All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • A customer browses the instant ramen section inside a Los Angeles Korean supermarket. (Park Ji-hye/Korea Times)
    Premium ramen floods LA Korean markets

    By Park Ji-hye Premium instant ramen is the latest craze in Los Angeles’ Korean grocery stores. Beginning with Shin Ramen Black, an “upgraded” version of the iconic red-packaged noodles, a series of higher-priced, better-quality products are shedding...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with her Botswana counterpart Ian Khama before their summit at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)
    Botswana president berates N. Korean regime

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Botswana President Ian Khama was firm Friday as he expressed no interest in maintaining diplomatic relations with an oppressive regime like that of North Korea. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Yonhap News Agency,...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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    [CNN] ‘Forgotten’: South Korea’s elderly struggle to get by

    On a Saturday morning in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, a line forms near a city underpass. It’s filled with homeless elderly people, who wait for Pastor Choi Seong-Won to set up his weekly mobile soup kitchen....

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • "Comrade Kim Goes Flying"
    North Korean romantic comedy to screen at Stony Brook University

    A North Korean romantic comedy, “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” will screen inside Stony Brook University in New York on Nov. 18. The movie, the first-ever collaboration between North Korean, British and Belgian filmmakers, was released in 2012...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • samsung-stripe-battery
    Samsung introduces new flexible battery ‘Stripe’

    By Brian Han Samsung’s latest technological breakthrough comes in the form of a flexible battery that looks more like a bookmark than anything else. It’s not ready to hit consumer products just yet, but certain aspects of...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • Deok-ho Kim
    Korean UW bioengineering prof receives innovator honor

    A Korean University of Washington assistant professor, Dr. Deok-Ho Kim, was the recipient of a distinguished bioengineering award last month by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). The 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering honor, which...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • Kim Ha-neul (Yonhap)
    Spring wedding ahead for actress Kim Ha-neul

    A spring wedding is on the way for South Korean actress Kim Ha-neul, 37, who will take the vow with her boyfriend, a businessman one year her junior, on March 19 next year. Korean media reported Friday...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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