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Awkward encounter

Health and Welfare Minister Moon Hyung-pyo, left, and Roh Hwan-kyu, right, president of the Korea Medical Association (KMA), avoid eye contact at a hearing at the National Assembly, Seoul, Monday, on ways of developing the medical-service industries. KMA has announced that its doctor members will stop working in protest of the government’s plan to introduce telemedicine and allow hospitals to set up for-profit subsidiaries./ Yonhap

Jan 20, 2014

Playing with snow

A child throws snow in the air at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul, Monday./ Yonhap

Jan 20, 2014

Fan dancing in Switzerland

President Park Geun-hye tries fan dancing after watching a Korean troupe’s traditional dance performance during her visit to the Zentrum Paul Klee Museum in Berne, Switzerland, Sunday./ Yonhap

Jan 20, 2014

Webtoon 'Sound of Heart' runs record-long in Naver

Sound of Heart casts, with Cho Seok, their creator, on right / Courtesy of Money TodayBy Ko Dong-hwan “Sound of Heart,” a webtoon from Korea’s most popular search engine Naver, welcomed its 800th episode on Friday, boasting the longest survival in the nation’s webtoon history, sources said Monday.Embarked in September 2006, the series, written and drawn by the 31-year-old cartoonist Cho Seok, has so far recorded over 2 billion accumulated hits, attracting as many as 75,000 comments in a single episode.In the 800th episode, the main character Cho Seok (who impersonates the cartoonist) proposes to his girlfriend Ae Bong by asking, “I need a new character for this family-oriented cartoon series. Will you make me one?”According to the sources, Cho only wishes to make the last episode when his fans demanded it, although the episode smacked of possible ending with his cartoon ego’s proposal to Ae Bong.Sound of Heart, posted every Monday and Thursday, deals with mundane recipes from ubiquitous daily lives and introduces the cartoonist’s r

Jan 20, 2014By Ko Dong-hwan
Webtoon 'Sound of Heart' runs record-long in Naver

Jeong Jun-ha shows off new look after intensive diet

Comedian Jeong Jun-ha has attracted much attention with his new look after losing sizable weight./ Courtesy of MBCBy Kim Su-miComedian Jeong Jun-ha has attracted much attention with his new look after losing quite a bit of weight.In MBC program “human documentary ㅡlove others” on Jan. 11, a Japanese entertainer Fujii Mina met Jeong at a café.He had been on an intensive diet and seemed to have lost sizable weight.Once famous for his large face, he showed off his smaller façade but unfortunately seemed to be much older than before.Netizens showed a variety of reactions with comments such as “it must have been hard for him, lets cheer him up,” “he seems really different,” and “stay healthy.”

Jan 20, 2014
Jeong Jun-ha shows off new look after intensive diet

Ahn's memorial hall in Harbin

The opening ceremony for a memorial hall to the late independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910) takes place near Harbin Station in northeast China, Sunday, with local officials participating. China built the memorial at the request of President Park Geun-hye, during a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, to commemorate Ahn on the site where he assassinated Japanese Governor of Korea Hirobumi Ito in 1909. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the opening./ Courtesy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Jan 19, 2014

Consoling earthquake victims

Min Byoung-chul, fifth from left, chairman of the Sunfull Movement andambassador for cyber public diplomacy, clinches his fist during a ceremony to hand over a collection book, which has Korean teenagers’ messages of consolation for victims of the earthquakes that hit the southwestern city of Sichuan in China in May last year, to Chinese representatives at theKempinski Hotel in Beijing, Friday. The Sunfull Movement is a non-profit group encouraging Internet users to post positive online replies and counter cyber-bullying. / Courtesy of Sunfull Movement

Jan 19, 2014

Independent fighter honored

The Harbin city government of China unveils a bust of Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910) to the public at Harbin Train Station, China, Sunday. Ahn assassinated then Japanese governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito, in 1909 in the Chinese city. The local Chinese government responded positively to anearlier proposal from Korea to build a statue there. / Yonhap

Jan 19, 2014

The "Klive" theater shows a hologram concert of Psy

The “Klive” theater shows a hologram concert of Psy inside the Lotte Fitin shopping mall in Dongdaemun in Seoul on Friday. / Yonhap

Jan 19, 2014

A woman covering her mouth with a surgical mask

A woman covering her mouth with a surgical mask and scarf crosses the street in central Seoul, Friday, when the city government issued a warning against a high concentration of ultrafine dust./ Yonhap

Jan 17, 2014
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