Man assaults neighbor in elevator over noise dispute

A 40-year-old man is being investigated for assaulting his upstairs neighbor in their apartment’s elevator, Sangju Police Station said Tuesday.The incident occurred May 23 at an apartment in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province.Police said an argument over noise between floors seems to have snowballed into physical violence.The victim, a 44-year-old woman, suffered a broken nose and cheekbone and will have to be hospitalized for about seven weeks. The police station’s crime section

Social AffairsJune 5, 2019

Korean pain treatment goes to Middle East

Known best for the pain treatment FIMS -- fluoroscopy-guided interventional microadhesiolysis and nerve stimulation -- Ahnkang Hospital became the first Korean hospital to open in Kuwait in July 2017. It marked one of the first instances of a Korean-owned hospital to operate in the Middle East.Dr. Ahn Kang’s ties to the Middle East first began in 2009, while he was still working for a Korean university hospital. Ahn said he was visited by an official from Libya who complained of a pain in

Social AffairsJune 5, 2019

Number of King Sejong Institutes to rise by 13 to 180

The government said Wednesday it will establish 13 new state-run King Sejong Institutes in 11 countries for foreigners wanting to learn the Korean language and culture.With the additions, the number of King Sejong Institutes, a public institution run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to promote Korean language education and the distribution of Korean culture abroad, has increased to 180 in 60 countries worldwide, according to the ministry. The 13 new institutes were chosen from amon

CultureJune 5, 2019

Rangers' Choo Shin-soo hits 200th homer

Texas Rangers' Choo Shin-soo has belted his 200th homer of his career to become the first Asian MLB player to achieve the feat.Batting leadoff, the South Korean left fielder smacked a solo home run in his first plate appearance of the game against the Baltimore Orioles at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday (US time). It is his 11th homer of the season and the 200th of his 15-year career in the Major League Baseball.Also Choo, 36, became the first Asian player to hit 200 homers in th

BaseballJune 5, 2019

3 bodies recovered in Danube, 2 confirmed as S. Korean victims of boat sinking

Three more bodies have been retrieved from the Danube River, and two of them were confirmed to be South Koreans missing in last week's deadly sinking of a sightseeing boat, officials said Wednesday.Should all of them be confirmed to be Koreans, it would raise the death toll of the May 29 boat sinking in Budapest to 12 Koreans, with 14 others still unaccounted for. Two Hungarian crew members also remain missing. Seven other Korean passengers were rescued right after the accident. A first body was

Social AffairsJune 5, 2019

Death toll in Danube sunken tour boat accident rises to 11

One by one, the Danube River is giving up its dead.Divers and rescue crews slowly are recovering the bodies of a growing number of people killed when a sightseeing boat and a long river cruise ship collided in Hungary's capital. Some victims have been found at the river's bottom still on the boat, which capsized and sank after the collision. Others were located as far as 132 kilometers (82 miles) downstream. The Hableany (Mermaid) carried 35 people at the time of last Wednesday's accident i

Social AffairsJune 5, 2019

1 more victim of Hungary boat collision found

The Hungarian police recovered one more body believed to be a Korean after divers found two victims from the Danube River boat collision last week, said an official from Korea's emergency team dispatched to the accident site on Tuesday. The body was pulled from underwater, 55 kilometers south from the site of the accident, according to the officials.The death toll of the tragic incident increased to 10 among 33 Korean tourists who were on the boa

Foreign AffairsJune 4, 2019

South Korea could start returning bodies from Budapest boat disaster

Hungary, BUDAPEST (Reuters) -- The South Korean government expects to begin returning to Seoul the remains of some of the victims who died when a tourist boat sank last week in Budapest, an official said on Tuesday, as conditions for exploring the wreckage improved. Twenty-eight people are presumed to have died when The Mermaid, a pleasure boat carrying 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew, capsized and sank after being hit by a cruise liner in Budapest last Wednesday. Seven Koreans s

Foreign AffairsJune 4, 2019

Trump baby blimp flies in London as protests greet president

   LONDON (AP) _ Thousands of protesters greeted President Donald Trump's UK visit with anger and British irony Tuesday, crowding London's government district while the US leader met Prime Minister Theresa May nearby.    Feminists, environmentalists, peace activists, trade unionists and others demonstrated against the lavish royal welcome being given to a president they see as a danger to the world, chanting “Say it loud, say it clear, Donald Trump's not welcome here.&r

World NewsJune 4, 2019

FM meets with new GCF chief

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha met with the new head of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Seoul on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said.     In April, Yannick Glemarec took office as the new executive director of the GFC, the South Korea-based UN climate fund aimed at channeling money from industrialized nations to developing countries to help them tackle global warming.    Kang cited the importance of the GCF's role in implementin

Foreign AffairsJune 4, 2019

Cruise ship boss laments sunken tour boat mishap

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- The head of the company whose ship collided last week with a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists on the Danube River in Budapest has expressed his "personal and sincere condolences" to those affected by the "tragic incident."      Torstein Hagen, chairman of Swiss-based Viking River Cruises, said the company is cooperating fully with the investigation, which is being carried out by Hungarian police.    &

Social AffairsJune 4, 2019

Korea’s image in the eyes of the outside world

While the image of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho posing triumphantly with his Palme d’Or trophy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is the most popular recent image of Korea on the world stage, the country’s cinema is not as well-known among foreigners as one might expect.When asked, “What Korean films have you watched?” over half the foreign respondents to a recent survey -- 51.7 percent -- said they had never seen a Korean movie. The survey, conducted between

CultureJune 4, 2019

Beyond 'looking’: British artist Gary Hume invites viewers to interact with his works

In Gary Hume’s paintings, colorful tectonic plates seamlessly flow on the glimmering aluminum surface. You see yourself reflected there too. As you move around the gallery space, they seem to shimmer a little differently.Britain’s Hume has brought his visual playground to Seoul. The artist is holding a solo exhibition at Barakat Contemporary, Barakat Gallery’s modern and contemporary art venue. It is the first-ever solo exhibition in Korea for the artist, who came to

Arts & DesignJune 4, 2019

SKT teams up with Sinclair on 5G broadcasting in US

JEJU ISLAND -- A friendly match between US soccer teams was broadcast live on 12-inch screens installed into every seat of a shiny white sport utility vehicle cruising the streets of Korea’s southern Jeju Island. Broadcast from multiple angles in the stadium, the sporting event was punctuated by personalized TV commercials, streaming different content tailored to each passenger depending on their interests as preregistered with the car. The futuristic scene was the latest effort by SK Tele

TechnologyJune 4, 2019

[Graphic News] Emerging nations to dominate world economy in 2050

　By 2050, China will not only have overtaken the United States, but its economy will be much, much bigger than the US. 　According to a PwC report, its gross domestic product will stand at around $58.5 trillion compared to the US’ $34.1 trillion (on a purchasing power parity basis). 　The Asian giant will account for 20 percent of the world’s economy, higher than India at 15 percent and the US at 12 percent.　In 2050, the global economy will be led by China, with India in second, follow

World BusinessJune 4, 2019

Resumption of US-North Korea negotiations is priority: unification minister

South Korea is making efforts to revive US-North Korea talks, as it is key to reviving inter-Korean relations, Seoul’s Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Tuesday.Speaking to foreign journalists in Seoul, Kim said inter-Korean business projects, the Kaesong industrial park and Kumgangsan tourism will be normalized once conditions are met. “At this point, the resumption of the US-DPRK negotiation is the important priority,” Kim said at a press conference at the Seoul Foreign

North KoreaJune 4, 2019

American singer-songwriter finds ‘accidental success’ in Korea

While Hallyu, or the Korean wave, has proven to be a major force, with South Korean music and entertainment content making a buzz around the world, music travels in the opposite direction too.American singer-songwriter Jim Wolf, 39, is one example. He has found musical success in a place he never would have expected.  “I didn’t actually have a distributor to get the song here. The more I look into it, the more I don’t know how it really began,” Wolf told The Korea He

PerformanceJune 4, 2019

Samsung expands into GPU market with AMD

A new technology partnership has been formed between South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and the United States’ AMD on low-power and high-performance mobile graphics, according to the companies Tuesday. Under the multiyear partnership, Samsung Electronics will license AMD’s graphics intellectual property, based on the recently announced, highly-scalable Radeon graphics architecture, for use in its mobile devices including smartphones. Samsung will pay AMD license fees and royalti

TechnologyJune 4, 2019

Samsung starts 6G network research at new center

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has embarked on initial research on the sixth-generation telecommunications network by launching a new research center. Samsung recently formed the Advanced Communications Research Center under Samsung Research, the company’s main R&D organization, based in southern Seoul. The tech giant has expanded the existing telecommunications research team to the level of a center after the launch of fifth-generation technologies.  “The current team

TechnologyJune 4, 2019

[Photo News] Seoul Care opens

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon participates in a ceremony to celebrate the launch of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s care and welfare brand Seoul Care at Seoul Metropolitan Seonam Hospital on Tuesday.  The hospital was established in 2011 to enhance public medical services in the southwestern part of Seoul. It is the first of 12 Seoul-run hospitals to change its signboard to reflect the Seoul Care brand. 　　

Social AffairsJune 4, 2019