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Sept 20, 2018 Travel

[Herald Interview] Trekking on sacred Paektusan highlands

During a trekking tour of North Korea’s Paektusan highlands in August, Roger Shepherd and his team of international travelers hobnobbed with North Korean guides -- hiking, pitching tents, making camp...

[Herald Interview] Decorating a home, suggesting a lifestyle

In the city of Seoul, many of us live in apartments. The common housing form, however, is not usually considered a cozy space tailored for the residents’ needs. Rather, it is usually thought of as t...

Sept 17, 2018
Arts&Design
[Herald Interview] Le Havre, an ideal partner in maritime industry, public decentralization

With France’s largest container harbor, a picturesque beach promenade, world-class amenities and bucolic scenery that formed the backdrops of impressionist paintings, Le Havre has all the ingredients...

Sept 17, 2018
Diplomatic Circuit
[Herald Interview] Bluehole charms global audience with mobile strategy game ‘Castle Burn’

Last year, South Korean game company Bluehole made its mark in the global gaming landscape with its hit survivor shooting game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” now available on PCs, consoles and mobi...

Sept 17, 2018
Technology
[Herald Interview] Seoul Bio Hub leads Korea’s biotech cluster efforts

Hongneung is a quaint neighborhood in northeastern Seoul, situated near several universities and research institutes. In this area stands an organization working toward an ambitious national goal tha...

Sept 13, 2018
Industry
[Herald Interview] ‘Looking at 30 years ahead is needed in making national policy’

Once an aid-recipient country, South Korea has worked its way up to becoming a donor country, at a speed that surprised the world. The country’s development and changes also occurred under a unique c...

Sept 11, 2018
Politics
[Herald Interview] Young CEO pushes the envelope in smart health care market

In the digital health care industry, a host of startups such as Astera, Humanscape and MediBloc are introducing new health care services and platforms based on blockchain technology. But South Korea...

Sept 11, 2018
Technology
[Herald Interview] Leaders of Singaporean women’s group visit Pyongyang

SINGAPORE -- Hundreds of foreign guests were in Pyongyang over the weekend to attend celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s founding on Sept. 9. Among them were leaders of ...

Sept 10, 2018
North Korea
[Herald Interview] 'Precious metals gain value as industrial commodities'

In the global market, gold has mostly been viewed from a monetary policy perspective as its value is generally in inverse proportion to the interest rate trend, offering higher alternative values whe...

Sept 9, 2018
Industry
[Herald Interview] Meet Lala school, the teachers group out to improve Korean sex ed

Learning how to properly love and respect another person should come before learning how to avoid pregnancy, according to Lala School, a new sex education institute, which is trying to foster compreh...

Sept 6, 2018
Education
[Herald Interview] ‘Matilda’ to bring onstage unpredictable imagination, humor of Roald Dahl

“Matilda,” a 1988 novel about a neglected but brilliant girl in Buckinghamshire, is not an easy piece to adapt into a musical. Yet the show has grown beyond expectations set upon its original Royal S...

Sept 3, 2018
Culture
[Herald Interview] Northeast Asian professionals pool innovative ideas for common prosperity

With a combined gross domestic product of over $20 trillion -- nearly one-quarter of the global economy -- the economies of China, Japan and South Korea have colossal potential for synergy, innovatio...

Sept 3, 2018
Diplomatic Circuit
[Herald Interview] MMCA director Bartomeu Mari looks back on 3-year term, looks ahead to coming years

Nearing the end of his three-year tenure as the director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Bartomeu Mari is still thinking of ways to improve the nation’s public museum. ...

Sept 2, 2018
Culture
[Herald Interview] Comic book writer works to better represent women in comics

Amy Chu is a breath of fresh air in the comic book industry, especially in the US, where the industry is dominated by white men who have been reading comic books since they were young. Chu is an Asi...

Aug 30, 2018
People
[Herald Interview] ‘YESFEZ ready to rise as Northeast Asia’s industrial hub’

As one of South Korea’s leading special economic zones, the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone is seeking to leap into its next stage of development to become a high-tech industrial complex pivoting on kn...

Aug 30, 2018
Industry

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