All cars have a niche audience they cater to, and in the case of the QM3, the quirky yet stylish new “compact” SUV from Renault Samsung, the target consumer will be a bit more adventurous than most. “We hope with the QM3, we create, and not only follow trends. We don’t want to be on the defensive ―we want to be on the offensive,” said Laurens Van Den Acker, Renault’s head of design, who was in Seoul for the Seoul Motor Show on Thursday. A bright orange QM3 sat glistening on the showroom floor at

IndustryMarch 28, 2013

Legendary car designer Ian Callum of Jaguar, who was visiting Korea for the first time to attend the Seoul Motor Show, picked Kia’s Sportage as his favorite design among Korean cars. “The Sportage has really great design. I think it’s exaggerated but it’s good when it comes to car design. It gives a character to a car,” he said in an interview with The Korea Herald. The design director for Jaguar and man behind the British carmaker’s renaissance over the past decade joined the Seoul event to per

IndustryMarch 28, 2013

GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province ― More than 300 vehicles, including nine world debuts and 16 new introductions in Asia, will show off their beauties at the Seoul Motor Show which kicked off Thursday starting with a media preview. Korean carmakers, among other players, have geared up to prevail during the largest automotive event held on their home turf. Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor dominates the largest exhibition space of 6,800 square meters and shows off 38 vehicles, including the HND-9, a luxury

MobilityMarch 28, 2013

COEX, an exhibition and convention center in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, appointed Byun Bo-kyung, former head of Seoul Business Agency, as new CEO, the Korea International Trade Association, the owner of COEX, said Thursday. Byun, 60, has built global leadership in the information technology sector, serving LG-IBM PC and Kolon Information and Technology as CEO. He entered the exhibition and convention industry in 2011 as CEO of the Seoul Business Agency, which carries out exhibitions and conv

March 28, 2013

Models pose with cars being showcased at the Seoul Motor Show. The biennial event kicked off on Thursday with a media preview. (Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Herald)<관련 한글 기사>2013 서울 국제모터쇼 미모의 레이싱걸 '화제'2013 서울 국제모터쇼가 28일 경기 고양 일산 킨텍스에서 프레스데이를 시작으로 개막했다.한국자동차산업협회·한국수입자동차협회·한국자동차공업협동조합이 주최하고, 지식경제부·환경부·국토해양부·고양시가 후원하는 이번 모터쇼는 4월 7일까지 열 린다.

MobilityMarch 28, 2013

　 　LONDON -- A cyberbattle between a European spam-fighting group and a Dutch Web host may be the biggest public Internet battle in history, experts say.　Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus, with offices in London and Geneva, works with email providers around the globe to block spam from entering inboxes.　It has been in a battle in the last week with Dutch website hosting company Cyberbunker after adding it to its spam “blacklist,” CNET reported Wednesday.　Cyberbunker has based its business on a

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013

A new study revealed that babies exposed to their parents arguing are more vulnerable to stress, even when they are asleep.“We were interested in whether a common source of early stress in children‘s lives -- conflict between parents -- is associated with how infants’ brains function,” said Alice Graham, a doctoral student involved in the study.Researchers at the University of Oregon tested the brains of 20 sleeping babies, exposing them to voices with four different kinds of emotions -- very a

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013

Looking at a woman tottering on 10 cm high heels might make one wonder what could happen to her ankles or her back in the future.The damaging effects of high heels are well documented, but researchers have suggested a silver lining -- that wearing high heels could strengthen the ankles.A research team at Korea University studied the ankle joint movements and muscular strength of two groups of women -- those who wear high heels on a daily and those who do not. The average height of heels was 8 cm

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013

People age 52 and older who are socially isolated are at higher risk of dying, than those not socially isolated, British researchers say.Andrew Steptoe, Aparna Shankar, Panayotes Demakakos and Jane Wardle of the University College London said they assessed social isolation in terms of contact with family and friends and participation in civic organizations in 6,500 men and women age 52 and older who took part in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging in 2004-05. A standard questionnaire measure

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013

Overweight/obese, “breakfast skipping,” teen girls who ate a high-protein breakfast reduced their unhealthy snacking later in the day, U.S. researchers say.Heather Leidy of the University of Missouri said the study involved 20 overweight or obese adolescent females ages 18-20 who either skipped breakfast, consumed a high-protein breakfast consisting of eggs and lean beef, or ate a normal-protein breakfast of ready-to-eat cereal. Each breakfast consisted of 350 calories and was matched for dietar

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013

Researchers at Britain‘s Oxford University said bank notes from Denmark and Sweden have more bacteria than any other European cash.　Ian Thompson, professor of engineering science at Oxford, said his team found a piece of paper money in Europe carries an average 26,000 bacteria, while Danish krone were found to have an average 40,266 bacteria and Swedish kroner had an average 39,600 bacteria, The Local.se reported Wednesday.　Thompson and his fellow researchers said they found the euro was the cle

TechnologyMarch 28, 2013