Beijing Olympics
Federer plans to turn season around in Beijing
BEIJING (AFP) — Roger Federer said Tuesday he is anticipating a “dream Olympics” that will help turn around his disappointing season by winning one of the few titles to elude him. Read the story »
Pro Sports
MLB plants flag on mainland
(China Daily) As the San Diego Padres and their portly mascot, The Swinging Friar, marched up the Great Wall yesterday afternoon under a metallic blue sky, there was a sense of history in the making. Read the story »
Movies
Blood brothers on a knife-edge
Few films treat Korean gangsters with such poignancy as the nation`s highest-grossing movie, “Chingu” (”Friend”).
The movie spans two decades in the life of four childhood friends in the southern port city of Busan, two of whom become so estranged even the film-maker can`t keep them together, focusing the lens in and out in final scenes to allow them separate depths of field. Read the story »
The Flying Monks of Golgul Temple
GYEONGJU, South Korea, July 12 (Yonhap) - It won’t make you bulletproof like Batman, but it might give you the inner peace Bruce...
Korean mud festival sees anarchy reignBORYEONG, South Korea, July 20 (Yonhap) - The girls wrestling in bikinis, crumpled beer cans and a mud-splattered Miss Universe looked...
Ironman Korea sees off typhoons and goes down a stormSEOGWIPO CITY, South Korea, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) – The same thing that makes Jeju Island an occasional surfer’s paradise causes...
Drum’n’bass artist Goldie: Just don’t call him a DJ
“Music’s like Braille,” said British drum and bass guru Goldie, in an interview with the Korea Herald. “Unless you actually...
Expats enjoy night of Korean musicWhat maestro Hwang Byung-ki can do with the ‘gayageum,’ a 12-stringed zither that resembles a greatly enlarged, lopped-off guitar...
Cambodia and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Political kidnappings are low on your average Cambodian’s agenda nowadays – due to relative stability and a sublimated gun culture,...
