SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Angelina Jolie pleaded with the world Friday to come together and stop acting selfishly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Academy Award winning actress spoke virtually in her capacity as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during an international forum hosted by Yonsei University, [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Maddox Jolie-Pitt, the eldest son of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, began his first academic term at South Korea’s Yonsei University on Monday, in the limelight of the South Korean media. Maddox, the eldest of Jolie’s six children, appeared for the welcome ceremony for incoming freshmen for Yonsei University’s Underwood [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is making headlines as she was seen traveling around Seoul ahead of her 18-year-old son Maddox Jolie-Pitt’s entrance to Yonsei University just a week away. People have posted pictures of Angelina Jolie and her son on Instagram and other social networks and shared the moment [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s eldest son will begin attending Yonsei University next week, the school said Monday. Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 18, has been accepted to Underwood International College at Yonsei, one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea. The school will hold an entrance ceremony next Monday followed by [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of breast cancer patients, after discovering a tumor in one of their breasts, are resorting to preventative surgeries to remove both breasts or ovaries to prevent tumors from spreading. Preventive surgeries have been on the rise ever since Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she received [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie on Sunday called on the South Korean government to provide support for hundreds of Yemenis until they safely return home, the UN Refugee Agency said. Jolie is visiting South Korea. Her visit to Seoul follows that of UNHCR [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — While the desire to attain physical beauty is a universal theme found across all cultures, which features are considered to be desirable often differ. The varying preferences for what constitutes beauty became a topic of discussion at the 75th academic conference hosted by the Korea Academy of Cosmetic Surgery [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean women may be following in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie. The annual number of prophylactic mastectomies in Korea is now five times higher than it was three years ago. Although the root causes of the onset of breast cancer are still uncertain, about five to 10 percent of [...]