All posts tagged "Korea"

  • Korean-American Shin Eun-mi, 53, holds a press conference Tuesday in central Seoul, where she lashed out at conservative media outlets. [NEWSIS]
    Korean American banned from leaving country for alleged pro-NK talk shows

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Korean American woman has been temporarily banned from leaving South Korea amid an investigation into her alleged pro-North Korean remarks during a series of talk shows, police said Thursday. The move comes after...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • Inspectors from the Ministry of Public Safety and Security check cracks in an aquarium at the second Lotte World, southern Seoul, Wednesday. (Yonhap)
    Lotte Aquarium water leak cover up scares away visitors

    By Jung Min-ho Two months ago, Na Kyong-chae, a mother of two children, bought yearly memberships to the aquarium inside the second Lotte World. But after the government found at least three water leaks there Wednesday, she...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • Seoul National University's PyeongChang campus. (Yonhap)
    SNU staff to receive mandatory education on rights, sex

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Seoul National University (SNU), the most prestigious school in South Korea, will make it mandatory for all staff members to regularly take education courses on human rights and gender quality, the university said Thursday,...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • Rear Adm. Dan Abel, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska, speaks with reporters on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska, about the agency response to a South Korean fishing vessel that sank in the western Bering Sea. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
    S. Korea to take over search after fishing disaster

    JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — South Korean officials are expected to take over on-scene control of search efforts following the deadly sinking of a fishing vessel in the western Bering Sea last month. The U.S. Coast Guard has...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • The construction for the sliding center to be used for the 2018 Winter Olympics is underway in PyeongChang, South Korea, on Dec. 8, 2014. (Yonhap file photo)
    S. Korea says logistics not sole reason to keep Olympics at home

    By Yoo Jee-ho SEOUL (Yonhap) — Despite recent changes to the Olympic hosting process that would allow multiple cities to jointly stage events, PyeongChang, the South Korean host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, maintains that it has...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • (Kim Tae Oh)
    Director of ‘Working Girl’ embarrasses actress Clara

    Filmmaker Jung Bum-shik said at a press meeting Tuesday that actress Clara used a vibrator in a scene from their forthcoming movie “Working Girl,” causing the female star to appear visibly uncomfortable. The film is highly anticipated...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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    Keanu Reeves to visit South Korea next month

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — U.S. movie star Keanu Reeves will visit South Korea early next year to promote his new film “John Wick,” the film’s importer said Thursday. Reeves will arrive in Seoul on Jan. 7, in his...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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