All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Lee Woon-jae (Yonhap, file)
    Former World Cup star to be national team goalkeeper coach

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff If you ever saw Lee Woon-jae in action, or even during practice, this is a no-brainer. The man who was the goalkeeper for  the semifinalist South Korean soccer team at...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • Ku Hye-sun, Ahn Jae-hyeon
    Actors Ku Hye-sun, Ahn Jae-hyeon confirm relationship

    Once a couple in a TV drama, actress and film director Ku Hye-sun and fellow actor Ahn Jae-hyeon have become a couple in real life. They started out as good colleagues while co-starring in KBS 2TV’s fantasy-medical...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 10, 2016, for a state dinner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    Michelle Obama wears Jason Wu gown for Canada State Dinner

    (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is embracing spring with the strapless floral gown she wore to Thursday’s White House dinner for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The deep blue dress by Jason Wu, who also designed...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • You Young (Newsis)
    11-year-old figure skater You Young wins 1st int’l title

    (Yonhap)  11-year-old figure skating phenom You Young captured her first international title on Thursday in Austria. You won the advanced novice girls’ competition at the Cup of Tyrol in Innsbruck with a combined score of 134.75 points...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • (Courtesy of Google)
    Lee Se-dol ‘speechless’ over Google’s A.I.

    By Joo Kyung-don SEOUL (Yonhap) — First, he was surprised. Now, he is speechless. After suffering his second straight defeat against Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo, South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol said Thursday he accepts...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • FILE -- Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. The measure to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication succeeded on its second attempt after the heavily publicized case of Maynard, the woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to legally take her life. (AP Photo/Carl Costas)
    Ill Californians may take life-ending drugs starting in June

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Terminally ill California residents will be able to legally end their lives with medication prescribed by a doctor starting this summer, ending months of uncertainty for dying patients hoping to turn to the...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • Electronic Cigarettes-Regulations
    California lawmakers vote to raise smoking, vaping age to 21

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation’s most populous state on the brink of becoming only the...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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