All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Big Bang (Yonhap)
    BigBang to end year without a bang

    Top K-pop group decides to skip all year-end music award events BigBang will miss year-end music award festivals on three networks – KBS, MBC and SBS – reports said Wednesday. A source at YG Entertainment said the...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • A map by the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration showing the rise in sea levels around South Korea in 2015. (Photo courtesy of KHOA)
    S. Korea’s sea level up 4 inches in 40 years: data

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — The sea level around South Korea has risen about 10 centimeters (4 inches) in the last 40 years, a clear sign of global warming impacting the environment, the country’s hydrographic administration said Wednesday. According...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Im Su-hwan, the grand prize winner of the 4th Korea Multicultural Youth Awards, smiles in the hallway of Deogam High School in Gimje, North Joella Province, Monday. (Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul)
    ‘I will become a teacher to help children like me’

    Im Su-hwan, 17, the top prize winner of the 4th Korea Multicultural Youth Awards organized by The Korea Times says becoming an elementary school teacher will be a step toward helping young children from multicultural backgrounds like...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Kim Jong
    S. Korea rejects bartering with N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea won’t accept North Korea’s demands simply to achieve its goal of regular reunions for families separated in the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Thursday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Hyeon Soo Lim, center, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, is escorted to his sentencing in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
    N. Korea sentences Korean Canadian pastor to life in prison

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian Korean pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state. Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • The North's leader made the H-bomb claims last week, saying the country has become a "powerful nuclear weapons state." (Yonhap)
    N. Korea could deploy H-bomb around 2020: 38 North

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — North Korea’s claims of hydrogen bomb development are technically unlikely for now, but the communist nation could deploy a single-stage thermonuclear weapon with a yield of 100 kilotons by around 2020,...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen removes her glasses as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its key rate from record lows, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, potentially heralding higher lending rates in an economy much sturdier than the one the Fed helped rescue in 2008 with borrowing rates near zero. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
    Fed finally lifts key interest rate from near zero

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates after seven years of record lows. But it’s signaling that further rate hikes will likely be made slowly as the economy strengthens further and muted inflation rises....

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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