All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • disney
    Disneyland, Universal Studios begin using metal detectors at entrances

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Entering a Southern California theme park used to involve just a security guard checking the contents of large bags, but it will now include metal detectors, with officials at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood confirming today...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • Putin, Trump
    Putin praises Donald Trump as ‘bright and talented’

    MOSCOW (AP) — In Vladimir Putin’s view, Donald Trump is “bright and talented.” But as much as those words sound overtly like praise, there are some murky nuances. The most unequivocally favorable part of the comments the...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • deport
    Number of Korean immigrants facing deportation on decline

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff The number of Koreans on trial for deportation by U.S. immigration authorities have been decreasing five years in a row. According to a recent data from the Transactional Records Access...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • cold
    It’s getting cold in Korea

    Office workers wear warm winter clothes as they head to work near Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul after a cold wave hit the nation on Dec. 17, 2015. The temperature dropped to minus 7 C (44.6F) in...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • A monk wearing a Santa hat walks past Christmas lights and decorations set up at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Dec. 16, 2015. The temple is of the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist sect in the country. (Yonhap)
    Religious harmony

    A monk wearing a Santa hat walks past Christmas lights and decorations set up at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Dec. 16, 2015. The temple is of the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist sect in the...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • Parents take their children return home from school early Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. All schools in the vast Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest, have been ordered closed due to an electronic threat Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
    The Latest on school threats: More cities report emails

    MIAMI (AP) — The latest news on “less-than-credible” threats sent to school districts around the country Wednesday night. All times local: 1:35 p.m. Districts in Orlando, Florida, and Long Beach, California, have joined the list of school...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • Clockwise from top left, the late Nam Seong-nam, Jin Do-hee, Kim Sang-soon, Kim Gwang-han, Do Eun-young, Kim Hwa-ran, Kang Du-ri, Kim Kyung-min and Jeong Won
    Final goodbye: Roll call of Korean stars who died in 2015

    By The Korea Times Seoul staff Rookie actress and Internet BJ Kang Du-ri, 22, who reportedly died in a car accident, apparently killed herself at her home in Incheon, Monday. Kang, who appeared in a supporting role...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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