Enjoy concerts and operas at Seoul Plaza

Seoul City will perform the show in August at Seoul Plaza, it is about the classical concert. Every day at 7.30 pm, except Monday, it will have many kinds of show which, show will perform at Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall.

On Friday, jazz concert named “Sing Sing Sing”. This concert will mix jazz music and classic music together, it will perform on August 4.

The first day of August, Seoul Ballet Theatre will perform a ballet gala show. This performance will cover everything from classical and romantic.

Korea has many kinds of performance, I think this concert will be great for everyone that has opportunity to go to watch it.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/07/136_70037.html

US plans military exercises with South Korea

The US and South Korea are planning on joining their army forces for military exercises in which the Pentagon says joining together both army forces would claim a preclusion to North Korea.

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of State and Robert Gates, a defense Secretary, will visit Seoul next week to discuss about the military exercises.

An international inspection was against North Korea, but Pyongyang, a capital city of North Korea, has denied it.

Geoff Morrell said Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Gates would discuss and approve the conjoined naval and air exercises in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea.

China refused allowing the two countries to train their army forces near its waters, because doing so will lead to the tension with North Korea which is China’s ally.

According to Mr. Morrell, “the maneuvers were a matter of our ability to exercise in the open seas, in international waters. Those determinations are made by us and us alone".

Even though the exercise is defensive in nature, but as Mr. Morrell stated “it will send a clear message of deterrence to North Korea.”

Though both countries- - The US and South Korea are still not ready to give out any information on the military exercise, they planned to start it as soon as possible.

On 26 March, 46 lives found lost after the sinking of the corvette Cheonan happened near the disputed maritime border between the two states.

International investigators say torpedo launched by North Korea is an answer as to why the navy ship was sunk, however, Pyongyang denied its action.

The conviction made by the United Nations Security Council last week seemed to avoid blaming North Korea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia+pacific-10640167

BoA will come back with new album

BoA is a Korea’s pop singer who was debuted in 2000 when she was 13 years old. She will come back with her new album on August 5 in this year. Before her comeback on August 5, SM Entertainment has released her photo which show her efficient of her work to their fan.

BoA has focused her music activities more aboard than in Korea. After she did music career in Japan, she was success in the music industry in the US.

She said “come back stages this time make me nervous and happy” and she hope her songs have more developed and have more efficient. She will promote her album and release a new song to radio stations.

In my opinion, BoA is a very good singer. She can sing and dance well. When her release new songs, she always successful in every albums.

http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100722000621

Top stars to promote G20 Seoul summit

South Korea is preparing to promote G20 Seoul summit in November in Seoul. The G20 preparation committee lead by chairman Sakong II choose Kim Yu Na who is the skating champion, Park Ji Sung who is the footballer of South Korea team and the last person Han Hyo Joo who is the actress will work as goodwill ambassadors.

It happened since the summit is an international event which South Korea will hopefully to be the number one of leading countries in the world, thus they specific chose two stars of sport and one star of actress to be goodwill ambassadors of G20, to promote this event.

The Seoul summit is the fifth since after the US was the initiated of this summit in November 2008 in Washington.

I agree with South Korea to choose the superstars of sport and actress to be goodwill ambassadors, because if they choose the person who not well know. It will be not attractive to other countries to join with.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/07/178_69882.html

South Korea airport bus crash near Seoul kills 12 passengers

Nowadays it has many car accidents that happen on the road. I do not know why or maybe drivers have careless about their cars.

A bus had fallen from a bridge near the international airport in Incheon city in

South Korea. It was killing 12 passengers and another 12 passengers in the bus were

injured, when the bus fell about 10 m from the bridge onto the construction below.

The bus had left away from Incheon international airport about 20 km. Then
the bus will had and an accident.

Some reports said the bus was trying to avoid parking when some people try to
wiggle this bus.

The bridge links Incheon city with the airport, about 70km in the west of Seoul,
on Yeongjong Island.

The nationalities of Dead people and injured people cannot be confirm yet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10498724

South Korea postponed launching a rocket because of a fire safety problem.

Controllers have planned to send the Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 (KSLV-1) from the Nero Space Centre in Goheung but the operation was postponed.

China, India and Japan have developed a launch capability; China has already sent a rocket in three times. Launching a rocket into space was delayed because of the problem with rocket's fire extinguisher system.

A spokeman of the Ministry Of Education, Science and Technology said engineers should check the problem.

It not sure about when the rocket will be send out but spokeman said it is hard to send it again on this Wednesday.

The part-Russian, part South Korean rocket will be send test satellite called the Science and Technology Satellite 2B (STSAT 2B).

The rocket high about 33m and will be launch at the country new spaceport on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula.

The first time of South Korea that has sent the two-stage KSLV-1 in the last year of August, it failed to make it into orbit.

Four months previously, a sending of the rocket by North Korea was not successful when the UN reported the both of rocket have fell into the Pacific Ocean.

North Korea’s sending rocket, it seem like shooting missile, in the far distance but neighbors of South Korea accept that its intention for peaceful civilian programme.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10269459.stm

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