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Korean team wins e-sports championship

Korean professional gamer Lee Sang-hyeok, center, lifts the trophy with his teammates after winning the final round of the League of Legends international competition 2016 Mid-Season Invitational at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in China, Sunday. / Courtesy of Riot Games KoreaBy Yoon Sung-wonSK Telecom’s professional gaming team T1 clinched victory at the international e-sports competition of computer online game “League of Legends (LoL)” in Shanghai, after defeating North American gaming team Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) 3-0 in the final match, Sunday.T1, which has already won two official LoL world championships, has shown its supremacy in the game by pulling off a grand slam with the third victory in Shanghai.After the final of the LoL Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) 2016 match at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Lee Sang-hyeok, one of the world’s most renowned professional LoL gamers better known by his game playing nickname “Faker,” was named most valuable player (MVP) for the competition.“We have reached the top perch through

May 16, 2016
Korean team wins e-sports championship

'All children need is love'

Bang Seoung-hoBy Lee Kyung-min  Love and respect would greatly solve most teenagers’ problems in school, including bullying, smoking and other deviant behavior, according to Ahyeon Polytechnic School principal Bang Seoung-ho, 54.If parents and teachers assert authority by causing fear, it will only worsen anger and frustration among teenagers, inclining them to direct their negative energy toward the weak among their peers.“School bullying and teenage smoking is getting worse because all they hear from adults is: ‘No. You should not do that,’ while what they really want to hear is ‘Are you OK? How are you doing?’ Scolding them and forcing them to do as they are told is merely a short-sighted approach,” he said.Bang’s efforts to be a good example for other adults started in 2014 when he wrote a song called “No Tobacco” while principal at Junghwa High School in eastern Seoul.“I know you are looking for what you are denied: love and care. I’m sorry for not loving you sooner. Don’t worry. I believe in you.

May 13, 2016
'All children need is love'

KINTEX CEO to head KOICA

Kim In-shikBy Kim Ji-soo Kim In-shik, chief of the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX), will lead the International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a report said Thursday.Kim, 66, will assume his post as president of Korea’s aid wing, KOICA, on Friday.Kim graduated from Seoul National University as a German language and literature major and from the University of Southern California’s business school.He started his career at the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), serving in offices in Monrovia, Liberia; Kingston, Jamaica; Zurich, Switzerland; and Berlin, Germany.He served as the head of KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, for three years starting in 2005. In 2006, Kim was a member of the board of directors of the Asia region of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI).

May 13, 2016
KINTEX CEO to head KOICA

Courtesy call

Iraq’s ambassador to Korea, Wadee Al-Batti, shakes hands with The Korea Times President-Publisher Lee Chang-sup after making a courtesy call to The Korea Times office on Friday. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

May 13, 2016

Diplomatic golfing

Honorary consuls and ambassadors to Korea pose for a photo during a golf event at the Lakeside Country Club in Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. Twenty three honorary consuls and diplomats participated in the annual golf outing organized by the Corps of Honorary Consuls in Korea headed by Yu Seung-pil, fifth from right in the middle row, honorary consul of Haiti to Korea. To his right is Auditor Yang In-mo, honorary consul of Croatia. / Courtesy of the Corps of Honorary Consuls in Korea

May 12, 2016

Diplomat Lee Si-hyung to head KF

Lee Si-hyungBy Kim Ji-soo Lee Si-hyung, 59, international relations ambassador for Gyeonggi Province, will head the Korea Foundation (KF).Lee will serve the affiliate organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a term of three years. He succeeds Yu Hyun-seok.A graduate of Seoul National University’s diplomatic studies major, Lee passed the foreign service exam in 1980. He has served in numerous posts, including Korean ambassador to OECD from 2013 to 2015. 

May 12, 2016
Diplomat Lee Si-hyung to head KF

SNU Prof. Hyeon is first Korean to win IUVSTA prize

Hyeon Taeg-hwan, SNU professorBy Kim Yoo-chulThe International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) selected Hyeon Taeg-hwan as the winner of this year’s Prize for Technology.Hyeon, a professor at Seoul National University and head of the school’s Nanoparticle Research Center, is the first Korean to win the prize. The IUVSTA, an international federation of 33 national vacuum science organizations, has held the International Vacuum Congress (IVC) every three years since its inception in 1958. It has been giving out the IUVSTA Prize for Technology and Prize for Science to outstanding scientists and engineers in the fields of vacuum science and technology since its 14th congress.Hyeon was selected as the recipient in recognition of his innovative and exceptional research in the areas of the fundamental mechanisms of nanocrystal formation, uniform-sized nanoparticle manufacturing and nanoparticle design for medical applications, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) said in a statement, Thursday.“His winning reaffirms that Professor Hyeon is a g

May 12, 2016
SNU Prof. Hyeon is first Korean to win IUVSTA prize

Meeting with Kuwaiti education minister

Kookmin University President Yu Ji-soo, right, shakes hands with Bader Hamad Al-Essa, minister of education and higher education of Kuwait, after discussing ways to attract more Kuwaiti students to Kookmin’s specialized programs inbusiness administration, engineering and the natural sciences, on the university’s campus in Seoul, Tuesday. / Courtesy of Kookmin University

May 11, 2016

Nun helps adoptees find roots

Kim Kil-jaBy Kim Hyo-jinKim Kil-ja, a nun who belongs to the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, has been a bridge between Korean adoptees and their motherland over the past two decades.Every year since 1995, the 63-year-old nun has provided consultation for around 100 overseas adoptees with hopes of finding their roots. She has involved herself in helping them search for their biological parents and has successfully arranged 12 reunions between adoptees and their birth families so far.“They’ve got nobody here. Our support in helping them search for their birth parents is as important as the reunions themselves,” Kim said in an interview with The Korea Times. “I want them to feel welcome and see that their motherland is on their side.”The Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres in the diocese of Daegu ran an orphanage called White Lily Orphanage from 1915 to 1994. Most of the children who went there were sent to overseas countries as adoptees. Many came back to visit the place after growing up, feeling a sense of connection to their home land. As their numbers grew

May 11, 2016
Nun helps adoptees find roots

Anthropology professor named APCEIU board chairperson

Prof. Bae Ki-dongBy Chung Hyun-chaeBae Ki-dong, an anthropology professor at Hanyang University, was named chairperson of the governing board of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), Saturday. His term started on May 7 and continues until May 6, 2019. “I will actively push forward the initiation of global citizenship education programs in domestic and overseas universities as well as global networks in order for APCEIU to become an international organization specializing in global citizenship education,” Bae told The Korea Times. Along with Bae’s appointment, the Ministry of Education also named 10 members of the APCEIU governing board.The board consists of education experts, representatives of the Korean government, UNESCO and its member states. Bae graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1975 after studying archaeology and anthropology. He then received his master’s degree in archaeology from SNU, and was awarded a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He has bee

May 11, 2016
Anthropology professor named APCEIU board chairperson
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