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Kim Ji-soo joined The Korea Times in 2006, and worked on such desks as culture and politics and is currently a member of the Editorial Board. Previous workplaces include The Korea Herald and the Korea JoongAng Daily.

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Court upholds suspension of officer who grabbed woman's chin to force her to drink

Suwon District Court has upheld the two-months suspension of an Air Force warrant officer who forcibly grabbed a female staff sergeant’s chin to make her drink soju, reports said Sunday.“It is a grave misdeed where a supervisor, using his position of authority, to force a drink on a junior,” the court said in a statement explaining why the suspension should stay.The warrant officer gave the drink to the woman, 20, during an office outing in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province in August 2013. When he was refused, he grabbed her chin and cheeks to force open her mouth.The warrant officer was initially suspended for three months, which was reduced to two months last July.

Jul 26, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Court upholds suspension of officer who grabbed woman's chin to force her to drink
South Korea

Suspect in savings bank robbery caught

Police reveal a toy gun the suspect allegedly used in the robbery of MG Community Credit Cooperatives in southern Seoul, Sunday. / YonhapBy Chung Ah-youngA man suspected of robbing a bank in southern Seoul has been captured, police said Sunday.Seocho Police Station said that it is questioning a 53-year-old man surnamed Choi who was apprehended in Suseo-dong, southern Seoul. Choi is suspected of taking 24 million won in cash from a branch of the MG Community Credit Cooperatives in Jamwon-dong at 12:20 p.m. on July 20, after threatening workers with a “fake” firearm, which police later said was a toy gun. After robbing the bank, the suspect made his getaway on a scooter. “We captured him after analyzing the footage of security cameras, installed around the district where he drove his scooter after robbing the bank,” a police officer said.Admitting the robbery, the suspect told police that he took the money from the bank to repay a debt of 50 million won. Among 24 million won, he used 21.5 million won in settling the debt and used 2.5 million won for gamblin

Jul 26, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Suspect in savings bank robbery caught
South Korea

Baek Jong-won to not appear on 'My Little Television'

Chef Baek Jong-wonChef and entrepreneur Baek Jong-won has announced that he will step down temporarily from “My Little Television”a show aired on the network MBC. The producers of the show said that Baek, 48, was not taking part in this week’s production.The news comes amid reports that his father was recently questioned by the police for allegedly sexually harassing a female golf caddie. Daejeon Dunsan Police said last week that Baek Seung-tak, 80, former superintendent of the South Chungcheong Provincial Office of Education, was recently questioned.According to police, the caddie -- a woman in her 20s whose name was withheld -- came to know Baek at a golf club in Daejeon. She claimed that she and Baek met outside of the club in June and that he forcibly and repeatedly touched her breasts and other parts of her body. The senior Baek denied any wrongdoing and said the court will determine the truth.But Baek has two other food programs on a cable channel, which for now he is expected to continue. 

Jul 26, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Baek Jong-won to not appear on 'My Little Television'
South Korea

Kubota, Paik Nam-june's widow passes away

Shigeko Kubota, wife of the late renowned video artist Paik Nam-june passed away at a hospital in New York last Thursday, the Nam June Paik (NJP) Art Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province said Sunday.Kubota had been battling cancer. She was 78.She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education and was also a video artist and a member of the avante-garde Fluxus movement in the 1960s. She first met Paik in 1963, and the two married in 1977.Paik was the first to integrate media and art, and used TV sets, cabinets and signals to express his ideas. He was also a composer and performance artist.Kubota gave up her artistic pursuits to take care of Paik after he had a stroke in1996. 

Jul 26, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Kubota, Paik Nam-june's widow passes away
South Korea

Branding expert comes to party with 'diss' campaign

Branding expert Sohn Hye-won, who now works for the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD), has launched a so-called “self-diss” campaign in an attempt to broaden the NPAD’s appeal to voters.On Thursday she showed how she adopted the strategy for party chairman Moon Jae-in, which shows him apologizing for “lacking in strong charisma.” The former presidential secretary in the late President Roh Moo-hyun’s Cheong Wa Dae starts out with the apology and explains his life and career as a human rights lawyer-turned-politician.Sohn also depicts veteran NPAD lawmaker Rep. Park Jie-won apologizing for stressing “Honam, Honam.” The southwestern region is the electoral support base underpinning the NPAD.“We hope to obtain the voters’ hearts through self-repentance first, and by forgoing a lot of the vested interests,” said Sohn.The NPAD has recruited Sohn, responsible for many names of Korean products, including soju “Cheoeum Cheoreom (Like the First Time),” and apartments, including Hillstate, to

Jul 23, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Branding expert comes to party with 'diss' campaign
South Korea

Drunken women who blackout more prone to suicidal thoughts

Women who blackout after drinking alcohol, even if only once, are at greater risk of having suicidal thoughts, according to a report.Park Eun-cheol, a professor of preventive medicine at the Yonsei University’s Medical School, and his team surveyed 42,347 Korean adults from 2007 to 2011. Their findings were released July 19.The team used the “odds ratio,” or OR _ which considers drinking frequency, intake and the times the individual blacked out _ to measure the danger of having suicidal thoughts. It found that women who blacked out at least once are 1.63 times more likely to think about suicide. That rose to 2.16 times for women who blacked out every week. The survey also found no correlation between drinking, blackout and suicidal thoughts for men.“If people know about such dangers of suicidal thoughts beforehand, they can take certain measures to prevent it, especially those who tend to excessively drink often,” Professor Park said.This survey was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Jul 23, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Drunken women who blackout more prone to suicidal thoughts
Shows & Dramas

한고은, 4살 연하 회사원과 8월 결혼

배우 한고은(40)이 4살 연하 회사원과 다음 달 결혼식을 올린다.    한고은 소속사 지앤지프로덕션은 23일 "한고은이 8월 30일 사랑하는 사람과 백년가약을 맺는다"라면서 "예비 신랑은 4세 연하 회사원으로 자상하고 건실한 청년"이라고 밝혔다.    소속사는 "둘은 지인 소개로 만나 연인으로 발전했다"라면서 "교제 기간이 길지 않지만, 예비신랑의 따뜻하고 한결같은 모습에 결혼을 약속했다"라고 설명했다.    결혼식은 예비신랑과 양가 친지들을 배려해 친인척만을 초청해 비공개로 진행될 예정이다.   (연합뉴스) 

Jul 23, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
South Korea

Hyundai, Kia to sponsor PyeongChang Winter Olympics

South Korea's two largest automakers signed on as sponsors for its first Winter Olympic Games on Thursday.The organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors Corp. will provide some 4,100 official vehicles and cash to help run the multisport competition.The signing ceremony took place in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul.As a 'Tier One' partner, Hyundai-Kia will enjoy a wide range of marketing rights, including the use of intellectual property and the use of PyeongChang's logo in their advertising campaigns.Hyundai Motor Group, which holds the two carmakers under its wing, was an official partner of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. More recently, it was a sponsor for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade, both sporting events held in South Korea. (Yonhap)

Jul 23, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Shows & Dramas

Actress Jun Ji-hyun is pregnant

Actress Jun Ji-hyunTop hallyu actress Jun Ji-hyun, 34, of the television drama “My Love from the Star” is pregnant, reports said Wednesday.The star currently promoting her new film “Assassination” is 10 weeks into her pregnancy. It is her first pregnancy since she married her husband Choi Joon-hyuk three years ago. Her due date is around early next year.The actress whose hit films include “My Sassy Girl” (2008) and “The Thieves” (2012) regained her top star status with the wildly popular television drama “My Love.”

Jul 22, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Actress Jun Ji-hyun is pregnant
South Korea

Instant cold noodles laced with sodium

The sodium content of instant “naengmyeon,” or cold noodle, packages sold at supermarkets far exceeds the daily recommended intake, it was reported Wednesday.According to the food industry, the amount of sodium in 12 one-person packages of cold noodle products made by Pulmuone and Ottogi ranged from 48 percent to about 109 percent of the daily 2,000 milligrams recommended by the World Health Organization.Also, the water-based cold noodle products had more sodium than the mixed spicy ones.Excessive sodium can lead to high blood pressure, and heart and kidney diseases, the report said.

Jul 22, 2015By Kim Ji-soo
Instant cold noodles laced with sodium
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