The Korea Herald > Life&Style > People
-
Hanjin Group chairman Cho Yang-ho was named special adviser to the International Table Tennis Federation last week, company officials said.During its general meeting in Paris last Friday, the ITTF sel...
Updated : 2013.05.19 20:02
-
Nam Duck-woo, a former prime minister and finance minister who led the country's rapid economic development in the 1970s, died of complications from testicular cancer at a Seoul hospital late Saturday, his family said. He was 89.Nam had been battling testicular cancer for the past few year...
Updated : 2013.05.19 10:50
-
Former U.S. Ambassador to Korea Kathleen Stephens donated 10 million won to the Korea Cycling Federation Wednesday, the federation said. The donation is part of 30 million won ($27,000) she received i...
Updated : 2013.05.16 19:51
-
The iconic ‘90s singer and musician Seo Taiji announced on Wednesday his engagement to actress Lee Eun-sung, who is 16 years his junior. Seo Taiji, 41, and Lee, 24, reportedly met in 2008 when she ap...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:14
-
The mere thought of speaking in public can strike fear in the best of us. Imagine that dread being compounded by having to deliver a speech in a foreign language.“Fake till you feel it,” advised Rah...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:04
-
Saudi Arabia will host a handicraft festival featuring Korean craftsmen’s works by the end of the year, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Korea announced Monday. The exhibition is hoped to boost Ko...
Updated : 2013.05.14 19:52
-
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy because she had a very high risk of breast cancer.The 37-year-old American actress wrote in an o...
Updated : 2013.05.14 19:51
-
Facing possible arrest over his reporting on suspicions that a younger brother of President Park Geun-hye was behind a murder case, a well-known journalist claimed Tuesday that he had received a death...
Updated : 2013.05.14 19:51
-
Former President Roh Tae-woo’s only son Roh Jae-hon has divorced Shin Jung-hwa, ending 23 years of marriage.The Seoul Family Court said that Roh notified the court on May 2 of his intention to drop his lawsuit for divorce and compensation.His withdrawal came after Shin won a divorce suit ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:30
-
LONDON (AFP) ― The number of Britons who believe Queen Elizabeth II should hand over to Prince Charles before her death has increased, although a majority still think she should reign for life, an opinion poll found on Sunday.Some 53 percent of voters said the 87-year-old monarch should r...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:30
-
Japanese first lady Akie Abe recently disclosed that she had seen South Korean musical “Caffeine” in Tokyo.According to the Asahi Shimbun and reports in other media on Saturday, the 50-year-old wife...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:30
-
Kim Jho Gwang-soo, one of South Korea’s few openly gay movie directors, announced Monday that he is tying the knot with his long-time boyfriend.“Movie director and producer Kim Jho Gwang-soo will hold a press conference to announce his wedding plans on Wednesday,” said Kim Jho’s produc...
Updated : 2013.05.13 19:18
-
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) ― Escorted by Britain’s Prince Harry and swimming superstar Missy Franklin, a U.S. Navy officer blinded by an improvised bomb in Afghanistan lit an Olympic-style caul...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:40
-
MADRID (AFP) ― World number two Maria Sharapova confirmed on Saturday that she is dating fellow tennis star, the highly-rated Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.The two had been caught on camera kissing in the streets of Madrid on Wednesday, the day after Dimitrov had dumped world number one Novak...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:37
-
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman said he plans a second trip to North Korea to try to use his budding friendship with leader Kim Jong-un to free a jailed American, in an interview aired Friday. The flamboyant basketball legend, approached by celebrity news website...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:36
