A South Korean man has been hospitalized with wounds from an explosion during the Boston Marathon, which left three dead and more than 170 others hurt, officials said Tuesday. Ahn Dong-sik, 23, underwent minor surgery at a nearby hospital for injuries on his legs and thighs, but he is not in critical condition, according to officials at the South Korean consulate general in Boston.Ahn, in Boston for a language study program, briefly lost consciousness in the stands near the marathon's finish lin

Social Affairs April 17, 2013

South Korean rapper Psy's new video, "Gentleman," recorded more than 100 million hits on YouTube Wednesday, less than five days after its release.The clip, released at 9 p.m. Saturday, surpassed 100 million around 5 a.m. on Wednesday.It marks far faster growth in the number of YouTube hits than his previous mega-hit video, "Gangnam Style." "Style" topped 100 million views in 51 days after it was posted. It remains the most-viewed YouTube video with more than more than 1.5 billion hits.Media atte

Performance April 17, 2013

Thousands of DNA tests on European beef products have revealed extensive food fraud across the European Union, with almost one in 20 meals marketed as beef likely to be tainted with horse, the European Commission said Tuesday.Releasing the results of more than 4,000 tests in recent weeks to detect the potential mislabelling of beef products, the EU executive said 193 products contained positive traces of horsemeat DNA, or 4.55 percent.A further more than 3,000 tests for phenylbutazone, the paink

World Business April 17, 2013

A key computer system used to run many daily operations at American Airlines failed Tuesday, forcing the third-largest U.S. carrier to ground all flights across the United States for several hours and stranding thousands of frustrated passengers at airports and on planes.Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations, but planes on the ground from coast to coast could not take off. And travelers could do little to get back in the air until the computer system was resto

World News April 17, 2013

A march to demand a recount in Venezuela's contested presidential election turned violent Tuesday in the home state of the late President Hugo Chavez as the government blamed the opposition candidate for violent disturbances it said had claimed seven lives and left 61 people injured.In a televised broadcast, Justice Minister Nestor Reverol accused the candidate, Henrique Capriles, of numerous crimes including insurrection and civil disobedience. Government officials have been alleging since Mond

World News April 17, 2013

Federal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out _ with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel _ but said they still didn't know who did it and why.The FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly appealed to the public to come forward with photos, videos or anything suspicious they might have seen or heard.President Barack Obama branded the attack an act of terrorism but said officials don't know “whether it was p

World News April 17, 2013

H7N9 bird flu has claimed two more lives in Shanghai, Chinese state media said on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the disease to 16.China has confirmed 77 human cases of H7N9 avian influenza since announcing two weeks ago that it had found the strain in people for the first time.The new strain of the flu had been confined to the eastern city of Shanghai and nearby Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui until Saturday when the first case was reported in Beijing.It has since spread west to the central

World News April 17, 2013

The government on Tuesday allowed North Korean defectors to work as experienced public servants in an effort to better embrace them as members of society.According to a revision of related rules endorsed by the Cabinet, the government can hire the North Korean defectors or naturalized citizens from overseas who have working experience in their home countries or hold a degree as civil servants. After a resume screening, the applicants will be interviewed, while being exempt from written examinati

Social Affairs April 16, 2013

A U.S. military helicopter crashed while landing at a front-line Army unit Tuesday, but all of three crew members and 13 U.S. soldiers on board escaped unscathed, police and military officials said.Sikorsky's CH-53 transport helicopter crashed onto a military shooting range in Cherwon, 88 kilometers north of Seoul, while landing after completing a three-hour training exercise along with five other helicopters, according to military officials. After all the American soldiers had escaped to safety

Defense April 16, 2013

걸스데이의 멤버 혜리(19)가 가수 토니안 (35)과 열애중인 것으로 확인되었다.걸스데이의 소속사 드림티엔터테인먼트는 16일 공식입장을 통해 두 사람이 만남을 가지고 있는 것을 인정했으며, 이들이 1개월째 만나고 있다고 설명했다.소속사 측은 혜리가 토니안의 “자상함과 세심한 배려심에 끌려 몇 차례 만나 서로에 대한 이야기를 나눴다”면서 올해 3월 즈음에 만나보자는 연락을 받았다고 설명했다. 또한 “두 사람의 만남을 미리 인지하고 있지 못했다”면서 팬들에게 사과의 뜻을 표했다.이날 오전 한 매체에서 두 사람이 열애 중이라며 관련 기사와 사진을 보도하면서 이들의 관계에 관심이 쏠렸다. 두 사람의 열애는 무려 16살 차이라는 나이차로 인해 많은 사람들의 관심을 받고 있다. <관련 영문 기사>Girl’s Day’s Hyeri dating former boy band member: reportHyeri, a member of a K-pop girl group Girl’s Day, is dat

한국어판 April 16, 2013

Gold had its biggest one-day drop since 1983 on Monday as a selling frenzy that began last week picked up speed.The price of gold plunged $140.30 to $1,361.10 an ounce, a decline of 9 percent. The metal has dropped $200 an ounce, or nearly 13 percent, in the last two trading days. It's the lowest price since February 2011.The sell-off started Friday when the government reported a drop in inflation. Investors often buy gold when they're fearful of rising prices and sell it when they see inflation

World Business April 16, 2013