All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Korean New Zealander Lydia Ko watches a tee shot. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Ko ahead of Park Inbee at CME Championship, Ernst leads

    By Brian Han American Austin Ernst may be in the lead after a sizzling 6-under 66 first round that included a field-leading eight birdies on Thursday at the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, but the...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • Park Ji-sung and Kim Min-ji at their wedding in July last year (Yonhap)
    Park Ji-sung welcomes first baby girl

    South Korean soccer hero Park Ji-sung is a dad. The 34-year-old former national team captain welcomed a baby girl to the world Friday morning. He announced the news via social media from England. Park married former SBS...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • An Byeong-hun of South Korea tees off on 14th hole during the round one of DP World Tour Championship golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
    An Byeong-hun falls to middle of pack at Dubai Championship

    By Brian Han An Byeong-hun finished in third last week at the BMW Masters and exuded confidence coming into the European Tour’s last event of the year at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The South...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • In this Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 file photo, bullet holes are pictured around a window on the back side of the house after an intervention of security forces against a group of extremists in Saint-Denis, near Paris. A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said. While most suicide bombers are men, Islamic militant groups have occasionally deployed women to carry out such attacks. Long before the rise of Islamic radicalism, women suicide bombers were used by leftist and separatist groups in the Arab and beyond. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
    Suspected Paris killings mastermind killed in police raid

    PARIS (AP) — The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died along with his cousin when police stormed a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, a day after the chaotic, bloody raid....

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • An office in the Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea ranks 115th in world for gender equality: report

    By Brian Han For a country that’s seen exponential economic growth in the last half century, South Korea seems to sometimes lag in social development. The most recent evidence of that comes from a 2015 World Economic...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • North Korean defectors Joseph Kim, left, Jay Jo, center, and Kim Hye-Sook participate in a panel on North Korean human rights abuses at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
    UN human rights committee OKs resolution on N. Korea

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee has adopted a resolution condemning North Korea’s bleak human rights situation and encouraging the Security Council to refer the country to the International Criminal Court. The...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • CJ CGV CEO Seo Jung speaks to reporters at a CGV-owned theater in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Wednesday evening. He said he will make the all-out effort to turn the nation's largest multiplex chain into the world's no.1 cinema company with 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020. (Courtesy of CJ CGV)
    Korean cinema chain CGV seeks to take over global market

    Korean multiplex aims to have 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020 By Park Si-soo CJ CGV will take over cinema chains in the United States and expand into India and Latin America with an ambitious goal of having...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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