Kim Yoh-jin emerging as a leading figure on Twitter Kim Yoh-jin, an established actress, is attracting attention as a social activist as she takes part in various rallies on sensitive social issues. The police are considering summoning the actress for questioning over her participation in a sit-in protest at Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction’s shipyard in Busan last week. She was one of...

Whereas vitamin D deficiency has long been recognized as a medical condition, vitamin D “insufficiency” has recently become a concern. Increased attention to this new “syndrome” has led to a substantial increase in testing for vitamin D levels in the blood, and it is expected that several million tests will be performed in the U.S. this year. If you worry about your vitamin D levels or wonder how...

LOS ANGELES ― The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for sunscreen labeling that will give consumers better information about the products’ effectiveness and that will, for the first time, allow labeling to claim that sunscreens protect against skin cancer and early skin aging. The agency has been considering such regulations since 1978 and released some proposed rules...

Expert advises early screening, good dietary habits and exercise to prevent cancer There are many deadly diseases in the world but few provoke the same anxiety as cancer. Cancer is the No.1 cause of death apart from aging. As of 2008, about 178,000 people were being diagnosed with cancer every year, with about 60,000 dying of it. Those numbers are expected to soar, according to the National Can...

Whether singing, acting, or narrating, he guarantees Asia-wide promotion. K-pop star Park Yoo-chun, who is taking on his second major TV drama, is proving his star power, as the show has drawn big attention both in the country and overseas. The MBC drama “Miss Ripley,” in which Park plays an heir to a resort empire, had already been exported to Japan and the U.S. before it was finished, in a dea...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Laura Ziskin was a “Spider-Man’’ novice when she first met with her future producing partner on the blockbuster film franchise. She quickly became an expert on the Marvel Comics superhero and his alter-ego Peter Parker, applying the same tenacity that took her from humble beginnings as a game-show writer to Hollywood’s top echelons in a career of nearly 40 years. “She became ...

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) ― U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was forced to rough it on an overnight bus to meet Argentine leaders on Monday because of Chile’s volcanic ash cloud. Worse still ― it was his birthday. Ban became the highest-profile person to fall victim as the eruption of Chile’s Puyehue volcano, high in the Andes, entered a second week, spewing ash that has disrupted air travel from Sou...