All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Youth unemployment in S. Korea worse than during financial crisis

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — Unemployment among young people in South Korea is worse than the level reached during the global financial crisis, a state-run think tank said Tuesday, calling for urgent measures to tackle the problem. The Korea...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye waves at a crowd gathered in front of Korean Cultural Service New York Monday in Manhattan as she prepares to enter the center.
    Park becomes first president to visit NY Korean cultural center

    By The Korea Times New York staff One of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s stops in New York during her stateside visit for the United Nations’ 70th General Assembly included the local Korean cultural center. Park became...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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  • In this file photo dated Feb. 20, 2014, South Korean resident Kim Sung-yun, 95, relishes being reunited with her younger sister from North Korea, Kim Suk-ryeo, 79, during the reunions of separated families at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's east coast. South and North Korea agreed on Sept. 8, 2015, to hold another round of reunions of families, separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, at the resort on Oct. 20-26. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea denounces Park’s UN speech, says family reunions at stake

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea on Tuesday indicated it may cancel the upcoming reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War if South Korean authorities keep making “reckless” efforts to stop the North from conducting a...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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  • Students gathered inside the Sheraton Tysons Hotel in Vienna, Virginia, Saturday for a Korean American Scholarship Foundation ceremony.
    DC-area Korean American students receive scholarships

    By The Korea Times Washington, D.C. staff Sixty-six East Coast Korean American students received a total of $139,000 in scholarship money Saturday. The Korean American Scholarship Foundation’s eastern chapter held the ceremony inside Sheraton Tysons Hotel near...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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  • Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal collision involving a charter bus, center left, and a "Ride the Ducks" amphibious tour bus on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP)
    Korean woman becomes 5th fatal victim of Seattle bus crash

    A Korean woman in her 20s who was involved in a deadly crash between a charter bus and a tour vehicle in Seattle died Sunday, according to a Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman. She was one of five...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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    US, S. Korea, Japan warn N. Korea against provocations

    NEW YORK (AP) — The United States, Japan and South Korea are warning North Korea against any provocative acts at the upcoming 70th anniversary of the country’s ruling party. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Japanese...

    • Posted September 29, 2015
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    [LA Times] Asians to surpass Latinos as largest immigrant group in US

      Asians are likely to surpass Latinos as the nation’s largest immigrant group shortly after the middle of the century as the wave of new arrivals from Latin America slows but trans-Pacific migration continues...

    • Posted September 28, 2015
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