All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Jim Simons during a TED interview (YouTube)
    Good News: Billionaire hedge fund founder gives $15,000 to 800 NY teachers

    By Brian Han Among OECD countries, the U.S. ranks below average in terms of teacher salaries. So much so that founder of $22 billion Renaissance Technologies and respected mathematician Jim Simons decided to do something about it to...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • diviorce
    Korea court rules unfaithful spouses cannot file divorce lawsuits

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The nation’s top court ruled Tuesday that unfaithful spouses are not allowed to file divorce lawsuits, in accordance with the no-fault law. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the Supreme Court dismissed a divorce suit...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • Grace Seear
    Korean Canadian woman vies for House seat

    Grace Seear, a 35-year-old Korean Canadian from Burnaby South near Vancouver, has her eyes on a seat in Parliament. A Conservative Party member, Seear — whose Korean name is Cho Eun-ae — is a political staffer and...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • sk damily
    S. Koreans spend little time with family: survey

    Koreans are known to be family-bound, or that was the stereotype. However, Korean parents spend an average of 1.5 hours per day with their children on weekdays, a recent survey showed. The findings are based on Swedish...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • (Photo courtesy of Korean Language and Culture Foundation)
    SF I Love Kimchi cooking demonstration brings out adoptee families

    The Korean Language and Culture Foundation near San Francisco held its fourth annual “I Love Kimchi” event inside a Sunnyvale church, for which it offers hands-on cooking lessons for how to make the iconic dish. This year’s...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • Assassination
    ‘Assassination’ is 4th highest-grossing Korean film in North America

    “Assassination,” one of South Korea’s film hits of the year, reportedly made $1.8 million in the North American box office as of last week, placing it at an all-time No. 4 for a Korean pic, Yonhap reported....

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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  • NKbomb2
    NKorea says it is ready to use nuke weapons against US

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea threatened Tuesday to use nuclear weapons against the United States as it announced that it has restarted operation of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon complex. North Korea has made constant “innovations” in...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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