A man who stabbed his wife to death was given 22 years in prison on Thursday. According to the Chuncheon district court, the 34 year-old man had been fighting with his wife in front of their apartment management office. He had accused her of adultery. Unable to control his anger, he had stabbed her multiple times resulting in her death. (123RF)The court determined, “Although the defendant was heavily intoxicated beyond reasonable state, he brutally murdered his wife, ignoring her desperate plea

Social Affairs April 14, 2016

Barbie doll maker Mattel’s latest attempt at embracing diversity, curvy Barbies, will exclusively go on sale at Toys R Us stores in Korea on Thursday, prior to the line’s official launch in the country in July.  (Mattel)This is the first time the new Fashionista Barbies have been introduced in Asia, according to Lotte Mart, the Korean handler of Toys R Us.There are seven different curvy Fashionista Barbies. Only 600 are to be sold this time, through four Toys R Us shops here -- Jamsil, Gimpo, Gu

Arts & Design April 14, 2016

우리는 지쳐 있다. 매일 전력질주 하는 톱니바퀴 같은 나날이 반복되는 사이, 그저 행복하고 싶다는 생각이 간절해진다. 무슨 부귀영화를 누리겠다고 이러고 있지? 행복이란 게 정말 사치가 되어버린 세상일까... 불안감이 스물스물 치켜 드는데. 잠시 쉬어가기 위해 행복해지는 ‘사소한’ 방법을 일곱 가지 정리해 보았다. 7. 문화생활 (123RF)예술, 발레, 등의 문화생활을 즐기는 사람이 그렇지 못한 사람에 비해 행복하고 건강하다고 2011 역학 저널이 말한다. 소득 수준을 고려하고서라도 그렇다고 한다.남성들은 이 외에도 야외 취미생활이나 봉사 등의 신체활동 또한 행복수준과 연관 있었다. 또한, 여성 중 가장 성격이 밝은 부류는 교회와 스포츠 이벤트에 모두 활발히 참가했다. 어쩌면 원래부터 행복한 사람들이 더욱 더 적극적으로 문화활동을 즐기는 것일 수도 있다. 어찌 되었건 이 연구가 전달하는 바는 명확하다: 밖에 나가 노는 게 행복을 저해하지는 않다. 6. 반려동물   (123RF)201

한국어판 April 14, 2016

Lotte Department Store will host a giant flea market at Icheon, Gyeonggi Province’s Lotte Premium Outlet on Saturday and Sunday, coinciding with its “Black Shopping Day” sales.According to LDS, this will be the biggest flea market to be organized by a corporation to date in terms of area and the number of participants -- 300 sellers in a 5,000-square-meter space.(Lotte Department Store)Apart from popular local foods and individual collections and handcrafted art, belongings of hallyu stars such

Culture April 14, 2016

Seoul High Court on Wednesday gave 2 1/2 years in prison to a man who video-recorded and touched a woman asleep at a coffee shop.The accused 28-year-old man, surnamed Kim, had on multiple occasions secretly taken videos of women in public spaces, including inside toilets. He was caught and handed over to authorities in August 2015 while videotaping and touching the toes of a woman who had fallen deeply asleep at a coffee shop in Incheon. (123RF)While Kim admitted to all other charges regarding t

Social Affairs April 14, 2016

Seoul city will invite 200 teams of small business owners from all over Korea to a flea market at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul on May 28. The event will run between noon and 6 p.m. with busking performances, interactive games and more.Designed to help invigorate the small business ecosystem, a wide range of items including handcrafted clothes, artisan accessories, homemade food, interior design props and stationary will go on sale at the market.   (Naver)By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

Culture April 13, 2016

A female United Arab Emirates national is undergoing tests in Korea for Middle East respiratory syndrome, a local daily reported Wednesday, but she left the hospital for a few hours after reporting her symptoms.  The woman, whose identity remains withheld, arrived in Korea on Friday, and on Wednesday at 2 a.m. she reported to Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in Seoul with a severe fever.(123rf)The medical staff identified her as possibly having MERS, however, before preliminary test results could come o

Social Affairs April 13, 2016

잠실 롯데월드타워를 무단으로 오르며 국내 방송에 오르내린 ‘도시의 닌자’ 비탈리 라스칼로프 (21)와 바딤 마코로브 (25) 중 전자가 11일 코리아헤럴드와 인터뷰를 했다. 타워에 잠입해 123층 꼭대기에 서는 전 과정을 담은 영상이 유튜브에 게재된 바로 다음 날이다. 라스칼로프는 “보안이 아주 삼엄”했으며 “들어가는 게 굉장히 어려웠다”고 밝혔다. 우선 그는 침입에 앞서 날이 밝은 시간 공사현장을 찾아갔다. 이때, 담장이 가장 낮으며 보안 인력이 상대적으로 적은 위치를 파악하고 CCTV가 없음을 확인했다. 그와 마코로브는 해가 진 후 잠입해 정상에서 ‘인증사진’을 찍고 근로자들이 도착하기 전 재빨리 사라졌다. 라스칼로프는 이 모든 과정이 “여섯 시간에서 일곱 시간 정도 걸렸다”고 전했다. 영상에서 그는 타워 정상보다 더 높이 뻗어 있는 크레인까지 기어오르는 담력을 보였는데, 이에 대해 “높은 곳은 하나도 무섭지 않다”며, 오히려 땅 위를 기어다니는 “뱀을 제일 무서워 한다”고 말했

한국어판 April 12, 2016

Vitaliy Raskalov, 21, and Vadim Makhorov, 25, are the first -- and probably the only -- people to scale the 555 meter-tall Lotte World Tower, Korea’s tallest skyscraper, without permission.  In a written interview with The Korea Herald on Monday, Raskalov, the more responsive of the duo, said that “Security at the Lotte Tower is very, very good” and that “It was complicated” to break through. A 7-minute-long YouTube video by the two shows exactly how they avoided the security. On the day of the

Social Affairs April 12, 2016

Major South Korean firms are facing a sales drop and the subsequent growth slowdown, while their foreign rivals are continuously expanding their presence, a report showed Tuesday.According to the Korea Economic Research Institute, 14 South Korean firms that were included in the world's top 1,000 companies in terms of market capitalization as of end-March saw their sales grow 1.12 percent in 2015, sharply decelerating from a 6.18 percent gain in 2014, an 8.48 percent rise in 2013 and a 5.75 perce

April 12, 2016