All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • In this Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, file photo, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly speaks during a news conference before Game 3 of baseball’s National League Division Series against the New York Mets in New York. A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that Don Mattingly is out as manager of the Dodgers. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, because the team has not announced his departure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
    Don Mattingly out as Dodgers manager

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Mattingly is out as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Mattingly and the team mutually have agreed to part ways, a person with knowledge of the situation said Thursday. The person spoke...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • North Korea Koreas Divided Families
    ‘Let’s meet again in the afterlife,” inter-Korean reunions come to end

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A silver-haired South Korean woman adjusted her 83-year-old North Korean husband’s necktie. He held her hands and stroked her shoulder. Before this week, they hadn’t seen each other since war tore them...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • Korean American PGA Tour rookie Michael Kim (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
    Keep an eye on PGA Tour rookie Michael Kim

    By Brian Han If you’re a true golf fan, South Korea-born American Michael Kim should very much be on your radar as the 2015-16 PGA Tour season kicks off this week at the Frys.com Open. At only...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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  • 'Gangnam Style' video capture.
    [NPR] Korea’s most famous entertainer is now its most infamous landlord

    In the South Korean capital, an independent business owned by local artists is taking on Korea’s arguably most famous celebrity — the entertainer and musician PSY. The real estate rift is representative of a fast-changing, modern...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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  • A section of roadway following an earthquake cracked in Napa, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
    99.9 percent probability of LA-area quake over magnitude-5: NASA

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — There is a 99.9 percent chance of a magnitude-5 or greater earthquake striking within three years in the greater Los Angeles area, where a similar sized temblor caused more the $12 million in...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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  • Hwang Jung-eum, right, and Park Seo-jun in a scene from MBC's "She Was Pretty." (Courtesy of MBC)
    It’s K-drama over playoff baseball in South Korea

    MBC-TV ditches a playoff game to air ‘She was pretty’ as scheduled By Kwon Ji-youn MBC-TV ditched a playoff baseball game for its popular Wednesday-Thursday drama series “She Was Pretty.” After receiving an overwhelming number of protest calls...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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  • Jackie Lee
    Korean American heads immigration lawyers association DC chapter

    Jackie Lee, 45, a Virginia attorney, was named president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association, the largest such non-profit in the country. Lee, whose Korean name is Lee Jung-eun, will take the seat...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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