Jan. 14, 2016
The Korean daily media headlines and humor
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016
Your Excellency:
Here are roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea this morning:
Lee Kyung-sik
Publisher-Chairman
Korea Post Media
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Learn to correctly spell Czechoslovakia to enter the Pearly Gate
After death, a man reached the Pearly Gate.
Angel: You have to answer a question after that you enter.
The man: What’s that?
Angel: You have to spell a word. In case you fail you will be taken to Hell.
The man: Which word?
Angel : “Love.”
The man: Okay, it’s “L-O-V-E”
Angel: Correct! Come inside.
As he was about to enter in the Heaven, the Angel's mobile rang.
Angel: I've an urgent work. I have to go for a minute. You please keep an eye on the Gate until I come back.
The man: Okay, for sure!
Angel: Please ask the same question if anybody comes here in my absence. If they reply with the correct spelling you can let them enter in the Heaven. Otherwise send them to Hell from the other gate.
The man: I’ll obey.
Just after the Angel had left, the man saw a lady walking towards him.
She was his wife.
The man asked: Hey honey, how did you reach here?
Wife: After your death when I was going back home from the cemetery, a bus hit me and I found myself here. Now you move aside and let me in.
The man: No, as per rules here, you must spell a word correctly to enter the Heaven. Otherwise you will be taken to hell from that other gate.
Wife: Which word?
The man: “Czechoslovakia."
* * *
What is the difference between a wife and a girlfriend?
Wife is like a TV and a girlfriend a mobile phone.
At home you watch TV but when you go out you take your mobile.
Sometimes you enjoy TV but most of the time you play with your mobile.
TV is free for life, but for the mobile if you don't pay the services will be terminated.
TV is big, bulky and most of the time old. But the mobile is cute, slim, curvy and very portable.
Operational costs for TV are often acceptable, but for the mobile it is often high and demanding.
TV has a remote, mobile doesn't.
Most importantly, mobile is a two-way communication (you talk and listen) but with the TV you must only listen (whether you want to or not)
Last but not least...!
TVs don't have viruses, but mobiles often do...
Take care!
KBS (http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/)
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Convenience stores wage ‘war of 1,000 won coffee’
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Photo shows President Soon-Heung Chang of Handong Global University (fifth from left, front row) with ambassadors and other visiting members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps (SDC), including Ambassador MmeNatalliaZhylevich of Belraus (dean of the visiting members of the SDC), fourth from left the same row With Ambassador and Mrs. SylvestreKouassi Bile of Cote d’ Ivoire (third and second from left, front row).And Ambassador Roballo of Argentina (sixth from left, same row) and Ambassadors Mohamed Abdi Gello of Kenya (on the right of the rear row).
“Why not try to change the world?”
Ambassadors, senior diplomats visit Handong Global University in Pohang
Ambassadors NatalliaZhylevich of Belarus, Kouassi Bile of Cote d’Ivoire, Jorge Roballo of Argentina and Mohamed Abdi Gello of Kenya and 20 other senior diplomats, including the charges d’affaires, visited Handong Global University in Pohang City on the Southeast Coast of Korea on Nov. 12, 2015 at the invitation of President Soon-Heung Chang of the University.
The tour, organized by The Korea Post, included also a visit to POSCO and a cruise ride around the harbor of the Pohang City.
The Korea Post has been organizing tours for the ambassadors and other senior members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps for the past 30 years, but it must be said that the one hosted by Handong Global University is one of the most impressive in terms of the interest on the part of the host who met the guests with a true heart and warm welcome.
President Soon-Heung Chang of the University made such an excellent arrangement out of respect and special regard for the distinguished international guests by asking his Vice President Simon Kang(Administrative Affairs) and Professor JinwonAhn (School of Management and Economics) to come all the way from Pohang to Seoul to welcome and escort the ambassadors and other senior diplomats to comfortably visit his University.
The tour of the Handong Global University was a truly memorable one where many outstanding features of the University continuously surprised the visiting ambassadors and the other senior diplomats. For further details, visit: /news/view.html?section=161&category=181&no=1119
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