All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • South Korean boy band BigBang (Yonhap)
    BigBang edges IU as artist of 2015: survey

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Koreans have chosen boy band BigBang as the artist of 2015, a Gallup survey showed Thursday. The five-member act received 15.5 percent of the votes in interviews conducted by Gallup Korea in July,...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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    Hong Myung-bo takes head coaching job in China

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Former national football head coach Hong Myung-bo has joined a Chinese club, becoming the latest South Korean coach in the top-flight Chinese competition. Hangzhou Greentown FC announced that they have signed Hong to a...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • Tatsuya Kato, a Japanese journalist accused of defamation against the South Korean president, walks into the Seoul Central District Court on Dec. 17, 2015, for his sentencing trial. (Yonhap)
    Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming Park

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Japanese journalist was acquitted Thursday of charges that he defamed South Korean President Park Geun-hye in print. Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan’s conservative Sankei Shimbun newspaper, was found not...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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    Korean OF Kim Hyun-soo, Baltimore Orioles agree to two year, $7M deal

    South Korean free agent outfielder Kim Hyun-soo left for Washington D.C. on Thursday, amid rumors of having received multiple offers from Major League clubs. And the latest reports coming out Korea has the 27-year-old having agreed to...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Sunny Hills High School is seen in an image from Google Maps Street View.
    ‘Perceived student threat’ causes Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton to close down

    FULLERTON (CNS) – Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton was closed for the day today because of a threatening note found on campus, but will reopen tomorrow. “Sunny Hills High School experienced a perceived student threat on the safety to the...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • People line up in front of the Swedish furniture brand IKEA store in Gwangmyeong City, south of Seoul, on Dec. 18, 2014. IKEA plans to open four more stores in South Korea in the near future. (Yonhap)
    A year after debut, IKEA becomes social phenomenon in S. Korea

    Plan announced to open five more stores by 2020 By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL (Yonhap) — It took seven years for Swedish furniture behemoth IKEA to enter South Korea, but it couldn’t have come at a better time...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Hwang Jung-eum (Yonhap)
    S. Koreans pick Hwang Jung-eum as actor of 2015

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Hwang Jung-eum is the actor of 2015, according to a Gallup survey. The “She Was Pretty” actress received 14.4 percent of the votes in a survey of 1,700 South Korean adults nationwide, Gallup Korea...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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