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Sungkyunkwan in Southeast Asia

Sungkyunkwan University President Chung Kyu-sang, third row eighth from left, and Sungkyunkwan University Alumni Association Chairman Ryu Duk-hee, same row ninth from left, raise their fists with Singapore Alumni Association Chairman Oh Min-kyu, second row fifth from right, ranking officials from the university and alumni from around Asia at the 2016 Asia Joint Alumni Association General Meeting at Grand Copthorne Waterfront in Singapore, Saturday. Chung said that the university will expand alliances with top universities in Southeast Asia to help its students find opportunities in the region. / Courtesy of Sungkyunkwan University

Mar 28, 2016

K-pop audition participant Sam Kim debuts in Korea

Sam KimBy Kim Ji-soo Korean-American teen Sam Kim, who finished as a runner-up in the 2014 K-pop auditions, has issued a debut release in Korea.The first album of the 18-year-old singer-songwriter from Seattle, United States, is called “My Name is Sam.” The title track for the album — “Mama Don’t Worry” – is Kim’s comfort letter to his mother as he remains in Seoul to pursue his music career. In a slow-tempo song, Kim features such lyrics as his mother telling him how he is so like his dad, and telling him to stop eating snacks. Kim also wrote other songs in this first-part of the debut album such as “Seattle” and “Your Song.”Kim took part in the “K-Pop Star 3,” a local audition program in 2014, capturing fans’ attention with his guitar performance. Kim had said that he learned to play the guitar by himself. In “Mama Don’t Worry,” fans anticipate Kim’s guitar performance once again.Since the audition, Kim has signed with Antenna Music, a talent agency led by Kor

Mar 28, 2016
K-pop audition participant Sam Kim debuts in Korea

Scholar raises questions on stereotype of 'comfort women'

Sejong University ProfessorPark Yu-haBy Kim Jae-wonA professor of Japanese literature raised questions on the alleged stereotype of “comfort women,” who were forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese military during World War II.She alleged activists blocked comfort women from telling their stories, if they differed from the typical ones told by wartime sex slaves.Park Yu-ha said that she finds nothing wrong in her 2013 book “The Comfort Women of the Empire” which nine former comfort women alleged hurt their honor last year. In January, a Seoul district court ordered Park to pay 10 million won to each of the women after they filed a lawsuit against her.  Park vowed to bring the case to the appeals court. She teaches about Japanese literature and conflicts in East Asia at Sejong University in eastern Seoul.She clarified that she is not fighting against former comfort women, but against the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, a civic organization which has worked for the issue over the last couple of decades.“

Mar 28, 2016
Scholar raises questions on stereotype of 'comfort women'

'Gov't should embrace Korean adoptees'

Kim Chang-yongBy Lee Kyung-min Kim Chang-yong, 59, chairman of the Inje Institute for International Human Resources (IIHR), said Friday that an invitation program for overseas Korean adoptees is key to them maintaining a strong bond with their home country.The government should offer them an opportunity to learn about their motherland that was unable to offer a home to them during the poverty-stricken period in the 1960s, and then until the late 1990s when the social stigma against babies born out of wedlock was pervasive.“I think it is almost a public duty for the government as well as Korean society to take care of those who were once abandoned by their home country,” Kim said.His conviction is stronger than ever following his 16-year experience in organizing the IIHR.Under the invitation program organized by Inje University in South Gyeongsang Province, adoptees who pay a $2,000 fee, can come to Korea and stay for 14 weeks, learning the Korean language, history, culture, as well as taking trips to cultural hotspots. The rest of the cost is covered by the universit

Mar 25, 2016
'Gov't should embrace Korean adoptees'

Big Bang, CL give K-pop good name

 Big BangCLBy Kim Ji-soo YG Entertainment stars are going strong. Five-member boy band Big Bang and CL, leader of four-member girl band 2NE1, have been selected as candidates for a TIME magazine poll.They were among the 127 named for the magazine’s online poll picking the 100 most-influential people of the year.The TIME 100 is an annual list choosing the most influential people in politics, entertainment, business, technology, science and other sectors. TIME editors pick the winners based on the poll’s results. The winner will be announced on April 14, while the official list of the TIME 100 will be disclosed on April 21.The magazine said it noted CL’s steps as a solo artist with such songs as “Doctor Pepper” and “Hello Bitches.” This is her second nomination in two years.For Big Bang, the magazine noted how the band has been taking over the globe with a devoted fan base in the absence of One Direction.Other figures nominated include U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pope Francis, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and

Mar 25, 2016
Big Bang, CL give K-pop good name

Putin wax figure

This picture shows a life-size wax figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Serbia’s only museum of wax figures in the central town of Jagodina./ AFP-Yonhap

Mar 24, 2016

Jobs for youths

Ewha Womans University President Choi Kyung-hee, second from right, stands with Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, center, and three university presidents on Ewha’s campus in western Seoul, Tuesday, after signing an agreement on youth employment. The three are Hongik University President Kim Young-hwan, far left, Sogang University President Yoo Ki-pung, second left, and Yonsei University President Kim Yong-hak. They also agreed to help small businesses and the self-employed located near their campuses. / Courtesy of Ewha Womans University

Mar 23, 2016

Executive takes Korea's cosmetics expertise overseas

Cosmax Chairman Lee Kyung-soo smiles as he sprays mist made by the company in his office in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukExecutive takes Korea’s cosmetics expertise overseas By Kim Ji-soo Had his family been better off, Lee Kyung-soo, the tall 69-year-old chairman of Cosmax, said he would have majored in liberal arts or art in college.“I’ve always liked drawing and writing,” Lee said as he showed his photo album titled “Love Story.” Containing photos he took with his cellphone, and accompanied by writings that are a “love story” to his wife, the album is also about his love of nature and people.Sitting in front of a pine tree painting by the Korean painter Do Seong-wook in his office in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, Lee looks more like a scientist than an artist. But having a long conversation with the Seoul National University’s College of Medicine graduate, or reading about his firm’s growth path, one can glean that his success is a mix of willful fight against odds, and meticul

Mar 23, 2016
Executive takes Korea's cosmetics expertise overseas

Young men reject exemptions to become Marines

Cho Nam-woo, left, and Kim Sang-hyun / Courtesy of ROK Marine CorpsBy Jun Ji-hye Two young men volunteered to become Marines even after they were granted exemptions from Korea’s mandatory two-year conscription.Kim Sang-hyun, 25, and Cho Nam-woo, 24, both privates first class in the ROK Marine Corps are currently serving at the ROK Marine Second Division in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province.The Marine Corps said it recognized the rare choice made by the two as model cases that show the willingness of young Korean men to fulfill their obligation of serving the nation at a time when many young men increasingly attempt to dodge their military duty.Kim could have chosen to work at a defense firm as an alternative to his mandatory military service after receiving a gold medal in carpentry at the 41st WorldSkills held in London in 2011.The WorldSkills is a biennial competition held around the world to showcase and inspire world-class excellence in craftsmanship.The Nation’s Military Service Law stipulates that those who possess world-class skilled craftsmanship can work at a defense

Mar 23, 2016
Young men reject exemptions to become Marines

'Information curation is key to IoT-era design'

Kim Mi-yunBy Park Jin-haiKim Mi-yun, digital design professor at Seoul Digital University, says design in the “smart city” should not remain in the domain of an art.At a time when local telecommunication companies join hands with builders and security companies to launch smart home services, using Internet of Things technologies, design should give more focus on “Information Curation,” she said.“In the past, designers have focused on the exterior, thinking about how to make a product look beautiful. Now, designers should think about how to make the product smart,” she said. “To do that, they should be aware of technologies and what related data it could tap into. In that sense, designers should become content curators who can orchestrate all the information.”Kim, after being in the field for 15 years as an interior designer, has turned to the smart home and smart city concept that emerged in the early 2000s. Now she teaches living environment design at the university.She says computer technologies have blurred the traditional barriers t

Mar 22, 2016
'Information curation is key to IoT-era design'
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