All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Lawmakers from the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, including Chairman Moon Jae-in, center, stage a protest against the decision at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. (Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul)
    Ideological war starts over history textbooks in S. Korea

    Government will author single book By Jung Min-ho The South Korean government announced Monday that it will monopolize the right to author history textbooks for secondary schools, throwing the nation into an ideological war over how students...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Parents pray to wish for their children' success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test at the Jogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2104. About 640,000 high school students and graduates in South Korea are scheduled to take the examination Thursday that will virtually determine their admission to college. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    How far will S. Koreans go to get into top universities?

    BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — A documentary film about the social and personal costs of South Koreans’ craze for being admitted to the nation’s top three universities depicts a system that is a far cry from President...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Meagan Hughes, left, and Holly Hoyle O'Brien. (Courtesy of Twitter)
    Orphaned Korean sisters find each other working in same Florida hospital 40 years later

    Two Korean women who were separately adopted by American families when they were children miraculously reunited as they happened to work on the same floor of an American hospital, The Herald Tribune reported Saturday. Meagan Hughes and...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Washington, KAGRO
    Korean org opens scholarship applications for WA college students

    Washington state’s KAGRO will roll out $1,000 scholarships to 10 students in celebration of its 30th year since foundation. According to the organization, any college students attending in-state institutions may apply. Students must demonstrate leadership and volunteer...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • In this Thursday, June 18, 2015, file photo, an official wearing a mask as a precaution against the MERS virus works with a South Korean national flag in the background at Dongdaemun District Office in Seoul, South Korea. The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday praised beleaguered South Korean officials and exhausted health workers, saying their efforts to contain a deadly MERS virus outbreak have put the country on good footing and lowered the public risk. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Last MERS patient rediagnosed with disease

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The patient once thought to be the last South Korean with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been rediagnosed with the viral disease, officials said Monday. The 35-year-old patient, who had tested negative for...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Two Korean documents chosen for UNESCO Memory of the World

    Books by Korean Confucian scholars from the Joseon era, as well as the KBS live 1983 broadcast “Reuniting Separated Families,” were registered as UNESCO’s Memory of the World documents Friday, according to Yonhap. The decision came from...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Cover of Leeteuk, Donghae and Eunhyuk's upcoming travel diary. (Photo courtesy of S.M. Entertainment / Yonhap)
    Super Junior’s Leeteuk, Donghae, Eunhyuk to publish travel diary

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Leeteuk, Donghae and Eunhyuk of the boy band Super Junior will share their tips and thoughts on traveling in Switzerland in a diary being published next week, their management agency said Monday. “Super Junior...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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