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Female pilot breaks into elite club

Korea just got have its first female pilot qualified to fly the country’s own KF-16 fighter jet, the most advanced combat plane in the Air Force arsenal. Air Force Captain Ha Jung-mi, 28, is joining an elite corps that had been the exclusive domain …

Nov 26,2007
The lady is a horse-whisperer

Lee Jin-sil, 21, comes to work at 4 a.m. everyday and starts grooming her “clients.” She is Korea’s first female horse trainer. She recently began working at the Busan Gyeongnam Race Park, overcoming doubts that women could handle racehorses weigh…

Nov 26,2007
[In depth interview]Easing worries on a commode

A toilet-shaped house has become the talk of the town, drawing attention from more than 70 media organizations worldwide when it was unveiled earlier this month. The house, named Haewoojae, in Suwon, south of Seoul, might be the quirky idea of a Kore…

Nov 21,2007
Raking in dough, Kim just lets art flow

Now that he’s a New Yorker, it seems appropriate that Korean photographer Atta Kim’s works seem to sell in a New York minute. Most recently, at the Asian Contemporary Art Fair from Nov. 8 to 12, 14 of Kim’s photographs sold for $1.47 million in thr…

Nov 19,2007
U.S. football star starts foundation for biracial kids

Half-Korean Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward donated $50,000 to a local charity organization to set up a fund to help underprivileged biracial children here, the Beautiful Foundation announced yesterday. Titled the “Hines Ward Helping Hands Korea Foundati…

Nov 19,2007
First female KBL ref meets her first match

Park Youn-sun would rather be running down the sidelines of a basketball court than walking down the aisle. “Of course marriage is important, but my priority is to stand on the court as a referee,” said Park, 35, the first female referee in the Kore…

Nov 19,2007
[In-depth interview]Taking Korean politics to task

The ruling political party, which should take responsibility for the state of its governance of the nation during the past five years, suddenly disappeared just before its time of judgment. A presidential candidate was nominated through a party prima…

Nov 14,2007
Police officers discover roots in Korea

Monica Sun Svenningsen felt at home in Korea last month, when she was surrounded by fellow police officers, all ethnic Koreans, from around the world who had been invited to their motherland for a cultural program. The 34-year-old Norwegian chose p…

Nov 12,2007
An ajumma choir sings sweetly toward victory

A group of ajumma rocked the Busan Cultural Center last week. The middle-aged housewives, who make up the Bundang Mothers’ Choir, won a gold medal at the Busan Choral Festival and Competition 2007, which wrapped up Nov. 3. The Bundang Mothers’ Ch…

Nov 12,2007
Monk brings peace to prisoners

A simple theft led Bhiksuni Jeonghyeon, a fully ordained female Buddhist monk, to prison ― but not as a prisoner. In the 1970s, Jeonghyeon was studying at the Donghwa Temple in Daegu. One day, two men stole a small screen from the temple, but the p…

Nov 12,2007

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