Monument Valley is great place for a photographer to look up. Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, 125 miles to the west, are great places to look down.The canyon and the bend ― a narrow slot canyon and a deep, broad stretch of the Colorado River ― are at the edge of Page, Arizona, a tourist town that serves as a jumping-off point for houseboats and watersports at Lake Powell.To visit Horseshoe Bend, where the deep green Colorado River suddenly turns 270 degrees at the bottom of a big red gorge,

TravelOct. 11, 2013

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Hotel maid Brandi Patrick was chased down the hallway at the Flamingo casino last year by a nearly naked man. She said she had to lock herself in a cleaning closet and, as the man rattled the handle, fumble around in her pockets to find her cell phone so she could call security.She said she’s haunted by the thought of what might have happened if she hadn’t had her phone. “Something could happen and no one would know it ’till the end of the shift,” she said.Las Vegas casinos ― so

TravelOct. 11, 2013

  Kids’ Halloween party at Hyatt Regency IncheonHyatt Regency Incheon will be holding a Halloween party for children between the ages of six to eight on Oct. 27. Children will be able to experience the Halloween spirit by dressing in costumes and enjoying events such as a dance contest, photo zone, face painting and more. A dessert table filled with an assortment of sweets will be available. The party will take place in the hotel’s Regency room at 3:30 pm. The admission fee per child is 70,000 w

FoodOct. 11, 2013

Kongjang, also called kongjaban, is a sweet and savory soybean side dish. On weekends, I try to make a few side dishes, banchan, to help make my weeknight meal preparations easier. During the week, I make a quick soup, stew, or meat dish and serve it with the pre-made side dishes. We call those side dishes that are made to last long and served with every meal over several days (or weeks) mitbanchan, meaning basic side dishes. Kongjang is one of the most common ones. Kongjang is typically made wi

FoodOct. 11, 2013

CHICAGO ― Before the civil rights movement, dining while traveling by train was a challenge for black people. Although white train passengers were served in dining cars, Jim Crow laws barred black passengers. Thus, the shoe box lunch, a meal in a box packed before boarding, became common for traveling black families.Today, the shoe box lunch has evolved into something entirely different for one Chicago organization. Rather than a meal in a box, it’s an audiobook in a box ― complete with objects

FoodOct. 11, 2013

American music industry legend Seymour Stein carefully walked across the stage with his cane in hand and shared his colorful past as one of the last remaining old-school “record men” left in the game on Friday, the second day of the annual MU:CON global music conference in Seoul. “I’m here for the music,” said Stein, one of the keynote speakers at the forum. “If I didn’t believe there was great music here, I wouldn’t be here.”Stein, a vice president of Warner Music Group and co-founder of Sire R

PerformanceOct. 11, 2013

Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, one of the world’s most acknowledged animation houses, will give a dual lecture on cultural content and its role in the creative economy with Korean film director Bong Joon-ho on Oct. 18. As part of CJ’s Global Creative Forum held at Daeyang Hall of Sejong University in Seoul, Katzenberg will talk about DreamWorks’ “Kung Fu Panda” series and its strategy of mixing Asian characters with Western philosophies. He will also discuss the use of cutting-

FilmOct. 11, 2013

When a singer makes a song from the melody of a stranger’s humming, is he infringing the copyright of the original creator? Yes, says Kim Jong-gyun, trademark examiner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office.“Let’s say K-pop star G-Dragon was sitting next to you when you were humming the melody and he creates a song out of it. That could be copyright infringement,” said Kim at a lecture on intellectual property for young designers on Friday, during Herald Design Week 2013. “Singing karaoke is

PeopleOct. 11, 2013

A South Korean model reality contest on Friday denied allegations that it had intentionally instigated a quarrel between two of its contestants to boost its ratings.“We paired up Hwang Hyeon-ju and Jung Ha-eun (the two contestants of the show) as roommates hoping that they would reconcile, being in unfamiliar surroundings and all,” said an official from “Challenge: Supermodel Korea,” a TV show in which contestants vie for a chance at a modeling career. “We never meant for them to get in a fight.

TelevisionOct. 11, 2013

Ven. Jaseung, the incumbent president of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, was on Thursday reelected the leader of the country’s largest Buddhist group. He will begin his four-year term as the 34th chief of the order on Nov. 1 after receiving approval from the elders’ committee. The Jogye Order announced that Ven. Jaseung won 179 votes from 311 electoral college members representing more than 14,000 Buddhist monks, beating four other candidates including the strongest contender, Ven. Boseon, w

CultureOct. 10, 2013

More than 30 items donated by Korea’s top celebrities went on the block at a charity auction held Thursday afternoon, on the fourth day of the Herald Design Week 2013. The auction was conducted as a silent auction in which participants submitted bids in writing. The bidding, held from 2-4 p.m., drew visitors looking for bargains and fans of some of Korea’s top celebrities on the lookout for items donated by their favorite stars.“I chose a coffee cup designed by fashion designer Lie Sang Bong. It

Arts & DesignOct. 10, 2013

Typically black and white Korean traditional ink-and-brush landscape paintings are given a touch of brilliance in works by artist Kim Jong-sook.The artist uses thousands of small Swarovski Elements, high quality crystal pieces by Swarovski, in her traditional Korean landscape paintings. There have been many attempts to reinterpret Oriental landscape paintings by contemporary artists, and with Swarovski crystals, Kim transforms the calm, serene landscape into a world of fantasy and imagination. H

PerformanceOct. 10, 2013

BUSAN (AP) ― How much would it cost to hire Asia’s biggest movie stars to host the region’s largest film event? Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok opened this year’s Busan International Film Festival for a mere 500,000 won, or $465, according to Yang Heon-kyu, who oversees the festival’s budget. In 2012, Chinese actress Tang Wei accepted the same amount. The goodwill from big-name stars is one indication of how important Busan has become to the Asian film industry in less than two decades.It is not just

FilmOct. 10, 2013