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Couture looked better in the 20th century

BooksMar 11, 2011

There is a lot to like in “Couture in the 21st Century,” a collection of essays by prominent fashion designers edited by Deborah Bee, and produced in conjunction with the British department store, Harrods. It’s an excellent way to get a feel for the history of the century-and-a-half -old fashion industry started by Charles Worth in the mid-1800s. However, it also provides some stark contrasts b...
Around the hotels

Food&BeverageMar 11, 2011

Lotte Hotel Seoul Lotte Hotel Seoul’s Chinese restaurant Toh Lim on the 37th floor has invited the executive chef Fung Chekeung of the two-Michelin-starred Chugoku Hanten Fureika and the owner chef Nakazo Tomizo of Chugoku Hanten Group to showcase the essence of Chinese cuisine on March 16 and 17. Chugoku Hanten Fureika’s nine-course lunch and dinner courses will include a special Chinese BBQ ap...
Risk factors for strokes

HealthMar 10, 2011

A stroke is a sudden interruption in the blood supply of the brain. Because strokes occur rapidly and require immediate treatment, a stroke is also called a brain attack. Most strokes are caused by an abrupt blockage of arteries leading to the brain (ischemic stroke). Other strokes are caused by bleeding into the brain tissue when a blood vessel bursts (hemorrhagic stroke). When the symptoms of ...
Veggie meisters play link for produce

PeopleMar 10, 2011

Korea’s first accredited vegetable sommelier pushes the profession to the fore When Ludwig Andereas Feuerbach proclaimed “man is what he eats” in his 1863 essay on spiritualism and materialism, he did not mean it to be taken literally. He meant that the food one eats has a bearing on one’s state of mind and health. Kim Eun-kyung, Korea’s first accredited vegetable sommelier, takes it literally...
Literary agent Owen Laster dies at age 72

BooksMar 10, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― Owen Laster, a literary agent and executive of old-fashioned self-effacement and intregity whose many clients included Judy Blume, Gore Vidal and the estate of Margaret Mitchell, died Wednesday. He was 72. Laster, who retired in 2006, died in his Manhattan apartment after a brief illness, said his friend and attorney Richard Snider. Numerous friends had visited him recently, inc...
Chung reelected to head PR association

PeopleMar 10, 2011

Chung Sang-kook, executive vice president of LG Corp., was reelected president of the Korea Public Relations Association on Wednesday. The association reelected Chung at its annual general meeting at the Press Center in Seoul. Chung has led the association since 2009 as the 20th president. He said that he would seek to establish a PR training center, certify PR experts and publish PR guideline...
Puppy love in the country

BooksMar 10, 2011

The Camellias By Kim Yu-jeong (Jimoondang, 5,000 won) Revealing author Kim Yu-jeong’s mastery of colloquial dialect and his commanding insight into the charms of peasants, “The Camellias” tells a humorous tale of two young souls living in the countryside in the 1930s. The protagonist, a naïve young boy from a peasant family, does not like it when his rooster gets into fights with Jeom-soon’s ...
Could gene tests reveal future sports stars?

HealthMar 10, 2011

CHICAGO (AP) ― Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits costing less than $200. Some customers say the test results help them steer their children to appropriate sports. But skeptical doctors and ethicists say the tests are putting profit before science and have a much greater price tag ― potentially robbing perfectly capable you...
Daejeon Ye Dental gains JCI approval

HealthMar 10, 2011

Daejeon Ye Dental Clinic earned accreditation from Joint Commission International in January. This type of accreditation ― a first for a Korean clinic ― is widely used to evaluate the overall facilities as well as the techniques and services of a medical institute according to an international standard. “Earning accreditation from the JCI will be another step toward excellence,” said clinic chi...
Constipation on rise among teens

HealthMar 10, 2011

The number of people suffering from constipation is on a steep rise, the National Health Insurance Corporation said Monday. According to its research on insurance payments between 2002 and 2009, 1.428 million people were treated for constipation in 2009, which is about a 50 percent jump from 2002’s 927,000. Women outnumbered men 800,000 to 630,000 and teenagers showed a significant increase of ...
SNU hospital succeeds in lung transplant

HealthMar 10, 2011

Doctors at Seoul National University Hospital successfully transplanted a lung on a stage-4 lung cancer patient last year for the first time in Korea. According to Prof. Kang Chang-hyun of the cardiothoracic department, a 58-year-old patient was diagnosed with stage-1 lung cancer in 2006 and had her left lower lobe removed. Then in 2007, the disease relapsed, spread to both lungs and the cancer...
How to encourage healthy computing

HealthMar 10, 2011

For today’s students, life is all about staring at a screen. They spend hours doing homework, playing games, chatting with friends, reading books and just hanging out ― all on computers, smart phones and e-readers or tablets. And doctors say they’re starting to pay the price: in eye strain, neck pain and wrist aches. “Kids have a limited degree of awareness, so they’ll just play and play until...
Paper museum tour and class for kids

Expat LivingMar 10, 2011

Itaewon-Hannam Global Village Center’s next monthly activity class for Korean and expat children will take place at Jong Ie Nara Paper Art Museum, on March 17. Children who participate will be given a tour of the exhibition halls of the museum and take part in a book art class. This class will provide an opportunity for expat and Korean children to mingle, as well as gain an insight into Korea’...
A crocus with your cappuccino

CultureMar 9, 2011

Flower cafés emerge as new hope amid slump of flower sales and fierce competition in café industry Instead of the expected scent of coffee and waffles, the fresh fragrances of spring flowers greet visitors at the door of Blute, a flower café in Hannam-dong, central Seoul. On a Saturday afternoon, surrounded by bundles of flowers and plants, a barista made hot Americanos while a nearby florist s...
Springtime in Paris, but Chanel feels an autumn chill

FashionMar 9, 2011

PARIS (AFP) ― It’s getting to be springtime in Paris, but for Karl Lagerfeld it was the moment to send a chill of autumn through the Grand Palais on Tuesday as he presented a tomboyish Chanel fall-winter collection. In a deliberate contrast to the Parisian garden theme that framed the spring-summer show, Lagerfeld sent darker, looser looks down a wooden boardwalk the length of a venue carpeted w...

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