Van Gogh’s self-portraits come to Korea
Koreans love Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh’s bold use of color, unique brushstrokes and sentiment in his paintings. This makes the expectations on the coming Van Gogh exhibit higher. Hosted by Hankook Ilbo, The Korea Times’ sister paper, 60 of Van Gogh’s works, including nine self-portraits, will be on display at “Van Gogh in […]
Who copied who?
Apple’s copycat argument against Samsung faces backlash Ever since the patent war between Samsung and Apple began, the simplest but most controversial issue at the legal battle has been whether the Korean firm’s Galaxy series copied features of the U.S. tech giant’s i-branded devices. Courts, as well as legal experts, have been split over the […]
Naro space rocket launch reset for mid-Nov.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said Monday that it will make its third attempt to launch the Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-1), colloquially called Naro, sometime between Nov. 9 and 24 following Friday’s cancellation. It opened a launch review committee with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and decided that it will not […]
Lybian People Still Struggle To Overcome Legacy Of Dictatorship Celebrating 1st Anniversary Of Gadhafi’s Fall
In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, armed militiamen acting as security rush towards protesters shaking the gates to the compound of Libya’s parliament in Tripoli, Libya. One year on, the country is still trying to overcome the legacy of one of the most erratic leaders of modern times as well as a brutal eight […]
Vietnamese Father, Daughter Living In America Take Part In Project To Preserve Stories Of Vietnamese-Americans
In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo, Viola Van poses for a picture with her father, Hugo, at their home in Walnut, Calif. Viola Van is part of a Vietnamese-American Oral History Project at UC Irvine, that assembles, preserves, digitizes, and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese-Americans in Southern California. <AP Photo/Chris Carlson>
Muslims, Displaced By Recent Muslim-Buddhist Violent Clash In Myanmar, Live In Refugee Camp
Muslim refugees react to a photographer at Baw Du Pha refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Victims of Myanmar’s latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled to already packed displacement camps along the country’s western coast Sunday, with a top U.N. official saying the unrest has forced more than 22,000 […]
Citizens In Ningbo City, China, Refuse To Disperse Despite Gov’t Promise Not To Expand Local Petrochmical Factory
A road sweeper cleans up near Chinese paramilitary police after protesters were forced to leave the area outside the city government office in Zhejiang province’s Ningbo city, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. After a weekend of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented Sunday and agreed that a petrochemical factory […]
Children Delighted Seeing Three-Dimensional Pictures At Exhibition In Urumqi, China
Children play in front of a three dimensional picture displayed during a 3D magic art exhibition in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 28, 2012. A girl plays with her mother in front of a three dimensional picture displayed during a 3D magic art exhibition in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s […]
Violent Anti-Gov’t Rally Calling For Political Freedom Goes On In Downtown Bahrain
Bahraini anti-government protesters, some holding petrol bombs, remove a palm tree trunk being used as a roadblock in Malkiya, Bahrain, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, to allow the passing of a march calling for freedom for political prisoners and in remembrance of those killed from Bahrain’s western villages. The protesters replaced the trunk after marchers […]
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