Actress Lee Young-ae has given birth to twins, her agent said on Monday.Lee, 40, gave birth to a boy and a girl at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday at a Seoul Hospital, said Storms Company. “The mother and the babies are healthy,” it said. She surprised her fans in 2009 when she was secretly married in the United States to a Korean businessman.  Lee Young-aeThe superstar of the Korean Wave debuted in a TV com

People Feb. 22, 2011

Lee Dae-myung, triple gold medalist in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games shooting event, received the sports grand prize, the most prestigious award by the Korean Olympic Committee, on Tuesday.The award ceremony took place in Olympic Parktel in the Olympic Park, Seoul. Lee Dae-myungThe committee said Monday that it had chosen Lee as the winner of its 57th annual grand prize in recognition of his achi

People Feb. 22, 2011

Pop singer Kim Jang-hoon will hold a “Dokdo festival” aboard a cruise ship in the East Sea on Feb. 28, along with self-styled Korea promoter Seo Kyoung-duk.The two celebrities will invite about 300 people to the ship, which will be anchored between the two Dokdo islets to stage a concert. Kim Jang-hoon“I planned the concert on the sea a day before the March 1 independence movement day, to make the

People Feb. 22, 2011

Economics professor Ahn Kook-shin has been appointed president of Chung-Ang University.The university said Thursday that its board named 64-year-old Ahn as its 13th president as the incumbent President Park Bum-hoon offered to resign. Ahn Kook-shinAhn graduated with a major in economics from Seoul National University in 1969 and earned a doctoral degree in economics from University of Minnesota in

People Feb. 20, 2011

Vice chairman of the Korea Audit Bureau of Circulations Kim Young-il has become the bureau’s chairman.The bureau promoted 71-year-old Kim to chairman at its board meeting at Korea Press Center, Thursday. Kim Young-ilKim is a graduate from College of Business and Economics at Yonsei University, who worked as a Washington correspondent of the now defunct Hapdong News Agency. His career includes exec

People Feb. 20, 2011

Windsor plans to hold his first exhibition on his new home in JulyThere is an old tale about the “Hallasan-shin,” the spirits of Jeju Island’s Mount Halla, but world-renowned American artist Windsor Joe Innis didn’t believe it on one of his first trips to the island. “I was told that if you leave without paying tribute to the biggest spirit here, the Old Woman of the Mountain, she will chase you d

People Feb. 17, 2011

Kim Jae-cheul was re-elected president of Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. by its board of directors Wednesday.The Foundation for Broadcast Culture, which holds the majority stake in the television network, selected Kim at its board meeting held to screen presidential candidates. Kim Jae-cheulThe 58-year-old president-elect is expected to be determined as president at the shareholders’ meeting late this

People Feb. 17, 2011

Beginning Tuesday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s foundation sent letters to 250 cultural groups, inviting them to apply for some of the $32 million the charity plans to distribute to arts organizations over the next two years, The Wall Street Journal reported.“At Bloomberg Philanthropies, we see the arts as fundamental to New York City’s cultural and economic wellbeing,” the letter says. Mich

People Feb. 17, 2011

LONDON (AFP) ― Prince William has asked his brother Prince Harry to be his best man when he marries Kate Middleton on April 29, and she has asked her sister Philippa to be maid of honor, the palace said Monday.“Prince William has asked his brother, Prince Harry, to be his best man,” said a statement from St James’ Palace. Britain’s Princes William (left) and Harry at Royal Air Force Shawbury near

People Feb. 15, 2011

HANOI (AFP) ― The father of late pop icon Michael Jackson on Monday helped start work on a $2 billion hotel-entertainment complex called “Happyland,” billed by Vietnam as the region’s largest tourism project.Joe Jackson told Vietnamese television he has invested in a five-star hotel as part of a major development project in southern Long An province. Joe JacksonDuring a live broadcast of the groun

People Feb. 15, 2011

Former justice ministers of both Korea and Japan visited the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province on Sunday to solace the “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.Former Japanese Justice Minister Sugiura Seikan and former Korean Justice Minister Kim Sung-ho laid flowers in the memorial park at the house, then toured the education office

People Feb. 15, 2011

The alumni association of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies will present “proud alumni” awards to four graduates in a ceremony in a Seoul hotel on Tuesday.The recipients will be Hyundai Oil Bank CEO Kwon Oh-gap, Second Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Min Dong-seok, Industrial Bank of Korea president Cho Joon-hee and Senior Cheong Wa Dae Secretary for Public Relations Hong Sang-pyo.Th

People Feb. 13, 2011

Lee Soon-dong, honorary president of the Korea Advertisers Association, was elected new chairman of the Korea Federation of Advertising Associations in its annual assembly in Seoul on Friday.He holds a BA and a master’s degree in political science from Yonsei University and a Ph.D. in journalism from Hanyang University.  Lee Soon-dongThe 64-year-old new chairman started his career with a JoongAng

People Feb. 13, 2011