All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Stock trader Gregory Rowe works at the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
    Stock market slides again; worst two-week start to a year

    *This article has been updated. (AP) —  Never before has Wall Street gotten off to a worse start to a year. The stock market capped the first two weeks of 2016 with a steep slide Friday that...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • Buses carrying nuclear scientists, military officials and construction workers line a street in Pyongyang while residents cheer after North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. Up to 100,000 citizens were mobilized for the event. North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper published the photograph on Thursday. (Yonhap)
    Korea, US intelligence capabilities in question

    NK nuke test reveals poor monitoring by Seoul, Washington By Yi Whan-woo The intelligence gathering capabilities of South Korea and the United States have been called into question after President Park Geun-hye insisted Wednesday that neither Seoul...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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    TWICE member Tzuyu not Taiwanese independence activist, JYP says

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop girl group TWICE doesn’t necessarily endorse Taiwan’s independence from mainland China, her agency reiterated Friday after the 16-year-old waved the Taiwanese national flag in an online broadcast last month....

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • At least 14 killed, 27 injured in Japan ski tour bus crash

    TOKYO (AP) — An overnight tour bus on its way to a ski resort in central Japan slid down the mountainside in the early hours of Friday, killing at least 14 passengers and injuring 27 others. Fire...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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    ‘Simple Song #3′ sung by Korean soprano Sumi Jo gets Oscar nomination

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff “Simple Song #3,” sung by South Korean soprano Sumi Jo in the film “Youth” has been nominated for best original song for the Academy Awards. The song,  written by concert composer David...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • This photo provided by courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox shows, Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, in a scene from the film, "The Revenant," directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. (Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox via AP) The Associated Press
    ‘Revenant’ leads Oscar noms with 12, only white actors again

    (AP) — The brutal 1820s frontier revenge thriller “The Revenant” landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards, while the acting categories were again filled entirely by white performers a year after the Oscars...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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    EXO completes Seoul Music Award three-peat

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Boy band EXO has become the first K-pop artist to win three awards, including the Grand Prize, for three consecutive Seoul Music Awards. The nine-member act won the Grand Prize, Main Prize and Hallyu...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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