All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • South Korean high school students play games on their smartphones on a bench on the sidewalk in Seoul, South Korea. Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app, vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to easily violate the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
    S. Korean surveillance app putting children at risk

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app – vulnerabilities that left the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens open to hackers. In separate...

    • Posted September 21, 2015
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  • Buzz Aldrin, former NASA Astronaut and Apollo 11 Pilot, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness hearing on human exploration goals and commercial space competitiveness. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    Buzz Aldrin urges S. Korea to join forces with US for space travel

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The second person to step on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, on Monday said South Korea needs to join forces with other countries to develop its space program, referring to possible support from the United...

    • Posted September 21, 2015
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    Park Byung-ho becomes first KBO player with back-to-back 50-homer seasons

    CHANGWON, South Korea, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) — Park Byung-ho of the Nexen Heroes on Monday became the first South Korean baseball player with back-to-back 50-homer seasons. Park, one of the most feared sluggers in the Korea Baseball...

    • Posted September 21, 2015
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  • Tottenham Hotspur's Heung-Min Son, left, celebrates with Christian Eriksen after scoring his side's first goal of the game against Crystal Palace during their English Premier League match at White Hart Lane, London, Sunday Sept. 20, 2015. (Paul Harding/PA via AP)
    Son’s 1st league goal seals Spurs’ win

    LONDON (AP) — After dishing out Korean food to his new Tottenham teammates, Son Heung-min served up his first Premier League goal. The South Korea forward capped a dynamic display against Crystal Palace on Sunday by completing...

    • Posted September 20, 2015
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  • A woman shops for groceries at a discount store in Seoul in this file photo. (Korea Times file)
    Seoul is the 11th most expensive city in the world

    Seoul is the 11th most expensive city to live in among 71 major cities around the world. The findings are based on the “2015 Prices and Earnings” survey from Swiss financial services company UBS, released recently. UBS...

    • Posted September 20, 2015
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  • Son Heung-min talks about bringing Korean food for his new teammates. (Facebook capture)
    Son Heung-min gives Tottenham a taste of Korea

    Tottenham got a taste of Korea thanks to its newest member Son Heung-min, 23, who treated the team to a traditional meal Friday. Tottenham’s official Facebook uploaded a video of the forward bringing Korean food, including spicy...

    • Posted September 19, 2015
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  • Volunteers make phone calls to separated families in South Korea at the headquarters of South Korea's Red Cross in Seoul on Sept. 1, 2015, to see if they will agree to exchange a list of separated family members with North Korea. In a landmark deal, the two Koreas agreed last week to resume the much-anticipated reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War on the occasion of Korea's fall harvest holiday slated for September. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea readies for reunions amid N. Korea’s rocket threats

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is moving on with preparations for reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War despite rival North Korea talking about new rocket launches and nuclear tests. South Korean officials...

    • Posted September 19, 2015
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