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East Asia
Park, Obama agree on NK
President-elect Park Geun-hye and U.S. President Barrack Obama agreed to take measures to ease tension in the wake of North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket, according to the ruling Saenuri Party, Friday. They also agreed to meet at an early date to discuss the issue, the party said in…
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East Asia
Smartphones pose health risks
Dry eyes, turtle neck syndrome on rapid rise If you look at people on a subway train or bus, over half of them are generally concentrating on smartphones. The number of smartphone users reached 30 million here only three years since the devices were introduced. They now account for 58…
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East Asia
Counseling for unfaithful husband
Dear Dr. P, Hello. I am a Korean woman married to a foreigner. We have been married for a few years and we are living in Korea. My husband has cheated on me several times, having relationship with women he met through Internet. When I discover it, he says he…
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East Asia
Aides to draw Park’s economic policy
People are now paying keen attention to what direction President-elect Park Geun-hye will steer the Korean economy that has been suffering from sluggish growth due to multiple downside risks both at home and abroad. Policymakers and business leaders are looking to what her economic policies will be. One way to…
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East Asia
International Flower Exhibition 2012 To Kick Off In Taipei, Taiwan
A visitor views the gardening works with her kid at Taipei International Flower Exhibition 2012 in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Dec. 20, 2012. The flower exhibition will formally kick off in Tapei on Dec. 22. A plane flies over the site of Taipei International Flower Exhibition 2012 in Taipei, southeast…
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East Asia
Skepticism rising on NK satellite
Further skepticism circulated Friday over North Korea’s “working satellite,” sent into orbit last week, after a scientist here said it does not appear to be working properly, the latest in a series of such assessments. Washington and Seoul have acknowledged that the Kim Jong-un regime put an object in orbit.…
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East Asia
What’s best way to ease hangover?
Year-end binge drinking renews rivalry in ‘cure’ drink market For many Korean company workers, December is a month of binge drinking. They stagger and sway through a variety of year-end parties day after day and in many cases are forced to drink beyond their limits. The year-end binging has drastically…
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Ms. or Madam?
How do you address President-elect Park Geun-hye, if you are foreigners or the foreign press invited to meet her? Her aides say that Park doesn’t have a preference _ honorific madam or Ms. can be used. Obviously, Miss or Mrs. may not sound appropriate, as she is not married and…
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Man arrested for praising NK in court
A local court issued an arrest warrant for a trial observer for praising North Korea and throwing his shoes at the presiding judge. Cheongju District Court issued an arrest warrant Friday for a 51-year-old man with the surname Oh on charges of disrupting a trial as well as charges of…
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Korean voters in US do collective nail-biting
Wednesday nights election showdown was nail-biting for Koreans in the U.S. just as much it was for their families and friends back in their motherland. They reacted in a variety of ways but accepted the winner without bitterness. . Many people came across the news first thing in the morning,…
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