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Love for 'hanok' begets book

House in Changseong-dong, Jongno, Seoul / Courtesy of Kim Jong-keuPark Na-niBy Kwon Ji-youn“Hanok, the Korean House” is a treasure for its author, Park Na-ni, as the writing process has given her a chance to look back on her life and understand Korean lifestyle.“I had always been interested in traditional Korean houses and had spent quite some time introducing their superiority to acquaintances,” Park, 51, said.“In this book, I wanted to illustrate hanok that Koreans call home today, not hanok that foreigners admire from the outside.”“My research helped me realize that hanok are the essence of Korean lifestyle, and my encounters with the owners compelled me to look back on my own life and childhood,” Park said. It took her two years to publish the book.The cover of “Hanok, the Korean House”/ Courtesy of Tuttle PublishingPark moved to Hawaii in 1972 when she was a third-grader but experienced no culture shock because the town in which she lived had been densely populated with fellow overseas Koreans. After graduating from the

Nov 24, 2014
Love for 'hanok' begets book

Author Bush's youngest fan

Former U.S. President George W. Bush poses for a photo with a baby after signing the babys bib and copies of his book “41: A Portrait of My Father” for customers at the Easton Costco on Thursday. / AP-Yonhap

Nov 21, 2014

Kate Upton in Korea

American model and actress Kate Upton is greeted by her fans at the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Gyeongsang Province, Friday. / Yonhap

Nov 21, 2014

Iranian envoy visits Korea Times

Iranian Ambassador to Korea Hassan Taherian, left, with The Korea TimesPresident and Publisher Lee Chang-sup during the envoy’s courtesy visit to The Korea Times in Seoul, Friday. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-cheol

Nov 21, 2014

5.4 Club expands on 'Good France Project'

By Kim Ji-soo  French Ambassador Jerome Pasquier talks about the “Good France Project 2015” at the 5.4 Club’s year-end meeting at the JW Marriott Hotel in southern Seoul, Thursday./ Courtesy of Corea Image Communication InstituteThe members of the 5.4 Club learnt Thursday about how Korean restaurants and chefs could participate in the “Gout de France, Good France” festival that will take place on March 19, 2015 throughout the five continents.In the project supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and by chef Alain Ducasse, 1,000 chefs from five continents will prepare a French meal using quality products, after which they will be free to adapt it to their own market. “The event is to show that French cuisine can be light, and enjoyed on a regular basis,” said Jerome Pasquier, the French ambassador to Korea. “The idea is that French cuisine can be enjoyed all over the world,” he said.Pasquier urged the 5.4 Club members to recommend aspiring restaurants or chefs

Nov 21, 2014
5.4 Club expands on 'Good France Project'

'Green growth is priority for GGGI'

By Kim Se-jeong  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, chairman of the Global Green Growth InstituteTo Indonesia’s former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the unusually rainy November in Jakarta this year is an effect of climate change and another reminder that traditional economic growth based on fossil-fuel is no longer viable.Many other world leaders share this sentiment and are contemplating on how to develop the economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As the chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), an international organization based in Seoul, Yudhoyono will leading the global discussion on this issue. He was sworn in as the chairman with a two-year term on Tuesday in Songdo, Incheon.“I will ensure that the green growth concept will be the priority for the national development agenda (for countries around the world),” the chairman said during an interview in Songdo, Wednesday.Yudhoyono was first elected president of Indonesia in 2004 and was re-elected in 2009. He completed his term in October this year.The green growth concept is an

Nov 21, 2014By Kim Se-jeong
'Green growth is priority for GGGI'

Korean Literature Translation Award winners

The winners of the 45th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards pose for a photo at a prize ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul, Thursday. From left are The Korea Times President-Publisher Lee Chang-sup; Hwang In-sun, mother of fiction commendation award winner Amber Hyun-jung Kim; Grand Prize winner Seth Chandler; Korea Exchange Bank president Kim Han-jo; Grand Prize winner Kim Jin-ah; fiction commendation award winner Jeong Mi-gyeong; and Brother Anthony, emeritus professor at Sogang University and one of the contest’s three judges./ Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Nov 20, 2014

Kim-Chandler duo wins 45th Translation Awards

Kim Han-jo, right, president of Korea Exchange Bank, awards the grand prize winners of the 45th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, Kim Jin-ah, center, and Seth Chandler, at a ceremony held at the Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul, Thursday. Kim and Chandler translated Kim Sum’s novel “On Slowness.”/ Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chulBy Kwon Mee-yooThe team of Kim Jin-ah and Seth Chandler received the grand prize at the 45th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards for their work on the novel "On Slowness" by Kim Sum, at a ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in central Seoul, Thursday.Organized by The Korea Times and sponsored by the Korea Exchange Bank, the translation awards have produced a slew of top-notch translators, while spreading Korean literature to the world since their establishment in 1970.This year, Amber Hyun-jung Kim received a Commendation Award in Fiction for her translation of an excerpt from Park Hyeong-seo's novel "Nana Before Dawn." Frederick Ronald Bottley and Jeong Mi-gyeong shared a Commendation Award for their co-translation of "Monsoon" b

Nov 20, 2014By Kwon Mee-yoo

Billy Joel holds up the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

Billy Joel holds up the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the end of a concert in his honor at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, Wednesday. / AP-Yonhap

Nov 20, 2014

Satirical artist Hong joins FP Top 100 Global Thinkers list

Hong Sung-damBy Chung Ah-youngKorean artist Hong Sung-dam, perhaps best known for his painting satirizing President Park Geun-hye, has been selected as one of the Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2014. “A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014” was conducted by the magazine based on a survey of its readers.In the sixth annual special issue, Hong has been included in the artist category for his “poking at power with a brush.”The 59-year-old stirred controversy recently over his painting, “Sewol Owol,” which was due to be displayed in a special exhibition: “Sweet Dew ― 1980 and After” to mark the 20th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale from Sept. 5 to Nov.9. The painting alludes to the Sewol ferry sinking and the 1980 Gwangju massacre which both took place in May, pronounced “Owol” in Korean. The 10.5-meter-wide mural portrays the president who has just given birth to a baby resembling her late father, Park Chung-hee, the autocrat who ruled the country for nearly two decades prior

Nov 20, 2014
Satirical artist Hong joins FP Top 100 Global Thinkers list
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