Ssangyong Engineering and Construction recently won the Building and Construction Authority Awards ― one of the industry’s greatest honors ― in three categories for its recent construction of Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore. The Marina Bay Sands, developed by U.S.-based resort company Las Vegas Sands, is an integrated resort near Marina Bay in Singapore, featuring 2,561 rooms, a 120,000 square-meter convention center and a 74,000 square-meter shopping mall. Adding to the uniqueness of the re

IndustryMay 31, 2012

Backed up by its increasing national wealth and population, Korean investors could become major customers in the U.S. retail real estate market, a U.S. expert said in Seoul on Thursday.“Korea is in a great position with its wealth and population … and needs to invest overseas to diversify.” Joseph F. Coradino, president of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, told The Korea Herald. The U.S. market will likely continue to rise, as shown by the history of market change after recessions, Cora

May 31, 2012

S-Oil Corp. said Thursday that it will donate 10 billion won for the restoration of Ulsan’s Taehwa Pavilion, a cultural and historical landmark in Korea’s seventh largest metropolitan city.S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher made the announcement at the opening ceremony of the project, which took place on Thursday on the banks of the Taehwa River in Ulsan. The donation will cover the entire cost of restoring Taehwa Pavilion, a historical structure built during the reign of Queen Seon-deok during the Si

May 31, 2012

A piece of cubic kept falling out from a Chanel earring 30-year-old Lim Joo-hyun received from a friend several months ago. When she took it to a Chanel boutique in central Seoul, however, she was disappointed to hear that it would take about a month to be fixed. “I was told that they do not have the same piece and that it would be replaced with a similar one which might not fit as well. The cubic fell out about two more times since then. Now I usually keep the earrings safe at home because I’m

IndustryMay 31, 2012

KT said Thursday that the firm’s executive Yang Hyun-mi became the first Asian seated as chief strategy officer for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association.The nomination indicates that Yang, executive vice president of the customer strategy business unit at KT, will be leaving KT to serve in the GSMA position in London beginning June 15.Yang, 49, will focus on cooperating with operator members of GSMA to identify opportunities which will upgrade the mobile communications industr

IndustryMay 31, 2012

The nose has an important cosmetic function and also serves an even more important physiological role especially in respiration. Any problems with the respiratory function of the nose will lead to symptoms of nasal obstruction. People with normal respiratory function are not conscious of their breathing but patients with nasal obstruction as well as those around them experience stuffiness as a result.There are several conditions which cause nasal obstruction, the most common of which is rhinitis

TechnologyMay 31, 2012

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ― Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center’s Ashtanga Yoga Institute.Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms.One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had their fill of a quiet yoga practice, allowing their moms to continue with the asanas, or poses.A mother of two, instructor Treea Clements said she started teaching

TechnologyMay 31, 2012

LOS ANGELES ― Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can’t get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women

TechnologyMay 31, 2012

The health hazards of smoking are well known: Cigarettes are known to contribute to the prevalence of cancers of the mouth, head, lung, breast, bladder, stomach and other parts of the body. It is also linked to coronary heart disease and many other fatal disorders. It is suspected of causing infertility in women and raises the risk of fetal deformity during pregnancy. The World Health Organization said it kills 5 million people worldwide a year, which is equivalent to one person dying every six

TechnologyMay 31, 2012

 Bloodletting as a medical treatment was abandoned in the 19th century, but German researchers said blood donation is beneficial to the donor.Professor Andreas Michalsen of the Charite-University Medical Centre in Berlin and colleagues at the University Duisburg-Essen said donating blood can provide medical benefits for obese people with metabolic syndrome -- which includes insulin resistance, glu

TechnologyMay 31, 2012