All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Visitors wait in front of a food truck at the KOREAT Festival held on Jeju Island in October. (Courtesy of KOREAT)
    Cooking, eating, chef: keywords that dominated 2015

    By Yun Suh-young One of the biggest cultural appetites among Koreans this year was for local and international cuisine. TV line-ups were dominated by cooking shows, eating shows, talk shows about food, food-related documentaries, and more food,...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • Chung Myung-whun
    Chung Myung-whun steps down as Seoul Phil music director

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Maestro Chung Myung-whun said Tuesday he will step down as the music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) amid allegations of embezzlement and a sexual harassment scandal surrounding the orchestra’s previous chief conductor....

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, surrounded by reporters, speaks to comfort women victims at a shelter in the outskirts of Seoul on Dec. 29, 2015, seeking their understanding on an agreement a day earlier with Japan on closing the issue regarding them once and for all. Japan admitted responsibility for the atrocities suffered by these women, sexually enslaved to serve Japanese soldiers during World War II, and pledged support fund for them as part of the agreement. Some of the victims, however, have rejected the accord and accused Seoul of colluding with Tokyo. (Yonhap)
    Gov’t seeks victims’ understanding over ‘comfort women’ deal

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s No. 2 diplomat met with victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery Tuesday to seek their understanding over a controversial deal aimed at ending the two countries’ dispute over the crime. On Monday,...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • A North Korean army soldier, left, looks at the south side as a South Korean army soldier stands guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea returns 3 rescued N. Korean fishermen

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The South Korean government said Tuesday it repatriated three North Korean fishermen who were rescued in the East Sea this week. “Our Coast Guard found a North Korean boat drifting in the East Sea...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • Former South Korean sex slaves, who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army during World War II, wait for results of a meeting of South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers at the Nanumui Jip, The House of Sharing, in Gwangju, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. The foreign ministers said Monday they had reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, a potentially dramatic breakthrough between the Northeast Asian neighbors and rivals. (Hong Ji-won/Yonhap via AP)
    Sex slavery deal draws backlash

    By Kim Se-jeong The landmark deal between Korea and Japan over the sexual slavery issue is triggering a backlash from civic groups and the victims of Japan’s wartime atrocities. On Monday, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • The number of movie-goers has risen every year since 2011. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea sees record movie-goers for 5th straight year

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The number of movie-goers in South Korea has reached a new high for a fifth consecutive year in 2015, thanks in part to the popularity of domestic movies, data by the official market tracker...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-Min, centre left, celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game with teammate Kieran Trippier, during the English Premier League match between Watford and Tottenham Hotspur, at Vicarage Road, in Watford, England, Monday Dec. 28, 2015. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
    Son of a gun! Last-minute goal lifts Tottenham to 2-1 win over Watford

    WATFORD, ENGLAND (AP) — Son Heung-min scored a last-minute goal as Tottenham provisionally moved up to third in the English Premier League on Monday with a 2-1 win at Watford. It was Son’s second league goal this...

    • Posted December 28, 2015
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