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Hwang Woo-suk, 2006 News

South Korean scientist, suffered a stunning blow when former colleagues and a group of young scientists made a series of disclosures that undermined the advances Hwang had claimed to have…

vocational education

(Encyclopedia) vocational education, training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include…

Buzz Aldrin

Name at birth: Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. On July 20, 1969, he followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface while a third American astronaut,…

Cho Seung-Hui

Cho Seung-Hui committed the deadliest single shooting act in American history when he shot and killed 32 people and then himself at Virginia Tech University on 16 April 2007. Cho was a student at…

California Languages

The Question: I was doing a project on the state of California and I was wondering what the all the different languages spoken in California are? The Answer…

Lee Isaac Chung

Lee Isaac Chung’s 2020 film Minari was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture. Chung himself earned nominations for best director and best original screenplay. Chung’s Minari is the story…

Chung Ju Yung 2001 Deaths

Chung Ju YungAge: 85 founder of the Hyundai Group, a South Korean conglomerate of auto and electronics companies. The company, which is credited with helping to revitalize South Korea's war-…

Chan-wook Park

Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park's films are stylistic marvels with sometimes controversial themes. They include Oldboy and The Handmaiden. A philosophy student who started out as a film critic, Chan…

Don Draper

Don Draper is the mysterious, brusque, womanizing advertising genius at the heart of the TV show Mad Men. A super-stylish look at the culture of mass-market advertising in the early 1960s, Mad Men…

Vice Adm. Harold Bowen, Jr. 2000 Deaths

Vice Adm. Harold Bowen, Jr.Age: 87 officer who headed the Navy's investigation into North Korea's 1968 seizure of the Pueblo, an electronic surveillance ship. In one of the most sensitive…