• Culture

    Leader of K-Pop Group Meets Press

    Tae Yeon, header of South Korea’s pop group Girls’ Generation, answers questions during a press conference for foreign media in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2010. <Xinhua/He Lulu> news@theasian.asia

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  • Culture

    K-Pop Singers Before the Foreign Press

    SEOUL – Yoon A, left, and Yuri of South Korea’s pop group Girls’ Generation answer questions during a press conference for foreign media in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2010. <Xinhua/He Lulu> news@theasian.asia

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  • Culture

    K-Pop Girls’ New York Holiday

    NEW YORK – Members of the Korean Pop band Girls Generation, from left, Seohyeon, Sunny, Taeyeon, Yoori, Tiffany, Hohyeon, Sooyoung and Yoona make an appearance at a Best Buy store in New York on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Time-Honored Method of Agriculture

    (Photo: Jamal Daudpoto)  A photograph above shows centuries-old agriculture method being used in 21st century in Pakistan.   Mechanized agriculture has been introduced in Pakistan since many decades ago but every landholder cannot afford to buy or even hire the machinery used to plough the land for sowing the crops.…

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    Is It Crop Circle? It Must Be Man-Made

    MANHATTAN, Kansas – In this photograph released on Sunday, April 1, 2012 by AP Images for Butterfinger, a helicopter catches an aerial view of an unusual crop circle in Manhattan, Kansas. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia

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    Is It Weapon or Toy?

    NEW DELHI, India — Visitors look at the ‘snake robot’ developed by India’s Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO) at the 7th International Land and Naval Defence Systems Exhibition in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 1, 2012. The event, which is a showcase for global defense hardware manufacturers and suppliers,…

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  • West Asia

    Iranian Women Stick to Pre-Islamic Festival

    TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian women play ball during a picnic marking ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, or public picnic day, at the end of thirteen-day Iranian New Year holidays, outside the northeastern city of Esfarayen, Iran, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Iranians flocked to parks and orchards to mark Sizdeh Bedar,…

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  • Society

    Korea-Arab Society actively builds up cultural bridges

    Although Korea and the Arab world have had links through the Silk Road for more than 1,000 years, in modern times, they have been restricted to the Arab construction boom in the 1970s and ‘80s and, more recently, to Korea’s energy dependency on Middle East oil. A joint partnership led…

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  • Business

    Men’s ever-growing grooming needs

    Consumers with deep pockets and cultural shift drive markets “No shame: get a free eyebrow touch-up and makeup for men” A blackboard sign said standing in front of a cosmetics shop named Manstudio. Located at the center of a bustling, hip street of Hongdae in Seoul, it is the first…

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  • People

    ‘Long-term vision planning needed for taekwondo’s longevity’

    Master of Korean martial art plants seed in US For most people, taekwondo is a great hobby but not for Min Kyung-ho. “It’s a way of life,’’ says Min, a taekwondo master who has spent more than 50 years practicing and teaching the sport. Credited as the taekwondo pioneer in…

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