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Forget ‘Borat’ - D.C. exhibit shows the real Kazakhstan

Aug 13, 2012

WASHINGTON -- The first question might be, where is Kazakhstan? The second is, why go see an exhibit about it? The answer is simple. Kazakhstan is basically unknown to Americans outside of the 2006 movie “Borat,” and has more to offer. “Nomads and Networks,” which opened Saturday at the Arthur M. Sackler museum in Washington, D.C., provides a snapshot of this vast country and its ancient histor...
Oldest recording of national anthem unveiled

Aug 13, 2012

The 1942 recording of the Korean national anthem performed by Korean-Americans reveals longing for the country’s independence The oldest existing recording of the Korean national anthem, or “Aegukga,” performed by Korean-American men and women in 1942 while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, was revealed for the first time in Seoul on Monday. The state-run Independence Hall of Korea unveil...
[Announcement] New Korea Herald to be launched Aug. 14

Aug 12, 2012

The Korea Herald has established itself as the country’s largest English newspaper over the past six decades by providing quality news and analyses to readers both at home and abroad. Ahead of the 60th anniversary of The Korea Herald and the 10th anniversary of the renaming of The Herald Business next year, the paper is to unveil a new design and content selection on Aug. 14 to better serve our ...
Archaeologists cover up Afghan heritage

Aug 12, 2012

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (AFP) ― “It’s there,” says an archaeologist pointing to the ground, where fragments of a Buddha statue from the ancient Gandhara civilisation have been covered up to stop them being stolen or vandalised. Just months before the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban regime shocked the world by destroying two giant, 1,500-year-old Buddhas in the rocky Bamiyan valley, branding ...
Bringing King Sejong’s dream to the world

Aug 10, 2012

Institute aims to export standardized Korean language courses, culture overseas In 1443, King Sejong invented the Korean alphabet, called Hunminjeongeum, or the “proper phonetic system to educate the people.” The system was created for those of his subjects who could not read Chinese characters. But he could never have realized that more than 500 years later his invention would be used globally...
Retired colonel’s unfinished teaching job in Kenya

Aug 10, 2012

Six years ago, Kim Eung-soo, a retired Air Force colonel, wanted to do something that would make a difference. Teaching Korean language and culture to foreign laborers in Korea seemed like a worthwhile thing to do, so he took an intensive training course to become a Korean language lecturer. After graduation, however, he made an unusual choice ― opening a Korean language class in Nairobi, Kenya,...
Wash away the heat

Aug 10, 2012

Enjoy sky view in a semi-outdoor pool at Novotel Ambassador Gangnam Novotel Ambassador Gangnam’s indoor swimming pool, located in the property’s In-Balance Wellness fitness club, transforms into a semi-outdoor pool during the summer season. The pool’s ceiling, usually closed throughout the year, opens up during the summer, allowing the swimmers to see the open sky view while having fun in the wa...
Australia excludes Korean from major foreign language education

Aug 10, 2012

The Australian government reportedly decided to remove Korean language from the major foreign languages officially taught in Australian schools. News reports said the Korean Education Centre and Korean Cultural Office located in Sidney said on Friday the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority decided to exclude Korean from the foreign language list. ACARA, an independent organ...
Korea to expand program to cultivate culture experts

Aug 8, 2012

The government will expand both in quality and quantity its education program for aspiring creators of content related to traditional Korean culture, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The ministry has offered a month-long education course on traditional Korean culture for producers, scriptwriters and others with creative jobs in the broadcasting and movie industries, since April, so they can ...
Mexico finds mass of bones in unusual Aztec burial

Aug 8, 2012

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor. Researchers found the burial about five meters (15 feet) below the surface, next to the remains of what may have been a “sacred tree” at one edge of the plaza, the most sacred site of the Azte...
Italian churches pray for rain

Aug 8, 2012

Churches in northern Italy said they are praying for rain to end the drought and ease the strain from recent record temperatures. Multiple churches in the city of Padua said they are ending Masses with a special prayer asking for rain to end the recent drought, ANSA reported Tuesday. Temperatures in much of Italy have been at record highs approaching 104 degrees. (UPI) 찜통더위 견디다 못해 무리지어 교회서... ...
A glance back at gugak in Paris in 1900

Aug 7, 2012

Rare Korean traditional music instruments returned home from France after 112 years on display at the National Gugak Center More than 100 years before K-pop reached Paris, Emperor Gojong (1852-1919) personally introduced Korean traditional musical instruments to the French capital. The instruments, including “geomungo,” “”haegeum,” “piri” and “daegeum,” were showcased at the Paris International...
Lunch not ‘just lunch’ for ex-lovers

Aug 7, 2012

Eating food with an ex-lover sparks more jealousy with one‘s current partner than meeting that same person for coffee, U.S. researchers suggest. Study co-authors Kevin M. Kniffin, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics, and Brian Wansink, the director of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab, measured the amount of jealousy reported by current romantic partner...
Unfriending with ex-lovers on Facebook gives distress

Aug 7, 2012

After breakups, almost 90 percent of people check up regularly on their ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends on Facebook, according to a master’s thesis by a student at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. For her thesis named “It’s Complicated: Romantic Breakups and their Aftermath on Facebook,” Veronika Lukacs, 25, a media studies graduate, surveyed 107 people who had experienced a breakup ...
Marilyn Monroe honored on 50th anniversary of her death

Aug 6, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Some 300 Marilyn Monroe fans gathered Sunday at the Los Angeles cemetery where she is buried, commemorating the iconic sex symbol on the 50th anniversary of her death. Culminating a week of celebrations organized by various fan clubs, the ceremony was held at her final resting place in Westwood Village Memorial Park, a small patch of greenery between a parking lot and a resid...