All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • (Yonhap)
    S. Korea declares de facto end to MERS outbreak

    SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) — Prime Minster Hwang Kyo-ahn Tuesday declared a de facto end to the outbreak of MERS which has claimed 36 lives in the country since May. The number of people diagnosed with Middle...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Kyung-hwan (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to create 200,000 new jobs for youth by 2017

    SEOUL/SEJONG, July 27 (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to create 200,000 new jobs for the youth by 2017 while also working to permanently increase employment opportunities for young adults, the government said Monday. The country’s jobless rate...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • Maryland police officers arrive on the scene of the crime in Urbana, Md., to inspect a stabbing attack at a local Korean-run church. (Screenshot from AP Video)
    Man charged in stabbings, including 1 fatal, at Korean-run church camp

    URBANA, Md. (AP) — An apparently homeless Virginia man fatally stabbed a South Korean missionary and seriously wounded his wife at a Maryland church retreat center, authorities said Monday. Song Su Kim, 30, of Falls Church, Virginia,...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • Los Angeles city councilman of the fourth district David Ryu
    Month after elections, LA Councilman David Ryu gets straight to work

    By Brian Han By now certain parts of Los Angeles Councilman David Ryu’s story are out in the open. He’s the first Korean American to be elected to the city’s council — it was official on June...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • (LA Times)
    [LA TIMES] For novice restaurateurs, risk of failure is high

    — Ari Taymor’s 3-year-old restaurant Alma basks in the kind of acclaim most young chefs can barely begin to fathom. Within a year of opening, when Taymor and business partner Ashleigh Parsons were just...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • A sales person helps a child try out a video game at a shop in Beijing, Monday, July 27, 2015. China is lifting its ban on sales of video game consoles to promote the industry and a new manufacturing zone in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
    China lifting ban on sales of video game consoles

    BEIJING (AP) — China is lifting its ban on sales of video game consoles to promote the industry and a new manufacturing zone in Shanghai. Consoles produced in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone will automatically be approved for...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • North Koreans bow in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il at Munsu Hill, Monday, July 27, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Koreans gathered to offer flowers and pay their respects to their late leaders as part of celebrations for the 62nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    With warning to US, N. Korea marks end of Korean War

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean officials warned the United States that another war on the Korean Peninsula would leave no Americans alive to sign a surrender document as the country marked Monday’s anniversary of the...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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