All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • South Korea's main bourse closed 5 points down at 1,961.31 on Dec. 30, 2015, the last trading day of the year. South Korea's stock market gained 2.39 percent compared to the end of 2014, while the secondary market KOSDAQ leaped 25.67 percent over the year. (Yonhap)
    Korea’s stock market closes 2015 trading

    (PHOTO NEWS) — South Korea’s main bourse closed 5 points down at 1,961.31 on Dec. 30, 2015, the last trading day of the year. South Korea’s stock market gained 2.39 percent compared to the end of 2014,...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • Gil Won-ok, front, and Lee Yong-soo, two victims of sexual slavery by Japan during World War II, listen to a speaker during the weekly rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Wednesday. (Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk)
    Weekly ‘comfort women’ rally continues

    By Kim Se-jeong Chilly weather could not discourage angry former sex slaves and activists from criticizing the agreement between Korea and Japan over the sexual slavery issue. At least 600 people took part in the “Wednesday rally,”...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • President Barack Obama looks at reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Washington. Obama is telling Americans who voted for change: "I hear you." The president said the Republican victories Tuesday in the midterm elections are a sign they want Washington "to get the job done." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    White House picks Calif. site for meeting with Asian leaders

    HONOLULU (AP) — The White House says leaders from Southeast Asia will gather in California in mid-February for their association’s first summit in the United States. President Barack Obama had announced in Malaysia last month that the...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • People watch a live television program airing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's New Year's press conference at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, Monday, an. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Comfort women deal backfires for Park

    By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye’s leadership and diplomatic prowess are being put to the test, as Korea’s sex slavery agreement with Japan is drawing a fierce backlash from former “comfort women” and the public. If she...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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    Majority of S. Koreans against relocating ‘comfort woman’ statue: poll

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Nearly 7 out of 10 South Koreans disapprove of relocating a statue of a girl that symbolizes Korean wartime sex slaves in exchange for the recent “comfort women” deal between South Korea and Japan,...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about his new book, entitled "Crippled America," at Trump Tower, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. The book speaks directly to voters, making the case that Trump has the experience and business savvy to accomplish things that traditional, all-talk, no-action politicians can't.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    Trump again accuses S. Korea of getting free-ride from US

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump repeated his unfounded criticism of South Korea on Wednesday that the wealthy Asian nation relies on the U.S. for national defense without giving anything in return. “I order thousands...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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    Korea Times project: Toronto Koreatown has feel of Seoul, look of LA

    By Peter Pak TORONTO — Toronto, the largest city in Canada, feels a lot like Seoul, made of tall buildings and storefronts on top of storefronts. It has neither the rushed busyness of New York nor the...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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