ilipino inventor Virgilio Malang invented a vitamin-enriched beer that has garnered awards and recognition worldwide even before it is commercially marketed. Malang's Vitamin Beer, fortified with Vitamin B Complex, became widely popular at the First International Inventors' Day Convention held recently in Bangkok, Thailand. It also won a gold medal at the European Union-sponsored Genius-Europe competition at the Budapest Fair Center in Hungary and it also won the Romanian Ministry Education and Research Cup few years ago.

The first South Korean who will fly to space next year will take and eat kimchi. Goh San, 31, made the spicy revelation during an interview in Moscow with local newspaper Dong-A Ilbo on Monday. Goh said he and two Russian cosmonauts will have sterilized and irradiated version of the traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish aboard their spaceship.

A company in South Korea has introduced diamond-encrusted credit cards for the VVIP clients. GK Power has developed the high end luxury card which is studded with 1mm by 1. 65mm diamonds into a silver rivet on a highly glossy black card.

A talented and famous belly dancer in South Korean will face trial for allegedly forging an undergraduate degree to land a job to teach students her dancing skills at university, prosecutors said Monday. According to a news report, the well-known belly dancer Ahn Yoo-Jin will face trial for allegedly forging a university of Sydney graduation certificate. She used the fake credentials to teach belly dancing at Kwangju Women's University in 2006 but was now terminated from her job.

South Korea's Mr. Toilet is taking his revolutionary restroom campaign a step further by building the country's first toilet house. Sim Jae-duck called his toilet domicile "Haewoojae," which aptly means "a place where one can solve one's worries. "