All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Monsta X (Yonhap)
    K-pop band Monsta X named Girl Scouts ambassadors

    In South Korea, just about everything is promoted by K-pop idols — even the Girl Scouts. On Friday, Starship Entertainment and Girl Scouts of Korea announced boy band Monsta X as the organization’s new promotional ambassadors, Yonhap...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • lydia-ko-marvel
    Lydia Ko as a super hero? Marvel whips up new character

    By Brian Han Lydia Ko might as well be a super hero. Any 18-year-old needs to be superhuman to dominate the world of women’s golf the way she has. That’s why Marvel teamed up with ESPN to...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • Hun Joon Lee, center, with his parents Lee Sang-sik, left, and Lee Eun-ha, right, celebrating his 15th birthday.
    Parents of autistic student found dead on bus files wrongful-death lawsuit

    By Kim Dong-hee The parents of Hun Joon Lee, a 19-year-old autistic student who was found dead inside a school bus in September during a heat wave, have filed a lawsuit against the bus transportation company for...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • Metropolitan Museum of Art President Daniel Weiss, left, signed an MOU with Korean Cultural Service New York Director Oh Seung-je, left, Thursday
    NY Met, Korean govt sign first MOU

    New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the South Korean government shook hands on their first memorandum of understanding (MOU) for mutual cooperation Thursday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will give the Met $1 million...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • In this Oct. 23, 2015 photo, Hwang Sang-gi, a founding member of advocacy group Banolim, holds a picture of his daughter Yu-mi during an interview denouncing Samsung’s response in its latest negotiations with sick workers outside Samsung buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Yu-mi’s death from leukemia in 2007 galvanized concern about conditions at Samsung factories and South Korea’s semiconductor industry in general. Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony and bad publicity over whether its semiconductor factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Samsung money for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • kakao
    Koreans may begin using Kakaotalk for financial transactions next year

    Starting next year, popular messaging app Kakaotalk, which enjoys near-omnipresent use in South Korea, may be used to send money to family and friends overseas from Korea. South Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced a legislation...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • A North Korean drone (Yonhap)
    Latest way to smuggle items to N. Koreans? Drones

    NEW YORK (AP) — Activists who are determined to give North Koreans a glimpse of the outside world have started using drones to smuggle banned information past the country’s tightly controlled borders. North Korean defector Jung Gwang...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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