All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Supporters of the University of Texas in its case against Abigail Fisher demonstrate at the Homer Thornberry Judicial Building in Austin, Texas. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is rehearing the case of Abigail Fisher, a white woman who in 2008 was not admitted to the University of Texas at Austin because she did not graduate in the top 10 percent of her high school class _ the criterion for 75 percent of the school's admissions. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
    Controversial affirmative action case goes to Supreme Court again

    By Brian Han The debate over affirmative action reignites as a Supreme Court case involving the University of Texas and a student goes up for round two. The bottom line is that some Asian and white applicants...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • "The Good Dinosaur" Director Peter Sohn during a character review on July 16, 2014 at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif. (Photo by Deborah Coleman/Courtesy of Disney/Pixar)
    Pixar’s secret sauce: Inside the writers’ room of ‘The Good Dinosaur’

    By Brian Han By now millions and millions of people have ridden the emotional roller coaster that is a Pixar film. After 16 features, you would think that the studio probably has its secret formula all figured...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • South Korean baseball player Park Byung-ho smiles during his press conference at Incheon International Airport on Nov. 29, 2015. (Yonhap)
    Nearing deal with Minnesota Twins, Park Byung-ho departs for US

    INCHEON (Yonhap) — Nearing his first big league deal with the Minnesota Twins, South Korean slugger Park Byung-ho departed for the United States on Sunday, saying he’s hoping for “a positive result.” Park told reporters assembled at...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • An oil painting of Kim Whan-ki (Yonhap)
    S. Korean painting from 1950s auctioned for $2 million

    HONG KONG (Yonhap) — An oil painting of Kim Whan-ki, a pioneering abstract artist of Korea, was auctioned at 2.35 billion won (US$2 million) in Hong Kong, a related firm said Sunday. The artwork, titled “On the...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • South Korean men pass by a TV news program showing images published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country's advancing military capability. The letters on the screen read "The missile believed to have been launched from underwater near Sinpo". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)
    N. Korea violates UN resolution with failed missile launch

    By Brian Han Nuclear weapons testing represents the one contingency that truly holds back North Korea from improving international relations. Yet over the weekend, the communist nation showed its disregard by testing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • People purchase tickets inside a Seoul theater Monday. (Yonhap)
    South Korean film industry surpasses 100 million in theaters 4th year in a row

    It’s a good time to be South Korea’s film industry. As of Monday, Korean films had drawn 100.62 million people to its theaters this year, surpassing 100 million for the fourth year in a row, according to...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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    S. Korea ratifies FTA with China

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s National Assembly approved the country’s bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China during a main session Monday. Lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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