All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • 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)
    Korean Red Cross begins checking fate of separated families in S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Korean Red Cross said Tuesday it has kicked off the process to confirm the fate of more than 66,000 South Korean family members who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and are...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • The South Korean government hopes to better contain viral outbreaks after the difficulties it had with the recent MERS outbreak. (Yonhap)
    After MERS outbreak, S. Korea to improve monitoring, quarantine protocol

    SEOUL/SEJONG (Yonhap) — South Korea will set up a dedicated monitoring and response system and greatly increase quarantine infrastructure to effectively cope with future contagious outbreaks, the government said Tuesday. The plan reached at the national policy...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • CoCo Avenue won the Los Angeles regionals of the K-pop World Festival 2015, to be held in Changwon, South Korea, next month. (Yonhap)
    Singing duo wins LA regionals of K-pop World Festival

    The Los Angeles regionals of the annual K-pop World Festival — a competition held by the Korean government, KBS and the city of Changwon, South Korea, which gathers talents from around the globe — found a winner...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    Daum Kakao to change its name to Kakao

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Daum Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, said Tuesday it will seek to change its company name to Kakao at the upcoming shareholder meeting, as part of a push...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    Korean animated TV series ‘Pororo’ to go on air in Brazil

    SAO PAULO (Yonhap) — South Korea’s popular TV animation series, “Pororo the Little Penguin,” will begin broadcasting on a major Brazilian network, the broadcaster said Monday. The series will be shown under the translated title “Pororo, O...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • Samsung headquarters in South Korea (Yonhap)
    Samsung takes up half of S. Korean tech firms’ $279 billion revenues

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for nearly half of the revenue logged in the tech sector last year, underscoring its unrivaled dominance in the segment, data showed Tuesday. The combined sales...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    Good News: $160,000 raised for single-father refugee selling pens on street

    By Brian Han An image of a Syrian refugee in Beirut selling pens on the street while carrying his sleeping daughter went viral last week, which resulted in an outpouring of support for the family. It was...

    • Posted August 31, 2015
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