All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Yoona of Girls' Generation (Courtesy of S.M. Entertainment)
    Girls’ Generation member Yoona to make solo debut

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Yoona of popular K-pop group Girls’ Generation will release her first solo piece since debuting with the group nine years ago, her management said Wednesday. The song “Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway (덕수궁 돌담길의 봄)” will...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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  • Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. acknowledges his supporters on arrival at a campaign rally, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
    Sanders is surprise victor in Michigan; Trump keeps winning

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan’s primary Tuesday night, chipping away at Hillary Clinton’s dominance in the Democratic presidential race. Republican Donald...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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  • South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol (R) makes the first move in his highly anticipated showdown with the Google-developed supercomputer AlphaGo at the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Seoul on March 9, 2016, in this photo released by Google. (Yonhap)
    Artificial Intelligence 1, Human 0: Lee Se-dol loses 1st match to Alpha Go

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Humans 0, machines 1. Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat top-class South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol in the ancient board game Go Wednesday as the self-learning machine stunned the world by taking...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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  • A South Korean army soldier passes by a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, 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 his nuclear scientists for a briefing and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been miniaturized for use on ballistic missiles. The letters at the screen read "North Korea' nuclear warhead ". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Kim Jong-un poses beside possible nuclear warhead mock up

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has caused a new stir with photos on the front page of its ruling party newspaper Wednesday that show the country’s leader Kim Jong-un standing beside a purported mock-up of...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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    K-pop musicians ready to rock global festivals

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Few have clear answers to the question, “What is hallyu?” This not because the meaning of hallyu, or the global boom of Korean pop culture, is too hard to grasp, but because hallyu itself...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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    Second Wachowski sibling comes out as transgender

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four years after “Matrix” filmmaker Lana Wachowski revealed she was transgender, her sibling and filmmaking partner, formerly known as Andy Wachowski, has also come out as transgender, and her name is Lilly, according...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • DNA test shows Vietnam twins had different fathers

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A university professor and state media say Vietnam has identified an extremely rare bi-paternal twins, or twins with different fathers. Prof. Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of Vietnam, says DNA...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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