Installation view of "Yang Yong: Solo Exhibition" & Shangqi Office at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Shenzhen-based artist Yang Yong has examined the undercurrents of emotion spawned by the city’s rapid development—the exhilaration of novelty and opportunity offset by feelings of loneliness and alienation Deng Xiaoping designated Shenzhen the first Special Economic Zone thereby attracting foreign investment and migrants from all over China having since grown from 30,000 to almost 18 million residents is now the third largest in the country after Shanghai and Beijing it has become a thriving center for technology Though he works primarily with staged photography Yang’s practice spans a variety of mediums—from installation and painting to moving image and textile production—to articulate the effects of Shenzhen’s constant urban flux Curated by Chinese curator and critic Hou Hanru and co-organized with Shangqi Office and Tang Contemporary Yang’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP) was immense in scale and disquieting in psychological import Yang’s “characters”—mostly stylish young women—continuously perform sometimes meeting the camera with their gaze a group of young urbanites perch streetside amid the glow of overhead neon and LED signs offering a fleeting moment of joy amid the daily grind.   Installation view of YANG YONG’s Life 83 × 120 × 13 cm; Anonymous Still 1 No 100 × 100 × 13 cm; Anonymous Still 2 No.1-6 the moodier vignettes in Yang’s Anonymous Still 1 series (2003–14) depict somber women in various public environments and private settings 21-24 (2005) shows a woman with wired earphones and a smartphone Her solitude is palpable as she gazes wistfully at the device—a novelty at the time and an aid to escapist fantasies Yet how much solace can one find in the digital suggesting loneliness and vulnerability in a busy The use of construction materials in Yang’s show linked the exhibition with the world beyond Large format photographs were mounted in light boxes or on aluminum or acrylic panels set amid strip lights and scaffolding—a display setup that disrupted the “white cube” gallery space by imitating a construction site was mounted onto the corrugated steel cladding of a room divider featuring the darkened face of a woman against a white background Installation view of YANG YONG’s Borderline No Installation view of YANG YONG’s Cruelty of Youth The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is now one of the largest in the world Reflecting its relationship to everyday life Yang’s large-scale installation Cruelty of Youth (2024) hung from the ceiling of a huge room—a circular recreation of the stock market with an LED screen displaying market data in real time a stainless-steel mirror on the ground below exposing electronic components and adding to the room’s sense of spatial expansiveness An accompanying Richard Wagner overture was disturbed by bursts of electronic noise This cacophony represents Yang’s interest in superimposing multiple formal elements rather than sticking to one specific medium It also evokes the aural experience of Shenzhen’s citizens Yang’s fluid approach to artmaking was on full view in the final room of his exhibition Recognizing the limitations of photography in engaging with such layered subject matter began to explore new formats in the early 2000s His Velocity-Limit series (2008– ) blends appropriated imagery with his paintings to form photorealistic depictions of F1 racing evoking ideas of speed—a metaphor perhaps for the rate at which Shenzhen has developed—as well as society’s obsession with competitive sports the Consuming and Being Consumed series (2007– ) depicts images of pop culture icons and clothing items—parodying the culture of relentless consumption in China The large-scale canvases crammed alongside one another in this final room mirror life in the contemporary world—oft exhilarating and beautiful but also overwhelming and sometimes grotesque.  Installation view of YANG YONG’s Solo Exhibition at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Shifting through moods and mediums and subject matter Yang’s solo show at MOCAUP highlighted the wide range of his practice his idiosyncratic portraits capture with cinematic charm the socioeconomic and psychological conditions of urban dwellers in contemporary Shenzhen Yang chose to include no wall labels in the exhibition His viewers must craft their own narratives in the era of post-industrialization symptoms of which are felt not only in Shenzhen but across the globe.  Annabel Preston is the assistant editor at ArtAsiaPacific Subscribe to ArtAsiaPacific’s free weekly newsletter with all the latest news, reviews, and perspectives, directly to your inbox each Monday. How can we critically reassess the process of heritage-making and how do we invent new ways to preserve marginalized pasts A showcase of the artist’s distinctive storytelling methods The curated sequel to a show about an imaginary romance Examining informal networks of resistance in times of war info@aapmag.com Yang Yong-eun is congratulated by Bernhard Langer after making a birdie putt during a playoff on the 18th green to win the final round of the Ascension Charity Classic 2024 at Norwood Hills Country Club in St Louis a solo exhibition at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning is offering audiences an overview of the three-decade career of Shenzhen-based artist Yang Yong Featuring more than 100 pieces of photography the exhibit reflects Yang's perspective on the fate of individuals amid profound societal changes during China's urbanization in the era of globalization These works also trace Yang's personal growth as he delved into various art forms and media the exhibition incorporates different lighting designs dividing the space into areas resembling tunnels and well-lit open spaces This division aims to immerse the audience in the experience of navigating between the artist's private and public spheres The "tunnel" sections display photos created since 1996 capturing Shenzhen's young migrants against the backdrop of the city's modern high-rise buildings or amidst muddy construction sites The stark contrast between the stylish young figures and their stark surroundings often evokes intense emotions in viewers and frustrations commonly experienced by the city's migrant population In the pristine white-box exhibition areas Yang's paintings and installations focus on iconic events and personalities that have featured prominently in mass media and public discourse prompting a retrospective look at social life Yang graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1995 and has participated in over 120 exhibitions both domestically and internationally since 1998 His works are in the collections of such art institutions as the U.K.'s Victoria and Albert Museum the International Center of Photography in the U.S. and the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing Yang established the Shangqi Art studio in 2015 to foster public awareness of contemporary art and culture A complimentary exhibition showcasing Shangqi Art's successful research and exhibitions is on display outside Hall A3 offering visitors deeper insights into the artist's past endeavors Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children's Palace Station Police Registration Number: 44030402001126 Sponsored by: General Office of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government Technical Support: Shenzhen Big Data Resources Management Center Yang Yong-eun (52) was thrilled to win her first career championship at the PGA Tour Champions Ang Yong-eun shot a 5-under 66 in the final third round of the PGA Tour Champions Ascension Charity Classic at Norwood Hills Country Club in St in the first overtime and held the trophy in his arms It is Yang Yong-eun's first victory at the PGA Tour Champions where professional golfers over the age of 50 compete from 2022 He won $315,000 in prize money after winning his 72nd competition reduced five strokes by combining one eagle the "living legend of the PGA Tour Champions." He made a birdie on the 18th hole Yang Yong-eun will be named as a Korean player who won the PGA Tour Champions after Choi Kyung-ju "I feel good to win my first PGA Tour Champions title over prominent players "My focus on my game led to a good result of winning this tournament," he said Wi Chang-soo was tied for 51st with a one-over 214 Choi finished the tournament tied for 60th with a 3-over 216 ※ This service is provided by machine translation tool Print Whether you suffer from mild depression or severe schizophrenia it’s a common fear that one moment of distress might undo all the work you’ve done to present a different face to the world Therapy and medication can’t stop you from caring what other people think So living with mental illness means accepting the labels others might apply to you — whether that’s crazy dangerous or toxic — but also fighting to show others a better version of yourself when police in May forced open the door of his parents’ Koreatown home and found him in the midst of a hallucinatory episode with a kitchen knife in his hand Yong was having dinner there when he started hearing voices and confusing his words called the county’s psychiatric emergency response team for help The clinician who arrived at the family home took less than three minutes to deem the troubled man dangerous and summon police who accompanied the clinician during the evaluation tried to attack me and the father,” the clinician told police according to audio of the call released by the Los Angeles Police Department Yong had less than 10 seconds to comply with a Los Angeles police officer’s commands before he was shot three times and died was killed May 2 in his parents’ Koreatown home after he allegedly brandished a kitchen knife toward officers (LAPD) Min disputes that Yong tried to harm him or the clinician and says his son had never been diagnosed with schizophrenia But it’s the label of “violent” the family particularly takes issue with When a police officer with a gun becomes involved My son was never violent until they opened the door,” Min said in an interview after the funeral Weeks before Yong was shot, county officials had held an outreach event in Koreatown to publicize their mental health response efforts. And in March, the LAPD began testing a program that sends mental health practitioners instead of police to calls involving indecent exposure, intoxication, welfare check-ins and others. California The parents of Yong Yang said that they specifically called mental health officials after their son began experiencing a bipolar episode In 2021, Andres Lopez, the officer involved in Yong’s shooting, shot and wounded another mentally ill man who was waving a replica handgun outside the Olympic Division police station. Cases such as Yong’s are difficult specifically because of the suspect’s inability to evince rationality. Is it reasonable to expect a person in the midst of a mental episode to snap back to reality and respond to a police officer’s shouted commands, all within 10 seconds? A month later, his family is still struggling to understand how and why authorities decided he was dangerous. To them, Yong was sincere and soft-hearted, the kind of guy who was always adopting stray cats running around the neighborhood; who fussed over his parents if they ate too much rich food and scolded his twin brother, Yin, for cursing; who loved to sing and was known to hit high notes in Queen songs at karaoke. Myung Sook Yang looks over one of many medications her son Yong Yang was taking for his bipolar disorder. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) He had battled severe bipolar disorder, manic depression and aural hallucinations for two decades, years of turbulence that often kept Min and Myung Sook up at night. But all that had changed recently, Yin said. “It was the thing that really stressed me out more than anything. But recently, the last few years, I’ve been really happy too, because he was happy,” said Yin, Yong’s senior by three minutes. “It went from me worrying about him to him worrying about me.” Yong grew tanned and fit from bike rides to weekly tennis matches and Griffith Observatory hikes with his parents. He adopted a grueling four-hour regimen of prayer, meditation and yoga to manage his disorders. At a party several years ago, he fell in love. For his girlfriend, he set aside his fear of loud noises and public spaces so they could attend EDM concerts and make music together. He lived in his own apartment, cooked all his own meals, kept his plants watered and his cats fed. Los Angeles announces launch of mental health response teams There were still occasional episodes of disorientation and hallucination Cases such as Yong’s — in which the patient lives a rich life and enjoys relationships with his family — are all too rare in the Asian American community, where stigmas linger about mental illness, therapy and psychoactive medications. Yong and his family had grasped one of the most painful lessons that suffering teaches, both to those suffering and those supporting them: A return to normalcy is not guaranteed, but happiness is achievable if you can accept the new shapes it takes. His consulting firm used to focus on future Ivy Leaguers, but now, he says, it works with students dealing with behavioral and mental health issues too. “I realized my son is strong. He told me that he hears voices telling him to kill himself every day. If it was me, I couldn’t stand that kind of situation. I really admired him,” he said. But Myung Sook recalls endless searches for the right doctor, the right diagnosis, the right medication. Those early years felt like “walking over ice,” she said at Yong’s funeral. She has saved a Tupperware container crammed with pill bottles, medicine that Yong didn’t like because of the side effects. Once, she even took half a pill to try to understand what he was going through, but the medication didn’t work the same way on her. Yong used to agonize over the possibility that he was embarrassing his family in public, clamping his eyes shut and reciting mantras to himself in order to remain calm. He was always trying to reassure his parents, promising that he would be strong enough to take care of them someday. But now, Myung Sook said she believes it is the world that needs to change, not her son and others struggling with mental illness. “Listen carefully, and try to understand them, because I think they need to be in our society,” she said a day after her son’s funeral. “Other than that, where can they go?” Frank Shyong is a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times who wrote about diversity and diaspora in Los Angeles. World & Nation Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map This work, Readout of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti’s Meeting with Republic of Korea Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Yang Yong-mo, by CPO Amanda Gray, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright We encourage you to republish Dialogue Earth articles, online or in print, under the Creative Commons license. Please read our republishing guidelines to get started The “Tree in the Sky” along the national highway 317 in northern Tibet (Image: Yang Yong) which will come into effect on 1 September and calls for increased research Geologist Yang Yong has been carrying out field studies on the plateau since the 1980s during which he sent us notes and observations from his travels including from expeditions undertaken last year Yang’s accounts offer a first-hand look at the effects of climate change on the plateau I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet I’m passing through the lakes of central Changtang heading along National Highway 219 towards the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang I’ve visited the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau almost annually for over 30 years. I’ve seen the impacts of climate change with my own eyes, and witnessed the environmental and ecological changes that have occurred in a region often known as “The Third Pole” or “Asia’s Water Tower”. We are also very likely to see the effects of an El Niño climate pattern over the next few years I am extremely worried about the challenges this will bring for the climate from the scenic mountain town of Bingzhongluo cliff-hugging roads before entering Tibet at Zayu This area is home to several temperate glaciers studying the sky-blue waters of the Yangzhuoyong Lake and Shiquan River we crossed the Tanggula Mountains into the Sanjiangyuan (Three River Source) national park continuing over the Kunlun and A’erjin mountain ranges to the arid Qaidam Basin wind-eroded formations of bedrock that are found across the basin That trip was to study the temperate and subcontinental glaciers of Tibet as April is avalanche season in south-east Tibet while in July the whole region has entered the flood season Observing the plateau during different hydrological conditions allows for a fuller understanding The sustained high temperatures and drought seen in 2022 mean that this year may be an unusual one for hydrology as I embark on my latest trip to the plateau but what has struck me most while studying the glaciers during my recent expeditions is the heat It should have been the rainy season as we crossed northern Tibet last July But the sun blazed every day and the ground was parched I remember needing a jacket at this time of year during the 1980s But in more recent years it has been warm enough for shorts and t-shirts The temperature falls during rain or windy periods grasslands and the now-desertifying sandy soil surrounding the glaciers are reaching over 30C we recorded a temperature of 46C from a surface monitoring station to the west of Geladaindong Peak in the Tanggula Mountains It still hadn’t snowed that season and our cold-weather gear remained unused water ran through the cracks in the glacier’s surface We measured temperatures of over 10C at the glacier’s surface A glacier in an oven-like environment is extremely vulnerable and will soon melt and collapse I have recorded the changes in many glaciers over my 30 and more years of visits to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau The snow above temperate glaciers often melts mud and sediment lying on and around the glacier as well as the physical damage of the flood Those signs allow us to monitor the shrinking of the glacier Several glaciers at the source of the Yangtze have shrunk significantly between the 1980s and today comparison of field study findings and satellite images across time shows that the Gangjiaquba glacier has retreated by over 2,000 metres in the last half-century and the Jianggudiru north glacier by over 500 metres is the source of the Yarlung Tsangpo River (which becomes the Brahmaputra) I have seen how its once-steep face has shattered becoming a slope of ice leading down to a glacial lake It has retreated 400 metres over the last 12 years I could even hear running water and moving stones under the glacier The ice pinnacles and peaks I once saw protruding above it are now as good as gone indicating that it has melted quickly in recent years The riverbed in front of the glacier has widened and the glacial sediment washed flat along the 20-plus kilometres of the headwaters at Naqinqu and along the glacial tributaries on either side as well as on both banks of the Sumei riverbed you can see large moraines and glacial till we encountered flooding caused by glacial collapse China has carried out two surveys of its glaciers, recording their position, height, area and volume, and compiling these into book form. That data shows that between the mid-1950s and around 2014, China’s glaciers shrunk by 18% in terms of area Shrinkage was fastest in the east of the Kailash range in the south of the plateau and around the source of the Indus River in the western Himalayas And that’s just what can be seen from the surface. The Himalayas are dotted with tens of thousands of glacial lakes. As the glaciers melt and retreat, those lakes get bigger, and the ice they cover degrades. Research published this year has found that 41.3 billion tonnes of underwater glacial ice was lost between 2000 and 2020 – 2.7 billion tonnes more than had previously been estimated But on our recent trips during these months Rivers were very low compared with a normal year This could be due to a lack of precipitation in a hot dry year, or a localised phenomenon. Glacial melting and retreat would normally be expected to lead to more water in lakes, and I did see this in the Sanjiangyuan region. In some places, there were more aquatic plants than previously noted. Over the last 50 years, the number of lakes of one square kilometre or more in size on the plateau has risen from 1,081 to 1,236 with total area increasing from 40,000 square kilometres to almost 50,000 A lot of this extra water comes from melting glaciers, but the melting of permafrost – ground frozen year-round – is also a factor. Research has projected that permafrost on the plateau will shrink 39% by mid-century (2030–2050) and 81% by the end of the century (2080-2100) It is hard to imagine what the plateau will look like without permafrost The increase in the number and size of lakes is not good news My own observations indicate it is the result of changes in river systems and natural disasters I saw the flood caused on the Yarlung Tsangpo when a landslide dam on one of its tributaries collapsed This changed the river system at the source of the Yangtze with a new lake almost encroaching on the Qinghai-Tibet railway While it may seem there is more water in the rivers and lakes, the water cycle has been damaged, and this may reduce water availability. A 2022 paper found that terrestrial water storage on the plateau fell by 10 billion tonnes a year from 2002 to 2017 with net loss since the beginning of the century projected to reach 230 billion tonnes by 2060 – severely threatening the region’s ability to provide water 10 kilometres from the Jiemayangzong glacier we saw the terminal moraine ridges left by glaciers during the Little Ice Age of the early 15th to the early 20th century These are piles of debris which accumulate when the end of a glacier remains in one place for a period of time Flood debris covered dozens of square kilometres of the basin areas such as the Changtang and Kekexili were covered with vegetation and greenery as far as the eye could see these areas have started to look like deserts At the source of the Yangtze and even upstream on the Tiantong sand dunes are getting taller and merging to form expanses of desert human activity on the Changtang and in Kekexili has been expanding with livestock now grazing higher than 5,500 metres Grazing is now taking place in the “dead zones” of Kekexili and northern Tibet Areas once only suitable for grazing in season can now be used year-round and settlements are even found under the glaciers at the source of the Yangtze It’s about 20 kilometres from the Jianggudiru glacier to the nearest chain of sand dunes At the foot of Quemo Mountain we found several groups of barchan dunes crescent-shaped formations fashioned by winds I do not recall seeing those when I was here in the 1980s the main impacts of climate change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are higher temperatures Compound disaster chains have a huge impact on the population while ecosystems are facing unknown hazards This is also common in the southern Himalayas: it happened on the upper reaches of the Jinsha River and the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge in 2019 there were localised downpours and blizzards Zhuonai Lake in Kekexili used to be a brackish terminal lake But it burst its banks when water levels rose creating a new river flowing into the Yangtze system and onwards to the ocean Tibetan antelope gather here every year to give birth and it is not yet clear how the changes at the lake will affect this habitat and nursery My impressions can be confirmed against scientific research to see what impact climate change is having on the plateau In 2019, a Chinese Academy of Sciences study found the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to be one of the parts of the world most affected by global warming, with new types of disasters, such as glacial melting and run-off increasing, lakes expanding, and ice collapsing. There are 78 “water tower units” globally, with 16 in Asia. Those 16 are the most important, the most vulnerable and the most at-risk The United Nations Environment Programme’s Scientific Assessment of the Third Pole Environment found that an intensifying water cycle was leading to more frequent glacial lake outburst floods and ice collapses the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will be warmer and wetter Climate change means a range of long-term threats for the plateau We need to recognise that it is at a turning point and respond accordingly Yang Yong is director of the Hengduan Mountain Research Institute and was one of the first scientists to investigate the geology and hydrology of the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Yarlung Tsangpo rivers Select from our bespoke newsletters for news best suited to you We’ve sent you an email with a confirmation link 我们向您的邮箱发送了一封确认邮件，请点击邮件中的确认链接。如果您未收到该邮件，请查看垃圾邮件。 If you would like more information about the terms of our republication policy or permission to use content, please write to us: [email protected] We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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"I'm doing weight training even during the competition over the age of 50 if I don't do weight training consistently In order to stay competitive and prevent injuries we have no choice but to spend a lot of time every week in the gym," he added The driving force behind his nearly 30-year career as a professional golfer was his mindset of "Let's do one more than others." Yang Yong-eun said You can never survive if you become a little lazy and do the same as others "The reason why I try to spend 10 more minutes every day at the practice range and gym is survival "As long as I live as a professional golfer Yang Yong-eun my current mindset will not change," he stressed explained that there is no perfection in golf and there are still many things that are lacking "I think it's still the process of moving toward golf that I'm satisfied with," he said I don't know if there will be a day when I play perfect golf but I will continue to evolve," he said with a smile One thing I've been paying attention to lately is the backswing Deciding that he needs to reduce the size of his backswing to reach the top of the PGA Tour Champions he is spending a lot of time honing his new swing the upper and lower body did not rotate properly and the strength was reduced I feel like I only play 70-80% of backswing and produced a valuable result of being the runner-up last week I'm looking forward to the future," he said who is in his best season since his debut at the PGA Tour Champions also expressed his determination to win the championship "I don't think I'll win my first PGA Tour Champions title I feel like I'm definitely close to winning," he said "I'll try to win the rest of the season no matter what I will definitely reach the top of the PGA Tour Champions this year," he stressed Yang Yong-eun said at a press conference for the major tournament's D-Open on the 17th that she was surprised that Woods chose her as the main character who gave her the most painful defeat "The most insurmountable defeat was the 2009 PGA Championship It was the first time I had a come-from-behind loss in a major tournament "It's a special moment that I'll never forget but I think Woods has been so shocked that he can't forget it until now I was surprised that Woods mentioned me in public," he said "One of the driving forces that allowed me to stand up again even if I had a slump and made me what I am now is the 2009 PGA Championship victory I still vividly recall the winning scene 15 years ago," he explained Yang Yong-eun is also waiting for a PGA Tour Champions match against Woods will be able to play in the PGA Tour Champions from 2026 "I don't know how many tournaments Woods will participate in but I think it would be fun to play on the same tour he has to survive for at least three years "I will take good care of myself and play against Woods at the PGA Tour Champions," he said He also said he was proud of his juniors who are performing very well on the PGA Tour and Kim Si-woo are performing best on the PGA Tour where the world's best players are gathered I also believe that I will continue to do as well as I do now "It is important to continue to challenge without settling for reality more Korean players will be able to use the PGA Tour as their main stage," he advised Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience became a chef out of convenience - but a tough tutelage under a Japanese chef cemented his passion for the craft Barely 10 months after Sushi Ryu’s opening the Taipei restaurant has already garnered its first star in the city’s inaugural MICHELIN Guide This remarkable feat is in no small part due to the hard work and long hours put in by chef-owner Yang Yong-long Yang is not your typical celebrity chef with flashy behaviour and choice quotes the down-to-earth Taiwanese chef has been quietly perfecting his craft for the last 26 years.Yang’s entry to the sushi business was a matter of convenience as a relative of his ran a Japanese restaurant But his early tutelage under a "tough" Japanese chef helped him to develop a "profound interest in sushi” Every Detail MattersAlthough Yang has three cooks in his kitchen to assist him he still arrives at the kitchen at 7am every day without exception prepares every piece of sushi placed on the counter and oversees every single detail in the restaurant until the day’s work wraps up at almost-midnight.The Japanese Kanji character of the restaurant's name corresponds to the Chinese character for “long” the chef's name — a carefully chosen detail to reflect the chef's inextricably link to his restaurant In order to procure the freshest catch of the day Yang taps on his personal network of buyers in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market to ship his specified needs to Taiwan three times a week.He is also exacting in the vinegar mix he uses in his rice which changes according to the season: “My vinegary rice uses a mix of three vinegars — red-coloured sake kasu (lees) vinegar and two other rice vinegars The former gives the rice a sweet aftertaste." The fish preparation process is time-consuming The fishes need to be cured in salt to highlight the umami flavour while uni (sea urchin) is warmed on grilled kombu so that it acquires a creamy texture “Vinegar-cured hikarimono (blue-backed fish like sardine and pike mackerel) are the hardest to deal with but it will also develop a fishy smell,” the chef explains From working with investors in the past to now flying solo Yang appears is prudent with every business decision he has a straightforward goal in establishing his own restaurant “My greatest desire is to let people understand the true Edomae spirit of preparing ingredients in the right way,” he says.He shares his feelings on the day his restaurant received its first MICHELIN star When did you first encounter the MICHELIN Guide?Three years ago I saw the MICHELIN Guide Tokyo 2015 for the first time I flipped through it quickly without reading in detail I didn’t give it too much thought and it didn’t occur to me that one day my name would appear in the red book.What was it like when Sushi Ryu earned its first MICHELIN star?I was elated When I faced all the cameras of the journalists at the press conference it was tiring to constantly smile and my mind was blank They asked me if I would feel the pressure but it took a little more time to understand how I really felt I would like to go back to where I started — the kitchen — and let the pressure transform into a kind of motivation.How did you celebrate?My restaurant has only 15 seats and there is so much business to take care of every day so I still haven’t had the chance to celebrate Perhaps the diners’ fondness for our food is the best reward we could ask for.How has the MICHELIN Guide influenced your life and career?In my opinion the MICHELIN Guide helps increase the visibility of new restaurants like mine in the eyes of the tourists visiting Taiwan make up 60% of my clientele.What advice would you give young chefs who dream of getting a MICHELIN star one day?I joined the industry at 16 and then apprenticed under a very tough Japanese chef but I would take a small part of clean-up time to imitate my mentor using the leftover ingredients and at the same time be persistent and proactive This is what I think is the best attitude for this industry This article is written by Drew Zheng and translated by Vincent Leung. Click here to read the original story Escondido brings authentic Mexican cuisine to Korea kimchi with tinned mackerel......unexpected food pairings are the weapon that one-MICHELIN-starred restaurant T+T wields to craft memorable dishes with perfect harmony of flavour Chef Johnny Tsai conceived his brainchild as a sanctuary celebrating creativity in cookery and has stayed true to his principles While drawing inspiration from across Asia he has dedicated to find balance in distinct culinary elements The result is a cuisine that breaks away from traditional confines and reaches the hearts of discerning gourmands Being a female chef in the culinary world is no easy feat We asked female chefs leading MICHELIN Star restaurants in Thailand to spill their best-kept secrets What happens when a restaurant has attained three MICHELIN Stars Described as the pinnacle of culinary achievement many chefs will say that achieving the coveted accolade is just the beginning where the food scene is both ruthless and exhilarating the Lion City's top chefs reveal what comes after three MICHELIN Stars — and why staying on top is even harder than getting there From listening bars to neighbourhood restaurants explore all the top recommendations from Chishuru’s Adejoké Bakare the chef and restaurateur behind MICHELIN-Starred Row on 5 and a whole lot more shares his top London recommendations The woman behind CORE by Clare Smyth gives us her take on the best restaurants in the city chef Johanne Siy has made a name for herself at Lolla with bold she shares the places that fuel her cravings discusses why he works in east London and where to find the best food in the city he revisits the flavours of his Korean heritage through a humble yet profound dish of buckwheat jeon a loving tribute to the unspoken rituals of Korean home kitchens and dishes We get top recommendations from one of the world’s most decorated chefs including where she goes for proper French cuisine The Three-Star chef shares her top picks for dining and unwinding across the city The chef behind Brat and Mountain reveals all on where he’d go for a celebration The innovative culinary mind behind one of London's most acclaimed restaurants shares his favourite haunts Step inside the world of MICHELIN-Star chef and successful restaurateur Adam Handling – and get a few restaurant recommendations along the way Non-members can add the privileges at checkout through our 30 day free trial By continuing I accept the Terms & Condition and Privacy Policy. I would like to receive Newsletter from MICHELIN Guide Save lists of your favorite restaurants & hotels Barely 10 months after Sushi Ryu\u2019s opening the Taipei restaurant has already garnered its first star in the city\u2019s inaugural MICHELIN Guide the down-to-earth Taiwanese chef has been quietly perfecting his craft for the last 26 years.Yang\u2019s entry to the sushi business was a matter of convenience But his early tutelage under a \"tough\" Japanese chef helped him to develop a \"profound interest in sushi\u201d prepares every piece of sushi placed on the counter and oversees every single detail in the restaurant until the day\u2019s work wraps up at almost-midnight.The Japanese Kanji character of the restaurant's name corresponds to the Chinese character for \u201clong\u201d the chef's name \u2014 a carefully chosen detail to reflect the chef's inextricably link to his restaurant which changes according to the season: \u201cMy vinegary rice uses a mix of three vinegars \u2014 red-coloured sake kasu (lees) vinegar and two other rice vinegars The former gives the rice a sweet aftertaste.\" \u201cVinegar-cured hikarimono (blue-backed fish like sardine and pike mackerel) are the hardest to deal with but it will also develop a fishy smell,\u201d the chef explains \u201cMy greatest desire is to let people understand the true Edomae spirit of preparing ingredients in the right way,\u201d he says.He shares his feelings on the day his restaurant received its first MICHELIN star I didn\u2019t give it too much thought and it didn\u2019t occur to me that one day I would like to go back to where I started \u2014 the kitchen \u2014 and let the pressure transform into a kind of motivation.How did you celebrate?My restaurant has only 15 seats and there is so much business to take care of every day so I still haven\u2019t had the chance to celebrate Perhaps the diners\u2019 fondness for our food is the best reward we could ask for.How has the MICHELIN Guide influenced your life and career?In my opinion This article is written by Drew Zheng and translated by Vincent Leung. Click here to read the original story. Award-winning filmmaker Yang Yong-hi was just six years old when she watched her eldest brother leave Japan for North Korea as one of 200 “human gifts” for leader Kim Il-sung’s 60th birthday. As a North Korean anthem blared, through bursts of confetti, he handed her a note before his ferry departed Niigata port: “Yong-hi, listen to a lot of music. Watch as many movies as you want.” It was 1972, a year after her parents — members of the ethnic Korean Zainichi community in Japan — had sent their other two sons the same way, lured by the Kim regime’s promise of a socialist paradise with free education, healthcare and jobs for all. “My parents dedicated their entire lives to an entity that came up with such a senseless project and forced them to sacrifice their own children for it,” Yang, now 57, said. The trauma of being ripped apart from her siblings reverberates in all of Osaka-born Yang’s films, which document the suffering of her family across generations — from the end of Japanese colonial rule to decades after the split of the Korean peninsula. Her father was a prominent pro-North Korean activist in Osaka, and had sent his sons to live there in the 1970s as part of a repatriation program organized by Pyongyang and Tokyo. Around 93,000 Japan-based Koreans left for North Korea under the scheme between 1959 and 1984. Yang’s eldest brother was among 200 university students specially chosen to honor Kim Il-sung. The regime’s promises came to almost nothing, but the Zainichi arrivals were forced to stay. Their families could do little to bring them back. Yang’s parents “had no choice after having already sent their children. To keep the kids safe (in North Korea), they couldn’t leave the regime, and had to become even more devoted,” she said. “I was so angry at the system that kept my brothers as hostages.” Yang said she faced discrimination in Japan — repeatedly denied jobs and fired from a film project because of her Korean heritage. She also had to grapple with the pro-North Korean sentiment in her community. Her father was a prominent figure in the Chongryon organization — Pyongyang’s de facto embassy in Japan — which ran the university where she studied literature. During her time at the school, when students were asked to interpret texts with leader “Kim Jong-il’s literary theories,” Yang said she once submitted a blank page. And at home, where portraits of North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il hung side by side, she resented her parents for sending her brothers away. “I could have... pretended I was Japanese, and avoided being honest about my father and brothers, acting as if I don’t recognize any problems. But to really break free, I had to confront them all.” After a failed marriage and spending some three years as a teacher at a Pyongyang-linked high school, she left for New York to study documentary filmmaking. And it was through movies that she began to unpack the story of her family. Her first documentary, Dear Pyongyang, was released in 2005 to critical acclaim, including at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. It offered a rare, independent look inside North Korea, featuring footage from Yang’s camcorder during her trips to visit her brothers. It infuriated the Chongryon, which demanded an apology. By then, Yang had acquired South Korean nationality, making it impossible for her to ever visit her brothers again. “It’s a huge price, but I have no regrets. I at least stayed true to my own desire — to make a movie, and to tell a story about my own family,” Yang explained. Yang’s latest step in that quest is the film Soup and Ideology, set for a theatrical release this year. It focuses on her mother Kang Jung-hee, who fiercely loves her children but is also deeply loyal to Pyongyang. For 45 years, she sent food, money and other goods to her sons in Pyongyang, including Seiko watches to be exchanged for cash. Yang said her mother was often “unnaturally and overly cheerful,” telling people that her sons are doing well in Pyongyang “thanks to the North Korean leaders. But at home, she would cry alone,” the director said, especially after Kang’s eldest son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Yang said her mother would send any medicine for the disease she could afford from Japan to North Korea, without knowing what he might need. In her old age, she told Yang of yet another traumatic event — a bloody crackdown by South Korean forces on Jeju Island in 1947-54 to crush an uprising. As many as 30,000 people were killed, according to the National Archives of Korea. They included Kang’s fiancee and relatives. “My mother is someone who desperately wanted a homeland. She wanted to belong to Jeju but she was forced to leave. She didn’t see her place in Japan,” Yang said. “She was looking for a government that she could trust, and she believed in North Korea.” That is where Yang’s two surviving brothers remain. Despite the struggles facing her, Yang said she still wanted to speak out. “Since I was young, I was constantly told: ‘don’t say this, don’t say that, always say this’,” she said. “I realized I wanted to do it whatever the price.” Print Before Yong Yang was fatally shot by Los Angeles police last week inside his parents’ Koreatown home his mother tried for two days in a row to get help from mental health officials Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode and she purposely reached out to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) before the shooting to avoid involving law enforcement her son was dead — killed in his family’s living room while holding a kitchen knife On Tuesday, LAPD officials released the department’s annual use of force report which showed an increase in the number of times that officers opened fire from 31 times in 2022 to 34 last year — more than any other big-city U.S Officials blamed the increase in part on the number of people shot who, like Yang, were holding sharp objects while in a mental health or substance use-related crisis — a trend the department has struggled for years to curb At an emotional news conference Thursday at the headquarters of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles Yang’s family and their attorneys demanded answers about the DMH’s decision to request law enforcement Myung Sook Yang said: “There’s a reason I called the Department of Mental Health “I thought they will help him and take him to the hospital,” she said and we want an explanation as to how this could happen.” Yong Yang’s family said he had long struggled with his mental health he had previously been placed by authorities on a so-called 5150 hold a detention of up to 72 hours for those deemed a threat to themselves or others he had learned to keep the symptoms at bay through a regime of “prayer he occasionally had episodes like the one that occurred on the day he was shot the family contacted the DMH for assistance twice in 48-hours Yang’s father told reporters his son’s behavior was not threatening on May 2 when a DMH representative showed up to the family’s home in the 400 block of South Gramercy Place for an evaluation Min Yang said the clinician spent less than two minutes talking to Yang before deciding to call the police they told him and his wife to wait outside while they tried to contact Yang and didn’t inform them that their son had been shot until much later police did not use any less-lethal weapons to try to subdue Yang despite being “equipped with a full knowledge of the son’s mental health history.” “LAPD sent nine officers into the home in a military-style maneuver to execute a 40-year-old mental patient,” Sheahen said “It actually gets worse: Following the cold-blooded killing the officers did not notify the mother that they had shot her son.” An LAPD spokesperson said body camera footage from the incident would be released by mid-June and declined to comment further The mental health department said in a brief statement that it couldn’t comment about the incident but that generally its “field intervention teams are trained to de-escalate mental health crises without law enforcement involvement.” this is not always possible,” the statement read “In instances where de-escalation through clinical means is not possible and the person in crisis remains an imminent threat to themselves or others law enforcement will be contacted to maintain safety and attempt to keep the peace.” Sheahen said the family is asking for an independent investigation He said officers failed to provide immediate medical attention to Yang and “destroyed all the physical evidence at the crime scene.” every shred of physical evidence which might tell us what those officers did inside the apartment to kill the boy,” he said He said the family was preparing to file a government claim against the city the usual precursor to a wrongful death lawsuit An LAPD news release issued the day after the shooting gave a markedly different account of the incident stating that officers were summoned to the scene after Yang tried to assault the DMH employee The police statement said the DMH worker told the first officers to arrive that Yang posed a threat to others triggering the decision to request more police and notify the department’s Mental Health Evaluation Unit officers decided to enter the home after several failed attempts to convince Yang to come outside on his own officers used a key to enter the residence and said they found Yang holding a knife he “advanced toward the officers and an Officer Involved Shooting occurred,” the release said Paramedics were called to the scene and pronounced him dead president of the Korean American Federation said that the DMH had held a community presentation in Koreatown only weeks before to inform families of people with mental illness about resources available to them Attendees were told they could call the DMH An said he had spoken with interim LAPD Chief Dominic Choi who had assured him a thorough investigation of the incident would be conducted Community members had met with Choi — the city’s first Korean American chief — and Mayor Karen Bass days before the shooting to discuss recent assaults in the area Most of those in attendance left satisfied that city authorities were listening to their security concerns and hopeful that the meeting was a step toward “rebuilding” their relationship with the Police Department which was widely covered by Korean-language media left the community with “a lot of questions,” he said issued a statement that said that the “Korean community and neighbors are highly paying attention to this incident which has deeply saddened all.” Thursday’s news conference came amid renewed scrutiny of the LAPD’s use of lethal force The statistics released this week by the department showed Los Angeles police had twice as many on-duty shootings as their counterparts in Chicago a city with nearly 4,000 more officers and 1.3 million fewer residents than L.A were fatal than in any other comparable departments which also had four fewer incidents overall despite being a larger city and force The numbers drew concern from several members of the Los Angeles Police Commission Commissioner William Briggs questioned whether the department could be doing more to handle encounters involving people with edged weapons such as knives and swords which accounted for a significant number of shootings In response, Choi said that the department needs to explore new technologies that could give police time to come up with a plan of action and potentially avoid unnecessary confrontations between officers and people in crisis The department has expanded its training on dealing with people in emotional distress even as its leaders have acknowledged that not all mental health emergencies require the presence of armed police They have pushed for handing off more of these noncriminal calls to a Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team which pairs officers with county mental health clinicians who are trained in peacefully de-escalating standoffs with mentally ill people who may not respond well to shouted commands and flashing police lights SMART responded to roughly 6,534 emergencies a fraction of the nearly 43,000 calls for service involving people with mental illness or those experiencing a behavioral health crisis Calls involving weapons or threats of violence are still almost always funneled to police Police officials have previously blamed gaps in coverage by the mental health co-responder teams on understaffing at the county although Choi told the commission Tuesday that the county had in recent months made strides in hiring more clinicians Earlier this year, city officials launched a pilot program that sends trained, but unarmed, civilians to certain mental health emergencies in three police divisions, with plans to evaluate its performance after a year and potentially expand it citywide. Modeled after the heralded Cahoots program out of Bend, Ore., the initiative features two teams of mental health practitioners available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for nonviolent situations that would typically fall to police, such as conducting welfare checks and calls for public intoxication and indecent exposure. Department officials have said repeatedly that, despite increased crisis intervention training and new less-lethal weapons designed to incapacitate rather than kill, officers are not always equipped to handle most mental health calls. At the same time, police say, these types of calls have the potential to quickly spiral into violence. Los Angeles was among the major U.S. cities that pledged to develop and invest in new emergency responses that use trained specialists to render aid to homeless people and those suffering from mental health and substance abuse issues. But similar efforts have floundered in cities like New York. Activists argue that such efforts remain woefully underfunded and, in some cases, are still too closely aligned with law enforcement. Some initiatives have struggled to bring crisis intervention alternatives to scale. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Fire Department recommended ending a pilot program after officials said it didn’t actually free up first responders and hospital emergency rooms. Libor Jany covers the Los Angeles Police Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2022, he covered public safety for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Jany studied communications at Mississippi State University. Please read our republishing guidelines to get started Houses on a mountainside devastated by the recent 6.5-magnitude earthquake which killed more than 600 people in Ludian county Yang Yong is an independent geologist and director of the Hengduan Mountain Research Institute The epicentre of the September 2012 Yiliang earthquake was less than 10 kilometres from the Malin Dam on the Luoze River which was built in 2011; and less than 60 kilometres from the Xiangjiaba Dam on the Jinsha The Yongshan earthquake in April 2014 was less than 7 kilometres from the Xiluodu Dam on the Jinsha The time and location of these earthquakes link with the times the reservoirs at Xiangjiaba and Xiluodu on the Jinsha The Jinsha and its tributaries flow through the Sichuan-Yunnan fault zone with some stretches of the river running parallel to or along the fault lines with fragmented geology and many unstable cliffs the region’s complex and active geology means reservoirs behind the dams will spark stronger and more frequent earthquakes Recent years have seen a period of geological activity There would be earthquakes here even if it wasn’t for the dam reservoirs the reservoirs may result in more powerful levels of stress Scientists still don’t fully understand those processes and we can’t understand or control them Risks include multiple landslides upstream at the Tongjia Gorge Hillsides on the Batang-Benzilan River stretch could collapse making many old landslide sites active again and forming a string of barrier lakes The generators and transmission equipment of hydropower plants would be badly damaged The river would be blocked again at Tiger Leaping Gorge due to landslides with transmission equipment at Ahai and Ludila badly damaged There may be further landslides at Wudongde downstream with old landslide sites further downstream becoming active again Blockages could cause river water to back up towards the dam with generating equipment and buildings badly damaged by landslides There could also be a number of landslides at Xiluodu with the dam severely tested by uncontrolled releases of water from other dams and barrier lakes A global analysis of almost 2,000 reservoir earthquakes showed that the depth and capacity of reservoirs plays a clear role in the physical processes that cause earthquakes The direct stress caused by the weight of the reservoir is nowhere near enough to affect intact rock But if the rock is not intact and cracks form and if the pressure of water forced into those cracks is high enough the shearing stress and water pressure can contribute directly to earthquakes It’s like a balloon that remains stable Reservoir earthquakes are like that needle You can’t assume all reservoir earthquakes will be small There are no cases of a reservoir causing a magnitude 7 or above earthquake But there have never been so many dams built in such a geologically stressed region Rivers in the region follow the active fault-lines this means dams will be built on the faults As the rivers in the Hengduan mountains are largely seasonal their reservoir water levels are frequently changing to absorb floodwaters or alleviate dry periods These rapid changes can affect stability of the sides of the reservoir and may cause stresses that trigger earthquakes This means that deeper reform and structural adjustments as well as eliminating inefficient production will allow China to develop on its existing power capacity for some time Hydropower development on the Jinsha and in the south-west in general can slow down to allow time for further research and planning which in turn will mean we can avoid unnecessary risks Liu Qin is China Dialogue’s Beijing Admin Officer If you would like more information about the terms of our republication policy or permission to use content, please write to us: [email protected] Yang Yong-eun recorded his second top 10 of the 2025 season at the PGA Tour Champions Yang Yong-eun shot a 1-under 71 in the final third round of the PGA Tour Champions Inspirational Invitational at The Woodlands Country Club (par 72) in The Woodlands tied for fourth with Tongchai Zaidi (Thailand) and Scott Farrell (USA) challenged to come from behind to win the final day He made a birdie on the first hole and got off to a good start they exchanged four bogeys with Buddy and failed to raise the ranking Although Yang Yong-eun postponed his first win this season and his second career PGA Tour Champions win to the next he was in the top 10 in about two months since the Hog Classic in March Charles Schwab Cup points rose five notches to 13th from 18th last week who has been taking the PGA Tour Champions where players aged 50 or older participate since 2022 Yang Yong-eun is steadily making his name known by performing at the top who has been doing weight training more than five times a week and intermittent fasting for more than 10 years to perform at her best has set her goal this year with more than one win and entering the top five points in the Charles Schwab Cup is challenging to achieve two goals for the rest of the season won the title after a close game in extra time entered an extension with Retif Gusen (South Africa) for his second career victory at the PGA Tour Champions Ernie Els (South Africa) tied for sixth at 6-under 210 Choi finished the tournament tied for 45th with even-par 216 With her documentaries “Dear Pyongyang” (2006) and “Sona Yang Yong-hi focused on the stories of her Japanese-raised older brothers who left for North Korea she returns with the new work “Soup and Ideology,” which debuted on Oct The “soup” in the title is a reference to the chicken soup Yang’s mother cooks for the new bridegroom her daughter brings home The “ideology” relates to the mother’s buried memories of the Jeju April 3 Incident The culmination of Yang’s “family trilogy” focuses both on a new family member taking the place of the departed father and on moments from the mother’s life that have been erased The Hankyoreh spoke with Yang Yong-hi on Oct my mother would often talk about how ‘cruel’ [South] Korea was,” she recalled I thought she was just being narrow-minded But as she talked more and more about it and the pieces fit together I came to see why she felt compelled to say that and why she regarded North Korea with feelings of hope.” Yang went back and forth between Tokyo and Osaka caring for her mother who was in and out of the hospital at the time She did not initially set out to record her mother’s eyewitness accounts in the camera’s lens but there was so little information that I never had any thought of turning it into a feature-length film,” she explained “I thought I could keep some kind of a family record as she kept sending money to [her sons in] North Korea rather than spending it on her own hospital costs,” she added The filming process was slow going early on but it reached a turning point when the mother’s “Japanese son-in-law” (the one Yang’s father had forbidden her to marry) came to see the mother to ask for permission to marry her daughter The mother offered him some of her chicken soup which she had spent a long time boiling up the son-in-law began asking questions about the events of April 3 in Jeju and the mother started to share a long story about her home island and about the circumstances that drove her to board a smuggling ship with her two young siblings at the age of 15 “Everything I heard I was learning about for the first time: how my mother had had a fiance back on Jeju Island her memories of risking her life transporting gasoline for him and how he and her family and neighbors had been brutally killed,” Yang recalled The director had actually heard about the post-liberation massacres on Jeju from the historian husband of one of her teachers back when she was studying in the US in the late 1990s that he must have been confusing it with what happened in Gwangju in 1980 It wasn’t until nearly 20 years later that I learned that it had really happened and that my mother was a survivor,” she said The film also includes the director’s 2018 visit to Jeju with her mother to attend a commemorative ceremony for the victims on the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Jeju April 3 Incident it was her first visit home since her departure “My mother was scared to come to Korea,” Yang explained “She didn’t believe me when I told her that it was a democracy now that the government had acknowledged Jeju April 3 and that there was even a peace park built for it.” But she came to realize that as someone who had been essentially chased away from Korea at gunpoint and who had suffered decades of discrimination in Japan her mother truly wanted to preserve the “homeland in her heart.” People who have endured difficult experiences need faith in something to survive; for Yang’s mother After her difficult experience of returning to Jeju The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease that had gradually set in had rapidly begun to deteriorate “[The situation] came across like a promise from my mother I’m going to forget it all,’” the director said Accompanying Yang on her visit was her husband Kaoru Arai When asked how he felt about appearing in the film “I’ve been ready for it ever since I married a documentary filmmaker.” “The history of Jeju April 3 bears connections with Japan’s responsibility for colonization,” he added Japanese people can see how this isn’t just another country’s history but a past that connects with their own grandmothers and grandfathers,” he added Coinciding with the documentary’s release is the publication of “I Turn the Camera Off before Using It” (Maum Sanchaek) an essay collection by Yang that includes off-camera stories that she was not able to put on the screen Please direct questions or comments to [english@hani.co.kr] The Navy said on the 4th that Chief of Naval Staff Yang Yong-mo visited the U.S Navy's Strategic Nuclear Submarine Base in Kings Bay on the 2nd (local time) and visited the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) This is the first time that a South Korean Navy chief of staff has visited the U.S Navy's strategic nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay Yang attracted more attention as he was a "submarine expert" who became the first submarine specialist to become the Navy Chief of Staff reaffirmed the strong defense commitment that the two governments agreed to "provide extended deterrence to the Republic of Korea by operating all categories of military capabilities naval officials from both countries also discussed strengthening cooperation to deter and respond to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats at King's Bay Base and joint drills between South Korea and the U.S the Chief of Naval Staff of South Korea and the U.S had a talk and repeatedly focused on "extended deterrence with South Korea and the U.S together." "The United States will continue to provide extended deterrence to the Republic of Korea using all categories of military capabilities and advanced non-nuclear capabilities," U.S Navy Chief of Staff Lisa Frenketty said in a statement Navy has decided to build a stronger cooperation system against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats as well as threats from the sea based on a stronger joint defense posture than ever before." The Navy said that after completing the U.S Yang will move to Canada to discuss ways to develop military exchanges and defense cooperation with the two navies until the 7th the Canadian Navy is specifically considering a project to introduce 12 3,000-ton medium-sized submarines with a total budget of about 60 trillion won so shipbuilding and defense industries in each country are preparing for a fierce underwater order will strengthen extended deterrence through submarines in the U.S Canada is also reportedly considering Hanwha Ocean's Dosan Ahn Chang-ho (3,000-ton) submarine which can operate long-distance submerged navigation and ballistic missiles (SLBM) The submarine is the first state-of-the-art diesel submarine designed and built independently by Hanwha Ocean and has a localization rate of 76% The final round of the PGA Championship set up for Woods much like his scorched-earth pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major championships Woods cut no less an intimidating figure than that of an unbeaten Mike Tyson in his black trunks stalking Buster Douglas during introductions in the Tokyo Dome nearly two decades earlier Woods was also an undefeated heavyweight (14-0 in majors when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead) and also facing an opponent defined by his zillion-to-1 odds But Yang Yong-eun, or Y.E. Yang a 37-year-old journeyman out of South Korea carried a 15th club in his bag for a PGA pairing out of his wildest dreams: He had beaten Woods at the 2006 HSBC Champions in Shanghai Though Yang didn't play with Woods in the fourth round of that event he had proven to everyone -- most notably himself -- that he could finish a 72-hole golf tournament in fewer strokes than the sum required by one of the two greatest players of all time Yang was ranked 460th in the world before his first victory on American soil -- at the Honda Classic -- in March 2009 and the PGA Championship five months later was not Woods was only 14 months removed from winning one of those on one leg The surgery and rehab after his epic playoff victory over Rocco Mediate at the U.S Open did nothing to diminish his standing as an immovable force So of all the things golf fans were thinking when the last Sunday twosome at Hazeltine prepared to tee off Tiger Woods was about to get Buster Douglas'd The day before, Woods seemed to sense the possibility of the staggering upset to come. He played ultraconservative, prevent golf, lag-putting his way to a 71 on the monstrous Hazeltine course while his 4-stroke lead was cut in half. Five groups ahead of him, ignored by everyone but the man he was playing with, Martin Kaymer Yang shot an aggressive 67 that was the low round of the day Yang had never before been grouped with Woods and his résumé strongly suggested he didn't belong in the same ballpark with Tiger Raised by his father to conquer an unconquerable game Woods was a prodigy straight out of the crib and onto the set of "The Mike Douglas Show" as a 2-year-old golfer blowing away Bob Hope with his grownup swing He didn't pick up a golf club until he was 19 the ex-caddie who defeated British royalty in the form of Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S Yang had a working-class father who didn't think his son should be wasting his time on a game associated with the societal elite The son of a vegetable farmer on the island province of Jeju-do, Yang taught himself to play by using a baseball grip and hitting balls off range mats, and then by watching instructional videos featuring his idol, Jack Nicklaus, and Nick Faldo Yang didn't break par for the first time until he was 22; Tiger Woods had won the Masters at 21 Harrington bogeyed the 18th that Saturday to land Yang in the last group with Woods and the South Korean didn't learn of that development until he caught the third-round highlights later on "My heart nearly pounded and exploded," he would say through an interpreter at his news conference after his victory actually." Yang tried and failed to get a good night's sleep he knew he was waking up to the first day of the rest of his life The caddie sidled up to his player on the practice green and told him The 35-year-old Montecinos was the ideal co-pilot for the turbulent a self-made man relatively new to the PGA Tour Montecinos worked in a grocery store and handed over his paychecks to his parents who sometimes needed the cash to cover the water bill and rent He lucked into a golf scholarship at Jackson State and his racially diverse 1996 team become the first from a historically black college or university to reach the NCAA regionals Montecinos fielded a call one day in his San Antonio home from a caddie named Hoss Uresti, brother of tour pro Omar Uresti to get himself to the second stage of Q-School in 2008 "Don't ask me any questions," Hoss responded sent Montecinos on his way in favor of his regular caddie but then summoned him back the following year for another Q-School adventure Yang faced an 11-footer for bogey that would give him a score of 19 under and "Eighteen OK?" Yang asked in his limited English thinking a double-bogey might still win him his card and later learned that 18 under wouldn't have been good enough for his card or good enough for the opportunity to win the Honda Classic or good enough for the opportunity to join Woods on the first tee of the final round of the PGA Championship Yang took Montecinos along for the ride this time He would pay off the $10,000 Montecinos owed on his Mitsubishi Galant with his Honda winnings and he'd affectionately refer to his caddie as "Mr Bean" for his resemblance to British comedian Rowan Atkinson and almost immediately the rookie caddie exhibited a cool and reassuring hand Montecinos had been playing for money since he was 12 beating gullible adults on the kind of bets a young Lee Trevino used to make -- $10 bets with $5 in his pocket just as he understood the need to focus on the virtues of a winning effort rather than on the consequences of defeat Yang lets out a scream after chipping in for eagle on the short The eagle -- to Tiger's birdie -- gave Yang a lead he would not relinquish. Streeter Lecka/Getty ImagesWalter Payton taught him as much after a bad Montecinos round knocked Jackson State and Eddie Payton out of the NCAAs Montecinos was preparing to caddie for the Paytons in a pro-am when the former Chicago Bears great turned to the Chicago-born Montecinos and said wasn't it?" Montecinos apologized for letting the Paytons down "And then Walter grabbed me like my mom would grab me 'Did you give your best?' I told him I did Montecinos kept that cool into the furnace of a bright-lights matchup with Woods and his raging bull of a caddie, Steve Williams. Meanwhile, Yang was striking the ball cleanly enough in the days leading up to the PGA to inspire his coach, Brian Mogg, to tell Golf Channel's Brandel Chamblee that Chamblee shouldn't be surprised if Yang won even after Yang made like a 22-handicapper and topped his ball some 40 yards into a creek at the 16th in a Wednesday practice round "We just looked at each other and laughed," Mogg recalled "There was just a great feeling around Y.E He created an awesome mood and attitude and never let anything get bigger than it was." Wearing white from head to toe -- white shirt white visor -- Yang shook hands with Woods and suddenly felt his pounding heartbeat settle into a stress-free pace Though Yang had counted up his tour victories (1) and Tiger's (70) at the time and figured that made him a 70-1 underdog he realized something that had escaped superior players who often rolled over on Woods' command "It's not like you're in an octagon where you're fighting against Tiger and he's going to bite you," Yang said The worst that I could do was just lose to Tiger and marched down the fairway in anticipation of another memorable Sunday But despite the fact he was performing before the kind of crowds and inside-the-ropes media mob he'd never seen Yang was actually the steadier player early in the round birdieing the 633-yard third before Woods bogeyed the fourth and fell into a tie If his failure to create separation emboldened his opponent Woods did make it clear on the front nine that he wasn't interested in helping Yang get any more comfortable than he already was "Tiger and Stevie were all business," Montecinos recalled I didn't say a word to those guys until Tiger and I were walking down the fifth fairway You have to understand that playing Tiger Woods in a major in his prime was like every station on the radio playing in your ears all at once you do this kind of s--- every week?' And he looked at me and said 'I don't blame you,' and that was the extent of our conversation." Woods lost the advantage he gained on Yang's bogey three holes earlier by missing the green and failing to save par out of the sand Woods would blow another 1-stroke lead at No 12 on a wayward 10-foot putt and then watch the tournament start to slip from his indomitable grip on the 13th "And then Tiger hit a 3-iron into the wind," Montecinos recalled It looked like a bogey-birdie swing would restore order and deliver Woods his 15th major title at least until Yang poured in his 12-footer for par and applied some pressure to the ultimate pressure-proof opponent "I knew that it was possible for me to win was agonizing over his decision not to book a return trip to Hazeltine that morning Mogg had worked wonders with Yang's amateur-hour grip and swing and he'd seen firsthand how everything was coming together in the practice rounds as well as his earlier prediction coming to fruition And now Mogg was watching his guy take the fight to Woods in a stunning way "He had that aura of invincibility back then Before the coach had left that Wednesday practice round he told Yang he thought PGA officials would move up the tees on Sunday on the short par-4 14th and that he should hit another ball from that area Yang sailed his second drive over the green didn't kill his drive on Sunday," Mogg said Yang hit a good drive that stopped on an upslope just short of the green; Woods sent his tee ball into the adjacent bunker and then blasted out to 7 feet Verne Lundquist mentioned that Woods had his back to his opponent as if he planned to avoid watching and Lundquist noticed that Woods turned and gave the rolling ball what the announcer called "a cursory glance." "It's wonderful!" as Yang screamed and pumped his arms and even threw a Tiger-like right uppercut Lundquist was there for Nicklaus' putt on the 17th at the 1986 Masters ("Yes sir!") and for Woods' absurd chip-in on the 16th at the 2005 Masters ("In your life "Talk about inexplicable," Lundquist responded with one victory on the PGA Tour to the 70 accomplished by Tiger Woods Woods answered like the proud champion he was "But he is still 1 back," Lundquist said. "He being Tiger Woods. The leader at the 15th tee is 37-year-old Yong-eun Yang "Tiger [seems] nervous," Montecinos recalled If Woods had tried to use gamesmanship on the relative novice Some observers thought Woods had crowded Yang and tried to unnerve him at different points in the round but he did see Yang stick up for himself on the sixth tee when a rules official told him his group needed to speed up after taking forever to play No Yang immediately pointed at Woods and said The caddie also thought Woods slowed down the pace late in the day especially before his tee shot on the par-3 17th hole his ball looked so picture-perfect in the air that Montecinos expected it to drop into the cup on the fly "I couldn't ask for a better golf swing," Woods said He caught a downwind gust and the ball landed long, matching Yang's bogey. Woods later found himself on the right side of the 18th fairway trying to figure out a way to force a playoff and avoid a repeat of his 2002 loss to Rich Beem on this very course Yang was standing over a 210-yard shot that needed to clear a towering tree and a large bunker to reach the pin in the back left corner of the green Montecinos at Hazeltine National Golf Club was the perfect match of caddie and pro worked wonders in the 2009 PGA Championship. Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesAs soon as Yang assured Montecinos he wouldn't catch a flyer Mogg had reminded the caddie before the tournament that Yang had been hitting his hybrids dead at the flags the 110th-ranked player on the planet launched the damnedest shot of his career into the blue sky over that tree and bunker and directly on line with the stick The ball bounced just past the right side of the cup and stopped a dozen feet from pay dirt Yang high-fived Montecinos as the fans gave him a standing ovation Yang looked into the CBS camera and smiled Woods missed the green left and then lowered his head as he trudged toward his near-certain demise Yang had bogeyed four of his first five holes in Friday's second round and appeared in danger of missing the cut and here he was about to live out a fantasy He wanted to be certain first; he'd seen Woods make miraculous recoveries before Montecinos couldn't believe what he was seeing or feeling the caddie's final phone conversation was with a friend of his in San Antonio The Iceman told the caddie he would need ice water in his veins for this one just put your blinders on and do your job," Gervin told him "The crowd and everything else is a mirage Yang finished off his 2-under 70 with one last make, one last fist pump and high-five for Montecinos. Under his Nike cap, a gutted Woods hung his head while wearing something of a sheepish grin. The Mariano Rivera of golf closers finished with a 75 and a 3-stroke defeat. The second South Korean man to win on the PGA Tour (K.J. Choi was the first) had become the first Asian man to win one of golf's four biggest tournaments "I always imagined myself playing in America and winning a major," Yang recalled "but never really knew that it would come true Happy enough to act like a silly boy and become that aspiring body builder all over again noted that Yang was the first winner anywhere to clean and snatch his bag over his head "It was a stunning sight," said Bob Denney who recalled that Woods had "appeared the timid one" throughout the round Denney later saw Yang and his wife locking arms in the clubhouse and sipping the winner's' champagne from glasses "as if they had done it many times." One clubhouse attendant who was near a locker room TV down the stretch told Montecinos "You have no idea how many players were down here cheering Yang on guys jumping up and down on the couch just to see Tiger finally get beat." He chastised himself over a dreadful day of putting but credited Yang for playing "beautifully" and congratulated Montecinos on a job well done Woods pledged to give himself plenty of chances in future majors and left the premises with millions of golf fans believing he'd soon be breathing down Nicklaus' neck As Tiger Woods walked past the Wannamaker Trophy who would have guessed that six years later 15? AP Photo/Jeff RobersonYang wasn't only a hero to the countrymen who woke up before dawn to watch him take on Woods he'd become a global celebrity overnight -- a likable photogenic star who had toppled a one-man dynasty He did win in China and Korea the following year and he did finish eighth at the Masters and third at the 2011 U.S did a free fall in the rankings and ended up in the Web.com Championship in a failed bid to keep his card He broke up his Hazeltine dream team along the way but Montecinos said he was fired early in 2010 mere months after the breakthrough victory over Woods The caddie was told by Yang's IMG agent at the time Montecinos was hurt by the way it went down and he wrote a letter expressing his feelings to Yang that was met with no response Yang told Golfweek that "some chemistry issues" were behind it Asked to elaborate last week in an email Q&A with ESPN.com through his IMG agent and interpreter "I just simply wanted a more veteran caddie by my side." Now Montecinos is busy selling his clothing line under the label GIIC (God Is In Control) and donating some proceeds to San Antonio's homeless and to the local First Tee program. He is also caddying for Kevin Streelman whom he helped at last year's Travelers Championship become the first player in tour history to birdie his last seven holes to win Montecinos actually roots for Tiger Woods to end his seven-year-plus drought in the majors "He's the reason we play for the money we play for," the caddie said Woods has had a lot of time to figure out a lot of things More than three months after losing to Yang at Hazeltine and seven weeks after routing him in a singles rematch at the Presidents Cup Woods crashed his Cadillac SUV into a fire hydrant outside his Windermere The two winless seasons after a five-win 2013 Woods returns to the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits this week as a shell of his terminating self he'll do so as an underdog who suddenly morphed into Old Tiger without explanation and not as the dominator who stepped onto the first tee box with Y.E thinking he might win 25 majors before he was through Why hasn't Woods held another 54-hole lead in a major since Hazeltine Why hasn't he been the same big-game player since losing to the ultimate long shot who dared to stand up to him believe that it has to do with his personal issues and that it is none of our business," Yang said "Tiger is not a machine and is a person like all of us ‘I am in despair at the rate of urbanisation in China – it’s like witnessing someone dying’ Thu 1 Oct 2015 08.30 CESTLast modified on Wed 19 Oct 2022 16.26 CESTShareI used to paint traditional landscapes but I felt the Chinese style had reached an apex – there was no way to progress a more contemporary one that could still capture the spirit of landscape painting Digital photography seemed to be the answer Read moreThese artists also try to express eternity There is no division between morning and night people tend to depict a moment – the afternoon in a certain season But Chinese artists tend to portray landscapes as going unchanged throughout time It has to do with traditional philosophy: life goes round like a circle Whatever happens in one day doesn’t matter that much then I insert photos piece by piece digitally I draw from a large database of pictures I’ve taken in the last 10 years: planes I was surrounded by lots of traditional architecture – and saw a lot of it removed dismantling its heritage in the pursuit of urbanisation I want to ask questions about these things a lot of local customs are being lost – even the way we eat It feels like great traditions are being given up as we switch to the western idea of not only making art Photographer Yang Yongliang.I would like to see the government take action – but not much is being done I know this process isn’t just happening in China I don’t feel anger – more disappointment and despair it’s like witnessing someone dying who you can’t help Trained: China Academy of Art Influences: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Viola Low point: “When I don’t know what to do next.” Yang Yongliang is nominated for the 2015 Prix Pictet. The finalists’ show is at National Museum of Modern Art SBS’s new drama “Through the Darkness” has shared a preview of the second episode the team leader of the Mobile Investigation Unit at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency whose sharp instincts have made her a legend among the police In the first episode, Song Ha Young persistently dug into a murder case. Park Dae Woong (Jeong Man Sik) insisted that the culprit behind the case was the victim’s boyfriend Bang Ki Hoon (Oh Kyung Joo) and he even received a confession after a coercive investigation Despite the fact that all circumstances pointed to Bang Ki Hoon as the criminal Song Ha Young believed Bang Ki Hoon’s eyes told a different story Then Song Ha Young came across the “Red Hat Case” about a man named Yang Yong Chul (Go Geon Han) who committed a series of sexual assaults Yang Yong Chul hinted that Bang Ki Hoon was not the culprit and viewers are eager to find out if that’s true and whether Song Ha Young will be able to reveal the truth The new stills capture Song Ha Young meeting Yang Yong Chul Song Ha Young is wearing his signature poker face The conflicting atmosphere in the room piques curiosity about their conversation Song Ha Young personally visits criminal Yang Yong Chul This meeting will later play a decisive role in Song Ha Young becoming a criminal behavior analyst and profiler Kim Nam Gil’s overwhelming acting skills in this scene will lead to breathtaking immersion We ask for your interest and anticipation.” Episode 2 of “Through the Darkness” will air on January 15 at 10 p.m “Through the Darkness” will soon be available to watch on Viki check out a teaser for the drama with English subtitles here: Source (1) View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow Suzette Bell-Roberts reviews the Diriyah Art Futures’ inaugural exhibition and interactivity as new creative frontiers The world of contemporary art continues to expand and evolve often transcending borders and challenging the boundaries of national identity Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective is a collection of essays that came out of a symposium held at Princeton University dedicated to the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Sign In Subscribe Now Become a free member today and receive top local stories right to your inbox Yang’s family on the island of Jeju stayed up all night to watch the South Korean face off against world No made history Sunday by coming from behind to beat Woods and become the first Asian-born man to win a major tournament — a stunning rise for the self-taught son of a farmer who first picked up a golf club at age 19 What else can I feel?” elder brother Yang Yong-hyuk said Monday I hope that he will work even harder to become better and defend his position.” is known as “Son of the Wind” in his native South Korea for his consistency even on windy days the Korea Professional Golfers’ Association said: “Tiger Killer.” Though relatively unknown on the international circuit Yang was named Rookie of the Year after going pro in 1996 and has twice beaten Woods But never in such a high-profile tournament I felt so proud to be a Korean today,” Kim Soo-mi who like many South Koreans woke up at 4 a.m said at an indoor driving range outside Seoul And as the first South Korean — and as the first Asian man to win a major — I expect this will have a positive influence on men’s professional golf in South Korea,” said Lee Sang-hun a Seoul businessman catching a flight to Jeju who said he woke up early to watch Yang play but hadn’t expected him to win which in recent years has produced a number of top female players But the top ranks had until now evaded Asia’s men He later phoned Yang to offer his congratulations “I woke up at dawn today to watch the broadcast and you played in a calm manner,” Lee told Yang you enhanced our people’s morale by winning the major title for the first time as an Asian.” Lee also praised Yang for persevering despite personal difficulties calling his win a “come-from-behind victory” that was all the more valuable because of his life story calls himself an “average Joe” from a humble farming family who aspired to be a bodybuilder and once dreamed of owning his own gym But a knee injury forced him to reconsider his athletic career he took a job collecting golf balls at a local driving range to make money Yang stayed late into the night at a training field executive director of the driving range at the Ora Country Club on Jeju a tropical island popular among honeymooners and golfers He recalled Yang as a late bloomer but a hard worker Banners at the country club read: “Congratulations to Yang Yong-eun for become the first Asian male to win the PGA Championship!” he practised late into the night,” Kim said calling Yang’s diligence a testament to how hard he worked to learn the game at such a late stage “He certainly stood out from the rest of the students.” Dialogue and debate are integral to a free society and we welcome and encourage you to share your views on the issues of the day. 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