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'Sharing music is greatest accomplishment for musicians'

Kang Yun-miBy Kwon Ji-younJazz vocalist Kang Yun-mi began playing the piano after entering elementary school, but she spent more time sitting in front of the instrument playing the lower notes with her left hand while humming complementary harmonies rather than engaging in holistic practicing. “That’s how much I loved to sing,” she said in a recent interview.“I would jump at chances to perform on stage, and was even asked to audition for an entertainment agency. But becoming a celebrity wasn’t something I wanted.”Kang, whose new album was released earlier this month, had been determined to keep singing as a hobby so that she could take up classical piano professionally, which is how she ended up at a music school in Germany. But while she was there realized that jazz, like classical piano, was an extensively studied genre, one that she could spend a career poring over.“But as a classical piano major, it wasn’t easy fitting jazz classes into my schedule,” she said. “So in my last semester before graduation, I applied and

Dec 22, 2015
'Sharing music is greatest accomplishment for musicians'

CEO wants workers to be '3 tool player'

LG Display CEO Han Sang-beom talks about the company’s updated business strategies for organiclight-emitting diode (OLED) embedded applications during this year’s IFA trade fair in Berlin, Germany,in this file photo. / Korea Times fileBy Kim Yoo-chul“If you want to achieve something new, then you should become a three tool player. You need passion, have the ability to pass on conventional thinking and improve your abilities with good command of understanding in fields that you are involved in.”LG Display CEO and Vice Chairman Han Sang-beom said the global-leading display manufacturer is at a major crossroads as LG Group’s display affiliate never stops exploring new business chances beyond conventional business models to beat market uncertainty.“LG Chairman Koo allowed me to proceed on more challenging tasks holding a vice chairman title,” the vice chairman told The Korea Times recently. “Maintaining my original intention in carrying out given tasks is important to me. If you lose your own discipline, then you lose everything.” He

Dec 21, 2015By Kim Yoo-chul
CEO wants workers to be '3 tool player'

Actress Kim Jung-eun to marry

Kin Jung-eun / Korea Times fileBy Bahk Eun-jiActress Kim Jung-eun will wed in March next year.Kim, 39, is marrying a Korean-American businessman who works for a foreign finance company. They started dating three years ago, according to media reports.Kim admitted to the relationship in June, and said she plans to marry him because he had been a big support since they met.The actress has been preparing for the wedding in private, and will hold a small private ceremony in the United States.Kim made her debut in a minor role on the popular TV Drama “Star in My Heart” in 1997. She spent many years without hitting stardom but began to receive attention for her roles in “Sunflower” in 1999, and “All About Eve” in 2000.Kim then rose to stardom with megahit SBS TV drama “Lovers in Paris” in 2004.The actress recently wrapped up the MBC TV series “Make a Woman Cry” in August.  

Dec 21, 2015By Bahk Eun-ji
Actress Kim Jung-eun to marry

Elderly repair toys for children

Toy repair shop Kinis Toy Clinic Chairman Kim Jong-il introduces toys to be donated to multicultural families at the shop in Incheon, west of Seoul, Dec. 13. / Yonhap.By Jhoo Dong-chanSix senior citizens have been repairing toys for children free for four years since their retirement. Kim Jong-il, 69, Kim Ki-seong, 69, Ha Young-sun, 69, Kim Young-bong, 69, Kim Kyeong-rae, 69, and Park Jong-tae, 66, opened a toy repair shop named “Kinis Toy Clinic” for children in Incheon, west of Seoul, in 2011.Three of the friends are retired engineering professors and Kim Young-bong was a high school principal. Park Jong-tae is retired from a major electronics manufacture company.“We decided to start our repair operation to help children and their parents who are saddened by broken toys,” said chairman Kim Jong-il.“Small-sized domestic toy makers rarely offer repair services. So I and my friends thought about what we could do for children with our expertise.”Kinis Toy Clinic initially opened as a social enterprise in 2011 but was soon transformed into a nonp

Dec 18, 2015
Elderly repair toys for children

World-class product

Lee Sun-ouk, right, senior vice president of global marketing at Green Cross Corp., poses with Lee In-ho, deputy minister for trade and investment at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, during a certificate award ceremony for world-class Korean products at the COEX, southern Seoul, Wednesday. The ministry selected the pharmaceutical company’s medicine Hunterase as one of 59 world-classproducts. Hunterase is the second medicine for Hunter’s syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that primarily affects males. Its symptoms include developmental delay, skeletal deformities, airway obstruction and eventually death before reaching the age of 20. The company posted more than 10 billion won in annual sales of the product last year, taking over 50 percent of the domestic market./ Courtesy of Green Cross Corp

Dec 17, 2015

Inha University president

Choe Soon-ja, right, president of Inha University, poses with Lee Chang-sup, president-publisher of The Korea Times, at English daily’s newsroom in central Seoul, Thursday. Choe visited the newspaper company to discuss how to enhance academic-industrial cooperation./ Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Dec 17, 2015

Researcher develops wearable sensor technology

Yi Hyun-jungBy Lee Min-hyungYi Hyun-jung, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), has developed key technology for wearable sensors to be used in health care products, the state-run research institute reported Thursday.“We have succeeded in developing a bio-sensing platform technology by using nano- and bio-materials which are harmless to human bodies,” Yi said.Yi, 37, studied material engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is now leading a research team to develop bio-sensor-related technology at KIST.By using the bio-sensing platform, body fluids such as sweat and tears can be analyzed by researchers to obtain chemical information. This will then be used to analyze the health of people, according to the research team.KIST said this breakthrough is meaningful as bio-sensing technology is expected to pave the way for further development of wearable devices in the health care sector.In particular, the research team said the technology, using direct-electron-transfer (DET), does not use chemical materials, wh

Dec 17, 2015
Researcher develops wearable sensor technology

From model to lifesaver

Kim Soo-yeon, former model-turned-emergency first aid specialist, gives instructions on the Heimlichmaneuver to employees of the Seoul Foundation for Culture and Arts last Friday.  / Courtesy of Orca EFRBy Oh Young-jinKim Soo-yeon, Orca EFR CEO Kim Soo-yeon is still doing what she likes most ― talking to crowds of people ― but for a different purpose.The former model used to crisscross the nation on assignments for early morning Today Show-type programs, talking to tens of thousands of viewers through TV.Now, Kim, 33, still does that but devotes more time to smaller crowds, holding classes instructing people on CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), the Heimlich maneuver and other emergency first aid procedures.“Helping people in trouble is good and saving lives is even better,” she said about her new calling as an instructor of lifesaving techniques.In some countries, people are well versed in first aid techniques such that the revival rate of victims reached by someone qualified in CPR is as high as 70 to 80 percent, she said. “In Korea, it is incomparably

Dec 16, 2015
From model to lifesaver

Edwin John Feulner wins ICAS Liberty Award

Edwin John FeulnerBy Chung Hyun-chaeThe Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) said Wednesday that it had awarded Edwin John Feulner, Jr., 74, founder of the Heritage Foundation, a U.S.-based public policy think tank, its annual liberty award. The institute held a ceremony to confer Feulner with the ICAS Annual Liberty Award for 2015 at the Cannon Caucus Room in Congress, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. “We recognized his outstanding professional achievements with distinguished service to the nation and the people and his exemplary leadership advancing great humanistic values,” ICAS said. Established in 1973, the institute has worked to enhance cooperation and pursue peace and prosperity throughout the Pacific region.Guests included Elaine Lan Chao, an American economist who served as the U.S. secretary of labor under the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2009; Becky Norton Dunlop, vice president of External Relations at the Heritage Foundation; and John David Hoppe, chief of staff to the House speaker.“The ICAS Liberty Award, over the years,

Dec 16, 2015
Edwin John Feulner wins ICAS Liberty Award

Jeju governor, Ewha president win 'Persons of Year Award'

Won Hee-ryongChoi Kyung-heeKang Sue-jinBy Chung Hyun-chaeJeju Special Self-Governing Province Governor Won Hee-ryong and Ewha Womans University President Choi Kyung-hee have won the “Persons of the Year Award” from the Journalists Federation of Korea. The federation said Wednesday that it selected Won as the recipient of the best prize in the category of administration renovation in recognition for presenting a blueprint for sustainable development of the resort island. It said Choi was chosen as the winner of the grand prize in the education development category for her innovative drive to provide a customized education for students. She was also lauded for enhancing her university’s research capabilities by establishing a cancer research center in cooperation with the Jackson Laboratory, a U.S. biomedical research institution. “We think the judges thought highly of our president’s effort to expand our international network as many prominent figures including French President Francois Hollande and Cherie Blair, chancellor of the Asian University for Wom

Dec 16, 2015
Jeju governor, Ewha president win 'Persons of Year Award'
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