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Ex-KT vice president pledges to end software regulations

Song Hee-kyung, lawmaker of ruling Saenuri PartyBy Lee Min-hyungSong Hee-kyung, a newly elected lawmaker of the ruling Saenuri Party, is moving to put an end to the nation’s decades-long regulation of the software industry.Song, 52, is one of Korea’s few female IT experts, previously serving as the vice president of KT’s Internet of Things (IoT) business division.She took various key posts at the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, including heading the firm’s software development center and business-to-business (B2B) IT service unit.In particular, she was the nation’s first female official promoted to a company’s vice presidency in the IT development industry.In March, the ruling party nominated Song as a proportional representative for the April 13 general election, citing her specialty and willingness to contribute to the development of the domestic software industry.Upon winning the election, she has pledged to devote her life to generating infrastructure for the nation’s slowly growing software industry.Toward that end, sh

Jun 13, 2016
Ex-KT vice president pledges to end software regulations

Lee, Song to return to small screen

Actor Song Seung-heon, left, and actress Lee Young-ae attend a press conference in Gangneung, GangwonProvince, on Nov. 30, 2015, to promote SBS TV’s new drama, “Saimdang, Diary of Light.”  / YonhapBy Kim Ji-soo Top hallyu actors Lee Young-ae and Song Seung-heon will return to the small screen in October, as the network SBS has scheduled “Saimdang, Diary of Light” to air in October.Lee and Song have concluded filming for the much-anticipated drama about Shin Saimdang (1504-1551). Shin is a respected painter and mother of the renowned Confucian scholar Lee Yul-gok of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910).The drama will air under the new Korean title “Saimdang, Diary of Light” from its tentative title “Saimdang, the Herstory.” In the drama, Lee, 45, plays a double role as Shin Saimdang and the modern-day Seo Ji-yoon who stumbles upon the diary of Saimdang.Lee has starred in numerous Korean dramas and films including the world-wide hit “Jewel in the Palace” (2003). Song will play the artist Lee Gyeom. Song also has an a

Jun 10, 2016
Lee, Song to return to small screen

Author releases book, album on postpartum depression

Joung SaenansulBy Lee Kyung-min  Postpartum depression should be addressed more openly to encourage young mothers to seek treatment instead of feeling shame, said Joung Saenansul, an illustrator, writer and singer-songwriter.She recently wrote a book called “Da Keun Yeoja,” roughly translated as “A Grown Woman,” to discuss her early rebellious life, marriage, childbirth, divorce, postpartum depression, suicide attempt and thoughts on life. She also released an album with the same title.“Many women suffering from depression do not dare come forward, instead sitting at home alone, quiet, unable to improve the situation,” she said.  While she was going through emotional turmoil following the birth of her daughter, the depression worsened because she had no one to rely on.“I once roamed around my home crying, holding my baby, feeling absolutely lost. I had no sense of what I was supposed to do. I had a newborn that came out of my body, but I was overwhelmed by the uncontrollable outpouring of emotions, the unidentifiable, indescribable

Jun 10, 2016
Author releases book, album on postpartum depression

Aerospace expert to head institute in Ethiopia

Lee In, honorary professor at KAISTBy Yoon Sung-wonLee In, 67, an honorary professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has been named as the head of a national research center in Ethiopia, according to KAIST, Thursday.He will be inaugurated as the head of Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT) in Ethiopia in August this year. His term will expire on July 31, 2018 but it can be extended for up to five years, the Korean science institute said.KAIST said Lee’s appointment is being made as the Ethiopian government is eager to promote science and technology.“Under the goal of fostering AAiT as a university specialized in science and technology, the Ethiopian government last year requested Korea to recommend a qualified figure for the position,” KAIST said in a statement. “Ethiopia recognizes that the country’s future depends on the advancement of science and technology.”AAiT is an affiliated research center of Ethiopia’s state-run Addis Ababa University and specializes in engineering education and research. More

Jun 9, 2016
Aerospace expert to head institute in Ethiopia

Kim Dong-ho, back to BIFF

 Kim Dong-ho, chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Busan International Film Festival / Courtesy of Kim Dong-hoBy Kim Ji-soo Everyone loves movies, including Kim Dong-ho, founder and now chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Busan International Film Festival.“As they say, movies are the summation of the creative efforts of people in their respective fields,” said Kim, giving  a standard definition of movies when asked what they mean to him. Then, the former veteran administrator and director disclosed a bit more. “For me, movies are the medium that allowed me to start the second chapter of my life,” he said.Kim, 79, has returned to the film festival he cofounded and headed for 15 years, perhaps, to give back to the medium and the festival itself. BIFF, which will enter its 21st year in October, ran into a major crisis last year. International film festivals sometimes run into disagreements with governments about freedom of expression, and BIFF was not an exception.The crisis centered around the film “Diving Bell,” a docum

Jun 8, 2016
Kim Dong-ho, back to BIFF

Int'l Conference on Girls' Health

Ewha Womans University President Choi Kyung-hee, center in front row, and participants of the 2016 International Conference on Girls’ Health pose Wednesday at the university’s LG Convention Hall in Seoul, Wednesday, after collectively recognizing the need to improve girls’ health, which is fundamental to improving the health of women and children as well. The conference was organized by the university and supported by groups such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Korea International Cooperation Agency. Also at the conference, seven teams were chosen out an initial 98 from developing nations, as part of the 2016 InternationalGirls’ Health Student Writing Competition. / Courtesy of Ewha Womans University

Jun 8, 2016

Renowned political science professor Moon Chung-in delivers last lecture

Moon Chung-in, a professor of political science, delivers a last lecture at Yonsei University in Seoul, Tuesday. / YonhapBy Kim Ji-sooPerhaps only someone of Professor Moon Chung-in’s stature can deliver a lecture entitled “Why I’ve Failed as a Professor.” On Tuesday, the 65-year-old political science professor at Yonsei University in Seoul and political brain during the Kim Dae-jung and the Roh Moo-hyun administrations shared his thoughts in his last class.“Looking back, I realize that I have no big project in which I put in four to five years of research and study,” Moon said.He thinks he could have produced two projects on the developmental nation theory and on national security in the third world.Moon, however, said that in his eyes he failed to select and focus; he did not say no to the many requests to write papers or give lectures, and consequently, much of his work was in response to such requests than on his own initiative. He cited that he may have stuck to the scholarly passion of his younger days rather than shift to working on int

Jun 8, 2016
Renowned political science professor Moon Chung-in delivers last lecture

Female officer passes US combat skill test

1st Lt. Jeong Ji-eun of the Army’s 30th Mechanized Infantry DivisionBy Yi Whan-wooA female Army officer has passed the combat skills test administered by the U.S. Army.The South Korean military said 1st Lt. Jeong Ji-eun of the 30th Mechanized Infantry Division was awarded an Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB) after passing the U.S. Army’s tests on physical fitness, land navigation, use of weapons, forced foot march and other capabilities needed for ground combat.Jeong became the first South Korean woman to receive an EIB, the military said.This year, some 630 personnel, including 50 South Koreans, participated in the EIB test co-organized by the U.S. and South Korean military at Camp Casey in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province.Twenty-one South Koreans received EIBs in the training held from May 8 to 26. Jeong was the only female.Jeong, 26, also passed the South Korean infantry’s own test in November 2015. It benchmarked the EIB test.Only 13 to 15 percent of applicants pass the annual EIB test, according to the military.She reportedly performed 200 push-ups and sit-ups,

Jun 8, 2016
Female officer passes US combat skill test

Plaque of appreciation

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) President Kim In-chul, right, holds a plaque of appreciation together with Korea Times Managing Editor Cho Jae-hyon at a restaurant in the Koreana Hotel in central Seoul, Tuesday. Cho presented the plaque to Kim to thank him for a March 31 interview with the English language newspaper. Kim said HUFS will beef up its biomedical engineering department and ultimately create a medical college under a long-term development plan./ Korea Times photo by Chung Hyun-chae

Jun 7, 2016

'Director a job fighting perennial loneliness'

 Director Min Kyu-dong speaks during the Creator Runway talk show, organized by the Korea Creative Centent Agency, at Blue Square Samsung Card Hall in Seoul, on May 31. / Korea Times photo by Park Jin-hai  By Park Jin-haiKorean film director and screenwriter Min Kyu-dong, who recently penned and directed “Horror Stories 3,” said movies resemble life.“Life is a shuttle bus that goes between being alone and being together. In that context, making a movie shares a lot with life,” said Min during a recent talk show hosted by the Korea Creative Content Agency organized to give advice to young would-be-creators.Quoting the famous line of Morpheus in the movie Matrix, “there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path,” Min said the life of movie director is a long fight against the loneliness.“Making a movie is one of the least economical activities. We spend 2,000 hours and sometimes 20,000 hours for a two-hour-long movie. When the camera is rolling, I’m working with 100 staffers. But, when the shooting i

Jun 7, 2016
'Director a job fighting perennial loneliness'
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