I was weaned on bottled dressings poured over iceberg lettuce salads. There were three basic choices. When my two younger brothers dared to drizzle dressing on their salads ― and most of the time they chose (shiver) dry lettuce ― they adorned it with something called “Catalina,” a vivid orange, very sweet dressing. My personal favorite was blue cheese, or as we called it at my house, Roquefort....

Korea University’s research institute to digitalize 2,200 rare Korean documents held at UC Berkeley More than 2,000 old documents taken from Korea to the U.S. during the Japanese colonial period will return home in digital form. Korea University’s Research Institute of Korean Studies announced Thursday that its Center for Rare Materials Abroad finished digitalizing 738 of the 2,200 old Korean d...

Conventionally, ultrasound has been used in hospitals to look into the body for diagnostic purposes, but it has increasingly been used in therapy. High-intensity focused ultrasound therapy could be compared to setting a fire by focusing sunrays with a magnifying glass. Sunrays are warm, but unable to induce fire by themselves. However, once they are concentrated on a very small spot, the heat ge...

DETROIT ― Te’nika Prince knew spring had arrived when her nose started running and her eyes got puffy and her head hurt and she felt miserable. She has been struggling with allergies her entire life. “I would have to keep tissue with me all the time,” says Prince, 35, of Westland, Michigan. “When it starts, you don’t want to do anything. You just want to lie around.” For several years, Prince ...

Top university hospital reaches out to foreigners When Seoul National University Hospital opened its cancer center last month, it was the beginning of another renaissance for the hospital that has arguably ruled the country’s medical field for more than half a decade. Equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including 165 sickbeds, 15 specified sectors, educational facilities and a clinical te...

The lower house of the National Diet of Japan passed a bill on Thursday on ratifying an agreement on the return of ancient Korean texts to Seoul. With the legal process necessary for the repatriation of the books virtually completed, officials in Seoul expect the books to be returned sometime next month. The House of Representatives passed the bill a day after its committee on foreign affairs en...

Linked by Korea Herald, Korean, Swede transcend distance for five decades The word “pen pal” might seem ancient for those accustomed to social networking sites. But these sites did not exist 50 years ago, so the steadfast friendship between Chang Key-kwan and Gunnar Sildevon was shared through letters. When Chang sent his first letter to Sildevon in 1962, Chang was a junior at Yonsei Universit...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ― Book dealer Ken Sanders has seen a lot of nothing in his decades appraising “rare” finds pulled from attics and basements, storage sheds and closets. Sanders, who occasionally appraises items for PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, often employs the “fine art of letting people down gently.” But on a recent Saturday while volunteering at a fundraiser for the small town museum in Sandy...

It all started with a move. Not a downsizing, but an upsizing to a place with more storage and a bigger kitchen. But when I opened the cabinet where I store my cookbooks, magazines and thousands of recipes that I’ve been saving for the past couple of decades, I was horrified. Had I become a hoarder? I started pulling them out and making giveaway piles, but it wasn’t long before the stacks were...

I‘ve long been an admirer of Greg Mortenson, the author of the phenomenal best-seller “Three Cups of Tea.” The book tells how he began building girls’ schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan after making a pledge to the villagers of Korphe, who had rescued him from a failed attempt to summit the world‘s second-highest peak, K-2. To see his work, I traveled with Greg in 2007 to visit schools he’d bui...

About 5.8 percent of elementary and secondary school students have high blood pressure, and six out of 10 have bad eyesight, a report showed Tuesday. The findings came from a regular checkup by schools in Gyeonggi Province from last March to February this year. The number of students with high blood pressure was found to increase gradually with students’ age, from 2.6 percent of elementary scho...