이승기가 KBS 주말 버라이어티 해피 선데이 <1박 2일> 하차설에 대한 입장을 밝혔다.이승기는 소속사인 (주)후크엔터테인먼트와 협의해 15일 “제가 군입대로 인해 방송을 못하는 시기가 올 때까지 <1박 2일>형들과 고생하는 제작진 그리고 시청자 여러분들께 좋은 여행지를 소개해 드리고 즐거운 방송을 하고 싶습니다”고 밝혔다.이승기는 “<1박 2일>이란 프로그램에 출연하기로 결정하고 첫 촬영 전 날 연예인이 되고 한 번도 해보지 못한 1박 2일의 여행이 너무나도 기쁘고 설레어 잠을 설치고 촬영을 나갔었습니다. 그런데 믿기지 않으시겠지만 신기하게도 전 지금도 <1박 2일> 촬영 날이 되면 여전히 그런 마음입니다”면서 “앞으로 새로운 드라마가 결정 되어지고 가수 활동과 일본 활동이 시작되면 불가피하게 스케줄 조정

독특한 외모로 사랑받아 온 개그우먼 박지선, 신봉선, 정주리의 가상성형 사진이 누리꾼 사이에서 화제다.한 온라인 커뮤니티에 올라온 사진에는 몰라보게 달라진 이들 세 명의 모습을 담고 있다.쌍거풀 수술을 한 듯 눈이 커지고 턱도 갸름해진 박지선은 청순한 모습으로 완벽 변신했다.신봉선은 평소 방송에서 “얼핏 보면 한지민을 닮았다”고 말했던대로 가상성형 후 모습에서 전체적으로 한지민의 분위기가 물씬 풍겼다. 정주리 역시 다소 강해 보이던 눈매가 한결 부드러워진데다 피부톤도 밝아져 사랑스러운 모습으로 변신했다.사진을 접한 누리꾼들은 “팬들이 돈 모아 성형수술 시켜주자”는 익살스러운 댓글부터, “실제 성형을 하면 저렇게 될까?”라고 궁금해하는 댓글까지 다양한 반응을 보이고 있다.헤럴드생생뉴스/onlinenews@he

전국 성인 PC방 등지에 3만여건이 넘는 음란 동영상을 유포한 소위 ‘서본좌’가 경찰에 붙잡혔다.서울 구로경찰서는 14일 전국 성인 PC방에 3만3000여건의 음란 동영상을 유포한 혐의(정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 위반 등)로 서모(36)씨를 구속했다.경찰에 따르면 서씨는 지난해 7월부터 최근까지 음란물 유포사이트 2곳을 개설하고 전국 377개 성인 PC방에 음란 동영상을 유포해 약 2억원의 부당수익을 올린 혐의를 받고 있다.조사결과 서씨는 성인 PC방 업주들에게서 매월 10만~20만원을 받고 해당 PC방에 동영상을 제공했으며 PC방 업주들은 손님에게 시간당 5000원에서 2만원을 받고 음란물을 보여준 것으로 드러났다.서씨가 유포한 음란물은 미성년자가 출연해 성행위를 하는 동영상을 비롯해

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A portrait of an Afghan woman disfigured as punishment for abandoning her marital home won the 2010 World Press Photo award for South African Jodi Bieber, organisers said Friday.Two AFP photographers, Olivier Laban-Mattei and Christophe Archambault were also honouredd for their work.First appearing on the front page of Time Magazine on August 1, 2010, Bieber's photograph shows Af

Best of Egypt Photos (AP-Yonhap)Anti-government protesters react as they watch on a big screen as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak makes a televised statement to his nation in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 10.A supporter of President Hosni Mubarak, on camel, fights with anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 2.On Feb. 2, pro-government demonstrators take to the rooftops

The curtain falls, revealing Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 during the unveiling ceremony for the new airplane at the Boeing plant in Everett, Wash. The airplane is the largest passenger plane built by Boeing. It will be assembled at the Boeing plant in Everett. (Photo: AP-Yonhap).

CHUNCHEON, Gangwon Province (Yonhap) -- A record-breaking snowfall pounded South Korea's east coast on Saturday, stranding hundreds of motorists on highways and destroying dozens of houses, officials said.   President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military to help clear waist-high snow that blanketed the area and transport emergency food to isolated residents.   Some sections of a highway linking Seou

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A Malaysian court on Friday charged seven suspected Somali pirates for firing at Malaysian forces during a Gulf of Aden raid to free a hijacked tanker, under laws that carry the death penalty.Malaysia became the first nation in Asia to lay charges against suspected Somali pirates, as part of growing legal moves around the world to deal with the piracy crisis off lawless Somali

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday welcomed thepeaceful transition of power in Egypt with the resignation oflongtime President Hosni Mubarak. ``The people of Egypt have spoken.Their voices have been heard. And Egypt will never be the same,'' hedeclared.   In brief remarks at the White House, the president noted that itwas ``not the end of Egypt's transition, it's a beginning.'' He

   CAIRO (AP) _ Cries of ``Egypt is free'' rang out and fireworksit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed injoyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracyprotests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to themilitary, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.   Ecstatic protesters in Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Squarehoisted soldiers onto th

CAIRO (AP) - It was the people who forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, but it is the generals who are in charge now. Egypt's 18-day uprising produced a military coup that crept into being over many days — its seeds planted early in the crisis by Mubarak himself.The telltale signs of a coup in the making began to surface soon after Mubarak ordered the army out on the streets to restore order

CAIRO (AP) _ One Egyptian kissed the ground. Another rolled in ecstasy in the grass outside a presidential palace. People wept, jumped, screamed and hugged each other with a shared joy they had never known. Cairo erupted in a cacophony of celebration: fireworks and car horns and gunshots in the air. President Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed power to the military on Friday, and Egypt held its big

GWANGMYEONG -- A high-speed KTX train bound for Seoul from the southern port city of Busan derailed near a Gyeonggi Province station southwest of the capital Friday, but no casualties were reported, the state-run Korea Railroad said. Derailed KTX train near Gwangmyeong Station, southwest of Seoul, Friday. There were no reports of casualties. (Yonhap News)   The incident took place near Gwangmyeong

South Korea's central bank left the key interest rate unchanged on Friday in a bid to gauge the effect of a surprise rate hike made last month despite concerns about inflation.   Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and his fellow policymakers froze the benchmark seven-day repo rate, dubbed the base rate, at 2.75 percent.   Last month, the BOK unexpectedly hiked the borrowing costs by a quarter

    CAIRO (AFP) - Furious Egyptian demonstrators vowed to launch their most spectacular protest yet in Cairo on Friday to demand the immediate departure of President Hosni Mubarak and his newly anointed deputy.   Many tens of thousands of citizens thronged Tahrir Square in the heart of the capital late Thursday hoping to hear the 82-year-old strongman step down. Instead he delegated presidential p

South Korean police have cracked down on 770 Web sites and blogs selling prostitution while booking thousands for their alleged involvement in sex trafficking, officials said Tuesday.After wrapping up a six-week nationwide bust, the National Police Agency (NPA) said it booked 2,271 people without physical detention and put six under arrest on charges of illegally selling or buying sex.Of them, 1,3

South Korea indefinitely postponed a ceremony set for next week to formally open its newly built base for aid workers in Afghanistan due to security concerns following this week's rocket attack on the facility, an official said Thursday. Five rounds of rocket propelled grenades were fired toward the base in the city of Charika in the northern Afghan province of Parwan Tuesday evening (local time).

  North Korea has reported an outbreak of the livestock foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease on its soil to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Radio Free Asia said in a report on Thursday. North Korea's agricultural ministry sent a letter to the U.N. organization on Wednesday, notifying it of the outbreak of the contagious animal disease and asking for emergency support, the

     CAIRO, (AFP) - Egypt's embattled regime warned of a military crackdown on Wednesday as massive protests demanding its overthrow spilled out across the country and deadly unrest flared in the remote south.   Hundreds of demonstrators marched on parliament from the epicentre of the uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day after the largest protests since the revolt began, as other demonstratio

   NAIROBI, Kenya  (Yonhap) -- A South Korean fishing vessel with 43 sailors aboard, including two South Koreans, was released after four months of captivity in Somalia on Wednesday (local time), Seoul's foreign ministry and a local industry source in Kenya said.   The 241-ton trawler Keummi 305, which was hijacked by Somali pirates on Oct. 9, and all the crew members were freed around 9 a.m. loca