• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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  Samsung to officially kick off ‘Samsung Pay’ in S. Korea, U.S.

  SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it will officially kick off its mobile payment service at home and in the United States, adding it will continue to expand...

  • Posted August 14, 2015
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  Apple more than doubles hiring of women and minorities

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple says it more than doubled the numbers of women, blacks and Hispanics hired in the last year, although that barely moved the needle in terms of improving the diversity of its total...

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  Hanbok trend draws mixed responses

  By The Korea Times Seoul staff Hanbok, or traditional Korean attire, has mostly disappeared in the highly modernized city of Seoul, with the exception of weddings or national holidays such as Seollal or Lunar New Year and...

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  Animal activists, city of Seoul team up to promote alternative health food for ‘malbok’

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  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  N. Korea threatens to shoot leaflet senders, TODAY!

  By Yi Whan-woo North Korea threatened Thursday to shoot at activists that send balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) if they go ahead with their plan, Friday. Uriminzokkiri, North Korea’s propaganda website, warned that...

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  Air pollution killing 4,000 in China a day, US study finds

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world’s most populous country, a new study finds. Physicists at the University of California,...

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  President Park pardons business tycoon of embezzlement

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye on Thursday pardoned a tycoon convicted of embezzlement who heads the country’s third-largest business group. The justice ministry said in a statement that SK Group’s Chey Tae-won...

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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