French intellect Guy Sorman urges print media to invest in content in order to thrive

Actress Kim Sa-rang underwent surgery after fracturing her right leg in Italy last week, her agency said Thursday. According to Leo International, the 40-year-old hurt her leg between April 18 and 19. She returned to Korea on Saturday and received surgery on Monday. Kim Sa-rang (Herald DB) An official from the agency declined to elaborate on how she got injured or how serious it was, but said ...

Comedian Yoo Jae-suk has extended a helping hand to former “comfort women,” donating 50 million won ($46,772) for the women sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II. Officials from House of Sharing, a shelter in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, for eight surviving former comfort women, said Sunday that Yoo wired the money to its account last week without alerting it. Yoo Jae-su...

An ordinary job seeker in city turns into an iconic farmer with sizable social media followers

BusinessKorea, Korea’s first English business magazine, appointed Yu Kun-ha, former editor-in-chief of The Korea Herald, as new president and CEO on Wednesday. Yu joined The Korea Herald in 1982 and had served as its business editor, managing editor and editor-in-chief before retiring in 2016. BusinessKorea has also named Youn Won-chang, former editor of the Electronic Times, as its new managin...

The World Wide Fund for Nature, an international nongovernmental organization dedicated to conservation activities, is set to hold its annual Earth Hour event in Seoul on Saturday evening to spread awareness of global warming. Held collectively in major cities around the globe, Earth Hour is a worldwide event during which participants turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m. The eve...

Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain's most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Born on January 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei -- he believed science was his destiny. But fate also dealt Hawking a cruel hand. Most of his life was spent in a wheelcha...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach received an honorary doctorate degree in politics from Dankook University at its Jukjeon Campus’ Nanpa Concert Hall at 10 a.m. Friday. Dankook University’s head board of trustee Chang Choong-sik, President Jang Ho-sung, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Korean Sport and Olympic Committee President Lee Ki-heung and other officials atten...

TOYOTA SCHOLARSHIP -- Kim Soung-soo (third from right), chairman of Youth For Understanding Korea, a nonprofit student exchange organization, poses with Korean and Japanese students selected for the 2018 exchange program sponsored by Toyota Korea. Also present in the ceremony held in Seoul last week were Keiko Enatsu (fourth from left), national director of YFU Japan, and Nobuyuki Takemura (fifth...

It’s pretty unusual for a staff member of a Nordic embassy to be a household name in Korea, but Petri Kalliola, a project coordinator at the Embassy of Finland, has made his mark in an unusual way. When he is not at the office, he can often be seen on TV entertainment shows, introducing his country to Korean viewers. Kalliola says his employer, the Finnish Embassy, has been supportive of his TV...

Widely known for his controversial works, photographer Rotta has been accused of sexually harassing a model. The alleged victim claimed in a television news interview that Rotta harassed her five years ago while shooting a pictorial. “(The photographer) suddenly asked me to bite his finger, claiming that he demands the act of all girls when shooting. He kept touching me as well,” the accuser sa...

Thousands of fans flocked to see online personalities live at Fan Fest

Renowned photographer Bae Bien-u, 68, has become the latest figure outed in the #MeToo movement, being accused of sexually harassing female students when he was a professor. (Yonhap) According to local daily Kyunghyang Shinmun, graduates of Seoul Institute of Arts are lashing out at the photographer for sexually assaulting students both verbally and physically. “Teaching a class at his studio ...

Joe Erlinger (center, in hanbok), president of McDonald’s High Growth Markets Segment, has breakfast with local staff in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, Tuesday. The former head of McDonald‘s Korea is visiting the country to celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary here and the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the company said. (McDonald’s)

Poet Ko Un is to leave Suwon amid sexual harassment allegations surrounding him and complaints over the city’s use of public funds to support him. Suspicions of sexual harassment arose when a female writer wrote a poem, explaining that the story came from her own experience of being sexually harassed. The unidentified character’s details matched that of the poet Ko, although she has not confirme...