• 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

All posts tagged "Korea"

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  Seoul to develop shanty town in Gangnam

  By Lee Kyung-min The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and Gangnam District Office have agreed to resume a long-stalled project to develop a shanty town in the most affluent district in Seoul, officials said Friday. Seoul Mayor Park...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  Park’s chief of staff files libel suit against reporter

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye’s chief of staff filed a libel suit against a reporter of one of South Korea’s major newspapers, an official said Monday, the latest in a series of legal actions over a...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  China not invited to 3rd death anniversary of Kim Jong-il

  BEIJING (Yonhap) — China is unlikely to send a delegation to next week’s third death anniversary of North Korea’s former leader, Kim Jong-il, because it has yet to receive a formal invitation from Pyongyang, a diplomatic source...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  Gas prices drop (?) to less than $6 per gallon in S. Korea

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean oil refiners have lowered gasoline prices for four consecutive weeks and are set to announce another cut this week to reflect the plunge in crude prices from a global supply glut, the...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  [CNN] Suki Kim’s Experience in North Korea ‘it’s the most horrific place to me in the world’

  —  CNN’s FAREED ZAKARIA GPS features an interview with Suki Kim who explains how she got inside a North Korean school and the warped worldview of students there. On North Koreans’ perception of the world:  “They, first of all, didn’t...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  [PT] Disfigured woman transformed into stunning beauty on Korean reality show

    Let Me In (“Me In” is a homonym for “beauty” in Korean) is a Korean reality TV series which features women and men with physical defects going under the knife to be transformed into someone...

  • Posted December 7, 2014
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  Lee Sang-hwa wins 500m sprints at World Cup meet

  BERLIN (AP) — Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea won the women’s 500-meter sprint at a World Cup speedskating meet on Friday in Berlin, Germany. Lee clocked 37.87 to beat Heather Richardson of the United States by 0.34...

  • Posted December 5, 2014
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