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A former model for ice cream brand Baskin Robbins found herself back in the public spotlight after she posted photos of herself on a personal mini-homepage. Choi A-jin, 12, shot to fame after starring in ice cream advertisements dressed as a Little Match Seller and Snow White. After being discovered recently on her site, the pictures spread rapidly through portal sites. The photos show that the..

Four out of five Koreans face a daily battle with stress, a recent poll suggests. The survey conducted jointly by AP and the market research firm Ipsos interviewed 1,000 adults from Korea, the U.S., England, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Italy, Mexico and Spain. Koreans were at the top of the heap, with 81 percent reporting that they were stressed on a daily basis. Australia came next wit..

The year 2006 produced new stars who improved Korea’s image on the global stage, got promoted against the odds, made a complete change in their career or staged a comeback. They stood out in every sector, from mergers and acquisitions to sports, from movies to politics. The president of the world From left: Ban Ki-moon, Han Myeong-sook, Rhyu Si-min, Oh Se-hoon, Chough Soon-hyung The new UN ch..

Korea’s birthrate is expected to inch up from 1.08 births per woman of child-bearing age to 1.1 in a sign that the downward trend that has worried pundits since 2001 is being reversed. Korea recorded the world’s lowest birthrate last year. According to tentative figures, the number of newborns is expected to increase by some 8,000-10,000 this year from 438,062 last year. The birthrate is th..

A Mother’s Fierce Devotion Kim Yu-na’s shoulder as she was performing in the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix final on Sunday was festooned with yellow tape. To overcome her waist pain, she had to wear pressure tapes from waist to shoulder in addition to painkillers. Performing to the soaring strains of Vaughn Williams’ “Lark Ascending”, the 16-year-old girl, despite her pain, ascended l..

Number of Foreign Workers in Korea's IT Industry Expanding New data by Seoul's Information and Communication Ministry show a healthy presence of foreign workers in Korea's IT industry. As of December, a total of 1,122 overseas workers were found to be involved in the domestic IT sector. Workers from India reportedly account for the largest number at 556, followed by Vietnam at 150. Other foreig..

LG Electronics on Sunday announced the release of Korea’s first TV-computer combination, the TVPC Series. The TVPC Series brings the features of the two devices into one, allowing users to perform a variety of computer tasks including Internet browsing and document composition on their TV. With the touch of a button, users can find information on the show they are watching using the “invoke..

Jeju Island is to get an “English Town” on a 3.8 million sq.m site, some 1.4 times the size of Yeouido, Seoul, in 2010 or thereabouts. The education facility will accommodate school students in dorms or private homes for one or two years and offer classes in English, which are recognized as formal education by the government. Thus a student in the first year of junior high school in Seoul c..

The global anti-trans fat movement is spreading to Korea. The artificial partly hydrogenated oils, which have been linked to an array of cardiovascular diseases, are now banned in New York’s fast food restaurants, while India is seeking to insert the warning “not for children” in fast food packaging. The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations, in a drive against fast food, has starte..

Website causes stir with nude defector photo A local website claiming to highlight the plight faced by North Koreans has come under fire for publishing a nude photograph of a female North Korean refugee. The website's manager, also a North Korean refugee, claims that the picture was posted to heighten awareness of poverty and human rights abuses suffered by North Koreans, but the woman insists ..

SunMin and Zhang Li Yin, two rising teen pop stars of different nationality, have taken meaningful steps to become "the next big things" in the Asian pop music scene. Eighteen-year-old Korean SunMin (Lee Sun-min) made her sensational debut in Korea through "SBS Ingigayo," on which she and Shin Hye-sung (a member of the famous boy band Shinhwa) performed a duet on her song "Keep Holding U." Ten ..

The Korean government said yesterday it has distributed 206 additional flight routes to China, based on a June partial open-sky pact between the two nations, evenly to the nation’s two flag carriers. The June agreement called for nearly doubling the number of passenger flights to 401 on 43 routes a week from 204 flights on 33 routes. Cargo flight routes also increased to 36 weekly from 24. Th..