All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Minnesota Twins' Byung Ho Park, left, of South Korea, high-fives teammate John Ryan Murphy after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning of a spring training interleague baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Fort Myers, Fla., Friday, March 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
    Another one out of Park

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Park Byung-ho is making Minnesota Twins scouts look really smart, as he launched his third home run in four games Friday. The 29-year-old Korean slugger started as the starting first...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • Specialist Michael O'Mara works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. U.S. stocks jumped at the open after China's central bank cut interest rates to support its economy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    Stock market extends rally to a 4th week as energy recovers

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, capping a four-week rally. Energy companies were among the biggest gainers Friday as energy prices continued to recover. Devon Energy surged 11 percent and Anadarko Petroleum added...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Nov. 18, 1988 file photo, former President Ronald Reagan hands a pen to then first lady Nancy Reagan after he signed a major anti-drug bill at a White House East Room ceremony in Washington. Reagan dedicated the bill to Nancy, who has led a "Just Say No" campaign among America's youth, and gave her the pen he used to sign the bill with. Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday, March 6, 2016, is perhaps best known for her "Just Say No" to drugs and alcohol campaign. Three decades after the campaign's heyday, prevention experts credit it with spawning a new generation of research into the best ways of reducing drug abuse. But they also say that many of the fear-based tactics it embraced didn't work. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
    Christmas letter from President Reagan to Nancy Reagan

    President Ronald Reagan’s letter to wife Nancy on Dec. 25, 1981, their first Christmas in the White House. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney read it at Friday’s funeral service for Mrs. Reagan. Dear Mrs. R, I...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • hyeri
    Hyeri gets out of hospital

    K-pop band Girl’s Day member Hyeri, perhaps better known has the heroine of tvN’s hit series “Reply 1988,” has been released from the hospital Thursday after days of intensive treatment for meningitis. Hyeri was diagnosed with meningitis...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • Chef Hooni Kim of Danji - New York, NY
    Michelin-star chef Hooni Kim says quality Korean food speaks for itself

    By Woo Jae-yeon (Yonhap) — For chef owner Hooni Kim, good food based on great ingredients doesn’t need convincing. That was precisely the philosophy that propelled the Korean American chef to distinguish his modern and sophisticated Korean...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • Kim Jong-un
    N. Korea successfully hacks scores of S. Korean officials: Spy agency

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea successfully hacked the smartphones of scores of senior South Korean officials recently, a ruling party lawmaker said Friday, citing Seoul’s spy agency. “(The North) sent malicious emails to (smartphones belonging to) 300...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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    Senior member of minor opposition People’s Party quits post over merger issue

    SEOUL/DAEJEON (Yonhap) — A senior member of the minor opposition People’s Party resigned from his post Friday, deepening an internal feud over a possible merger with the main opposition party ahead of the April 13 general elections....

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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