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Remembrance event for fallen KATUSAs to be held in US

By Kang Seung-woo The Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation (KWVMF) will conduct the KATUSA Verbal Wall of Remembrance Ceremony on June 25 at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to honor those who fought and bled alongside U.S. soldiers during the Korean War.The KWVMF, chaired by Korean War veteran William Weber, is currently working with the KATUSA Veterans Association and other relevant organizations to acquire the names of KATUSA soldiers killed in action.During the event, the KWVMF plans to read approximately 150 names every three minutes.KATUSA represents the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, a program under which Korean Army soldiers are assigned to work with their American counterparts. It originates from the 1950-53 Korean War.According to the data, 43,660 KATUSAs participated in the conflict, with 6,415 killed in action, 3,823 wounded and 1,667 missing in action.“It is apparent that all of the approximately 8,000 KATUSAs killed in action cannot be identified by name,” the KWVMF said in its statement. “Many do not realize the U.S

Feb 5, 2016

Japanese artist carries on nomad life

Takeshi HirokawaBy Kim Se-jeong Takeshi Hirokawa, 36, is among many Japanese whose lives were completely changed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, one of the country’s worst natural disasters.Until the beginning of 2013, he was a social worker helping people with intellectual disabilities in Tokyo. Now, he is a woodcut artist in Seoul.“Many friends of mine were killed by the tsunami, and I lost contact with my parents for about 10 hours. With all that happening, it occurred to me that I should do what I always wanted to do,” the artist said, adding that art and music were his childhood hobbies.When his employment contract came up for renewal in 2013, he decided not to renew and his nomadic life began. Briefly, he acted in a movie made by one of his friends. His father died in May 2013, and three months later he left Japan for Seoul.Hirokawa spent his first six months with Korean artist Lee Chul-hee.  “I saw some of  his works in 2009 at a protest site. I was totally impressed,” he said. “In Japan, art is barely a medium to get s

Feb 5, 2016
Japanese artist carries on nomad life

Woo still develops career path

Woo Sang-minThe logo of World Freestyle Football FederationBy Choi Kyong-ae Woo Sang-min, 62, has just added a new challenging job to his 30-year-long career dominated by public positions in other countries. He took office as the first governor of the World Freestyle Football Federation headquartered in Seoul early this month.“As first governor of the federation, I have three goals to achieve in the coming years. I will seek to make freestyle football into an official Olympic sport; to host a world competition for the game this fall in Korea; and to hold inter-Korean freestyle football games in the long term,” Woo said in an interview with The Korea Times.The World Freestyle Football Federation was established by Korean native Woo Hee-yong, 54, world-renowned freestyle football player. Woo broke the Guinness Book’s world records for football head tricks in 1989 by heading a ball for 5 hours, 6 minutes and 30 seconds. He serves as chairman of the federation.       Woo Sang-min, who currently serves as Chief Executive of Lukman.Hamid

Feb 4, 2016
Woo still develops career path

Educators win Korea-Japan award

Korean Education Minister Lee Joon-sik, fourth from left, and his Japanese counterpart Hase Hiroshi, fourth from right, pose with the winners of the Korea-Japan Education Exchange Award. The winners are, from left, Ryu Dae-sung, a teacher at Incheon Marine Science High School; Sin Sun-gyun, a teacher at Cheongseok High School and president of the Korea Japanese Teachers’ Association; Jung Gi-young, professor of Japanese studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies; Takeda Jichi, president of Kyushu High School; Nakano Hitoshi, head of the Kyushu University’s Research Center for Korean Studies; and Naito Hiroyuki, representative of the Japan Forum. / Courtesy of the Ministry of EducationBy Chung Hyun-chaeTwo high school teachers and one university professor were honored by an inaugural award for promoting educational and cultural exchanges between Korea and Japan.The winners of the Korea-Japan Education Exchange Award are Sin Sun-gyun, Ryu Dae-sung and Jung Gi-young. Sin is a teacher at Cheongseok High School and president of the Korea Japanese Teache

Feb 3, 2016
Educators win Korea-Japan award

Photographer capturing lives of Korean War veterans

Lee Byung-yongBy Yi Whan-wooLee Byung-yong, a 58-year-old professional photographer, has been taking photos of Korean War veterans since 2007.He has continued the project despite time and budget constraints because he believes that they are “worth a shot” and this is “the best choice I have ever made.”“My belief remains unchanged although time and money problems continue to bring challenges to my project,” he said in a telephone interview with The Korea Times, Monday.Lee said he realized the importance of “capturing and preserving the memories” when his house was flooded in the early 2000s and he lost all of his artworks.He was also shocked when descendents of the 1950-53 Korean War veterans from Ethiopia sought political asylum during their visit to Chuncheon, Gangwon Province in 2006.The descendents were visiting South Korea to attend a ceremony for the establishment of a memorial in Chuncheon in honor of the Ethiopian war veterans.A total of 6,037 Ethiopians, including 121 dead and 536 wounded, fought for South Korea during the Korea

Feb 3, 2016
Photographer capturing lives of Korean War veterans

Respiratory disease expert named new KCDC chief

Jung Ki-suckBy Lee Kyung-min      Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital President Jung Ki-suck has been named the new head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), Cheong Wa Dae said, Tuesday.Jung, 58, is the first appointee following the position’s promotion to the vice-ministerial level last year following public criticism that the agency should play a bigger role in preventing infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that swept the country last year and killed 38.He will succeed former head Yang Byung-guk, for whom the Board of Audit and Inspection recommended dismissal for failing to contain the MERS outbreak.“Jung has abundant experience in treatment and clinical studies, so we believe he is qualified to upgrade the nation’s disease prevention and control system, especially against infectious diseases including MERS and Zika virus,” Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Jung Youn-kuk said.The spokesman said Jung has long led the Hallym hospital, possessing a talent for managing organizati

Feb 2, 2016
Respiratory disease expert named new KCDC chief

Korean violinist wins Dubai competition

Yoo Jin-woo, third from left, poses with, from left, Premier Music College of Prague pianist Iva Rakova, Dubai Media City managing director Mohammed Abdullah, and Riad Kudsi, the head of the jury of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Music Competition and director of the National Conservatory, Dubai, at the CNN Building in Dubai Media City on Jan. 24. / Courtesy of the National Conservatory of Dubai By Kwon Ji-younYoung violinist Yoo Jin-woo has been named one of the grand winners of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Music Competition, organized in conjunction with the 12th Emirates International Peace Music Festival.Also known as Eljin Yoo, the 13-year-old was announced as grand winner in the intermediate violin category of the GCC-level competition organized by Dubai Media City last month. He will perform as a soloist with the Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra (EYSO), comprised of the UAE’s leading young musicians, at the opening ceremony of the Emirates International Peace Music Festival on March 20. Yoo will be joined by his fellow grand prize winner Xiaolin Zhang, 10

Feb 2, 2016
Korean violinist wins Dubai competition

Dissatisfaction with parenting leads to dependency on cell phones: report

The more middle school students are dissatisfied with their guardians' parenting, the more they rely on cell phones, leading to low independent studying ability, a report showed Tuesday.According to the report by a research team led by professor Yi Soon-hyung of Seoul National University, students who thought their parents showed inconsistency, excessive expectations and over-involvement in parenting turned out to rely more on cell phones.The research was based on the track records of 1,953 students from their first grade in middle school through their third year.The correlation between mobile phone dependency and excessive expectations was the highest at 0.15, according to the report, meaning excessive expectations are the most detrimental factor leading to students' dependency on cell phones. The correlation between dependency and over-involvement and inconsistency were 0.07 and 0.06, respectively.The report also said students with higher cell phone dependency have a lower self-regulated learning ability.The value of achievement, purpose orientation, behavior control ability and ab

Feb 2, 2016
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