YouTube, the video Web site of Google Inc., on Tuesday launched a channel that incorporates video clips posted by Asian musicians, including Korean pop idols SHINee and Super Junior.The “A-pop Channel” features a top 20 list of the most popular video clips that highlight pop idols in Korea, Japan and China, as well as a calendar that posts information for online fan meetings and events, according to the YouTube’s Korea blog. Users can also view the top 20 list by country, K-pop, J-pop and C-pop,

Feb. 19, 2013

Overall happiness and satisfaction with life tend to increase with age, but a person‘s well-being depends on when he or she was born, U.S. researchers say.Angelina R. Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine conducted the study while at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Sutin and colleagues used two large-scale longitudinal studies -- the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for t

Feb. 18, 2013

男女 이상형의 조건, 키 몇 cm이상일까?Women want partners who tower over them, while men’s preferred height difference is significantly smaller, according to research by Dutch scientists.“Both men and women prefer to be in a couple where the man was taller than the woman, but not too tall, and the preference was most pronounced in women who, unlike men, considered partner heights unacceptable if they resulted in her being taller,” said Gert Stulp, evolutionary psychologist from the University of Groningen who

Feb. 18, 2013

Fifty percent of U.S. men versus 36 percent of women say they would choose a date over work, a survey for the specialty dating service It‘s Just Lunch said. It’s Just Lunch asked more than 4,300 U.S. single men and women a series of questions regarding how they view dating issues related to work. Forty-one percent of the women said work and dating held near equal importance in their lives and they made time for both.Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman, a psychologist who specializes in single career w

Feb. 18, 2013

A group of experts geared up to restore the metal types for the missing part of the world’s oldest surviving printed book, “Jikji.”The Cheongju Early Printing Museum on Sunday said that its head curator, Hwang Jeong-ha, and others had started research to restore the metal types used for the printing of the first volume of “Baegun Hwasang Chorok Bulji Jikji Simche Yojeol (Mater Baegun’s Excerpts from the Buddha and Patriarchs’ Direction Pointing to the Essence of Mind),” also known as “Jikji.” Cu

Feb. 17, 2013

 Babies as young as 7 months can begin to learn two languages even if they have vastly different grammatical structures, Canadian and French researchers say.A study by the University of British Columbia and Universite Paris Descartes reports infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages, such as English and Japanese, even though those languages use opposite word orders.In English, a function word comes before a content word -- the dog, his hat, w

Feb. 15, 2013

Sungnyemun, a historic gate in downtown Seoul whose restoration is near completion, was unveiled to the press on Thursday ahead its unveiling to the general public in April. Along with the gate, parts of the Seoul City Wall, of which Sungnyemun was one of its four main gates during the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), were also restored to portray the original atmosphere of the gate. The National Treasure No. 1 was severely damaged on Feb. 10, 2008 in an arson attack by a mentally disturbed man in hi

Feb. 14, 2013

Some teens and adults are so connected with their smartphones they answer the buzz in their sleep and don‘t know they’re “sleep texting,” a U.S. expert says.Elizabeth Dowdell, a nursing professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said her research involves Internet safety and many have told her about texts other people tell them they made but don‘t remember making.“Many parents tell me, ’My child is so connected they never leave their cellphone and they have it on their nightstand and the

Feb. 14, 2013

In the far southern villages of Sinan and Yeonggwang in South Jeolla Province, there are endless salt farms glaring with white crystalline under the sizzling sun. They are the so-called salterns, and appear on the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List. “Salterns are the result of human interaction with the environment and are also an outstanding example of sea water usage. They show the continuity of a living culture in which people have long employed the natural environment to produce items

Feb. 13, 2013

Salt existed before mankind. Indeed, animals noticed the true value of salt before any humans became aware of it. All animals naturally eat salt based on their natural appetite. Humans observed animals’ behavior and slowly followed their lead. Salt was very difficult to find back when humans carried no tools; people had to find tiny specks of saline crust on shore rocks and from tidal pools that had dried up. It finally became easily attainable when humans started to use tools to obtain salt fro

Feb. 13, 2013

Coffee shops and cafs are an important part of Seoul’s cultural atmosphere. Indeed, their incredible popularity becomes apparent walking down almost any street in Seoul. Multiple cafes line the streets, some several stories tall. And they are packed with people. Most of the cafes on the main streets are chain brands, offering space of one’s own for those who need a quick escape from the cramped city life. If there is one thing that all of these cafes have in common, it is that they are very mund

Feb. 13, 2013

It has been about a decade since hallyu, the Korean pop culture wave, emerged as a buzzword not only in showbiz but in society in general. Korean entertainers are treated as VIPs overseas and Korean films, television dramas and pop songs are a major force in the nation branding of the country. Now, people from countries where Korean pop culture is popular are visiting Korea to see the places they have seen on TV, breathe the same air as their favorite celebrities and even learn the Korean langua

Feb. 12, 2013