All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Isabelle Adams, left, with her sister Katherine have raised over $650,000 through origami to build wells for Ethiopian villages in need. (Courtesy of Facebook)
    Good news: Two sisters raise $650,000 for water wells through origami

    By Brian Han When sisters Katherine and Isabelle Adams, aged 9 and 11, found out that there were children, adults and entire villages in Ethiopia that didn’t have regular access to clean water, it broke their hearts....

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • A South Korean soldier points his weapon at the camera during a military drill. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea, US begin joint drills

    By Jun Ji-hye South Korea and the United States began large-scale joint live-fire exercises, Wednesday, to demonstrate their combat capabilities, according to the Ministry of National Defense. Some 2,000 soldiers from 47 military units of the two...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • Ban Ki-moon
    Ban Ki-moon fires UN peacekeeping chief in Central African Republic

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the force’s handling of dozens of sexual and other misconduct allegations, including rape and killing,...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • Korea Way
    Palisades Park on its way to rename street Korea Way

    A proposal to name a section of Broad Avenue as “Korea Way” in Palisades Park, New Jersey, is on its way to reality. Jong Chul Lee, who was newly appointed as deputy mayor this week, has been...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • A Taekwondo team will perform at San Francisco's Korean Day Cultural Festival Aug. 15.
    SF Korean festival to celebrate independence, community foundation

    By The Korea Times San Francisco staff San Francisco looks to greet the 70th anniversary of Korean independence this Saturday with its annual Korean Day Cultural Festival, to be held in Union Square at 10 a.m. Put...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • A South Korean man, left, sets himself on fire as a woman tries to extinguish him during an anti-Japan rally demanding full compensation and an apology for wartime sex slaves from the Japanese government in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Rescue worker Woo Kyung-suk said that the 80-year-old man sustained third-degree burns on his upper body and arms and was breathing when he was carried into an emergency vehicle. The man's motives weren't immediately clear. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    S. Korean man, 80, sets self on fire at anti-Japan rally

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An 80-year-old South Korean man was unconscious and experiencing breathing difficulties after setting himself on fire during an anti-Japan protest in Seoul on Wednesday, hospital officials said. The rally, held in front...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • "Collective Invention"
    TIFF invites three South Korean films

    Three South Korean films — Director Ryu Seung-wan’s “Veteran,” Kwon Oh-kwang’s “Collective Invention” and Hong Sang-soo’s “Right Now, Wrong Then” — have been added to the lineup of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, which will run...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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