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Fri, October 18, 2019 | 18:54

Cartoonist's durable popularity revisited

Park Bong-seong (1949-2005) was one of the highest in-demand cartoonists during a cartoon boom in the 1980s, and one of the few to see his popularity survive the daunting days of the 1990s and afterwards. As his nickname, “a hitter with a batting average of 1.00,” suggests, all comics Park released after his hit cartoon “Young Business Mogul” went popular.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-10-18 07:52

Explore 500-year-old books, cultural treasures

A rare and precious opportunity to see dozens of books and cultural treasures that date back more than 500 years; the National Library of Korea begins a special exhibition for two months, starting Tuesday to mid-December on the first floor of the main building of the state-run library. The exhibition displays some 50 antique documents, books and relics of Lee Eon-jeok, a high...

Anna J. Park | 2019-10-14 17:25

Gastronomic gaffe goes unchecked

Driven by the popularity of TV food shows and the popping up of "unqualified" food columnists, culinary misinformation has become widespread, from country of origin in ingredients to culinary culture. The problem it poses is so grave that much of what we know today or what is believed to be true is inaccurate at best.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-10-11 14:16

2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe's fault lines

Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe's social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes. The rare double announcement _ with the 2018 prize going to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and the 2019 award t...

2019-10-11 09:49

In July, Park Jong-cheol, a professor of herbal medicine resources at Sunchon National University in South Jeolla Province, discovered “something unexpected” in a cafeteria on a passenger ferry en route to the small Baltic state of Estonia from Sweden. There was kimchi in a container, along with Western side-dishes, at the buffet-style restaurant. “It was a nice surprise to f...

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-10-06 11:27

'Medical Pioneers' delves into Korea's medical advancement

Over 2.2 million foreign patients from 190 countries have traveled to Korea for medical treatments since 2009 when the country opened its doors for medical tourism. Chinese visitors topped in the number of foreign medical tourists in Korea, followed by Americans, Japanese, Russians and Mongolians. The number of foreign patients coming to Korea has been growing year after year...

Jung Hae-myoung | 2019-10-04 15:08

'Sam Soon-ee': Victims of urbanization remembered

Starting the 1950s in the wake of the Korean War (1950-53), there was a rare employment boom for women which continued until the 1980s. The story, however, is not as encouraging as it sounds. The bloody war had left some 100,000 orphans. With the shortages of orphanages, some girls were sent to families as maids and did various chores in return for food and a place to stay.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-10-02 12:58

[INTERVIEW] Author Yun I-hyeong espouses political power of trivial feminine story

The random murder of a 20-something woman by a schizophrenic man in the heart of Seoul in 2016 was a symbolic moment that awakened many young Korean women to the lethality of the simmering misogyny here.

2019-09-28 10:15

Novelist Gong Ji-young sued for defaming Buddhist leader

Novelist Gong Ji-young faces a defamation lawsuit. Korea's largest Buddhist sect Jogye Order submitted complaint against Gong to Jongno Police Station in Seoul on Friday for her controversial sharing of an edited photo of the spiritual leader of the sect and the leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) on Twitter.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-09-27 17:56

2019 Seoul International Writers' Festival to kick off next month

This year's Seoul International Writers' Festival will be held for nine days at Seoul's iconic Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) from Oct. 5 to 13, inviting 32 renowned novelists and poets from over a dozen countries. Under the main theme of “Thousands of Mirrors Reflecting Us,” the festival offers a full schedule of 25 events, including one-on-one discussions among writers, and ...

Anna J. Park | 2019-09-18 17:57

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