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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

TaeTiSeo releases Christmas album

Members of TaeTiSeo, a unit of Korean girl group Girls’ Generation, hold a showcase in Seoul on Thursday, on the release of their special Christmas album “Dear Santa.” / Yonhap

Dec 4, 2015

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

Expanding internship program

Sookmyung Women’s University President Hwang Sun-hye, left, poses with Olivia Lum, CEO of Singaporean water company Hyflux Ltd., at the school’s campus in Seoul, Sunday. They signed a memorandum of understanding on expanding a student internship program and strengthening research exchanges. / Courtesy of Sookmyung Women’s University

Dec 1, 2015

'Gagok' composer never stops exploring

Lee An-sam / Courtesy of Lee An-samBy Nam Hyun-wooLee An-sam has been confining his life to strict self-discipline. But, the 73-year-old “gagok” composer has been more than flexible in his music world, continuing pioneering works in the Korean music genre.Gagok is a genre of vocal music using poetry as its lyrics. Hovering between classical vocal music and pop songs, the genre has given voice to Koreans’ sorrowful sentiment to the accompaniment of western instruments, but lost its ground to the influx of western musical styles in the 1980s and found itself shunned as passé.For Lee, who has been composing gagok songs since he was 19 and established himself as one of its top composers, it was an intolerable situation that “young students don’t even know what gagok is,” leading him to take various approaches to popularize the genre.“I came up with clapop around 2007,” said Lee during an interview with The Korea Times. “I tried to blend the melodies, chords, form and rhythms of pop songs into a classic sound so that younger gen

Dec 1, 2015
'Gagok' composer never stops exploring

Translation Awards winners honored

The winners of the 46th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards pose for a photo at a prize ceremony at the Lotte Hotel Seoul, Monday. From left are The Korea Times President-Publisher Lee Chang-sup; fiction Commendation Award winners Christine Kwon and Park Chul-hwan; poetry Grand Prize winner Sophie Bowman; fiction Commendation Award winner Jung Slin; fiction commendation award winner Helen Cho; and Kim Jung-ki, deputy president of KEB Hana Bank. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukBy Kwon Mee-yooSophie Bowman from the U.K. started learning Korean eight years ago as a second language because she thought it was exotic. She soon fell in love with Korean literature, and started to translate Korean literature into English. Her translation of Jin Eun-young’s poems, including “When You Were a Boy,” won the Grand Prize in poetry at the 46th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards hosted by The Korea Times at Lotte Hotel Seoul, Monday.Bowman, 27, is a graduate student in the Department of Korean Literature at Ewha Womans University. Her Korean studies began at the

Nov 30, 2015
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