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• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
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• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
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All posts tagged "Korea"

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  President Park says no mercy for corruption after bribery scandal

  SEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye warned Wednesday there will be no mercy in combating corruption in the strongest warning against top officials allegedly involved in high-profile corruption scandals that rocked South Korea. “I won’t...

  • Posted April 15, 2015
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  [NY Times] S. Korea’s invasion of privacy: opinion

    SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans have had to deal with a series of affronts to their privacy recently, but one blow stings more than the rest: The country’s three main telecommunication companies...

  • Posted April 3, 2015
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  Pelosi urges Abe to apologize over wartime sex slavery

  SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) — Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House minority leader, called on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday to apologize for the sexual slavery of Korean and other Asian women during World War II. “We...

  • Posted April 2, 2015
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  What do Koreans Google most?

  Guess what the three most-Googled words are in Korea. To the disappointment of some, they don’t include a K-pop stars’ names or fancy goods. Two of them are portals. Naver is No. 1 and Daum No. 3,...

  • Posted March 26, 2015
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  [NPR] Koreans have insatiable appetite for watching strangers eat

  Move over, cooking shows. In Korea, the big food fad is eating shows, or mukbang. Korean viewers are so glued to watching strangers binge eating that the live-streamers consuming calories in front of webcams are becoming...

  • Posted March 25, 2015
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  S. Korean president warns of bleak future without good jobs for young people

  SEOUL, March 25 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye warned Wednesday that South Korea’s future would be bleak unless good jobs are created for the country’s young people. The unemployment rate for young people is nearly three times...

  • Posted March 25, 2015
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  [Reuters] With BMWs common in Gangnam, Koreans splurge on Bentleys, Maseratis

    (Reuters) – Flashy Maseratis and Bentleys are fast becoming the cars of choice for young, monied South Koreans, eclipsing German luxury brands now so commonplace that some in Seoul’s upscale Gangnam district jokingly refer to...

  • Posted March 18, 2015
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