The upper half of a body matching a lower half found on Sunday was discovered on Gyeonggi Province’s Daebudo Island on Tuesday. On Sunday, a tourist had discovered the severed lower-half of a male body in a trench, naked except for the blanket and the gunny sack in which it was wrapped.  (Yonhap)More than 900 police had searched the area with drones and boats, finally finding the upper half of the body in a gunny sack. The Ansan Danwon police, which is in charge of the case, said the victim’s fa

Social Affairs May 3, 2016

A Japanese high school student has sued a Korean cosmetic surgeon for using photos of her taken before and after her surgery without her permission. 　The student, aged 18, had suffered an extreme case of depression due to dissatisfaction with her looks. She had even attempted suicide.  (123RF)In 2014, while attending a school in North America, she briefly visited Busan, Korea, accompanied by her parents for nose and eye cosmetic surgeries. They left the country after explicitly asking the hospit

Social Affairs May 3, 2016

아래는 브렌단 돈리 (Brendan Donley)로부터 받은 마지막 사진들이다. 돈리의 종조부는 만 18세의 나이로 미군에 입대해 한국 전쟁 직후인 1953년부터 1954년 사이 약 2년간 부산과 수색 등지에서 국토 재건축 사업에 함께했다. 그 시간 동안 그가 촬영한 사진들에 60여년 전 우리네 삶의 모습이 고스란히 담겨 있다.코리아헤럴드 임정요 기자 (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)[단독]②50년대 한국, 미군의 눈으로 보다[단독]①50년대 한국, 미군의 눈으로 보다

한국어판 May 3, 2016

A public school teacher in Busan was removed from his position after allegedly insinuating paid dates with minors. According to the Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education on Tuesday, the teacher, in his 50s, told his pupils he had “dated a young foreign girl” in the past, after which more than 10 female students alerted the school authorities that they felt sexually humiliated as “potential dates.”The teacher defended his case, saying that he had only told the story of his first love, howev

Social Affairs May 3, 2016

These are the last batch of photos The Korea Herald received from the U.S. university student Brendan Donley, whose great-uncle served in the U.S. army just after the Korean War and helped rebuild the war-ravaged country in cities of Busan and Susaek between 1953-54. Take a look. By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)Below are the links to the previous articles with more photos.Korea in the 50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes②Korea in the ’50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes①

Social Affairs May 3, 2016

생화학 무기 탄저균이 실수로 배달되는 사건에 연루되며 작년 유명세를 탄 경기도 오산 미군 공군기지가 지난달 30일 소방영웅을 탄생시켰다. 오산 기지 앞 건물에 화재가 나 세 명의 여성과 세 명의 아이가 4층 높이에 갇히자 공군 상사 다니엘 레이몬도는 주변 사람들과 함께 이불을 펼쳐들고 겁에 질린 여성들을 설득해 아이를 던지고 자신들도 뛰어내리게끔 했다.레이몬도의 기지는 동료 공군에 의해 촬영되어 페이스북에서 1,100여 번 공유되었다. (페이스북 캡쳐)코리아헤럴드 임정요 기자 (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

한국어판 May 3, 2016

TEHRAN -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye held landmark summit talks with her Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Monday and reached provisional deals in construction and energy worth $45.6 billion, the highest-ever at a single summit, Cheong Wa Dae said.Involving 66 memorandums of understanding, 30 nation-scale projects and a state-backed financial program worth $25 billion, as well as the largest-ever economic delegation, South Korea seeks to gain a foothold in the promising Iranian mar

Politics May 2, 2016

Second-hand smoking increases the risk of extreme thoughts in people such as wanting to take their own lives, according to a new report published  Monday.The joint study by Yoo Jun-hyun, professor of Department of Family Medicine at Sungkyunkwan University, and Kim Wook of Gangneung Dong-in Medical Center, showed a correlation between people’s exposure to indirect smoking and its impact on their psychological health. (123RF)Based on the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve

Technology May 2, 2016

A subway station employee was busted for taking videos of women inside the station’s toilets. The man, 28, had worked at the Gangnam Subway Station since 2013. Although he had been reported for suspicious acts on multiple occasions in the past, he was only arrested after being caught in the act while filming through the gap between the floor and the toilet partition in February.  This is a stock image. (123RF)The victim, 25, said she spotted the camera lens pointing up at her from the ground and

Social Affairs May 2, 2016

Students’ academic performance are less affected by video games if they are close with the parent of the same gender, according to research published by a Yonsei University’s sociology team onMonday.  Led by professor Youm Yoo-sik, the team conducted a survey on 5,220 male and female students attending middle and high schools.  (123RF)The research was based on the average time the students spent playing games and the level of their self-assessed addiction on a grade of one to five. The games inc

Social Affairs May 2, 2016

The lower-half of a man’s body was found on Daebudo Island, Ansan, on Sunday, and a police investigation is ongoing to locate the missing half. According to the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, more than 900 policemen are currently combing through the area with two drones. The Pyeongtaek Marine Police is also participating in the search with 26 members. (Yonhap)The police said, “The drainage where the severed body was found leads to the sea. We presume the body could have been deserted where h

Social Affairs May 2, 2016

Two female doctors and two nurses’ aides were arrested on Monday for abusing psychotropic drugs for their appetite suppressant effects. According to the Busan Police’s narcotics investigation team, the female obstetricians and their aides had consumed more than 3 million won ($2,600) worth of phentermine tablets between 2013 and 2016.This is a stock image. The doctors in this photo are not the ones mentioned in the article. (123RF)“Although the pill is known for its weight-watch effects, it is a

Social Affairs May 2, 2016