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New Year's first full moon

Foreigners play “yut,” Korea’s traditional board game, in Yongsan, Seoul, Wednesday, during an event to mark the first full moon of the Lunar New Year, which falls today. / Yonhap

Mar 4, 2015

UN human rights council on NK

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong speaks to the 28th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Tuesday. Ri insisted that the U.N. resolution on North Korea’s human rights should be nullified as it was based on what he claimed was false testimony by a North Korean defector. Ri also said the U.N. should end its “double standard” on humanrights problems. / Yonhap

Mar 4, 2015

With Saudi king

President Park Geun-hye talks with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to conduct a feasibility study by 2018 on building at least two mid-size commercial nuclear reactors in the oil-rich kingdom. / Yonhap

Mar 4, 2015

Matriculation ceremony

New students of the Global Institute of Theology at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yeonsei University, attend a matriculation ceremony at the university’s International Campus in Songdo, Incheon, Tuesday. They are the first batch of students at the newly-established institute./ Courtesy of Yonsei University

Mar 4, 2015

NK defector defends his account on Facebook

NK defector Shin Dong-hyukBy Lee Ji-hyeNorth Korean gulag survivor Shin Dong-hyuk took to his personal Facebook account to state that the  account of his escape was the truth.Shin was criticized for inconsistencies portrayed in “Escape from Camp 14,” the best-selling book based on the high-profile defector’s story.“The greatest horror is hiding myself and losing my soul — I will not hide out of the fear of what the world says and what the North’s dictator says,” Shin wrote, posting photos of his ankles on his personal account.“I will show each and every scar that I have from the torture from the prison camp, starting with the marks on my ankles that show how I was hung upside down.”Shin previously admitted that some details in the book were false — including testimony regarding having watched his mother and brother be executed in Camp 14, which he later clarified as Camp 18.Also in his original account, Shin said he had suffered torture at age 13, which was later corrected to be age 20.Shin said, “To those who hav

Mar 4, 2015
NK defector defends his account on Facebook

Want to look beautiful? Drink a glass of wine

/ Screen capture from YouTubeDrinking improves your looks, according to a U.K. study. But only one glass.According to the University of Bristol study, alcohol makes a person more beautiful because it dilates pupils and relaxes facial muscles.The study was conducted on 40 students who drank different amounts of alcohol while their sober colleagues watched and judged their appearance.The researchers took photos of their faces when sober, after drinking the equivalent of one glass of wine and after a second drink. The photographs taken after the first drink were rated more attractive than ones without a drink.“It suggests that, if it’s true, people are rated as more attractive once they've consumed a small amount of alcohol,’’ LiveScience quoted senior researcher Marcus Munafo as saying. “But if they go on to consume more alcohol, they're no longer rated as more attractive.”

Mar 4, 2015
Want to look beautiful? Drink a glass of wine

Jelly rules snack market

/ Yonhap Jelly has become the winner in the country’s snack market before White Day season.In Korea, women present gifts to their men on Valentine’s Day, on Feb. 14, while the favor is returned to women on White Day, on March 14.According to online retailer Auction, sales of jelly and marshmallow have gone up 213 percent this month from a year earlier. Sales of imported snacks grew by more than 100 percent in the same period.“Consumers are falling in love with desserts and other popular imported snacks which offer rather unusual flavors,” an Auction spokesperson said. “With White Day approaching soon, those products are expected to see further improvement in sales figures.”Products include Fruit by the Foot and Welch’s Jelly, all of which are imported from America. 

Mar 4, 2015
Jelly rules snack market

Polite Prime Minister?

Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo recommends seats for Education Minister and Deputy Minister Hwang Woo-yea, right, and Strategy and Finance Minister and Deputy Minister Choi Kyung-hwan, left, at the Prime Minister’s office in Seoul, Tuesday. / Yonhap

Mar 3, 2015

President with Korean residents

President Park Geun-hye talks with representatives of Koreans overseas at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Tuesday. / Yonhap

Mar 3, 2015

Snow cannot stop blossoming

Visitors look at Cornelian cherry blossoms, a harbinger of spring, coveredwith snow in a village in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang Province, Tuesday. Gyeongchip, or the day on the lunar calendar when hibernating frogs awake, falls on Friday. / Yonhap

Mar 3, 2015
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