All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Angels show faith in S. Korean first baseman Choi Ji-man

    By Brian Han The topic of up and coming South Korean baseball players seems to spark conversation a lot more these days in Major League Baseball circles. But here’s a name you might not have heard in...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • Free agent slugger Lee Dae-ho leaves for the United States at Incheon International Airport on Dec. 7, 2015, in pursuit of his first major league contract. (Yonhap)
    MLB Winter Meetings end with no deals for S. Korean free agents

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The annual Major League Baseball (MLB) Winter Meetings wrapped up Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee, with a trio of South Korean free agents still without their first big league contracts. Lee Dae-ho, first baseman/designated hitter,...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • Kay Song, of the Korean American National Museum board of directors, third from left, celebrates the passing of the museum proposal by Los Angeles City Council with District 4 representative David Ryu. (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
    Korean American community year in review, part 2: LA Korean American National Museum

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff One hundred and thirteen years after Korean immigrants’ first arrival in the United States, Los Angeles — home to the country’s largest Korean population — will finally see the building...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • National Security Office chief Kim Kwan-jin, left, shakes hands with North Korea's National Defense Commission Vice Chairman Hwang Pyong-so during the northern delegation's visit to Incheon in Octover. Hwang was accompanied by Choe Ryong-hae, first on the right, and Kim Yang-gon, third on the right, both secretaries in the reclusive regime's ruling Workers' Party. (Yonhap)
    North and South Korea set for high-level talks

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea on Friday were set to hold high-level talks at a North Korean border town in their latest step to improve ties after they walked away from a military...

    • Posted December 10, 2015
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  • Members of the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus of North Korea walk to get on a train at the station in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. They give friendship performances in China. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
    Ready for NK-pop? North Korean girl band hits China

    BEIJING (Yonhap) — North Korea’s all-female propaganda band, hand-picked by the North’s young leader Kim Jong-un, arrived in Beijing Thursday for a six-day “friendship” performance, in an apparent move that indicates that once-strained ties between the allies...

    • Posted December 10, 2015
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  • his undated law enforcement booking photo provided by the Weber County, Utah, Sheriff's Offiice shows Song Il Kim. Kim,42, from North Korea, accused of trying to buy military-grade night vision goggles from a Utah-based undercover agent and illegally export them to China, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in an agreement with prosecutors at a hearing in Salt Lake City Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.(Weber County Sheriff's Office via AP)
    Man from N. Korea accused in night vision goggles case agrees to plea deal

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man from North Korea accused of trying to buy military-grade night vision goggles from a Utah-based undercover agent and illegally export them to China has pleaded guilty to a federal charge...

    • Posted December 10, 2015
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    Korean woman stabbed in Miami art gallery by Chinese woman

    By Brian Han The fact that a stabbing occurred at the Miami Beach Convention Center shocked those familiar with both the location and the organization hosting the exhibit. So much so that those who witnessed the incident...

    • Posted December 10, 2015
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