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Young dentists help neighbors in need

Yonsei Good Day Dental Clinic dentistChoi Se-kyungYonsei Good Day Dental Clinic dentistBaek Do-young By Jhoo Dong-chanYoung dentist duo in their 30s are contributing their talents to help their neighbors in need.Yonsei Good Day Dental Clinic dentists Baek Do-young and Choi Se-kyung provide a free lecture service teaching people how to care for their teeth and gums every year at the Yangjae Senior Welfare Center in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul. Those elderly people in need who participate in the lecture are also subject to receive partial funding for implant surgery and gum care procedures. They also regularly visited the Suseo-dong Office in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, to help needy teenagers as well by providing cavity treatment and teeth correction services. Patients only pay the material costs. Baek and Choi are also partner dentists of the Smile Charity Foundation, a charity group that provides free dental services for low-income disabled people.“It is our social responsibility to provide quality dental services to people equally no matter how rich or poor they

Oct 6, 2016
Young dentists help neighbors in need

Hanbok back on the streets

A woman strolls the compounds of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul dressed in the traditional Korean attire of hanbok in this file photo. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chulRenewed interest comes from young, touristsBy Kim Ji-soo At about half past 9 a.m., the streets of Seoul are usually empty, as office workers are hunkered down at their desks and tourists are not yet out and about. But the street that begins from Anguk Station leading toward the Constitutional Court and into Bukchon Hanok Village is already crowded with tourists relishing the city in autumn.On Tuesday morning, tourists flocked to 3355, a hanbok (traditional Korean attire) rental shop. A huge number of Chinese tourists are in the country for a short vacation as China marks its National Day Golden Week holiday. Two friends from Shanghai ― Zhang Yan and Li Jinxia, both 32 ― have already selected an elegant-looking ivory-and-blue hanbok in the store.“We wanted to experience Korean culture and also the ambience,” Zhang and Li told The Korea Times. Gyeongbok Palace was closed that day, but Chan

Oct 5, 2016
Hanbok back on the streets

US ambassador to UN will visit Seoul this week

Samantha PowerBy Kang Seung-woo Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will visit South Korea later this week to discuss North Korea’s nuclear issue, according to a diplomatic source, Wednesday.“Ambassador Power plans to arrive in South Korea, Saturday, on a four-day visit,” said the source.It is rare for a U.S. ambassador to the U.N. to travel to South Korea. It will be her first visit to Korea since she assumed the position in 2013.Her trip comes as the U.N. is working on new sanctions against North Korea following its recent nuclear test and missile launches.Pyongyang carried out its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9 ― its most powerful so far ― along with a series of ballistic missile tests, both of which violated existing U.N. resolutions.According to the source, Power will meet Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and other ranking diplomatic officials to exchange views on a fresh resolution being negotiated at the U.N.Demand is growing that the new resolution under consideration should include measures aimed at covering what many see a

Oct 5, 2016
US ambassador to UN will visit Seoul this week

PyeongChang committee won IOC vote with 'New Horizons'

Theresa Rah, co-CEO of the presentation consulting firm Oratio, speaks during a lecture at the KoreaCulture Quotient (CQ) event hosted by the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI), at the TurkishAmbassador’s residence in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, Sept. 27. /  Courtesy of CICIBy Park Jae-hyukTheresa Rah, co-CEO of the presentation consulting firm Oratio, said changing the perceptions of International Olympic Committee (IOC) members on Korea was the key to PyeongChang’s successful Olympics hosting bid, during a lecture at the Korea Culture Quotient (CQ) event hosted by the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI), at the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in Seongbuk, northeastern Seoul, Sept. 27. “They thought we are very insular, or shy, introverted. So, hard to communicate,” Rah said. “What they see on the news is what they think of Korea, representing which is usually corporate Korea or political Korea, not always in the best news. And of course, North Korea features so prominently. This was not the image that we wanted to present as a c

Oct 4, 2016By Park Jae-hyuk
PyeongChang committee won IOC vote with 'New Horizons'

Park wins at Chinese culinary competition

Park Eun-young, a chef at Grand Ambassador Seoul, won a prize at an international culinary competition with her “Pork Mushrooms in Chili-bean Sauce.” /  Courtesy of Lee Kum KeeBy Yoon Ja-young A young Korean chef won a prize at an international Chinese culinary competition, amid increasing interest in Chinese cuisine here.Lee Kum Kee, a Chinese sauce and condiment manufacturer, announced winners for the Lee Kum Kee International Young Chef Chinese Culinary Challenge 2016 last Thursday. Among them was Park Eun-young, a Chinese culinary chef at the Grand Ambassador Seoul. She won the “Best Presentation Award” as well as the Silver Award with her “Pork Mushrooms in Chili-bean Sauce.”At the competition held in Hong Kong on Sept. 28 and 29, a total of 43 young and passionate chefs from Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States, showed off their finest dishes they prepared within the 90 minute time limit, using Lee Kum Kee sauce. Established in 1888 by th

Oct 3, 2016
Park wins at Chinese culinary competition

Korean National Day in Singapore

Lee Sang-deok, third from left, South Korean Ambassador to Singapore, poses with Ng Chee Meng, fourth from left, acting minister for education and senior minister of state for the Ministry of Transport, and other guests at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, Thursday, after hosting the Korean National Day reception. Lee said that to introduce more things about Korea and intensify cultural exchanges, the embassy plans to open the Korea Cultural Center in Singapore soon./ Courtesy of Korean Embassy to Singapore

Sep 30, 2016

Funeral for 3 Navy aviators to be held Sunday

Kim Kyung-min  Park U-shin Hwang Sung-cheolBy Jun Ji-hye The Navy will hold funeral services at a military hospital in Gyeonggi Province, Sunday, for the three sailors who were killed in a helicopter crash last week.The three aviators killed were Lieutenant Commanders Kim Kyung-min, 33, and Park U-shin, 33, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Hwang Sung-cheol, 29. They were promoted by one rank posthumously.They were aboard a Lynx anti-submarine helicopter that crashed into the sea off the nation’s east coast during a joint naval exercise with the United States, Monday.The Navy recovered their bodies from 1,030 meters below the sea on Tuesday and Wednesday, during search operations conducted with a remotely operated underwater vehicle.Kim, a native of Jinan, North Jeolla Province, the pilot of the ill-fated chopper, was commissioned as an ensign in December 2010, and served as a Navy combat helicopter pilot. He received a citation from the chief of naval operations in 2015 in recognition for his outstanding shooting skills.Park, a native of Uiseong, North Gyeongs

Sep 30, 2016
Funeral for 3 Navy aviators to be held Sunday

Cosmetics rally amid chilly Korea-China ties

Graphic by Cho Sang-wonBy Kim Ji-sooNo other Korean export may be enjoying a rally these days more so than Korean cosmetics, amid a general pessimistic forecast for other sectors. Consumers around the world, in Asia and elsewhere, have proclaimed themselves Korean cosmetics fans. Even American consumers have begun to discover the wonder of Korean cosmetics, as can be seen on the beauty website Refinery29 and In the Gloss and chat forums such as Reddit.The slightly chilly relations between South Korea and China following Seoul’s decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in July to counter threats from North Korea have not dented exports of Korean cosmetics, according to official statistics. Figures for August, announced by the government in early September, show that exports of Korean cosmetics reached $364 million, an 80 percent increase over the same period the previous year and a departure from the decrease in cosmetic firms’ share prices following the announcement of THAAD.Strategy and Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho, who doubles as the top e

Sep 30, 2016
Cosmetics rally amid chilly Korea-China ties

N. Korean defector pursues dream of becoming successful entrepreneur

By Kim Bo-eun Kim Eun-ho, 31, spent his childhood years in China after escaping from North Korea with his family when he was very young.Kim recalls fearing being caught by Chinese authorities, but little did he know that those years would later become an invaluable asset which would help him pursue his dream.Kim and his family were able to enter South Korea years later. He finished high school and went to university here.Unlike many North Koreans who struggle to adjust to life in the South, Kim majored in Chinese and business management at Sogang University in Seoul. He also had the opportunity to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.After graduation, he worked for two of Korea’s major conglomerates. When Kim was with Hyundai Heavy Industries, he was in charge of negotiating with the company’s subcontractors about prices for the products and services they offered.“My role was to lower the prices, but when I talked about it to the subcontractors, they would tell me this would leave them with no choice but to fire some of their workers,&rdq

Sep 30, 2016

Designer highlights gradual innovation for usability

Caleb Park, head of Local Design Part at KakaoBy Yoon Sung-wonMaking a product or an application, many designers seek something unprecedented as an innovation through new functionality, though it is difficult to achieve.Caleb Park, head of Local Design Part at Kakao, stressed that usability should be prioritized in design and changes should be applied gradually to help users accept them.“I think the most important thing in designing a new application service or in rebranding one is to take no more than half a step at a time because normally users are accustomed to the patterns they used to use,” Park said. “Innovations for the sake of innovation do not help users. A design that boosts usability is made out of a combination of 98 percent commonsense and 2 percent aesthetic touch.”Park also said a usable-friendly design is in between the two concepts _ Good Design and Bel Design. Compared to Good Design’s pragmatic approach that defines a good design as a high-selling one, Bel Design underlines the values of emotional and aesthetic factors.He said designer

Sep 29, 2016
Designer highlights gradual innovation for usability
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