All posts tagged "Korea"

  • S Korea Westerners
    How much do Westerners know about S. Korea?

    What percentage of Westerners know the difference between South and North Korea? How often do they mix up East Asian cultures? Do they know anything outside of Psy and “Gangnam Style?” Watch this Korean host from Asian Boss quiz...

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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  • Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warned at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2014 that North Korea will likely launch a nuclear attack on America's western coast in less than ten years. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea slams US for overstating Pyongyang’s missile capacity

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea lambasted the United States on Friday for trying to exaggerate Pyongyang’s missile capacity, a tactic which the North said is aimed at stepping up the U.S. military presence on the Korean Peninsula....

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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  • The wreck of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport (Yonhap)
    Asiana gets 45-day suspension on San Francisco route over crash

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, was ordered Friday to suspend its services to San Francisco for 45 days as punishment for a passenger jet crash in the U.S. city last...

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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  • Students wait to take the annual College Scholastic Ability Test at a high school in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2014. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea quiets down for nationwide college entrance exams

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — More than half a million high school seniors and graduates took the annual national college entrance exam on Thursday with government measures to control traffic and muffle noise near nationwide testing sites in place....

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • Shin Dong-hyuk (Courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
    Human Rights Watch honors N. Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk at annual dinner

    Human Rights Watch, an international organization specializing in human rights advocacy and research, honored North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk at its annual Los Angeles dinner on Nov.11 for his outspoken efforts toward closing down his native country’s...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • Lydia Ko
    Lydia Ko becomes youngest LPGA Rookie of the Year

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko has become the youngest player to win the LPGA Tour’s rookie of the year award. The 17-year-old Ko clinched the points-based award with three tournaments remaining on the LPGA Tour...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • Lee Seung-chul
    Seoul demands answers from Tokyo over singer’s entry denial

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s foreign ministry summoned a Japanese diplomat Wednesday to demand an explanation for Tokyo’s denial of entry for a South Korean singer, a ministry official said. The move came three days after the...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
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