All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • BTS member Jungkook winks at the crowd during performance. (NEWSis)
    BTS wins Best Korean Act in MTV awards

    By The Korea Times Seoul staff K-pop boy band BTS (Bangtan Boys) won the Best Korean Act in the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards and advanced to the Worldwide Act Asia category to compete against artists from...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • Koreans and Korean Americans calling for Google to return the naming of a disputed East Sea territory to Dokdo Island from Liancourt Rocks staged a flash mob at Pier 39 in San Francisco Saturday.
    SF-area Koreans call for Google to return Dokdo name to Maps

    Ahead of Dokdo Island Day this month, San Francisco-area Koreans and Korean Americans staged a flash mob in an effort to urge Google to change its naming of the disputed island. At Pier 39 Saturday, about 50...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • Fremont Place is located at Wilshire Boulevard and Rossmore Avenue in Los Angeles. (Korea Times / Park Sang-hyuk)
    Does Koreatown have its own Beverly Hills in Fremont Place?

    By James Goo Is Fremont Place Koreatown’s Beverly Hills? It’s certainly beginning to look like it — more than 30 of its 74 homes are occupied by Korean families, many of them of prominent community figures that...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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    Korea defeats Brazil in dramatic 1-0 upset at U-17 World Cup

    By Brian Han South Korea began the FIFA U-17 World Cup by upsetting tournament favorites Brazil in a 1-0 victory Sunday in Chile. The two teams battled through a tie game until the 79th minute when midfielder...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • In this Oct. 15, 2015 photo, South Korean Kim Wu-jong, 87, who will travel to North Korea to meet his younger sister, looks at a document from the Red Cross during the interview at his home in Seoul, South Korea. Kim and about 640 other South Koreans will meet their North Korean relatives at the authoritarian country’s scenic Diamond Mountain resort in a reunion program that begins Tuesday, Oct. 20. Tens of thousands of people on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone desperately seek such reunions, but the two countries have pulled off relatively few of them. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Q&A: Koreas to resume emotional reunions of divided families

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Wu-jong is partially paralyzed, poor and lives alone in a small, run-down home in Seoul. But the 87-year-old feels like the luckiest man in South Korea: This week he will travel...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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    Hundreds come out to FNC NY auditions for a chance at K-pop stardom

    Three hundred K-pop star hopefuls showed up to participate in auditions for FNC Entertainment in Manhattan’s Born Star Training Center Saturday. The agency’s global auditions were sponsored in part by the Korea Times. FNC’s artists include CN...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • Members of a newly formed Washington, D.C. martial arts masters organization
    Martial arts masters form new DC org

    By The Korea Times Washington DC staff It may not be wise to mess with the Washington, D.C., area’s newest Korean American organization — you may find yourself in a face-off against a group of martial arts...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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