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Ex-supermodel offers innovative way of dieting

Lite & Slim CEO Jinny Hwang poses with the company's patented diet spray Nuvitrin. Nuvitrin gives one a natural feeling of fullness after simply spraying the product orally three times before each meal. / Courtesy of Lite & SlimNuvitrin spray helps turn off users' appetiteBy Lee Min-hyungSupermodel-turned-entrepreneur Jinny Hwang never dreamed of running her own business until she won a SBS Supermodel Contest in 2012. Her curiosity eventually prompted her to join the business world.“Opportunity came at a very unexpected moment,” Hwang, 27, told The Korea Times. “About a year after winning the award, I went to Silicon Valley in the United States as an overseas marketer at a news application company. That’s when I met Yoo Yeon-jeong, the developer of the patented diet spray Nuvitrin.”She then decided to sell the spray in Korea.“At first, I worked as a marketing assistant for the product, but the developer later gave me autonomy to run the business. So, I became the CEO of Lite & Slim, which sells the spray.”Nuvitrin is an FDA-approv

Jun 15, 2015
Ex-supermodel offers innovative way of dieting

Consumers turn to frozen food during summer

/ YonhapDespite their unhealthy image, frozen foods are becoming more popular in the warm, humid summer weather. According to the retail industry, sales of dairy products -- including Korea Yakult's frozen yogurt -- have soared. Sales of frozen dairy products totaled 5 billion won in the first five months last year, and the same amount was achieved this year 10 days earlier, Korea Yakult said."Frozen yogurt is popular for its nutritional benefits, and we are expecting to reach 25 billion won by the end of this year," a company spokesperson said.And sales of frozen alcohol have also climbed.Sales of Lotte Liquor's Chum Churum (meaning "soft, like first" in Korean) Cool have climbed 70.5 percent since its launch last June

Jun 15, 2015
Consumers turn to frozen food during summer

Idol singer's underwear revealed in TV

/ Screen capture from YouTubeMina / Courtesy of FacebookAfter idol singer Mina visited TV reality entertainment show “One Night Two Days” on KBS on Sunday, netizens have rediscovered her past TV exposure where she accidentally showed her underwear.Being circulated online in a form of screen capture shows the member of four-member girl band Girl’s Day showing her panties under her mini-skirt while sitting on floor and playing zenga when she was shooting virtual marriage TV show “We Got Married” on MBC.Managed by Dreamtea Entertainment, Mina visited the KBS show with other female stars, including actress Moon Geun-young, Park Bo-young and singer Shinji and Lee Jung-hyun.

Jun 15, 2015By Ko Dong-hwan
Idol singer's underwear revealed in TV

Be more friendly, French foreign minister tells citizens

/ Courtey of Le Mac blogFrench Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has urged citizens to stop being unfriendly, because their behavior is harming tourism."Tourism is a national treasure that needs to be protected, nurtured and developed," the Metro quoted the minister as saying at the launch of a scheme to promote tourism. He then urged them to be more welcoming.He said that in several surveys, tourists rated Paris as one of the most hostile places."To put it diplomatically, we have room for improvement here,” Fabius said. “When we come up against a foreign tourist, we are all ambassadors for France.”He said he hoped France would be attracting 100 million foreign visitors a year by 2020.

Jun 15, 2015
Be more friendly, French foreign minister tells citizens

iPads beneficial for babies, study shows

/ Courtesy of Espikes09 blogIPADS are good for babies, a study has found.According to the University of London, tablets simulate babies’ brains better than books do. The finding is at odds with other studies that claim tablets can undermine social skills.“It is amazing how fast they learn, even faster than adults to do things like scroll up and down text,” Professor Annette Kamiloff-Smith told the Sunday Times.“Books are static. When you observe babies with books, all they are interested in is the sound of the pages turning. Their visual system at that age is attracted by movement.”A group of babies aged 6-10 months recognized the number three better on an iPad than in a book.“They might put a corner in their mouth, they will then explore it physically [but] then they will use it to do things,” Kamiloff-Smith said.“Everything we know about child development tells us that tablet computers should not be banned for babies and toddlers.”

Jun 15, 2015
iPads beneficial for babies, study shows

Park meets vendors

President Park Geun-hye, right, speaks to a vendor at the DongdaemunMarket in Seoul, Sunday. Vendors there have been hit hard by the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as the number of tourists has dropped sharply./ Yonhap

Jun 14, 2015

Farming experience

Rep. Moon Jae-in, left, chairman of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD), plants cabbage seed at a farm in Pyongchang County, Gangwon Province, Sunday. / Yonhap

Jun 14, 2015

Man lied that he had MERS

Health officials disinfect their hands at a hospital in Seoul, Saturday. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungA man claimed he had been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) because he did not want to go to work, the Hwasung City government said on Saturday.“While tracing the infection route of the man, who claimed to have been diagnosed with the deadly disease, we confirmed he worked for a Samsung Electronics' subcontracting company lied,” a city official said.Samsung Electronics had earlier said that he had a high fever before being diagnosed with MERS. After finding out he used a commuter bus on June 5, the company quarantined for two weeks those who took the same bus.The man claimed he tested positive last Monday, and had stayed at home since.But the city found that he was not listed as a MERS patient, and notified the company and health ministry that he had never had the virus.

Jun 14, 2015
Man lied that he had MERS
  • Samsung stigmatized with MERS

Envoys at MERS briefing

Acting Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan, right, speaks during a briefing on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) for foreign ambassadors and chief executive officers of multinational corporations at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Seoul on June 12. Across the table, from left, are ambassadors Alexander Timonin from Russia, Mark Lippert from the United States and Koro Bessho from Japan. / Yonhap

Jun 14, 2015

Wedding gunfire kills woman

/ Courtesy of Knot blog “Celebratory" gunfire from a wedding in northern France has killed a young woman walking down the street.Shots were fired from a procession of cars, according to Marly mayor Fabien Thieme.“This young woman of 19 to 20 years of age was shot in the head,” the Guardian quoted Thieme as saying.She was taken to hospital, where she died.Police arrested a man in his 20s soon after.“The suspect took the hunting rifle to fire in the air to add to the atmosphere,” a spokesperson said.

Jun 14, 2015
Wedding gunfire kills woman
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