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Samsung Electronics’ MP3 player Z5, YP-Z5, which went on release in the domestic market on Wednesday./Yonhap (Jun.14, 2006 19:27)

Actress Lee Young-ah, the 2006 goodwill ambassador for blood donation, gives autographs at an event to mark the third World Blood Donors Day at the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Seoul on Wednesday. /News... (Jun.14, 2006 19:25)

Australian actor Hugh Jackman poses during an interview for his new film ‘X-MEN:The Last Stand’ at a hotel in Seoul on Wednesday. The film, in which Jackman plays the blade-bearing superhero ‘Wolverine’, will be released here on Thursday. (1, 2, 3)

Models in Taegukgi body paint take part in a World Cup-themed marketing campaign for a green tea drink by beverage maker Sulloc Cha.(Jun.11, 2006 20:47)

Korean American teenage golf pro Michelle Wie throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the American League baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Maryland.(Jun.07, 2006 19:00)

In cerebration of Jeju Air’s first flight from Jeju to Seoul, cabin crew and the airlines’ endorsement model Nam Sang-mi greet travelers at Gimpo Airport on Monday. The carrier started the Jeju to Seoul route last Friday with only press aboard. (June 6, 2006)

Students at Hangaram High School report to school wearing white T-shirts and black shorts on Monday, the first time in Korea a school has adopted short trousers as part of the uniform./Yonhap (Jun.05, 2006 19:52)

Kindergarten students, teachers and parents campaign for traffic safety in Sokcho, Gangwon Province on Friday./Yonhap (Jun.02, 2006 19:40)

Models show off World Cup-themed wedding clothes at a fashion show on Friday at the aT Center, in Seoul on Friday./Yonhap (Jun.02, 2006 18:28)

People in masks and traditional costume perform during the annual Dano Festival of Gangneung, which has been named a masterpiece of humanity’s oral and intangible heritage by UNESCO, in Gangneung, Gangwon Province on Wednesday. Dano is the fifth day of the fifth month according to the lunar calendar, or May 31 this year./Yonhap (May 31, 2006)

Children look on as young women wash their hair in “Changpo,” water boiled with sweet iris leaves in cerebration of the Dano Festival at the Namsangol Traditional Village in Seoul on Sunday. Dano is the fifth day of the fifth month according to the lunar calendar, or May 31 this year. (May 29, 2006)

Business -- May 25, 2006

Just two weeks ahead of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, children root for the national foot ball team at Sangam Worldcup stadium in Seoul on Thursday. (May.25, 2006 18:50)

A new statute of independence fighter Yu Kwan-sun, a graduate of Ewha Girls’ High School, which marks its 120th anniversary this year./Newsis (May.23, 2006 19:01)

LG Electronics' name card-sized mobile phone LG-KG320, which is 9.9 mm thick, to be launched in Europe./Yonhap (May.22, 2006 19:15)

German singer Jeanette Biedermann, French singer Jenifer, Canadian actress-musician Avril Lavigne, and Korean signer BoA (from left) arrive for the screening of the film "Over the Hedge" at the 59th International Film Festival in Cannes, France, on Sunday./Yonhap-AP (May 22, 2006 19:05)

Models introduce a touch-wheel phone (PG-3600V, left) and a fingerprint recognition phone (PG-6200, right) developed by Korea’s Pantech at a product launch event in Taiwan on Wednesday. /Yonhap (May.18, 2006 19:11)

The world’s first high-speed downlink packet access (HSPDA) phone, the SCH-W200 Samsung Electronics is set to sell through SK Telecom./Yonhap (May.16, 2006 19:58)

With the World Cup 2006 in Germany some 20 days away, Asiana Airlines staff cheer the Korean national football team. The carrier is an official sponsor of the team. (May.16, 2006 19:57)

Students at Chung-Ang University in Seoul pose for their graduation album at the school's campus on Tuesday. (May.16, 2006 19:06)

In celebration of Teachers’ Day, students at the Department of Korean Classics of Kyungsung University massage their professors’ shoulders after a coming-of-age ceremony at the campus in Busan on Monday. The two events coincided this year.(May.15, 2006 18:44)

Girls in traditional costume take pictures of one another with their mobile phones at a coming-of-age ceremony in Seoul Square in front of Seoul City Hall on Monday.(May.15, 2006 18:39)


People surround a large pizza measuring 2006 mm in diameter during a new menu launch by Mr. Pizza in Seoul on Sunday. The pizza was made to resemble a soccer ball to support the national football team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, which starts next month./Newsis (May.14, 2006 21:00)

Korean American golfer Michelle Wie shakes hands with Jeong Choon-bo, chairman of Shinyoung Corp., after Wie clinched a two-year endorsement contract worth US$3 million with the real-estate developer on Tuesday./Yonhap (May.09, 2006 19:09)

Women cool down amid rising temperatures at theme park Everland’s Caribbean Bay in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province on Thursday. (May.11, 2006 19:02)

With 30 days to go before the start of 2006 Word Cup in Germany, models show off clothing in support of the national team made by FnCKolon at Kolon Tower in Seoul on Wednesday. (May.10, 2006 19:14)


Babies lie at adoption agency Holt Children’s Services in Seoul on Wednesday, one day before the nation’s first Adoption Day designated to encourage the practice in Korea. The babies are cared for by foster families before being adopted./Yonhap

Korean-American golfer Michelle Wie talks with model Dennis O during an event organized by Nike Golf, with which Wie has a sponsorship contract, at the Pristine Valley Golf Club in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province on Monday.

Korean-American golfer Michelle Wie rides a golf cart with model Dennis O during a friendly round organized by Nike Golf, with which Wie has a sponsorship contract, at the Pristine Valley Golf Club in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province on Monday./Yonhap)

Models show off sunglasses from the 1940s to the present at an event at Lotte Department Store in Seoul on Sunday./Yonhap May.07, 2006 20:53)


Michelle Wie watches her tee shot during the final round of the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open at Sky 72 Golf Club in Incheon on Sunday. Wie made her first cut in a professional men's tournament on Friday after shooting a 3-under-par 69 in the game./Newsis (May.07, 2006 20:52)

People dance the salsa on the streets on Sunday afternoon, the last day of the Hi Seoul Festival in downtown Seoul. (May.07, 2006 20:49)

Teenage golf sensation Michelle Wie holds a press conference after finishing the first round of the SK Telecom Open, her eighth attempt to make the cut in a men’s tournament, at the Sky 72 Golf Club in Incheon on Thursday./Yonhap (May.04, 2006 18:09)


Teenage golf prodigy Michelle Wie takes a driver shot during the Pro-Am golf match in the SK Telecom Open 2006 at the Sky72 Golf Club in Incheon on Wednesday. Wie will make her eighth attempt to make the cut in a men’s tournament starting Thursday. (May.03, 2006 18:54)


Models pose with the Pavv Daylight Plus PDP TV developed by Samsung Electronics on Tuesday (SPD-42/50Q7HD). The model enables users to enjoy a clearer image in bright light./Yonhap (May.02, 2006 19:18)

Students in uniform watch a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Korea Military Academy on Monday./Yonhap (May.01, 2006 19:14)

A model shows off Samsung Electronics handsets nicknamed SKIN (SCH-V890/SPH-V8900) in a joint marketing campaign with Mercedes-Benz on Monday. The S-Class series by the German carmaker, which will be on the local market starting this month, comes with a SKIN mode thrown in./Yonhap (May.01, 2006 19:14)

Michelle Wie yawns early Monday morning, three days ahead of the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open,when the athlete took a practice round at Sky72 Golf Club on Incheon's Yeongjong Island. After finishing nine holes, Wie said the course was both beautiful and fun, adding she hopes to give a strong performance. The Sports Chosun, a sister publication of the Chosun Ilbo, followed the golfer on her practice round.
Michelle Wie talks with her mother.
Michelle Wie's mother helps her during putting practice.
Michelle Wie surveys the green.
Michelle Wie hits an iron shot. (May.01, 2006 19:04)

Korean American golfer Michelle Wie swaps club for bat before a game of the Korean professional baseball league in Incheon on Sunday. Wie received a warm reception on arrival in her parents’ home country on Saturday to take part in the SK Telecom Open./Yonhap (Apr.30, 2006 21:39)

Children participate in a Chosun-era changing of the guards ceremony at the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul on Sunday./Yonhap (Apr.30, 2006 21:36)

Half-naked members of the Raelian Movement march during a rally against war and violence in Seoul on Sunday. The religious group believes that extraterrestrials created life on Earth through genetic engineering and claims to have cloned a human being./Yonhap
(2) (Apr.30, 2006 21:34)

Korean Football Association president Chung Mong-Joon and his wife pose with national football team manager Dick Advocaat, in traditional Korean costume, and his wife at a Hyundai guest house in Seoul on Sunday. Chung is the largest shareholder of Hyundai Heavy Industries./Yonhap (Apr.30, 2006 21:33)

Models show off swimsuits with a picture of Dokdo and a slogan exhorting patriots to defend the islets against Japanese territorial designs at the Lotte Department Store in Seoul on Thursday. (Apr.27, 2006 19:11)

Models show off 21 new Hewlett-Packard products including laptops and printers in Seoul on Wednesday. (Apr.26, 2006 18:29)

In a measure of the U.S. success of Kim Yun-jin in the hit TV series “Lost,” the actress is appearing in a campaign for the Red Cross in America. A poster featuring her promotes the GIVE 100, NEW YORK campaign, which encourages New Yorkers to donate to help those in need. (Apr.26, 2006 18:25)

A model in body paint slices a large rice cake to mark completion of the frame of a shopping mall TechnoMart in Shinrim-dong, Seoul on Tuesday./Yonhap (Apr.25, 2006 21:04)

Promoters hold cutouts of laptops and PDAs to promote venture firm Ubitizn’s service enabling users to watch TV on their handheld devices. (Apr.25, 2006 19:10)

Three scholars are nominated by the king for dispatch to Japan during a reenactment of Tongsinsa, a series of Korean missions sent to the island country to introduce Korean culture in the 17th-19th centuries, at Changgyeong Palace in Seoul on Sunday afternoon. (Apr.23, 2006 21:21) (2)

Dancers perform a traditional court dance at Changgyeong palace in Seoul on Sunday afternoon./Newsis (Apr.23, 2006 21:14) (2)

Tonsured children in monks’ robes touch their head at the Jogyesa temple in Seoul during an event for children to experience the monastic life on Friday./Yonhap (Apr.21, 2006 19:39)


Samsung Electronics holds a marketing blitz for the firm’s new LCD TV Bordeaux at a wine bar in Seoul on Thursday./Yonhap (Apr.20, 2006 19:04)

A group in traditional costume re-enact a traditional homage to the god of agriculture in Seonnongdan, Seoul on Thursday to pray for a good harvest./Newsis
(Apr.20, 2006 19:04) (2)

Staff with E1 jump in front of a tank lorry adorned with images of national football players to cheer their performance in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. E1, a provider of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), will run 25 such tank lorries until July 15, when the championship ends. (Apr.20, 2006 18:59)

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