All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Lee Joon-seok
    Top court upholds Sewol captain’s life imprisonment for murder

    By Choi Soo-hyang SEOUL (Yonhap) — The nation’s top court on Thursday upheld a life sentence for the captain of the sunken ferry Sewol for murdering 304 passengers aboard. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the Supreme Court...

    • Posted November 12, 2015
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  • (Korea Times file)
    630,000 S. Korean students take career-defining college entrance exam

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — More than 630,000 high school seniors and graduates in South Korea took the state-administered annual college entrance exam Thursday, as the government implemented various traffic control and anti-noise measures near nationwide testing sites. A...

    • Posted November 12, 2015
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  • Jung Hyung-don (Newsis)
    Korean TV industry in shock as Jung Hyung-don announces halt to all activities

    An announcement has shaken the television industry Thursday in Korea — popular comedian Jung Hyung-don will halt all activities due to his health. FNC Entertainment, his agency, said through a press release that Jung is suffering from...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • (Courtesy of Millions of Miles Facebook)
    Good News: After 2-year wait, adopted children reach US from Congo

    (AP) — After a wrenching delay of more than two years, a few American families celebrated on U.S. territory Wednesday with children adopted from Congo who were finally granted long-stalled exit permits. There was a bittersweet welcoming...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (AP Photos)
    N. Korea-China trade on decline amid icy ties

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Trade between North Korea and China has gone down in the first half, data showed Wednesday, due mainly to the weakening diplomatic ties between the two allies. North Korea’s exports to China reached $1.17...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • Students take the CSAT at a high school in Seoul, November 2014. (Korea Times file)
    Cheating cases keep rising in S. Korea’s college entrance exam

    Cheating cases in the college scholastic aptitude test (CSAT) have doubled in four years, data shows. According to data Rep. Bak Hong-geun of the National Assembly’s Education, Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee received from the Ministry of...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • North Korean Han Son-il, left, hugs with his South Korean mother Lee Kum-seok to bid farewell after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Parents and children, brothers and sisters and other relatives separated by the Korean war wept and hugged each other as they parted after their brief reunions, most for the first time in more than six decades. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap)
    Many S. Koreans reluctant to see N. Korean relatives

    By Yi Whan-woo About half of elderly South Koreans who may have relatives living in North Korea do not want to see them again for various reasons, according to data from the Ministry of Unification. Speaking at...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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