TV director Fatimal-Zahraa devotes herself to harmonizing foreign and Arab culture works
Mrs. Fatimal-Zahraa Mohammed Hassan is a TV Director and media writer. She has been brought in a family with love for literature, a passion she haired in her appreciation of literature and arts. It was also represented in a dream achieved by studying Mass Communication at the University of Cairo, and working as a director […]
Artist-in-residence in Kumho Art Hall
Many concert halls around the world, such as London’s Wigmore Hall, run artist-in-residence programs for a deeper musical dialogue between artists and their audience. Kumho Art Hall joined this trend last week, becoming the first Korean concert venue to conduct an artist-in-residence program. It appointed Leipzig-based pianist Kim Da-sol as its first artist-in-residence. Under the […]
Last princess revived in exhibition
Deokhye (1912-1989), the fateful last princess of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), has almost been forgotten. Her life reflected the ups and downs of her country’s fate and is shown at a special exhibition of the National Palace Museum in Gyeongbok Palace, Seoul, that opened Tuesday and continues through Jan. 27. Marking the 100th anniversary of […]
Lotte seeks to buy POSCO’s retail units
Lotte Group, the country’s fifth largest family-controlled conglomerate specializing in retail and leisure industries, is in talks with POSCO to take over the world’s fourth largest steelmaker’s three retail units here and abroad, according to industry sources Tuesday. They include Diamond Plaza, a hybrid residential and commercial building in Vietnam, and Central Square, a high-rise […]
Foreign IT companies leaving
Motorola, HTC pull out of Korea on lackluster performances Foreign smartphone manufacturers are packing their bags as they are losing out to strong local brands. On Monday, Motorola said it will withdraw from Korea as part of its global restructuring. The U.S. technology giant came to Korea in 1967 and first introduced its handset here […]
Kowtow or cooperation in Asia?
TOKYO ― When an American president’s first overseas trip following his re-election is to Asia, one can be sure that something big is afoot in the region. Indeed, Barack Obama’s decision to go first to impoverished and long-isolated Myanmar (Burma) attests to the potency of the changes underway in that country ― and to U.S. […]
Fear about assertive China
China’s new leader Xi Jinping has issued a call for action to realize “the cause of national rejuvenation, which he called “the greatest dream for the Chinese nation in modern history.” Xi held up two goals: the achievement of a moderately prosperous society by about 2020 (when Xi will in all likelihood still be the […]
Why we must change
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” wrote Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900–1975), a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Then what is evolution? Simply in layman’s terms, it’s the gradual development of living things over time or change, i.e. a process of something passing from one state into another. The living thing is […]
Panic over power shortage
Time to make conservation a part of daily life The ghost of a possible power blackout is haunting the nation prematurely as a cold wave hit the peninsula earlier than expected. It’s lamentable to see our power authorities and businesses get panicky over fears of shortages. The Korea Power Exchange issued an “attention’’ alert at […]
Korean students excel in math, science – john
Korean eighth graders, or second year students in middle school, ranked number one in math and third in science, according to a study comparing the achievements of students of 42 countries. Fourth graders showed equally impressive achievements in these subjects, ranking second in math and first in science among 50 nations, seemingly due to the […]
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