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Violins exhibition

Visitors look at a Korean Peninsula-shaped violin during an exhibition of violins organized by the Maestro Violinmakers Association of Korea at Seoul Art Center, in southern Seoul, Tuesday./ Yonhap

May 26, 2015

Kubo Toru, second from right, a professor of Liberal Arts at Shinshu University in Japan, reads a joint statement during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, opposing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s denial of Japan’s wartime aggression. A total of 16 groups of Japanese historians supported the statement. / Yonhap

May 25, 2015

Comedian sheds 70kg after death prognosis

/ Courtesy of FacebookFunnyman Kim Soo-young, who often jokes about his obesity as a joke on TV, has gone public to show how much weight he has lost.On the KBS comedy show Gag Concert, the comedian, 29, stood on a scale to show that he had lost 70kg and now checked in at a mere 98kg.He had announced on the show in February ― when he weighed almost 170kg ― that he was going to lose weight, aftera doctor warned that him that his obesity would soon kill him.He said the weight loss project was “a matter of life or death.”. 

May 25, 2015By Ko Dong-hwan

Comedian sheds 70kg after death prognosis

Summer-like weather

Visitors enjoy the waves at Caribbean Bay in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday. Amid a nationwide heat wave, midday temperatures reached 29 Celsius in Seoul. / Yonhap

May 24, 2015

Preparation for hearing

Prime Minister-designate Hwang Kyo-ahn attends his office, located in the training institute of the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul, Sunday, to prepare for his confirmation hearing./ Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

May 24, 2015

Envoys at policy forum

Omani Ambassador Mohamed Alharthy, left on front row, attends a forum designed to help foreign diplomats understand Korea’s major policies hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning at Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul on May 22. The ministry has hosted the policy forum since last year. / Yonhap

May 24, 2015

March for peace

International women activists march to the Imjingak Pavilion with their South Korean counterparts near the border village of Panmunjeom in Paju, north of Seoul, Sunday. During the event dubbed “Women Cross DMZ,” designed to mark International Women’s Day for Disarmament, activists marched from the North to South, voicing their hope to establish everlasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. / Yonhap

May 24, 2015

Health minister calls for preventive measures to fight MERS

Health and Welfare Minister Moon Hyung-pyo, left, along with a quarantine official, checks a thermal scanner at Incheon International Airport, Saturday./ YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungHealth and Welfare Minister Moon Hyung-pyo said Saturday the government will strengthen measures to prevent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) infection.“The government will let the public know details of the preventive measures,” Moon said in a meeting with a group of civilian experts at the Incheon Airport National Quarantine Station.“We need to take every measure to treat all the quarantined patients infected with the disease, and thoroughly monitor those who were in close proximity to the patients,” he said.As of Saturday, three people are infected with the deadly virus in Korea. The first patient is under treatment and in stable condition. He experienced a high fever after staying for some two weeks in some Middle Eastern countries from mid-April.The deadly disease was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It has a fatality rate of 40 percent. There is no cure or vaccine availabl

May 23, 2015

Health minister calls for preventive measures to fight MERS

Park Ji-sung to become father

Football star Park Ji-sung, left, will become a father in November./ Courtesy of FacebookFootball star Park Ji-sung and former announcer Kim Min-ji are expecting their first baby in November.“We have Mandu (dumpling), which is the nickname for our baby,” Park said in JS Foundation Facebook page, Friday.“Min-ji is four month pregnant now. She and Mandu are healthy and fine. We always appreciate your support.”Park, 34, tied the knot with Kim in July 2014, two months after officially announcing his retirement.The former Manchester United midfielder has been serving as a club ambassador since October 2014.

May 23, 2015

Whereabout of Kim Jong-un's elder brother still unknown

Kim Jong-chul, elder brother of North korean leader Kim Jong-un, attended an Eric Clapton concert at the Royal Albert Hall in west London, Wednesday. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungWhereabout of Kim Jong-chul, elder brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is still unknown after he attended an Eric Clapton concert held in London for two days from Wednesday (local time).The elder Kim was scheduled to leave England on Friday and fly to Beijing via Moscow. But he did not show up at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, and his name was not on a passenger list for any flights bounding for Beijing.“He might have delayed or used other flights that do not go through Moscow, after being exposed to media,” Yonhap News Agency quoted a source as saying.Video, released by a Japanese television network, shows Kim arriving at the Royal Albert Hall in west London. His minders push reporters and cameras away from him.“He was just like any other fan, but there were officials all around him,” said a BBC journalist who was at the scene.“They were obvious

May 23, 2015

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Violins exhibition

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Comedian sheds 70kg after death prognosis

Summer-like weather

Preparation for hearing

Envoys at policy forum

March for peace

Health minister calls for preventive measures to fight MERS

Park Ji-sung to become father

Whereabout of Kim Jong-un's elder brother still unknown

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