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Kang honored as 'Woman in Film of the Year'

Kang Soo-youn, actress and co-executive director of the Busan International Film Festival, speaks during her acceptance speech for the Woman in Film of the Year award at the 16th Women in Film Korea Festival at Megabox Artnine Theater in Seoul, Monday.  / YonhapBy Baek Byung-yeulVeteran actress Kang Soo-youn was selected as The Woman in Film of the Year at the 16th Women in Film Korea Festival, Monday, for her distinguished service as co-executive director of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF).“I feel happy as a woman these days and I think I have been doing well as an actress. I am deeply moved as the award recognizes women in the industry,” the 49-year-old said during her acceptance speech at Megabox Artnine Theater in Seoul.“Ever since I began acting in the 1970s, I have had to endure a lot of difficulties as an actress. I think women filmmakers and actresses have been taking an indispensable role in the industry,” she said, adding she would like to receive an acting award next year too.Before the awards ceremony, Kim Dong-ho, found

Dec 8, 2015
Kang honored as 'Woman in Film of the Year'

Paintings boost Korea-China cultural ties

Choi Chang-won, a Chinese studies professor at Chungwoon University, paints in a private exhibition in Beijing in January. / Courtesy of Choi Chang-wonBy Park Jin-haiChoi Chang-won, 57, professor of the Department of Chinese Studies, Chungwoon University is called in many names.He is the one and only ink wash painter specialized in sea shrimps, popular professor in both Korea and China and now a father of 19 adopted Chinese students.“Shrimps with the bent back are the symbol that shows the virtue of modesty. It is insignificant creatures in broad and blue water. But also, it means dynamics and abundance they leap actively and move in groups. Their long antennas symbolize good health and long life,” he said during the interview with The Korea Times. Choi started learning ink wash painting in 1075, from a protégé of a most celebrated Joseon Kingdom calligrapher Kim Jeong-hui. He has been painting shrimps over 25 years now.His pieces, with bright red shrimps and words of late poet Wang Ao’s poem on sea shrimps, have become his unique art of world, wh

Dec 7, 2015By Park Jin-hai
Paintings boost Korea-China cultural ties

Brother Anthony honored by Queen Elizabeth II

Brother Anthony, right, is presented with a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Charles Hay, the British ambassador to Korea, on Dec. 2. / Korea Times photo by John DunbarBy Robert NeffBrother Anthony of Taize lowered his head with the humility of a true religious man as he was presented with an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by Charles Hay, the British Ambassador to Korea, on Dec. 2.In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the relationship between the United Kingdom and Korea, the ceremony in Brother Anthony’s honor was held at Ambassador Hay’s residence in Jeong-dong, downtown Seoul, and was vaguely reminiscent of the past.  Built in the 1890s, the residence retains much of its original charm and the ambassador was attired in his diplomatic uniform.In attendance were several notable Korean poets, translators, a tea master and many members of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RASKB).  In his short speech, Hay noted that it was “perhaps the largest grouping of experts on Korea&rd

Dec 7, 2015
Brother Anthony honored by Queen Elizabeth II

Husband wins multicultural writing award

Jung Young-jin, the grand winner of the multicultural writing contest presented by Sookmyung Women’s University, with his wife Ng Wuyen Nye and daughter at the university’s Centennial Hall in Yongsan-gu, central Seoul, Tuesday. / Korea TimesBy Jhoo Dong-chan The Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University has named a 42-year-old man as the grand winner of this year’s multicultural writing contest.“I still can’t believe that I won this year’s award. The award means a lot to me and my wife,” Jung told The Korea Times before the award ceremony.In his story, “I love you, darling,” Jung candidly wrote about the difficulty he recently experienced with his Vietnamese wife, Ng Wuyen Nye.It has been three years since they were married. Now she speaks better Korean than when they first met but they still don’t have many conversations.One day, Wuyen Nye asked him why he loves her. “I was tired after my work and bluntly said I love you because we are husband and wife. I know she was not h

Dec 4, 2015
Husband wins multicultural writing award

Go Ah-sung wins best actress at FANCINE

Go Ah-sungBy Bahk Eun-ji Go Ah-sung has won the Best Actress Award for “Office” at the Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Malaga (FANCINE).The film is about workers who are struggling to maintain their place in the office hierarchy.Go plays Lee Mi-rye, an intern who becomes a person of interest in a murder investigation in the mystery thriller. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes this year.During FANCINE, the film’s director, Hong Won-chan, was acclaimed as a promising director in the European market.Go, 23, debuted as a child actress in 2006 with top-grossing blockbuster “The Host.” She appeared in “Snowpiercer” (2013) and “Thread of Lies” (2014). 

Dec 3, 2015
Go Ah-sung wins best actress at FANCINE

Cespedes Memorial Park

Park Chul, left, former president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), poses with Bishop of the Masan Diocese Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok, to Park’s left, and Changwon Mayor Ahn Sang-soo, third from left, during a ceremony to open the Cespedes Memorial Park in the port city of Jinhae, South Gyeongsang Province, Monday. Other dignitaries include Spanish Ambassador to Korea Gonzalo Ortiz, fourth from left, and Fr. Park Hong, seated in a wheelchair, a Catholic priest and former president of Sogang University. The park was dedicated to Gregorio de Cespedes, a Spanish member of the Society of Jesus who became the first European to set foot on the Korean Peninsula. He arrived in Busan in 1593, accompanying Japanese forces commanded by Konishi Yukinaga during their invasion ofKorea. / Yonhap

Dec 3, 2015

Economist gets spotlight for wealth studies

Dongguk University economics professor Kim Nak-nyeon/  Korea Times photo by Kim Jae-wonBy Kim Jae-won  Dongguk University economics professor Kim Nak-nyeon has drawn attention from the media for his two recent studies on inheritance of wealth and its centralization based on data from the tax agency.He said that Korea’s wealth inequality has worsened since 2000 based on inheritance tax data. Those in the top 10 percent had 66 percent of the nation’s total assets between 2010 and 2013, according to his working paper published in October.According to the economist, inheritance contributed to 42 percent of wealth accumulation in the 2000s in Korea, which was a sharp increase from the 1980s when it took up only 27 percent.“Such an inequality gap will become even wider in the future because Korea faces a low economic growth age that provides little chance to the have-nots,” Kim said in an interview with The Korea Times.He said that Korea is becoming an aging society, adding a bigger burden to the economy as less people are economically active.“This i

Dec 3, 2015

Open management makes Google strong

Members of the Corea Image Communications Institute (CICI) pose during a Korea Culture Quotient (CQ) event at the residence of Singaporean Ambassador to Korea Yip Wei Kiat in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Nov. 24. From left are CICI President Choi Jung-wha; Kiat; head of Chromecast and TV Partnership, Asia Pacific at Google Mickey Hyunyu Kim; Pinar Okcal, wife of the Turkish ambassador; Turkish Ambassador to Korea Arslan Hakan Okcal; and Kuwaiti Ambassador to Korea Jasem Albudaiwi. / Korea Times photo by Kim Jae-heunBy Kim Jae-heunMickey Hyunyu Kim, the head of Chromecast and TV Partnership, Asia Pacific at Google, praised the working environment at his Silicon Valley office during his hour-long speech at the Korea Culture Quotient event hosted by the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI) at the residence in Seongbuk District, northern Seoul, of Singaporean Ambassador to Korea Yip Wei Kiat, Nov. 24.Also a former official at Samsung Electronics, Kim considered one of the youngest high-ranked employees in Google’s Korean branch, has always aspired to play in the big lea

Dec 2, 2015
Open management makes Google strong

Volunteer worker builds bridge for Korean adoptees

Jung Aie-reeBy Kim Hyo-jinA voluntary worker is hoping to become a bridge between Korean adoptees that live in 15 nations around the world and their motherland. “Adoptees barely cast off feelings that they are disoriented. Searching out their roots is instinctive and helps them steer their lives with confidence,” Jung Aie-ree, who runs the International Korean Adoptee Service (InKAS) said during an interview with The Korea Times, Tuesday. “I’m trying to bring back what they feel is missing.”InKAS helped over 25,000 adoptees reach out to their motherland by providing them with Korean language courses and culture programs for the past 17 years at locations in Seoul. It also offers translation services when adoptees meet birth parents and consultations for those who want to pursue a career or take up residence here.Jung said the group focuses on helping adoptees to learn Korean as being able to speak mother language is essential to understand its culture, not to mention its benefit when they meet their parents and keep in contact. “Speaking the langua

Dec 2, 2015
Volunteer worker builds bridge for Korean adoptees
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