Kim Hyung-soo (Korean: 김형수; born December 30, 1981), better known by his stage name K.Will (Korean: 케이윌), is a South Korean singer. The name is a combination of the first letter 'K' of his last name 'Kim' and the English word 'Will'. He debuted in 2007 and has since become known for his chart-topping ballads. He has also been dubbed the "Prince of OST" for his frequent Korean drama soundtrack appearances.
K.Will has released four full-length albums: Left Heart (2007), Missing You (2009), The Third Album (2012–2013), and The Fourth Album (2017–2018).
Read more...The December 30, 1981 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 363 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 44 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, December 30, 2025, 144 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, December 30, 2026, in 220 days. You have lived for 16,215 days, or about 389,179 hours, or about 23,350,753 minutes, or about 1,401,045,180 seconds.
Date: 30 December 1981
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F.F. McNaughton, a veteran of 60 years in newspaper publishing and broadcasting, died today at the Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Ariz., where he had lived since his retirement. He was 91 years old.
Date: 31 December 1981
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Afghanistan has released a French freelance photo journalist, Jean Paul Silve, who served more than six months in prison for illegally entering the country, the French Embassy said today.
Date: 31 December 1981
By Edwin McDowell
Edwin McDowell
A controversy arose yesterday over the recent best-selling novel ''The Last Days of America,'' by Paul Erdman, when Henry Luce 3d, a director of Time Inc., denounced the book for what he said were ''outright lies'' about his father, Henry R. Luce, and about Time magazine, which the late Mr. Luce founded. Passages of the Erdman book assert that Mr. Luce Sr. received $1 million from agents of the Shah of Iran and thereafter provided friendly coverage to the Shah in the pages of Time magazine. In a letter to Mr. Erdman last month, Richard N. Winfield, of Rogers & Wells, the lawyer for Mr. Luce 3d, described the passages as ''false'' and ''highly damaging,'' and demanded ''an immediate apology as well as public retraction.'' He also demanded that all references to Mr. Luce be deleted in future hardcover or paperback editions of the book and demanded that all copies of previous editions be recalled from wholesalers and distributors.
Date: 30 December 1981
By Adam Clymer, Special To the New York Times
Adam Clymer
Want to know the latest on Congressional primaries in Texas, or the odds on whether David A. Stockman will keep his job? Or how about which White House aides are up and which ones are down, or the implications of trends in British politics? Answers, or at least expectations and educated guesses on all of the above, are turned out regularly by one of the capital's thriving cottage industries, the political newsletter. ''We decided to compile stuff for people who are really fascinated by politics,'' said Rowland Evans, who with Robert Novak in 1967 launched the Evans-Novak Report, the oldest of the current genre of general political newsletters. ''The definition of politics can be stretched pretty far,'' observed Jules Witcover, who with Jack Germond will begin producing the Germond-Witcover Political Report on Jan. 20. ''It has to be in the off-season.''
Date: 31 December 1981
By Francis X. Clines and Phil Gailey
Francis Clines
A T a time when David A. Stockman, the Budget Director, is one of the most visible figures in Government, it is not surprising that there should be a newsletter devoted entirely to chronicling the thrusts, parries, maneuvers and feints of the Office of Management and Budget. And on Friday an outfit called Inside Washington Publishers, which already produces two newsletters from the capital, will be publishing the first edition of ''Inside O.M.B.'' The birth of the publication is, in part, a measure of how Mr. Stockman has placed his agency at the center of the controversies that have swirled around the Reagan Administration. ''The implications of what the O.M.B. does touches every aspect of society,'' says Alan Sosenko, chief editor of the publication, which, like most newsletters asserting that they provide an insider's look at Government, carries a steep price tag - $295 a year. Meanwhile, Mr. Sosenko promises that his newsletter will not be devoted exclusively to the doings of Mr. Stockman, whose musings about Reaganomics caused such a sensation when they appeared in The Atlantic Monthly late this autumn. ''I don't know how long David Stockman will be at O.M.B.,'' he says of the man on the bucking Trojan Horse, ''but we expect to be in business for a long, long time.''
Date: 30 December 1981
By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
By invoking a modest set of economic and political sanctions against the Soviet Union today with no guarantee that its allies will do the same, the Reagan Administration is consciously risking damage to the Western alliance without necessarily doing much to ameliorate the situation within Poland. Senior Administration officials involved in the policy-making of the last two weeks assert that the United States had no choice but to take the gamble. To do nothing, or to wait indefinitely for a concerted allied response, they say, would be morally repugnant and would show the West to be impotent. They assert, moreover, that there is still a possibility, however slim, that if the alliance does demonstrate it is truly angered by the crackdown in Poland, the authorities in Poland and in the Soviet Union might be persuaded to ease up on the repression sooner rather than later and to return to negotiations with the Solidarity union - which Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, contends is his goal.
Date: 31 December 1981
By David Margolick
David Margolick
Presiding Justice Milton Mollen's 55-page opinion upholding the murder conviction of Jean S. Harris ostensibly deals with the many issues Mrs. Harris's attorneys raised to show what she regarded as the unfairness of the case against her. These, Mrs. Harris's lawyers said, included the bias of an individual juror, the improper use of rebuttal evidence, incursions into the confines of attorney-client privilege and misconduct by the prosecutor and the jury. But far more striking than Justice Mollen's doctrinal analysis of Mrs. Harris's case were his frequent astringent comments on her defense attorney, Joel M. Aurnou of White Plains. In a tone that is just about as harsh as the traditionally olympian tenor of judicial opinions permit, he repeatedly implies that various errors of omission and commission by Mr. Aurnou both before and during the trial precluded the defense from making many of the arguments that formed the very basis of Mrs. Harris's appeal.
Date: 31 December 1981
International Disarray in the Communist Party in Poland has followed the ascendency of the military Government, according to information arriving from Warsaw. As a result, the reports said, Gen. Woljciech Jaruzelski, the leader, has set up at least three groups to present proposals for social, economic and political reform. Each group is headed by a prominent party leader and each represents a potentially rival faction. (Page A1, Column 6.) The United States accused Moscow of ''heavily jamming'' the Voice of America's Polish-language broadcasts to Poland. The State Department made the charge in an effort to underscore Moscow's role in the imposition of martial law in Poland. The Reagan Administration stepped up efforts to persuade American allies of its contention that the Kremlin is largely responsible for the crackdown. (A1:5.)
Date: 30 December 1981
International Key American economic sanctions against the Soviet Union were imposed by President Reagan, who spoke of Moscow's ''heavy and direct responsibility for the repression in Poland.'' Mr. Reagan ordered the suspension of high technology exports and a halt in negotiations for a new long-term grain export agreement and in Soviet air service to the United States. He also restricted access to American ports by Soviet ships and warned of further actions if the military crackdown in Poland. The Kremlin reacted angrily to the sanctions imposed on Moscow by the Reagan Administration. Soviet officials said that Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko had forcefully rejected American charges of Soviet involvement in the crackdown in Poland. They also said he had told the American Ambassador, Arthur A. Hartman, that Washington had instigated an attempt to overthrow Communist rule. (A6:5-6.) Lech Walesa has agreed to open talks with Poland's martial law government, according to sources there who are considered reliable. The informants, who have spoken with a relative of Mr. Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity trade union, confirmed that he had been on a two-day hunger strike, but said he ended the fast on Christmas Day when he decided to begin the negotiations. (A1:3.)
Date: 30 December 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
CBS News announced yesterday that it would expand ''Morning'' from 90 minutes to two hours beginning Jan. 18, putting it into direct competition with ABC-TV's ''Good Morning America'' and NBC-TV's ''Today.'' The decision is the latest move in a shakeup that began when the program was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes in October.