the Korean Peninsula is full of beautiful tourist spots. But what to do if you are tire...

A new U.S. study has revealed that 48 percent of men would leave their partners if they gained too much weight, the Daily Mail reported. On the contrary, only 20 percent of women would stop dating a guy who gains weight. The poll was conducted by AskMen.com and Cosmopolitan.com, involving 70,000 people across the U.S. According to the poll, a third of both men and women believed that the oppos...

The gold crown of Silla, excavated from the Cheonmachong, or “Heavenly Horse Tomb,” of the Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.― 935 A.D.), will make its first overseas trip in October. The National Treasure No. 188, currently kept at the Gyeongju National Museum, will be shown at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney as part of an upcoming exhibition on Korea’s metal crafts. Gold crown of Silla, excavated from th...

Corporate image ad campaign that posts short poems become cultural icon Kyobo Life Insurance Co. billboards offering excerpts from poems, which has long been a familiar sight for Seoulites, made their international debut through the quarterly magazine Koreana. Koreana is a quarterly magazine published since 1987 in eight languages ― Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish an...

EU expert says international network can help return cultural properties to rightful homes Outside of a crime or conviction, the only way to prompt the return of cultural properties is to negotiate, said Manlio Frigo, professor of European Union and international law at Italy’s University of Milan. Frigo visited Seoul to participate in a forum on the return of cultural property with other world...

A South Korean team of scholars said they have found the world’s longest and deepest carnivorous dinosaur tooth-marks ever documented in Hadong, South Gyeongsang Province. The tooth-marks found on a bone of a herbivorous dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period (left) and an enlarged image of part of the bone. (Pukyong National University) Led by Paik In-sung, professor of sedimentary geology ...

An Australian man is walking across his country wearing a Storm Trooper outfit from movie “Star Wars” to raise money to help seriously ill children. Jacob French, 20, aims to make $50,000 to donate to the Starlight Children’s Foundation, an organization for youngsters with life-threatening diseases. (Facebook) “Starting in July 2011 I aim to walk from Perth (Western Australia) to Sydney (New S...