diff --git a/recipes/korea_herald.recipe b/recipes/korea_herald.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..829906338c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/korea_herald.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2011, Seongkyoun Yoo <Seongkyoun.yoo at gmail.com>'
+'''
+Profile to download KoreaHerald
+'''
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class KoreaHerald(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'KoreaHerald'
+    language = 'en'
+    description = u'Korea Herald News articles'
+    __author__	= 'Seongkyoun Yoo'
+    oldest_article = 10
+    recursions = 3
+    max_articles_per_feed = 10
+    no_stylesheets         = True
+    keep_only_tags    = [
+						dict(id=['contentLeft', '_article'])
+                        ]
+
+    remove_tags = [
+       dict(name='iframe'),
+       dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['left','htit2', 'navigation','banner_txt','banner_img']}),
+       dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':['link_icon', 'flow_icon','detailTextAD110113']}),
+       ]
+
+    feeds = [
+	('All News','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020000000000.xml'),
+    ('National','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020100000000.xml'),
+    ('Business','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020200000000.xml'),
+    ('Life&Style','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020300000000.xml'),
+    ('Entertainment','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020400000000.xml'),
+    ('Sports','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020500000000.xml'),
+    ('Opinion','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/020600000000.xml'),
+    ('English Cafe','http://www.koreaherald.com/rss/021000000000.xml'),
+	]
diff --git a/src/calibre/library/catalog.py b/src/calibre/library/catalog.py
index 05752f4a29..a19534191b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/catalog.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/catalog.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ from calibre.customize import CatalogPlugin
 from calibre.customize.conversion import OptionRecommendation, DummyReporter
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, BeautifulStoneSoup, Tag, NavigableString
 from calibre.ebooks.chardet import substitute_entites
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata import title_sort as _title_sort
 from calibre.library.save_to_disk import preprocess_template
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryDirectory
 from calibre.utils.bibtex import BibTeX
@@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ class CSV_XML(CatalogPlugin): # {{{
                     if field.startswith('#'):
                         item = db.get_field(entry['id'],field,index_is_id=True)
                     elif field == 'title_sort':
-                        item = _title_sort(unicode(entry['title']))
+                        item = entry['sort']
                     else:
                         item = entry[field]
 
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ class CSV_XML(CatalogPlugin): # {{{
                         record.append(item)
 
                 if 'title' in fields:
-                    title = E.title(r['title'], sort=_title_sort(unicode(r['title'])))
+                    title = E.title(r['title'], sort=r['sort'])
                     record.append(title)
 
                 if 'authors' in fields: