• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

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• [WaPo] Sex tape found near scene of Korean woman’s death, possibly by electrocution, in Va.

  —  Fairfax County police traced the cellphone of a missing and endangered woman to an Annandale home on Dec. 21, according to a search warrant. Officers’ knocks went unanswered, but a bizarre and horrific...

  • Posted January 6, 2016
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  [BloombergBusiness] 1980s boom years living on in Korea’s outperforming media stocks

    — While Korean steel mills and ship yards struggled to stay in business in 2015, the nation’s media companies were busy emulating the boom years of the 1980s — literally. Shares of CJ E&M,...

  • Posted January 5, 2016
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  [POP CRUSH] Sistar, HyunA featured in Korea-themed ‘Family Guy’ episode

  Every time Western mainstream media acknowledges Korean music in some small way, we move closer toward bridging the cultural gaps that still exist between us within the global village. Or…something like that. Anyway, Family Guy featured some K-Pop...

  • Posted January 4, 2016
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  [NPR] Civil Rights At Issue In Korea, But Not The Korea You’d Expect

    —  When you hear about rights abuses on the Korean peninsula, the conversation usually focuses on North Korea. But lately, the North’s democratic neighbor, South Korea, is also drawing international concern for how its government...

  • Posted January 4, 2016
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  [BARRON'S] Why South Korean Stocks Are a Buy in 2016

  South Korea’s stock market may be overshadowed by its North Asian neighbors China and Japan, but the combination of cheap valuations, improving earnings and the embrace of more shareholder friendly policies means it should be on...

  • Posted December 31, 2015
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  [HUFFPOST] Korea’s first-ever openly gay student council president interview

   BoMi Kim has been the student council president at Korea’s most prestigious university, Seoul National University, since late November. She is also the first college student council president to publicly reveal her sexual orientation in South Korea,...

  • Posted December 29, 2015
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  [WSJ] Japanese businesses pushed to end South Korea dispute

  —  Japanese business leaders pushed hard for their country to resolve a dispute with South Korea over the use of Korean women by Japanese soldiers in military brothels during World War II, and...

  • Posted December 29, 2015
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