All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Refugees from Myanmar wave to reporters as they arrive at Incheon International Airport on Dec. 22, 2015 for resettlement. (Yonhap)
    Refugees from Myanmar arrive in S. Korea for resettlement

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A total of 22 ethnic Karen refugees from Myanmar arrived in South Korea, officials said Wednesday, becoming the first beneficiaries of Seoul’s new resettlement program for refugees. The refugees, four different families, had been...

    • Posted December 23, 2015
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  • Bereaved families of Korean citizens forced into labor during the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45) express their disappointment with a decision made by the Constitutional Court in front of the courthouse in central Seoul, Wednesday. The court rejected a petition to review the constitutionality of the 1965 agreement between Japan and Korea regarding compensation for Koreans forced into wartime labor. (Yonhap)
    Court rejects petition on 1965 deal between S. Korea, Japan

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Constitutional Court Wednesday refused to hear a petition on the constitutionality of the 1965 deal that Japan claims settled all issues of individual compensation to victims of forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule...

    • Posted December 23, 2015
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  • (Park Sang-hyuk / The Korea Times)
    Forgetting passport, green card can ruin your holidays

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff If you are one of the 100 million people projected to be traveling this holiday season, especially out of the country, don’t forget your passport, green card or visa. A Korean American...

    • Posted December 23, 2015
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  • In this Thursday, June 18, 2015, file photo, an official wearing a mask as a precaution against the MERS virus works with a South Korean national flag in the background at Dongdaemun District Office in Seoul, South Korea. The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday praised beleaguered South Korean officials and exhausted health workers, saying their efforts to contain a deadly MERS virus outbreak have put the country on good footing and lowered the public risk. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea to finally declare end to MERS threat

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — South Korea is set to formally declare the end to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) health threat at midnight Wednesday, more than seven months after the first case was confirmed in the country,...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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  • (Courtesy of Greta Lee/Photo by Cameron Marshad)
    [NYT] Greta Lee On Hollywood Stereotypes and Playing the ‘Lovable Weirdo’

    — Greta Lee is a familiar face to fans of “Girls,” where she played an entitled gallerist; “High Maintenance,” where she was Heidi; and “Inside Amy Schumer,” a gig Ms. Lee landed after...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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  • (Korea Times file)
    [ELLE.com] 5 reasons a Korean sauna is so much better than a massage

      – When I think of a truly blissful, relaxing experience, I filter out options that a) require traveling to a remote island (as Instagrammable as that beach is, I’d like to avoid the added stress of airports...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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  • Wang Yong-yo, left bottom, sits inside a wooden coffin during the “death experience” program at Hyowon Healing Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. In a dark, dimly-lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds sit down next to dozens of coffins. They write their wills, climb into the caskets, lie down and a symbolic “angel of death” _ a man wearing a traditional Korean hat and black robes -- shuts the lid of each casket.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    What’s trending in S. Korea: ‘Mock funerals’

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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