South Korean Groom

Indian weddings are a big and elaborate affair. During the celebrations, the thumping beats of dhol are so energetic that hardly anyone can resist shaking a leg to it. Now, a South Korean groom too got a taste of a big fat Indian wedding.

The only son of Samsung's frail 72-year-old chairman Lee Kun-hee, Jay has been groomed for years to take over the sprawling South Korean family-run "chaebol", a conglomerate with interests spanning technology and insurance to shipbuilding and construction. Samsung Group's 2012 revenue of 380 trillion won ($371 billion) was more than a quarter of So...

The South Korean government will select 300 doctoral students for an extensive two-year funded programme to nurture them as future candidates for Nobel Prizes, the education ministry said.     The ministry and the state-run National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) will operate the programme jointly to allow promising students...

Indian weddings are a big and elaborate affair. During the celebrations, the thumping beats of dhol are so energetic that hardly anyone can resist shaking a leg to it. Now, a South Korean groom too got a taste of a big fat Indian wedding.

The only son of Samsung's frail 72-year-old chairman Lee Kun-hee, Jay has been groomed for years to take over the sprawling South Korean family-run "chaebol", a conglomerate with interests spanning technology and insurance to shipbuilding and construction. Samsung Group's 2012 revenue of 380 trillion won ($371 billion) was more than a quarter of So...

The South Korean government will select 300 doctoral students for an extensive two-year funded programme to nurture them as future candidates for Nobel Prizes, the education ministry said.     The ministry and the state-run National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) will operate the programme jointly to allow promising students...