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College dream comes true at 75

Jang Neum-eBy Jhoo Dong-chan Jang Neum-e, 75, has finally realized her dream of becoming a college student.This follows her completion of a regular high school course at Ilsung Women’s Secondary School in Mapo, western Seoul. She then entered Baekseok Art University through a special admission program for students of national merits.Jang is the school’s oldest student who goes to college this year.Born and raised in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang Province, she dropped out of primary school because of the 1950-53 Korean War.After the war, she graduated from primary school but could not afford middle school because her father died in the conflict.Jang, the eldest daughter, had to support her family.Now, almost 60 years later, she is  finally completing her studies. In the meantime, she has married and raised five children.She studied at a private academy in Chungmuro, central Seoul for the middle school education certificate and passed the qualification exam after four months.In 2013, Jang entered Ilsung Women’s Secondary School, which provides middle and high sc

Feb 9, 2015
College dream comes true at 75

Choi to head Korea Tea Culture Association

Choi So-yeonBy Kim Jae-heunGachon University’s emeritus professor Choi So-yeon, 68, has been appointed chief director of Korea Tea Culture Association, Monday. Choi succeeds her mother Lee Kwi-rye, the association’s founder.Choi said she hopes to help young Koreans learn about and enjoy traditional tea.Lee was designated as 11th intangible cultural asset by Incheon for Korean tea ceremony. She founded the Korea Tea Culture Association in 1991. It is one of the first educational institutes on tea culture in the country.The association has 26 branches throughout the country with 20,000 members and holds training sessions every February and October to educate members about Korean tea ceremony and promote friendship.The association has produced up to nearly 3,000 tea culture instructors through a two-year-course, who will promote the tea drinking etiquette.

Feb 9, 2015By Kim Jae-heun
Choi to head Korea Tea Culture Association

Signing autographs

Actress Kim Yun-jin signs autographs as she arrives to a press conference for “Ode to My Father” (Gukje Sijang) at the 65th International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Sunday. / EPA-Yonhap

Feb 9, 2015

Helping foreigners with language, job

‘Best Friend’ emerges as cultural exchange center No Jong-minBy Bahk Eun-jiWhen CEO No Jong-min, 37, set up the Best Friend Korean Language School in 2005 many around him had their doubts.“They said that because Korean is a language spoken by only a relatively small number of people around the world, few foreigners learn it,” No said.“But if there is only 0.1 percent among the 7.2 billion people in the world interested in learning Korean, I believed it definitely has business value.”Best Friend is the nation’s first Korean language institute that introduced the Korea working holiday program. It provides Korean language courses to foreigners, with each class having only a small number of students. It also provides Koreans with courses in foreign languages, including English, Chinese and Japanese.“Globalization and multiculturalism have already become buzzwords, and Best Friend is helping foreigners settle in the country, from learning the language to landing a job,” he said.The CEO said his interest in culture exchan

Feb 9, 2015By Bahk Eun-ji
Helping foreigners with language, job

Ex-Seongnam mayor dies at 80

Lee Dae-yupBy Jhoo Dong-chan Lee Dae-yup, an actor-turned-lawmaker and former mayor of Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province, died Friday from chronic pulmonary edema. He was 80.Born in Masan, South Gyeongsang Province, in 1935, Lee started his career as an actor after majoring in law at Kyungnam University. He appeared in several action movies, including “The Marines Who Never Returned” and “Red Muffler” in the 1960s.Lee entered politics as a lawmaker for a district in Seongnam in 1981, and served three terms.In 2002, Lee was elected mayor and was later re-elected, serving the city for eight years.During his time in office, Seongnam implemented a free lunch program for all elementary schoolchildren. He also halved the property tax rate in the city.Lee also attracted IT-related institutions and companies to set up their headquarters in the city, including the Korea Electronics Technology Institute and NHN.However, Lee came under fire after his successor, current Mayor Lee Jae-myung declared a city moratorium under huge debt in 2010, the first municipality to do s

Feb 6, 2015
Ex-Seongnam mayor dies at 80

K-pop stars in HK

Singer Tiffany, left, member of girl group Girl’s Generation and Choi Si-won, a member of boy band Super Junior, pose during a promotional event for the opening of a new store for the fashion brand Valentino in Hong Kong, Thursday. / AP-Yonhap

Feb 6, 2015

Baker sells “Dokdo bread”

Kim Ki-sunBy Jhoo Dong-chanA baker in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, is selling bread shaped like the nation’s easternmost islets of Dokdo.The bread has gone viral among online users, and sales are growing rapidly, according to the baker, Kim Ki-sun, 40.“I was really angry when I heard a Japanese baker made the so-called ‘Takeshima bread’ last year,” said Kim. Takishima is the name Japan uses to call Dokdo.“Dokdo bread”He said he organized a group of bakers to counter Japan’s territorial claims to the islets.Kneading flour with blueberry and orange, the dessert bread has the shape of an aerial view of the islets. Kim also puts Taegeukgi, Korea’s national flag, on the bread to emphasize where the islets belong.The Dokdo bread won a prize last September at the Dokdo International Souvenir Contest and was displayed during a food exhibition in Gyeongju of the province in the same year.The bread is being sold only at Kim’s bakery in Songdo-dong, northeastern Pohang.He plans to launch online sales this year. “I

Feb 6, 2015By Jhoo Dong-chan
Baker sells “Dokdo bread”

Korean adoptee wins Grammy Music Educator Award

 Jared CassedyBy Jhoo Dong-chan  Jared Cassedy, 34, a South Korean adoptee and music teacher at Windham High School in Windham, N.H., has won the second annual Music Educator Award from the Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation.A total of 10 music teachers from 10 cities across nine states were selected as finalists for the award. More than 7,000 candidates were initially submitted from all 50 states.“Words cannot describe how amazing this honor is,” said Cassedy.“This award is not only recognition of the truly talented students and supportive community I get to work with every day, but it’s also a representation of the fundamental significance of music and the arts in our schools.”Cassedy was adopted by an American family at age of four and went on to New Hampshire University to study music education.He started his career as band director and teacher at Windham Middle School and joined Windham High School in the same position in 2009.He has been also appointed the director of the New Hampshire Youth Wind Ensemble and the director of K-12

Feb 5, 2015

Director Bong in Berlin

The members of the Jury of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, back row from left, President Darren Aronofsky, Matthew Weiner, Daniel Bruehl, Korean director Bong Joon-ho, front row from left, Martha DeLaurentiis, Claudia Llosa and Audrey Tautou, pose for a photo prior to the Jury’s Dinner on the eve of the opening of the festival in Berlin, Wednesday./ AFP-Yonhap

Feb 5, 2015

Ex-Park aide named to lead Sejong Foundation board

Park Joon-wooBy Yi Whan-wooPark Joon-woo, a former senior presidential secretary for political affairs, was named chairman of the board of trustees at the Sejong Foundation, the organization said Thursday.Park, 61, will take over the post which has been empty since January last year. His predecessor, Kwon Chul-hyun, quit then in a bid to run for the local elections in June 2014.The new chairman was President Park Geun-hye’s senior secretary for political affairs from August 2013 to June 2014.Park, also a former career-diplomat, served as Korea’s ambassador to the European Union from September 2009 to February 2011.In 2010, Park signed the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Brussels.He served as the Korean ambassador to Singapore in 2006.Between 2004 and 2005, Park dealt with sensitive historical issues in East Asia as the director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau. Such issues included the “distorted” depiction of Tokyo’s colonial rule over the Korea Peninsula in Japanese textbooks.Based in Seongnam, G

Feb 5, 2015By Yi Whan-woo
Ex-Park aide named to lead Sejong Foundation board
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