Singer-turned-actress Sung Yu-ri has been living in the limelight for half her life. The 34-year-old actress debuted in 1998 with girl group Fin.K.L, and debuted as a TV actress in 2002. Despite her long successful career, she says it’s only now she truly feels she‘s found her comfort zone as an actress. “I really didn’t have enough confidence in the past,” she said in an interview at a restaura...

BEIJING -- Artist Yang Haegue is one of the most visible Korean artists in the international art scene nowadays. Her works were exhibited at major Western art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Modern Museum in Sweden, Vienna Biennale and Lyon Biennale -- all within this year. She opened her first museum show in China on Oct. 30, bringing some...

As fragmentation and a lack of long-term vision continue to plague Korea’s aid system, the government should rethink its top-down approach and embrace different parts of society in its decision-making process, a leading scholar said. Sohn Hyuk-sang, a professor at Kyung Hee University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and Civic Engagement, stressed the need for across-the-board cooperation not ...

Actor Joo Won is one of the hottest rising stars in Korea today, having built an impressive repertoire crossing the stage, TV and the silver screen. He is best known for his roles as a doctor suffering from autism in the drama “Good Doctor” and his current role across actress Kim Tae-hee in the drama “Yong-pal.” The Korea Herald sat down with the 28-year-old actor for an interview at a restaura...

With DSLR cameras in hand and eyes beaming with curiosity, about 20 students carefully listen to a teacher explain how they, too, can take good pictures. This otherwise common scene is made more special as the students are homeless and the teacher is Cho Sei-hon, among the top tier of photographers in Korea. This is part of Cho and Seoul City’s welfare program called “Himang Frame,” or frame of ...

Snoopy and the Charlie Brown gang from Charles Schulz’s timeless comic strip “Peanuts” are some of the most recognized characters in the world, which made it no small task to translate the four-panel strip into a feature-length 3-D movie. After running tests with various production agencies, the Schulz family, who still own the rights to the characters, decided to give that task to Blue Sky Stud...

At 43, Bae Sung-woo is no newbie to acting. He says he’s always been working since he graduated from college at 29 -- but it wasn’t until this year that he made his mark with the general public. Bae was the face of a distraught office worker driven to murder in the Cannes-invited “Office.” He played Woo-jin, the man who wakes up with a different appearance every morning in “The Beauty Inside.” ...

Seven-member boy band Click-B joined the ranks of g.o.d, Fly to the Sky and Buzz on Wednesday, becoming the next group from the first generation of K-pop stars to make a long-awaited comeback. Click-B debuted in 1999 during the height of the first wave of idol groups, which included H.O.T, Sechs Kies, Fin.K.L and S.E.S, and had enjoyed hits like “Undefeatable” and “Cowboy” before breaking apart t...

Singaporean director Royston Tan is known for several signature touches in his films, two of which are his love for items from the past and his use of color and music. For Tan, these touches serve as tools that help to preserve snapshots of Singaporean history. “In Singapore, we are changing too quickly,” Tan told The Korea Herald at the Busan International Film Festival, where his latest film “...

When she sat down to chat with The Korea Herald, Taiwanese producer and director Frankie Chen was glowing, coming straight from meeting thousands of festival attendees at an outdoor event at the Busan International Film Festival. Chen was amazed at the Korean audience’s enthusiasm for her film. In her nostalgic romance flick “Our Times,” two high school friends who each have a crush on a guy and...

The sixth International Wildland Fire Conference, which opens Monday in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, will launch a youth program for university students to present their thesis, said the director general of the International Affairs Bureau at the Korea Forest Service. “We set up a thesis presentation platform to encourage undergraduates and graduate students studying fire to attend the confere...

Public outcry persists in Japan against Tokyo’s recent legislation that expands the role of its military, and among them is a civic group led by a mom-turned-activist pushing to get a Nobel Peace Prize for those attempting to uphold the Japanese pacifist Constitution. Despite the latest setback, the campaign will remain undeterred in their promotion of peace as the single most important value ...

In South Korea, where a growing number of hospitals and emergency medical staff are recognizing the need to implement higher quality CPR, the defibrillation business is geared for new growth and development in the years to come. ZOLL Medical Corporation, a health care company under Asahi Kasei Group which develops and markets medical devices and software solutions that help emergency care, is ...

The Korea Forest Service and Gangwon Province will jointly host the sixth International Wildland Fire Conference at Pyeongchang from Oct. 12 to 16. The international conference was established when old ways of fire prevention became insufficient to deal with the frequent and intense fires happening worldwide due to climate change, and awareness increased on the need to exchange academic informat...

Organic food is not necessarily healthier than its conventional counterpart in terms of positive ingredients, but its consumers have a healthier diet and are trained to eat better, according to the head of the world’s top organic food body. “Organic is not about a product’s quality system but a process quality system,” said Gerold Rahmann, president of the International Society of Organic Agricu...