All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Mineral water produced by a South Korean company in Mount Paektu in North Korea is being shipped to Busan, 325 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2015. Ten containers worth of bottled water are expected to arrive at the South Korean port city the next day. (Yonhap)
    Would you drink bottled water from North Korea?

    Ten containers arrive at Busan port By Brian Han Of all the options for bottled water in the world, South Korea accepted a shipment from North Korea. Not just one, but ten full cargo containers arrived at...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • A barbed-wire fence on the North Korean-Chinese border (Yonhap)
    China turns hostile toward N. Korea defectors

    By Yi Whan-woo and Joint Press Corps BEIJING ― The Chinese government regards North Korean defectors as illegal immigrants who should be forcibly repatriated. Its recent hostile approach came despite the United Nations’ growing criticism of Beijing’s forced...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, permanent representative for the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in Geneva (Newsis)
    Korean ambassador named new UN Human Rights Council president

    Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, South Korea’s permanent representative to the United Nations’ Geneva office, has become the first Korean elected to the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The appointment, announced Monday, is effective Jan. 1,...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • (YouTube screen capture from Big Bang's "Bang Bang Bang" MV)
    Big Bang tops YouTube’s most-watched K-pop videos list for 2015

    SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) — The music video for “Bang Bang Bang” by South Korean boy band Big Bang is the most watched K-pop video of the year, YouTube said Monday. The U.S. video-sharing website revealed the...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (Eric Feferberg/Pool Photo via AP)
    Ban Ki-moon calls for world free of nuclear weapons

    By Brian Han As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gears up for a potential meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he hopes to spread a grander vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. “Now is...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • china smog
    Beijing issues first ‘Red Alert’ over smog, schools close

    BEIJING (AP) — Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads. The red...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • ryu hyun tongue
    As Dodgers shuffle roster, Ryu Hyun-jin returns to US to resume training

    By Brian Han While the Los Angeles Dodgers’ front office tries to move mountains after losing ace Zack Greinke, Ryu Hyun-jin returned to the U.S. on Monday. The 28-year-old took a three-week vacation back home in South...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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