All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Lee Se-dol, baduk, AlphaGo
    Google’s AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again!

    By Joo Kyung-don SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) — Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo defeated South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol for the second straight time in the ancient board game Thursday, proving that its earlier victory...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
    • 0
  • Kim Bo-hyung, the country manager of Michelin Korea, announnces the plan to publish the Micheline Guide on hotels and restaurants in Seoul during a press conference in Seoul on March 10, 2016. (Yonhap)
    Michelin Guide to publish Seoul edition in late 2016

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Michelin Guide, an international benchmark of good food, said Thursday it will publish a guide of restaurants and hotels in Seoul later this year to introduce the dynamic Korean culinary scene and talented...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
    • 12
  • People watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with superimposed letters that read: "North Korea has made nuclear warheads small enough to fit on ballistic missiles" at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The official North Korean news agency says the communist country's leader Kim met his nuclear scientists for a briefing and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been miniaturized for use on ballistic missiles. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    N. Korea to “liquidate” S. Korea assets, fires missiles into sea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is responding to Seoul’s unilateral sanctions, saying it will “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North. The statement Thursday follows the North’s firing of...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
    • 0
  • (Yonhap)
    First Korean cultural center opens in Middle East

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will open a state-run facility for promoting Korean culture in Abu Dhabi Thursday, the first in the Middle East, the government said. The new Korean Cultural Center, which sits near Khalifa Park,...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
    • 1
  • (Yonhap)
    Samsung showcases Galaxy S7 on home turf

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Samsung Electronics Co. showcased its latest flagship smartphones in South Korea on Thursday, with price tags hovering below their predecessors in an apparent bid to better compete with rivals and improve its ailing smartphone...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
    • 0
  • Minnesota Twins' Byung Ho Park, center, of South Korea, high-fives teammates in the dugout after hitting a grand slam in the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays in Port Charlotte, Fla., Sunday, March 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
    Twins’ Park Byung-ho notches his first two-hit game

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Minnesota Twins’ Korean slugger Park Byung-ho just keeps on rolling along. No, he did not hit a home run for the third straight game, but he got two hits in a...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
    • 0
  • Descendants of the Sun
    ‘Descendants of the Sun’ tops 30 pct viewership in Seoul

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The new television series “Descendants of the Sun” has soared past 30 percent in viewership in Seoul, data by Nielsen Korea showed Thursday. The fifth episode of the KBS 2TV drama recorded 31.2 percent...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
    • 4