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Young lawyers launch online legal service

Founders of the online legal service “Help Me,” from left, Lee Sang-min, Park Hyo-yeon and Nam Ki-ryong. / Courtesy of “Help Me”By Lee Kyung-minYou can book a movie ticket, order food or call a taxi via online and mobile tools. So, what about legal services?That idea had led three lawyers ― Park Hyo-yeon, 33, Lee Sang-min, 35, and Nam Ki-ryong, 36 ― to launch a website for instant messaging to better and more easily provide legal help.Named “Help Me,” the service is available on KakaoTalk and its website, www.help-me.kr.The three started the service in response to the growing needs of people who seek immediate help with cases not high-profile enough to warrant the services of large law firms, Park said.“People usually do not know where to find lawyers, and the idea of hiring a lawyer itself is a lot of stress amid the lack of credible information about who are the good ones,” she said.“We hope to provide easier access to those who need legal help. We hope they will find out answers to any questions they may have regardin

Aug 21, 2015
Young lawyers launch online legal service

Hyungji chairman gets top CEO award

Choi Byung-ohHyungji Group ChairmanBy Lee Hyo-sikHyungji Group Chairman Choi Byung-oh was selected Thursday as the CEO of the Year for transforming his 30-year-old company into one of Korea’s fashion powerhouses.The Korea Academic Society of Business Administration, which represents hundreds of scholars majoring in the areas of business administration, chose Choi as the top CEO among the heads of mid-size enterprises.The organization said the Hyungji chairman set a good example for younger entrepreneurs in turning dreams into reality, It said Choi is a successful self-made entrepreneur creating what Hyungji is today from scratch over the past three decades.“It is such an honor to be named as the 2015 CEO of the Year of mid-sized enterprises by a group of business management professors,” Choi said. “This award further reminds me of my initial resolution, which is to create a sustainable corporation that makes contributions to society. I will spare no effort to continue to do so.”Choi has also been serving as the chairman of the Korean Apparel Industry Ass

Aug 20, 2015By Lee Hyo-sik
Hyungji chairman gets top CEO award

Korean-American woman donates artwork on 'comfort women'

Jonathan Sisson, left, a human rights activist, and Choi Im-ja, president of Penn Asian Senior Services, pose in front of a piece of art titled “Lines of Violation” at the Gyeongnam Art Museum in South Gyeongsang Province on Aug. 13./ Courtesy of Choi Im-jaBy Kim Hyo-jinA Korean-American woman has donated a piece of art depicting “comfort women” to South Gyeongsang Province on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule. “I’m really glad that it found its permanent home,” Choi Im-ja, the donor and president of Penn Asian Senior Services, an organization for Asian American seniors based in Philadelphia, said in a recent interview.“It means a lot for the piece to have a home here, considering South Gyeongsang Province is the region from where many women were taken to become victims of Japanese military sexual slavery.”The piece, titled “Lines of Violation,” depicts the hands of 53 sexual slavery victims in Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines and their fingerprints.The 157-b

Aug 19, 2015

Woozoostar breaks boundaries in music

Composer Woozoostar in her studio in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul/ Courtesy of WoozoostarBy Kwon Ji-younWoozoostar is not your average composer ― not only does she create the music, but she also writes the lyrics, arranges the score and sings the prerecording guide. She is a true utility player ― her work spans background music for films and advertisements to tracks on K-pop albums.Especially catchy is her most recent jingle, the “Hope Song,” which she wrote for the Industrial Bank of Korea’s (IBK) new commercial. The song may be less than a minute long, but writing a jingle is not as easy as many people think, she says.“Music for advertisements and films are conceptual,” Woozoostar said in an interview with The Korea Times, Monday. “It must fit the images like a custom-made suit, and we are not always provided with the images. So at times we’re working with just visual continuity, a comprehensive script or scenario.”Woozoostar did not start as a composer of popular music. In college, she majored in piano and classical music.

Aug 18, 2015

Smiling Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter reaches to embrace his brother Billy’s widow Sybil while greeting family following service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., Sunday. Sunday at church was emotional because it was the first time many members had seen Carter since his announcement that he has cancer./ AP-Yonhap

Aug 17, 2015

Book tells how Haeundae changed

By Choi Kyong-ae Park Hong-lipPark Hong-lip, 28, briefly suspended his studies in the U.S. in 2013 to return to Korea and do his two years of mandatory military service.He studies biology and economics at Oregon State University and plans to finish his undergraduate studies starting in September. While serving as a public service worker at Haeundae-gu Office in Busan as part of his military duty, Park wrote a book about Haeundae, the most famous beach in the port city.“I wanted to record changes in Haeundae over the past decade based on my childhood memories; what happened and what’s happening. As I walked from my parents’ place to the office for  about an hour during the week for the two years, it really helped me figure out how Haeundae has changed,” he told The Korea Times in a recent interview.High-rise apartment complexes such as Marine City have replaced old shabby towns, forcing most of native residents who cannot afford to live in the luxury apartments to move, he said.         Given this, he may seem t

Aug 17, 2015
Book tells how Haeundae changed

Peace Essay Contest winners

Jean DoMark SchulzLee Dong-huiThe Korea Times and the Northeast Asian History Foundation are proud to announce the 12 winners of the 2015 International Peace Essay Contest. The given topic for their essays was “How should we look back at history on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II?”Jean Do, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Science, Sogang University, won the Gold Prize. She will receive 1.5 million won in prize money and a plaque. Mark Schulz, an English teacher at Hanmin High School in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, and Lee Dong-hui, a student at Pusan Foreign Language High School, each won the Silver Prize. They will receive 500,000 won in cash and a plaque.Three people were selected as Bronze Prize winners. They are Kim Yoon, a student at the ISB(International School of Bangkok); Aimalynne Radores from Kyunghee University; and Hee Young Celine Tae, a student at North London Collegiate School Jeju. They will each be given 300,000 won in prize money with a plaque.In addition, six notable entries were selected, submitted by Luke Chai, Koshiro Nag

Aug 14, 2015
Peace Essay Contest winners

Independence fighter's great-grandson becomes naval officer

Korean Navy cadet Kim Do-hyun, 28, great-grandson of legendary independence fighter Kim Jwa-jin, poses in front of the minesweeper Hunter Ongjin. Kim will be placed on the ship as a second lieutenant deck officer next month. / YonhapBy Jhoo Dong-chanKim Do-hyun, 28, the great-grandson of legendary independence activist and general Kim Jwa-jin, who led the Korean Independent Army in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation era, will soon become a naval officer.Kim joined the ROK Navy Cadets on June 11 and is undergoing military training. He is expected to be commissioned as a second lieutenant deck officer on the ROK Navy minesweeper Hunter Ongjin next month.A deck officer manages and operates deck equipment including lifesaving gear. Kim said he grew up listening to the stories of his great-grandfather’s victory in the Qingshanli Battle.The Battle of Qingshanli was fought over six days in October 1920 when the general lured Japanese soldiers in and attacked them in a densely wooded region of eastern Manchuria called Qingshanli. Although the Korean force was small, with onl

Aug 14, 2015
Independence fighter's great-grandson becomes naval officer

Samsung founder's eldest son dies

By Park Si-sooThe late Lee Maeng-heeLee Maeng-hee, the eldest son of Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-chull and an elder brother of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, has died from lung cancer at a hospital in Beijing, China, Friday. He was 84.The deceased is the father of CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun, who himself is currently hospitalized in Seoul after complications following his kidney transplant.“Lee Maeng-hee died at 9:39 a.m. at a hospital in Beijing,” a CJ spokesman said.Lee underwent lung cancer surgery in Japan in 2012, but the cancer recurred the following year and spread to other parts of his body. He had received radiation treatment in Japan and China and was recuperating in Beijing at the time of his death.It has yet to be announced when and where his memorial service will be held. Whether his ailing son will attend the service has not yet been decided either. Jay-hyun’s body rejected his new kidney after transplant surgery in 2013. He was given a three-year prison sentence for embezzlement and other charges in 2013, but his imprisonment wa

Aug 14, 2015
Samsung founder's eldest son dies

'Korea lags behind in fintech industry'

Lee Suk-geun, a member of the National Economic Advisory CouncilBy Park Jin-haiLee Suk-geun, a member of the National Economic Advisory Council, a consultative body for President Park Geun-hye, said Korea lags behind in the burgeoning fintech field.  “Although what fintech can do is immense, we are slow in adopting it due to skepticism that fintech is just another form of what we have traditionally been doing, coupled with government regulations,” Lee said.Lee, an endowment professor at Sogang Univesity, said the banking industry is now moving to “bankless” services through the Internet and smartphones. Over the decade, while the United Kingdom has embraced fintech and has cut costs by reducing bank branches by 40 percent, Korea has seen only a 2 to 3 percent decrease in branch numbers.Lee graduated summa cum laude from Sogang University, majoring in business administration. Then he completed an MBA course at Chicago University.“Although now none face-to-face transactions make up more than 80 percent of all banking business, banks are hesitant

Aug 13, 2015By Park Jin-hai
'Korea lags behind in fintech industry'
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