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Ex-Samsung CEO named MS Korea chief

Alfred S. Koh, Microsoft Korea CEOBy Kim Yoo-chul Alfred S. Koh, a former CEO of Samsung SDS, has been appointed to the top position of Microsoft (MS) Korea.Announcing the appointment on Monday, the U.S.-based software tech giant said that it expects its new MS Korea CEO to make efforts to foster innovation and bring global changes to the Korean unit.MS Korea’s top position has been vacant since Koh’s predecessor, James Kim, moved to General Motors Korea to serve as the automaker’s chief executive.“People are the most important asset for a successful corporation and throughout my career I have tried single-handedly to make employees feel passionate about their work. They are part of an organization that takes care of its people and society at large,” Koh, 57, said.“For me, success is all about teamwork and putting customers at the center of everything we do.”During his term as CEO of Samsung SDS, a Samsung Group affiliate specializing in IT solutions, Koh was regarded as a right-hand man of the group’s heir Lee Jae-yong.Koh was nam

Feb 15, 2016
Ex-Samsung CEO named MS Korea chief

Inspiring disabled people with music

Visually impaired civil servant plays ocarinaPark Kyung-taeBy Jhoo Dong-chanA visually impaired 43-year-old civil servant in Ulsan, South Gyeongsan Province, taught himself to play the ocarina as an inspiration to other people suffering from disabilities. Partially losing his eyesight after being hit by a rock throw by a playmate when he was only six, Park Kyung-tae can barely read without his glasses. Park was ten when he entered elementary school because of his visual disability. Interested in music and in playing instruments, however, he taught himself via the Internet how to play the flute when he was a middle school student. “Music and playing instruments helped a lot in getting beyond my disability,” said Park.After graduating high school, Park first got a job at a community center for disabled people in Seoul and then transferred to the Ulsan Association of Persons with Physical Disabilities (UAPPD).He passed the civil service examination in 2012.After becoming a civil servant, Park branched out musically and started to teach himself h

Feb 12, 2016
Inspiring disabled people with music

Tina Park promotes “art of purity”

 Artwork is displayed at the Art Museum THE VERSI in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. / Courtesy of THE VERSITina ParkBy Park Jin-haiTina Park holds many titles. The Korean-American business consultant, author, and human rights advocate now leads a museum in her mother country.Art museum VERSI launched the first Asian “art brut” or outsider art museum.Art brut is a lesser-known art genre, she said, and may be unfamiliar, non-manufactured, primitive and pure, as defined by French artist Jean Dubuffet who coined the term in 1945 for creations of people with no relation to the professional art world.“We wanted to take this opportunity to give everybody a chance to express themselves in Art. It doesn't matter if you are poor, wealthy, disabled, young or old. Anybody can come and join” said Park during a telephone interview with The Korea Times, Thursday.Art Museum VERSI, a three-story museum opened last November in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is currently showcasing past and contemporary art pieces of outstanding outsider artists.From another interview, Lee Choong-s

Feb 11, 2016
Tina Park promotes “art of purity”

Former 8th US Army commander dies

Charles CampbellBy Yi Whan-wooCharles Campbell, a former Eighth U.S. Army (EUSA) commander and retired four-star general, died at his hometown in Shreveport, Louisiana, Monday, according to the Stars and Stripes. He was 68.The online version of the U.S. military newspaper said Campbell died after a lengthy illness. It did not elaborate.Campbell commanded EUSA in South Korea from November 2002 to April 2006 and dealt with sensitive security issues involving the two allies, such as drawing down the number of U.S. troops here.He served as the chief of the U.S. Forces Command, overseeing all continental U.S.-based conventional operating forces, from 2006 to 2010.Following his retirement in 2010, Campbell mentored the U.S. Army and coalition leaders in South Korea and Afghanistan, and visited here several times.He earned his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Louisiana State University. After Special Forces training, Campbell participated in the Vietnam War, during which he taught tactics to the U.S Army stationed there.He also served as A-Detachment executive o

Feb 11, 2016
Former 8th US Army commander dies

New Tongmyong University president

Former Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Oh Keo-don, left, shakes hands with Seo Eui-taek, chairman of the Tongmyong University foundation, after being appointed president of the university at its Busan campus on Feb. 3. Oh began his four-year term the following day. / Yonhap

Feb 10, 2016

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

Honorary doctorate for UN chief

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, is awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in recognition of his humanitarian work, Wednesday. Ban, a former Korean foreign minister, will step down from the top U.N. post that he has held since 2007 at the end of this year. Former late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung had also received the award from Cambridge. / Yonhap

Feb 4, 2016

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
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