All posts tagged "Korea"

  • Pittsburgh Pirates' Kang Jung-ho of Korea, prepares to take the field during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Pittsburgh, Sunday, April 19, 2015. Kang took over at shortstop when Jordy Mercer was hit by a pitch and left the game. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
    Pirates’ Kang Jung-ho 3rd in Sporting News’ NL ROTY voting

    By Brian Han By now Kang Jung-ho’s season ending knee injury is old news, but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that he exceeded almost everyone’s expectations in his rookie year with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The...

    • Posted October 27, 2015
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    LA’s Korean fans miss Pirates’ Kang Jung-ho after season-ending injury

    By Brian Han LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Korean fans came out in droves Friday to Dodger Stadium to watch the home team play the Pittsburgh Pirates despite no South Korean presence on the field. Pirates rookie shortstop...

    • Posted September 18, 2015
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  • Kang Il-chul, a South Korean victim of Japan's wartime sex slavery, looks at a "comfort women" monument at the Veterans Memorial at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County, New York, on Aug. 6, 2015. The monument was jointly dedicated by Nassau County, the South Korean city of Gwangju and the Korean American Public Affairs Committee. Kang urged the Japanese government to apologize to victims of its sexual enslavement of Korean and other Asian women for its troops during World War II. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sex slaves

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea and Japan will hold talks this week on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. The “comfort women” issue is a major source of...

    • Posted September 17, 2015
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    Maxim US blasts Maxim Korea for lurid magazine cover

    By Bahk Eun-ji Maxim U.S. magazine has denounced Maxim Korea’s controversial September cover, which features a photo that strongly suggests a murder. A Maxim U.S. spokesperson said the cover was “deeply troubling,” and strongly condemned the cover...

    • Posted September 3, 2015
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  • Los Angeles' jobber market located in the downtown fashion district (Korea Times file)
    [LA Times] The fight to keep Korean businesses in L.A.

      When Daejae Kim arrived in Los Angeles three decades ago, he took his first step into the apparel business in downtown’s fashion district, where a budding Korean entrepreneurial community was beginning to take...

    • Posted September 2, 2015
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  • Volunteers make phone calls to separated families in South Korea at the headquarters of South Korea's Red Cross in Seoul on Sept. 1, 2015, to see if they will agree to exchange a list of separated family members with North Korea. In a landmark deal, the two Koreas agreed last week to resume the much-anticipated reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War on the occasion of Korea's fall harvest holiday slated for September. (Yonhap)
    Korean Red Cross begins checking fate of separated families in S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Korean Red Cross said Tuesday it has kicked off the process to confirm the fate of more than 66,000 South Korean family members who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and are...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    Goldman Sachs Korea raided for alleged stock price manipulation

    By Kim Se-jeong Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they raided the offices of Goldman Sachs Korea, ING Life Insurance and Macquarie Investment Management Korea last week to investigate allegations that the firms were involved in stock price manipulation....

    • Posted August 26, 2015
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